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Actually, Wayne, my first question is intended to be that very answer. Creation took place in 6 days with God using the 7th to rest. YEC. Sorry, if that was confusing, but that was the intention. Is that what you meant?

 

Remember, another clue to the death puzzle is the fact that animals ate only plant life. It was not "yet" a dog-eat-dog world of survival of the fittest. Plants, although alive based on the fact that they reproduce and grow utilizing surrounding elements, were obviously not considered the same as animal life.

Not until after man fell to sin did animal life become a food to both man and beast.

The bottom line is that we either have to accept Genesis as a true story, (six day creation, 1 day of rest), the list of relatives all of the way from Adam to Jesus, or we believe it is an allegory in which we might as well accept the gospels as allegory also. Without Genesis 1-11, we do not need the rest of the Bible.

It is NOT just a matter of interpretation, otherwise, other Old Testament writers and New Testament writers, including Jesus would not have told the story in the Genesis format.

FYI, this is one of the reasons the SBC had to clean out its universities of professors who started allegorizing not only Genesis, but the Virgin Birth of Mary. When you start down that path, you do not end until it all goes away.

IMHO you cannot straddle the fence.

 

Ask God why He selected animals to eat plants and not animals. Have you read your Bible?

That is your idea; the bible is silent on this issue.

okaaaaaay. . . "It is TRUE, but this doesn't mean it is "historical". HAHAHAHAHA

So, then the gospels are rhetorical and open to interpretation? Would you like to try your hand at your interpretation based on the consideration of the intertextuality of the Biblical canon. Whatever that diatribe means?

I have no idea what you are talking about, but you can call it "fundamentalist" takeover or what you want, but the bottom line is that our colleges were so blatantly liberal that they certinly needed a good house-cleaning; and that is exactly what happened. Whether everything is perfect or not, is definitely another story, but I can say the situation is better than it was. Obviously, more people in the SBC though "fundamentalism" is better than "liberalism". You can call it what you want---I'll call it a conservative ressurgence.

Again, do you wish to explain yourself?

By the way, you see the results of the poll. Do you think everybody who posts here are a bunch of idiots without education or experience? Obviously, I guess in your opinion 90% of us haven't "seen the light".

Sorry, friend, but I call liberalism in Biblical interpretion like I see it and I certainly don't think Jesus lied when He created everything in six days.

Exactly why do you think this is rhetorical anyway? Will your science not fit your Bible? Or does your Bible not fit your science?

So, what exactly do you believe? Man came from a single cell--millions of years past? When did man get his soul? Do you think God is NOT capable of creating the universe in six days?

Why are you so dead set that Gen. 1-11 is not historical?

Sorry, if I sound argumentative, but this is debate site and that's what we do here.

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Obviously, God would not have said this:

Gen 3:3 but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"ESV

If man was not intended to live forever; however, in your belief, many of these pre-man creatures if you truly believe in evolution had to die. So, what happened, did this one man all of a sudden get a soul after God thought he became good enough through trial and error (or whatever). Oh, yeah, this never happened becuse Genesis 1-11 is allegory. So, what DID happen? and why would God lie about it? You say it is just interpretation, so interpret this:

Gen 2:7 then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
ESV

 

Good point, Marcia, I anxiously await their answer.

 

Oh, and let's not forget that you said it is a matter of interpretation. Would you please interpret this chapter for us?

Gen 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
Gen 5:2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
Gen 5:4 The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters.
Gen 5:5 Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.
Gen 5:6 When Seth had lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh.
Gen 5:7 Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 5:8 Thus all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died.
Gen 5:9 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered Kenan.
Gen 5:10 Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan 815 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 5:11 Thus all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died.
Gen 5:12 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he fathered Mahalalel.
Gen 5:13 Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel 840 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 5:14 Thus all the days of Kenan were 910 years, and he died.
Gen 5:15 When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he fathered Jared.
Gen 5:16 Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared 830 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 5:17 Thus all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died.
Gen 5:18 When Jared had lived 162 years he fathered Enoch.
Gen 5:19 Jared lived after he fathered Enoch 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 5:20 Thus all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.
Gen 5:21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah.
Gen 5:22 Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 5:23 Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years.
Gen 5:24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
Gen 5:25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he fathered Lamech.
Gen 5:26 Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 5:27 Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.
Gen 5:28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son
Gen 5:29 and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands."
Gen 5:30 Lamech lived after he fathered Noah 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 5:31 Thus all the days of Lamech were 777 years, and he died.
Gen 5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
ESV

Either God is a great liar or this is a great historical account. I accept the later.

Like I said before, if you cannot accept something as literal as this, then why bother with the gospels?