Free For all - Open Discussions and DebatesI am confusedLet me see if I can take a stab at some of the questions posed in the first post: Genesis does not imply this. Who’s to say that when it says God created the heavens, He also created everything in the heavens (stars, planets, everything else in the universe) at the same time? Others have touched on this already, but the Bible is clear that God is light, so there doesn’t need to be a sun in order for there to be light. Genesis does not imply what you are saying. Genesis says that evening and morning, defined by light and dark (regardless of the cause of light and dark), make up a day. The fact that there was no sun at the time of the first day does not matter because light and dark were still present at the time, and they are the only two conditions required to make up a day. Yes, this is so. However, the text does not demand that the greater light and lesser light be self-contained sources of light, so there’s no problem here. How about heat? There’s no mention of horses here either. What’s your point? As far as I’m concerned, the phrase “beast of the earth after his kind” pretty much covers everything. The seven days do not commence before the creation of the sun. The sun is created on day 4. We have every reason to believe that these are 24-hour days measured in earth time. Everything in the creation account is told from earth’s perspective, so why wouldn’t this? The serpent in question here was used by Satan to tempt the woman to sin. Don’t you think Satan is powerful enough to give a voice to a snake? The snake was not put there for the sole purpose of tempting Eve. It just so happened to be the tool that Satan used. He could just as easily have used a cricket or a dove or a wolf or a dinosaur. I believe so, yes. Is that a problem? If God did not create humans with a capacity for weakness in the face of temptation, wouldn’t you have a problem with us not having Free Will? You can’t have it both ways. Either we are robots that always do the right thing, or we are people with free will who have to choose to make the right decision. God tests people so that they can prove their love for Him. Who has a greater love: a man who chooses to die in the place of his wife, or a robot who is programmed to die in place of humans? Adam and Eve had at least 3 sons – Cain, Abel, and Seth. No others are recorded, and in Scripture it is very rare to hear of daughters being listed in a list of progeny. Genesis does not imply that there are other human on earth before Adam and Eve. If we take it literally, then we must believe that Adam and Eve were the only ones. This implies that Cain would have had to marry his sister. Laws against marrying close relations do not appear in the Bible until much, much later, so there is not a problem with this. |
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