Whatever. I can't tell you the number of preachers who preached against education.
Issues with the slippery slope argument of literal 7-24 hour creationism
Discussion in 'Other Christian Denominations' started by Anastasia, Sep 25, 2011.
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Thinkingstuff Active Member
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You referenced "scholars" from places like Yale. You referenced "academics," and also Jewish scholars. Who are these people--secular scholars and Jewish academics. The Jews are not saved. Neither are the secular academics.
Therefore:
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Corinthians 2:14)
--They receive not the things of the Spirit of God.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isaiah 8:20)
--Their very testimony concerning the Word of God condemns them.
The Bible speaks of the blind leading the blind and both shall fall into the ditch. That describes the unsaved person trying to be an authority on the Word of God. He can't. -
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I vehemently disagree with you, mandym, in your implication that that science is anti-God or that science and the Bible do not agree with one another. Science is the realm of repeatable, observable experimentation. By evolutionary, theistic evolutionary, or even young creationist worldviews, the creation of all things happened prior to anyone being there to observe it. Additionally, it cannot be repeated. So anyone who holds to a worldview that includes a belief on origins does so by faith, not by science. -
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The first letter of each verse in Genesis 1 from verse 2 onward starts with the Hebrew letter YOM. This indicates the word "and" meaning the following text relates back in an inclusive manner to the previous text. For example, if I said "I got a shirt, and pants, and shoes from the store"I know that shirt, pants, and shoes all relate back to the verb "i got" because the word "and" mandates inclusion. The NASB translation has omitted all of the "ands" thinking them to be superfluous. They think "I got a shirt, pants, shoes from the store" basically means the same thing. However the "ands" are important because the list is complex and spread out across many sentences.
So when Genesis 1:1 says "in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" and then verse 3 says "and God said let there be light", it can be demonstrated by the "and" at the beginning that "God created light" relates back to, and is included in the phrase "in the beginning, God created". So I could quote Genesis 1:3 as "In the beginning, God created and said let there be light, and there was light."
This exegesis is confirmed by Jesus in Mark 10:6:
Mar 10:6 "But from the beginning of creation, God MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE.
Jesus properly quotes Genesis 1:1 and 1:27 as if they are one, contiguous statement because the YOM (and) makes them one contiguous statement.
This is why God gives us the one and only eye-witness account. He was the only one who saw it. Because it is different now than it was then, and looking at what we have now can never forensically lead us to the right conclusion because there was a significant change.
1Cr 15:26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
If death is an enemy of God, then why would God call a world that contained it "very good" as He said frequently in Genesis 1?
Rom 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
Note which invisible attributes are clearly seen; 1) His eternal power, and 2) His divine nature. The text limits what can be seen by what is made to these two specific attributes. Note that both attributes are eternal and divine in nature (immaterial) not temporal (material) in nature. It does not say "you can understand the temporal world in which you live by observing it", but rather it says you can understand the power and nature of God by what He has made. In other words, it does not tell you that you can know about the material world by observing what is made, it tells us that we can know something about an immaterial God by seeing what He made.
Check out this article on problem with the Gap (or ruin, reconstruction) theories:
Problems with the Gap Theory
Believing in the gap theory presents a number of problems and inconsistencies, especially for a Christian.
- It is inconsistent with God creating everything in six days, as Scripture states.
- It puts death, disease, and suffering before the Fall, contrary to Scripture.
- The gap theory is logically inconsistent because it explains away what it is supposed to accommodate—supposed evidence for an old earth.
- The gap theory does away with the evidence for the historical event of the global Flood.
- The gap theorist ignores the evidence for a young earth.
- The gap theory fails to accommodate standard uniformitarian geology with its long ages.
- Most importantly, the gap theory undermines the gospel at its foundations.
By accepting an ancient age for the earth (based on the standard uniformitarian interpretation of the geologic column), gap theorists leave the evolutionary system intact (which by their own assumptions they oppose).
Even worse, they must also theorize that Romans 5:12 and Genesis 3:3 refer only to spiritual death. But this contradicts other scriptures, such as 1 Corinthians 15 and Genesis 3:22–23. These passages tell us that Adam’s sin led to physical death, as well as spiritual death. In 1 Corinthians 15 the death of the Last Adam (the Lord Jesus Christ) is compared with the death of the first Adam. Jesus suffered physical death for man’s sin, because Adam, the first man, died physically because of sin.
In cursing man with physical death, God also provided a way to redeem man through the person of His Son Jesus Christ, who suffered the curse of death on the Cross for us. He tasted “death for everyone” according to Hebrews 2:9. He took the penalty that should rightly have been ours at the hands of the Righteous Judge, and bore it in His own body on the Cross. Jesus Christ tasted death for all mankind, and He defeated death when He rose from the grave three days later. Men can be free from eternal death in hell if they believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. They then are received back to God to spend eternity with Him. That is the message of Christianity.
To believe there was death before Adam’s sin destroys the basis of the Christian message. The Bible states that man’s rebellious actions led to death and the corruption of the universe, but the gap theory undermines the reason that man needs a Savior.
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Think of it like this I want to tell you about how terrified I was some night ago. I begin "it was a dark and stormy night" Linguisticly internally the passage means that in the evening hours (not specified) it was dark and immagine rain or storm clouds overhead. However, The focus of my story isn't how dark or whether it was in a 6 - 12 hour period in the rain but that this particular night was frightening to begin with. Then imagine someone looks at the weather reports for that night and come up with it was a full moon and no storm. Am I to be disbelieved? No because the intent was that I was scared and it seemed to me that it was dark and stormy.
You find the refrain used over and over again and even God finding that what he made was good is also refrain. IN the Creation story God sets out to point out to people who believe the sky was an actual dome was that 1) he is the creator. 2) greater than all gods 3)everything is subject to him 4) man is the pinnacle of creation 5) establishes a sence of Jusitice 6) sets up a theology of the Sabbath 7) sets up a theology and the institution of marriage 8) explains creation in 3 general catagories call days and 3 specific catagories called night. Toping his creation of man. Genesis chapter 2 begins his theology of man and relation to God with the institution of Marriage.. This is why the two accounts don't really jive. Because God is speaking about two different things. The bible is not a scientific manual. Is a theological book or a library of many books with many stylistic writigs all telling one story...Salvation history. -
I too like to use the NASB, but here the translators have been bitten by their own translation rules. They set about to intentionally remove a lot of "and" statements (YOM) to make it more readable, assuming that it wouldn't change the meaning, but it has added a lot of confusion.
Here is the context:
Gen 2:4 These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Gen 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.
Verse 5 relates back to the previous verse because of the YOM character that starts it (hence the word AND). So the time referenced is "the day that the Lord made the heavens and earth". Notice it doesn't have evening, morning, or number in conjunction with the word "day" so that word day means "time" rather than a literal 24 hour day (in the [time] that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens).
If you incorrectly interpret this passage to mean that man came before plants, then you must also (to be consistent) interpret it to mean that plants came before the earth and the heavens as well. But that makes no sense with the rest of the verse - "for the Lord had not caused it to rain upon the earth". Therefore, it is an incorrect exegesis to say that it means plants came before man.
Instead, what it really says is - "These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew"
You'll notice all I changed was I removed the verse numbers. When you read it plainly with the "and" intact, you can see that verse 5 is part of the statements in verse 4. It is part of a general list of things God created when he created heavens and earth.
It is a mistake to think that facts on their own tell a story. Facts must be interpreted to have meaning. The reason old and young earth adherents come to very different conclusions is not because of the facts, but rather because of the underlying assumptions in their worldview that colors the way they see those facts. This is the reason that debates over the facts never lead anywhere. A worldview is like a pair of sunglasses that are colored. One person wears green glasses that color everything green, and one person wears yellow glasses that color everything yellow. When they look at the facts, they see those fact through the lens of their assumptive, faith based framework.
In reality, it is not a debate about the facts, but about the assumptions that color our interpretation of the facts.
The Bible is not a textbook, and with good reason. Textbooks need to be revised every year as new discoveries are made that disprove everything we thought was true. The Bible is true eternal. Every subject that it touches upon is accurate and true. So when the Bible touches on history, it is accurate and true. When the Bible touches on scientific principles, it is right. It can be relied upon as ultimate truth. -
How could there be three days and three nights before there was a sun ? My question reflects a misunderstanding of the literary form of the creation story. The order in which material appear in the story reflects the writers literary organizational technique and not any attempt to describe the historic or scientific order. -
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Jewish scholars are not saved.
You gave an example from the far past--Jonathan Edwards, who was a preacher. That is apples and oranges, isn't it. He is not from today's generation, nor a secular humanist commenting on the Word of God, as most of the department of Biblical Studies at Yale would be.
So tell me, would you trust the Word of God into the hands of an Islamic Scholar? Why not? All three groups are unsaved, and all three have the same "father." You can only serve one "master." -
You will notice on Day 1, God creates light, then separates the light from the darkness - or in other words gathers the light into one place (for example when God separated the dry land from the water on earth). Then we see the phrase "and the evening, and the morning were the first day," indicating that the earth was spinning. On day 3 the sun becomes the dominant fixed light source to indicate the passing of each day based on the earth's rotation. -
Which brings up a major problem with the so-called 'literal' approach.
Such interpretation demands a literal day for days 1 to 3 but, in this 'literal' so-called interpretaton there is no literal sun until Day 4 and before Day 4 there are NO "lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night... for signs and for seasons, and for days and years" -
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Genesis 1:5)
The evening and the morning were the first day. The day is defined as a 24 hour day, as it is throughout the whole account. Our God is a God of order and not of chaos. While He didn't make the sun until the fourth day, that doesn't mean He was incapable of providing light; for He Himself is the very essence of light.
By the end of Day One, the earth was already rotating on its axis giving a 24 hour day as the light shone upon it. -
You don't need a sun for evening, morning or for the time of 1 day to pass... you only need the earth to spin and a fixed light source.
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