Originally posted by: Nemesis 1
Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Originally posted by: Nemesis 1
even tho the Bibles account doesn't go into scientific detail about creation . It did list the events in the correct order. So many people are hung up a the use of the word days it caused problems with belief. . If GOD is GOD Time doesn't exist for GOD. The use of the word days only shows this occurred in differant time periods as it relates to time of creation only. Day doesn't = 24 hours. in this instance . The Bible does cover this . But that would only cause you guys more confusin. The Quote I gave covers the creation period pretty accuretly. So I did stay on topic.
Genesis does not list events in the correct order. It puts the earth at older than the sun.. which is what you would expect from a creation myth created before science.
I have the Genisis account posted in this thread . It says the earth was without form and void that would be water in a gas state than it says the firmiment was created (Heavens) = atmosphere. Than the Sun started working as we know it today that was light creation nowhere does it say earth came first nowhere . If it does get quote and post it.
The eath was created first.
Genesis 1:1-2:
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep."
and
Genesis 1:13-19
"So the evening and the morning were the third day.
Then God said, ?Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth?; and it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the fourth day. "
And you are incorrect about time not mattering to God being the reason the use of the word "day" does not matter. It does matter. God clearly defines in the Genesis account as a day being a day/night period, which must be 24 hours or close to it and not millions or billions of years because of consistency throughout the creation story. You can't ignore or change what the Bible says to accommodate science. Science, by it's own definition, changes, but you can't have faith in God and His Word if you think He or His Word changes. Either believe the earth is thousands of years old, or believe it is billions.
