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depends on Whose pocket watch you are usingIf there is a god behind Evolution? Why did it take so long?
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depends on Whose pocket watch you are usingIf there is a god behind Evolution? Why did it take so long?
3 Billion years....that long?.
Matter and anti-matter cannot just pop up by itself.
Unless of course, somebody did it, don't you think?.
Somebody who could finish everything in less than a week.
depends on Whose pocket watch you are using
Yup. The earth has been reliably dated about 4.5 billion years--give or take. The first life appeared, roughly 1 to 1.5 billion years later, according to the best evidence we have so far.
Doing the math, it took the first couple of billion years of single-cell life to evolve into muli-cellular life forms. So, yeah, about 3 billion years from whatever the start was, to now.
If there was a god doing this? Such a god appears to be kind of ... inept.
you know this ... because? What is your evidence? What makes you say this?
Argument From Incredulity Logical Fallacy.
Nope, I don't think. In fact? I have no idea-- neither do you. Could be a Magical Super-being. Likely not, though-- it's more likely a Super Being would have left.... detectable traces.
Surely, you are joking. But if not? Why would a Super Being require... rest?
oh but hey!Not really.
Did the Lord God tire out requiring rest?
Genesis 2:2 Expanded Bible (EXB)
By the seventh day God ·finished [completed] the work he had been doing, so he ·rested [or ceased] from all his work [L he had done].
Isaiah 40:28 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth
Does not become tired or grow weary;
There is no searching of His understanding.
It is my opinion, Sir Bob, that even you have 5 billion years looking at nothing, it will still be nothing.
I believe nothing will be nothing and nothing can produce something because someone did something.
I believe if nothing was done even for 15 billion years, nothing will result and
I believe someone made at least 60,000 species of trees on the third day.
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"Trees" (1913)
By: Alfred Joyce Kilmer
Trees by Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree
I've had a thread up and running....long agoIs God some sort of psychopath, or what?
None of that explains why God apparently needed a nap and perhaps a strong cuppa coffee, after just 6 days...
Kind of like why couldn't God simply forgive? Why does something need to be brutally slain, first?
Is God some sort of psychopath, or what?
But only in 2 of the 51 Bibles (4%) I checked; the Expanded Bible and the Amplified Bible. And ceasing to work certainly does not mean resting, so this ploy to redefine "rested" is a waste of time.He rested means He stopped or ceased in His work.
But only in 2 of the 51 Bibles (4%) I checked; the Expanded Bible and the Amplified Bible. And ceasing to work certainly does not mean resting, so this ploy to redefine "rested" is a waste of time.
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Sorry, but redefining words so as to resolve obvious contradictions doesn't wash. All those scholars who chose to use "rested" instead of "ceased" did so because they wanted the reader to understand that god not only stopped but "rested." ↙Skwim, determining a biblical truth does not require a bible count [how many translations would say rested and how many would say stop or cease]. What makes sense is what we are after.
If we would be stiff neck to blindly accept that on the seventh day, God rested because he was tired - it would run contrary to another verse in the Bible
Isaiah 40:28 New International Version (NIV)
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
It is our understanding that all of scriptures have its partner and everything do not run contrary to each other as this is written in the Bible:
Isaiah 34:16 New International Version (NIV)
Look in the scroll of the Lord and read:
None of these will be missing,
not one will lack her mate.
For it is his mouth that has given the order,
and his Spirit will gather them together.
Sorry, but redefining words so as to resolve obvious contradictions doesn't wash. All those scholars who chose to use "rested" instead of "ceased" did so because they wanted the reader to understand that god not only stopped but "rested." ↙
RESTED
verb (used without object)
to refresh oneself, as by sleeping, lying down, or relaxing.
to relieve weariness by cessation of exertion or labor.
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Even you have a thousand scholarsEven you have a thousand scholars
A thousand bibles
A thousand angels
A thousand years of thinking
It would not change the fact that in
Isaiah 40:28 New International Version (NIV)
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
Let us not be zombies, mindless and dead
If it is written, then how can one who hasn't lived even 120 years change it?
Not even the POTUS can change it.
Even you have a thousand scholars
A thousand bibles
A thousand angels
A thousand years of thinking
It would not change the fact that in
Genesis 2:2 New International Version (NIV)
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
Let us not be zombies, mindless and dead
If it is written, then how can one who hasn't lived even 120 years change it?
Not even the POTUS can change it.
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when I cease to work....I restAnd ceasing to work certainly does not mean resting,
So, Why?
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The follow on question has to be about babies (who obviously didn't know) why did they go to Limbo? I know this was changed about 20 years ago
Quite the interesting religious paradox isn't it? Earth's indigenous cultures apparently have this innocent ignorance when it comes to the evangelization from members of the Abrahamic traditions. They see these cultures ignorant of the "true faith" because they've never picked up a Bible or a Qur'an so to save them from their ignorant innocence they tell them thereby making them accountable when they didn't have to be before.
all have sinnedI believe the priest was wrong. The sin exists whether he knows it or not. The only people who escape Hell are those without sin.
Sometimes when I cease to work on a job or project I go on to another.when I cease to work....I rest
when I rest....I am not working
and the script I keep declares that no more would be created
(after Day Six)
looks like God ......ceased .....his work