Let me make sure I've got this straight.
The heavens and earth were created in 7 days by a being that "has always been and always will be". This being is ominiscient (all knowing), omnipotent (all powerful), and omnipresent (everywhere). Despite these traits, this creature took 7 days to create everything when it could have simply blinked everything into existence all at once. It even had to rest on the 7th day. If it's all powerful, why would it get tired or need to rest?
The first two humans were Adam and Eve, who had many children -yet no one closely examins the theory of in-breeding, despite all offspring carry the same genetic make-up of their parents.
Later, a voice from heaven told Abraham to kill his son, then basically said "Psyche!" Yet when asked about other people hearing voices, it's called mental illness. Hmmmm.
Noah gathered up 2 of every species on the Earth and put them all on a boat.
A guy named Moses talked to a burning bush. Still not considered mentlly ill.
2006-07-12 06:40:33 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The gentics will come into play in the Noah Story too. Let's just start with Genisis though.
(1:3-5, 14-19) "Let there be light"
God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). And how could there be "the evening and the morning" on the first day if there was no sun to mark them?
"Let the earth bring forth grass"
Plants are made on the third day before there was a sun to drive their photosynthetic processes (1:14-19). Notice, though, that God lets "the earth bring forth" the plants, rather than creating them directly. Maybe Genesis is not so anti-evolution after all.
"And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth."
Then why are only a tiny fraction of stars visible from earth? Under the best conditions, no more than a few thousand stars are visible with the unaided eye, yet there are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy and a hundred billion or so galaxies. Were they all created "to give light upon the earth"?
2006-07-12 06:53:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You spend hours looking into a box that transmits your ideas and thoughts to every corner of the earth in mere seconds while there's a box in your kitchen that makes ice in the top compartment and creates cold air in the bottom area. On the counter next to that big cold box there is a smaller box that you can put a frozen dinner into and if you leave it in for more than 3 to 5 minutes the box will burn your food to a black crispness. Here in the office where I now sit there is a machine that I can feed a piece of paper into with information printed on it and anyone in the world with a similar machine can receive a copy of that paper in seconds.
All this was created with out supernatural assistance, (well maybe not the Internet, we all know that's a favorite tool of the Devil). I'll bet a guy could live inside the belly of a whale for a few days if there was some spiritual workings in the mix.
2006-07-12 13:52:28 · answer #2 · answered by crystalonyx3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems to me like an explaination of life, the bible that is. We dont really know by evidence that the bible is all true, but its faith that makes us believe in God.
Science tells us that the Bible is wrong and that life came from a single-celled organism. So maybe at the beginning of written history people used their logic to explain how life began and now we have technology that can kinda give us little detail on how life began.
My answer would be to you that "no one has it straight", maybe you will find out when you die. "who knows" We can only speculate at this time.
2006-07-12 14:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by stevo T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is all allegory and metaphor. Just things dressed as stories so the illiterate masses(which were 99+% of people until 75 or so years ago)can be given an example
2006-07-12 13:46:31 · answer #4 · answered by Ed M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems rather inconsistant doesn't it? I believe in GOD, but I have trouble with all the writings in the bible. After all, the bible was written by men, (who are NOT perfect) and perhaps these writers exaggerated somewhat.
I always heard, "Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear." I'm not sure what percentage of what you read is supposed to be believed.
2006-07-12 13:53:22 · answer #5 · answered by awarriorandapoet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then Moses' merry band of erstwhile slaves went off into the Middle East plundering and killing anyone who didn't believe in their god.
And then....
You could go on and on. The whole thing is a joke.
2006-07-12 13:46:21 · answer #6 · answered by Biggest Douche in the Universe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, that's pretty much how the story goes...it makes it really hard to put all your faith in God and the Bible, doesn't it??? My step-dad (an atheist) always says the Bible is a terrific story...I'm still on the fence....have had some experiences in life that make me wonder....still on the fence though.....
2006-07-12 13:48:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human logic will not help you on this one. It is reserved for the true believer who is filled with the Holy Spirit.
2006-07-12 13:45:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, that's about it.
What, are you telling me you find any of this hard to believe?
You, my son, need to get some holy spirit into you pronto... 40 proof at least!
2006-07-12 13:45:29 · answer #9 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did u get lost in a desert or something. r u jealous of moses, ibrahim etc. hehe
2006-07-12 13:46:14 · answer #10 · answered by arabianofelix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋