To test the faith of OECs and provide ammunition for non-OECs.
This forum is in the debates area. Is your post which seems to discourage me being productive?
Yes you’re right it was referring to procreation.
Genesis1:
"And God said, 'Let the land produce living creature'."
Where does the Bible say that?
Are you sure that this is the best translation? As far as i know you are wrong here
Leviticus 19:
Ye shall keep My statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind; thou...
Perhaps you did not understand the Genesis1 passage.
Genesis1 says:- Earth brought forth cretaures of all kinds in according to God's will. (see the translation of NRSVUE above)
Evolutionary Biology says:- Evolution through natural selection (nature is earth only) gives rise to (ie brings...
But why? Have you scanned the Evolution Vs Creationism directory? Did you find anything that led you to believe the thread would be productive?
The one thing that is absolutely clear in Genesis1 -- irrespective of translation -- is that when God said be fruitful and multiply it was not...
We all live in God's creation. We can see that it works. If the Bible record of how it was done doesn't conform to what we understand about orders of operation, we are still living in God's creation, and we can still see that it works.
I guess I don't understand; it seems like this thread...
You should look into how we know that the Earth is billions of years old. Unless you want to claim that God is a liar.
If God cannot lie Genesis cannot be read literally.
A magazine published by our Goberning body in 1990 says:
"Some dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) may indeed have been created in the fifth era listed in Genesis, when the Bible says that God made “flying creatures” and “great sea monsters.” Perhaps other types of dinosaurs were created in the sixth...
I think the more obvious one is: Genesis1:6-8 it says that the land and sky both are made from the center of a shapeless mass of water. The waters withdraw above and below giving land and sky. Then, also, there is the fruit that gives knowledge. Many things in Genesis shout plainly "NOT...
It's a myth for those of that religion. It contains a truth of relationship but should never be applied to the actual historic events. I don't believe in it but many do. You need to understand it within the context it was presented.
Those steps are consistent with the Bible using a modern science image of the early earth, before science. When the earth was just forming, along with the solar system, the earth was very hot, molten and very steamy; supercritical water. You would not be able to see outer space from the molten...
There are a few beliefs that are based on single (or a few) Bible verses.... like the gap theory which says there could have been billions of years between Genesis1:1 and 1:2. It's impressive how flexible the Bible can be.