Creation days 5 and 6

[Talishi]

Creation Thursday was when God populated the Earth with all the creatures which were not confined to the land. This included every creature swimming in the rivers and seas, as well as all the birds and bats and winged insects.

God performed his fourth quality self-check. Clearly God is working to an orderly and precise plan, with creation ordered by categories of habitat.

On Friday God made a hybrid creature which is like an animal, but also made to resemble God in some way: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Both male and female humanity reflects the image of God. As a spirit, God is not a “he� but an “it� with no physical gender. And since humans resemble animals in body, the image of God is reflected in mankind’s interior life. Man’s mind was made in the image of God’s mind. Our body may be either male or female after the fashion of animals, but our interior temperament, male or female, also reflects the image of the temperament of God, which has elements of both.

However, the text of chapter 2 says the first living thing God created was man, and so we are presented with an inescapable dilemma. If we accept Genesis 1 as true that man was created on the first Friday, then the plants of Creation Tuesday and the birds and fish of Creation Thursday could not have been created on the days they were said to have been.

If we accept Genesis 2 as true, then man was created on Monday before any other living thing, contrary to what it clearly says in Chapter 1.

[Willum]

I realized you were Using manmade calendar and man's faulty thinking to the creative days of the initial creation of the world.

Funny, because all the other words make sense in human terms. Does "moon" therefore mean, "small furry animal that does not chew cud?"
God may have observed it, but men wrote it. There is no possibility that they were confused while they were writing it.

Hopefully that has cleared up some more confusion. A day was a day, since it wasn't a day, the OT is wrong.

The simple explanation of the conflict in the creation story is this:
It is an agglomerate of several different creation myths, stitched together by people who believed both, wanted to take credit for both, but alas, were not as educated in prose and plot as say, JRR Tolkein.

The Creation Story of the planet, is Greek. The creation of men is Sumerian. The conflict is obvious.

[theStudent]

I realized you were Using manmade calendar and man's faulty thinking to the creative days of the initial creation of the world.

Funny, because all the other words make sense in human terms. Does "moon" therefore mean, "small furry animal that does not chew cud?"
God may have observed it, but men wrote it. There is no possibility that they were confused while they were writing it.

Hopefully that has cleared up some more confusion. A day was a day, since it wasn't a day, the OT is wrong.

The simple explanation of the conflict in the creation story is this:
It is an agglomerate of several different creation myths, stitched together by people who believed both, wanted to take credit for both, but alas, were not as educated in prose and plot as say, JRR Tolkein.

The Creation Story of the planet, is Greek. The creation of men is Sumerian. The conflict is obvious.

When they couldn't get people to stop reading it, they tried burning it along with the people who read and translated it.
They tried to prove it wrong, by claiming the characters were fictitious, from Daniel to Sargon.
Today, they are silent, and the Bible still speaks to the heart of millions.

Do you think you will ever possibly prove the Bible untrue on these forums or anywhere else?
The thought may exist in your head, the same as a dream does, but it will never ever be possible for you to disprove the authenticity of the Bible.
Never... ever... in a billion lifetimes and beyond.

[Willum]

[Replying to post 22 by theStudent]

Kind of a funky persecution complex you [Christians] have there. People without much interest in things, like fairy tales and the Bible, don't actively destroy things with any kind of real enthusiasm.

I mean, you have your spurts, like the Dark Ages, but really, what you are talking about fall in line with human nature not in exterminating any kind of story.

They burn books all the time.

Like the "war on religion," Government opposes religion, maybe one day the US won't have a Christian President. Then come talk to me.

[H.sapiens]

This can be seen by using other texts, such as the one in Hebrews, which shows that the seventh day - God's rest day, has been going on now for thousands of years.

At that rate I will not live long enough to get to Sunday (the first day) and start going back to church again. But interesting tactic. The Bible says the rabbit chews the cud. We now know the rabbit does not chew the cud. A Bible believer can always say the rabbit still chews the cud in God's eyes.

That is what causes rabbits to have to eat their feces, a prime example of unintelligent design.

[hoghead1]

[Replying to theStudent]

There are at least 100 well-documented major contradictions in the Bible, not counting those which exist between different Bibles. So let me ask you about a couple. Maybe you can enlighten us. Exactly which Bible do you have in mind? The standard Catholic-Anglian Bible, which includes the Apocrypha? Or the standard Protestant Bible, which omits the Apocrypha? Who killed Goliath? David? Or Elhanan (2 Sam. 21:19)? What is the order of creation? First, animals, then man and women together (Gen. 1)? Or first man, then animals, then woman (Gen. 2)? How many major pilgrimages did Paul make to Jerusalem? Three (Paul's own letters)? Or five (Acts)? I await your answer.