Why Acceptance of the Genesis Account is Extremely Important For Christians

[Radrook]

you alone quoted it:

the translation of this word is such both in the dictionary and the biblical lexicon:

Strong's G165 - aiōn
αἰών
Transliteration - aiōn
Pronunciation - ī-ō'n

- for ever, an unbroken age, perpetuity of time, eternity
- the worlds, universe
- period of time, age

and this is so, because eternity is both periodic(al) and endless - it begins after it ends, which is why it is both periodic(al) and endless, or what had (the state of affairs) been for all that past time's infinity which was before God started to create the world 5-6 millenniums ago?!, is it possible that God had not existed/lived for that time?!, or if souls can either live or suffer for ever and ever, then this means they must be infinitely existing, otherwise if it wasn't so, they would not exist, let alone live or suffer, for ever and ever, so where had the souls been before God began to create the world 5-6 millennia ago?!

Blessings

How can something begin that has no beginning?

 

[Radrook]

Amen!

And as it turns out - it is impossible to "insert Darwinism" into every statement Jesus made about creation or to construe that Moses "was a Darwinist".

Which is a problem for some T.E.'s but not a problem for those holding to the Bible account of Creation.

What is a T.E. ?

 

[BobRyan]

What is a T.E. ?

Theistic Evol

 

[toLiJC]

Just exactly what is it you're trying to say!!?? I have no idea how your statement relates to what I posted.

it relates to your post(s), but another question is whether you understand or accept it - if you think i missed speaking about something important, just tell me what it is

Blessings

 

[mmksparbud]

I just had no idea what you were saying---.

 

[Radrook]

I do not think it is "myth" but I do think it is symbolic of a kind or type of reality we don't yet understand fully, nor can comprehend fully yet, and is a historical account, in that aspect... Not literal in the sense of what we know as literal in other words... Also, in other words, is actual or real...

God Bless!

Jesus treated it as literal.

 

[toLiJC]

How can something begin that has no beginning?

for example if that thing is both endless and periodic/cyclic throughout beginningless endlessness, such as a wheel that rotates about its axis constantly, e.g. such a perpetuum mobile

Blessings

 

[Radrook]

for example if that thing is both endless and periodic/cyclic throughout beginningless endlessness, such as a wheel that rotates about its axis constantly, e.g. such a perpetuum mobile

Blessings

Is that a biblically derived concept?

 

[toLiJC]

Is that a biblically derived concept?

yes, it is a biblical concept - i mean the biblical "eternity"

Blessings

 

[BobRyan]

I do not think it is "myth" but I do think it is symbolic of a kind or type of reality we don't yet understand fully, nor can comprehend fully yet, and is a historical account, in that aspect... Not literal in the sense of what we know as literal in other words... Also, in other words, is actual or real...

God Bless!

The newly freed slaves at Sinai were not about to read "into the text" some sort of Darwinian evolution "belief" - particularly when it is stated as "legal code" in Exodus 20:11 in which esoteric myth and dark speech are negated by definition.