Hi Marcia!
I'm just getting over DHK suggesting I have no faith and am an athiest because I supported a consept I don't personally agree with. So give me a moment to compose myself.
(Just had a cup of tea. Very nice earl grey..... picking up my bad guy mask.... putting on my bad guy cape......Ok ok I think I'm ready)
Even agnostics can be hairbrained!!!! I mean an agnostic isn't even sure what they believe. They just say "I don't know!" So there.
Could God Have Used Evolution?
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Revmitchell, Sep 15, 2008.
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Jk of course.
A day by definition is reliant on the rotation of the earth. An intrinsic impossibility to suggest day and night or evening and morning without the sun or the rotation of the earth. Unless you propose perpetual dusk or dawn which of course could not be considered day and night. -
You said something about Denton being a creationist and fundamentalist or something and I was pointing out he's atheist/agnostic. He is a scientist. So why wouldn't you look at his book? When even atheist scientists question evolutionary theory (and he's not the only one), there is reason to pause and consider that creationists and Genesis might be correct. -
There are Hebrew words God could have used if he wanted to let us know that the 6 days were long periods of time. This article goes into that. Excerpt below.
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The earth could rotate without the sun and moon. Morning and evening before the sun and moon were not defined by that as yet but they still existed. God is able to create a period of time (24 hour day) without the sun and moon. Clearly, this was unusual but certainly possible. After all, it was creation, an unusual event. -
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Actually I've enjoyed this book by RC Sproul "Not a Chance" But don't let anyone else on the board know they may get the wrong idea about me. -
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Thanks. It wasn't entirely necissary because I'm just messing around. But I am a believer and do hold to the creation event though I adamantly defend the opposing position here. -
From the NET Bible online:
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We judge the dates of things, but we use our own measurements to do so. Who says God had to make everything look brand new? He could have created the Grand Canyon just like it is... and then we come along and try to explain it away. The bible tells us what He made, but it does not specify that everything started out as a baby or seedling. Adam started as a grown man, so why not a weathered Earth?
Nowhere in the bible are we told that God shorteded the length of a day. He created them, and they have continued since that time. Anything beyond that does not come from His word.
I used to be an evolutionary Christian, but I was very wrong. God finally got it through my head. You can't straddle the fence on this one... either God did what He said, or you call Him a liar. -
I don't think I have ever called God a liar, nor would I even consider such a label, even for those who think otherwise on the process used by God to bring about humankind and the universe.
It is like defining the flood of Noah's time as being universal or local. Theolgians differed on this one, but we are never accused on either side of making God a liar. This would also include the Israelites crossing of either the Red Sea or the Reed Sea, the more likely site. The sea is not important; the event is.
Cheers,
Jim
PS. When did the dinosaur appear on earth and in what time span? We have archeological proof in Alberta, Canada that they did exist, yet the Bible does not mention them. One example of extra-biblical history. -
And at 32 pages this thread needs to be closed.
You may start another if you so desire.
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