I believe it does not! Givin that the years just do not add up, and I do not believe in any diety of any kind! What about y'all?
2006-10-09 03:17:41 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You cannot believe if you have no FAITH! God has His own time table. A day for men is not a day for GOD. The one day Genesis is talking is a thousand day for Men.
2006-10-09 03:48:41 · answer #1 · answered by The young Merlin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simple answer is we don't really know. We'd have to take the genesis story up on faith as of right now though there is still every possibility that science will one day corroberate. My faith in the genesis story based on how truthful the rest of the Bible is as a whole. It's simple logic to believe in something that hasn't lied to you before over the world that lies to you all the time.
The other problem is that we have an ever evolving understanding of the Bible. The Bible is a very deep complicated book that take more than a simple read through to understand.
For instance there are those that believe the Bible says the eath is only 6,000 years old based on the timeline of creation and various geneologies.
Still there are others who prescribe to something called the "Gap theory" which provides for an earth that could be millions of years old.
Science hasn't confirmed either so as of now I'll say we just don't know.
2006-10-09 03:36:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes of course it is.
Moses wrote down the order of things accurately in order for life to survive. The chances of him getting that right are millions to one - even scientists cannot explain that. That's why many intelligent ones acknowledge now that we were created instead of believing in the thoery of evolution.
You dismiss the Bible before you have looked into it which isn't wise really considering what it promises us.
If everyone followed what it says then the world would be so different than it is now.
When you make a statement like "the years just don't add up" you really should give evidence of this in order for someone to be able to reason with you & show you that, in fact, they do.
The Bible is God's word
2006-10-09 03:49:59 · answer #3 · answered by **Bonita Belle** 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What part of the years don't add up? It's scientists with their theories that have proposed that the world is millions of years old. It's also scientists that have made different dating devises that are not accurate. They can't even get them to give an accurate age to a living item let alone some thing thousands of years old. Lets say that the world was just created out of chance. Who or what made the matter to begin with? The big bang theory has been proved wrong. If something explodes it doesn't come together it spreads apart. The funny thing about science is that only the things they want you to know are written about in magazines and other literature. You have to dig around to find the truth. It's all because people don't want to admit that there is a higher power or a God that created them and controls their destiny.
2006-10-09 03:30:05 · answer #4 · answered by firefly 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Besides the years not adding up (you are a bit shallow to not believe that a day of creation could be any lenght of time) what is the problem. It is the truth as explained to men of the era that it was written. The men at the time could have never understood scientific explanations.... Jim
2006-10-09 03:47:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, even certain fundamentalist Christians (like William Jennings Bryan) admit that the idea of creation explained in Genesis doesn't add up. The Bible should be viewed more as a collection of stories that can be used as a guide, but it is not a factual history book.
2006-10-09 03:28:30 · answer #6 · answered by James P 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it does. Look at me. You cremate me and I become a dust. This dust I or any body in the world can not even raise an inch from the ground. Can any body raise this dust back to life again? My conception in my mothers womb is not very different from what is being described in Genesis. It is essentially the same. Did my parents gather all those oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium, potassium, magnesium, etc. and formed me into a zygote. It all happened without even their being consciously aware of it. If I died at birth could my parents bring me back to life? There is a force that did it all, the same force and power that did it in Genesis. It is the same force that keeps my heart beating even when I'm sleeping--millions of us. Just because we can not comprehend it does not mean it does not exist. Many things in this world happen because we believe them to be so. But this one remains true even if we do not believe. This one makes the difference between me and the dust.
2006-10-09 03:44:40 · answer #7 · answered by PabloSolutin 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well the fact that you don't believe in a God kind of precludes anything from the Bible as truth to you. However, the fact the years don't add up can be addressed.
Much of the story is figurative. A day wasn't necessarily a day. It was a time period. How long? Who knows. Although I believe in an Adam and Eve, I also believe that there are huge pieces missing. God doesn't care that we understand history for history's sake. He wants to teach us something about ourselves in these stories. So they are not 100% historical. If you understand this, there is no reason to go around contradicting each line saying that "science has proven otherwise..."
2006-10-09 03:22:09 · answer #8 · answered by AT 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Yes, but remember the Earth was recreated twice after the original Creation,the first account was with the beginning description, the second with adam and eve after the fall with Lucifer and his angels, the third with Noah and the flood. the 4th is at the end of the age with a partial renovation before jesus rules for 1,000.years and the final full one at the end of that Thuousand years where from then on he rules for eternity, with the city of God right over us it is called the New Jerusalem.
2006-10-09 03:31:29 · answer #9 · answered by Mary S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends on your definition of truth. If you're looking for historical accuracy, well, the Bible is NOT a history book and it never claims to be. The story of creation is mostly metaphor. It gives one hints into the mind of God, if one know how to read it.
2006-10-09 04:35:18 · answer #10 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you do not beleive in creation, then you must beleive in evolution.
Look at it this way. even the smallest one celled organisms (which is where evolution says life is supposed to have begun) has a DNA code which is compiled of trillions of bits of information. the likelyhood of this one celled organism coming into existance from some soupy bog somewhere millions of years ago without divine intervention would be like an explosion in a printing press resulting in the perfect formation of a dictionary.
More and more, if you truly study science, evolution is being scientifically disproven and creation is being more widely confirmed.
2006-10-09 03:29:27 · answer #11 · answered by Dr. Linder 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋