2007-11-10 05:28:34 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If some people start calling science unChristian then something has gone wrong with those people surely.
2007-11-10 05:31:49 · update #1
missingo...: your poetic treatment puts an attractive new slant on the fictional story.
2007-11-10 05:44:34 · update #2
Yes, I think you're correct.
We have talking animals in children's movies, stories and cartoons. Through their conversations and actions, social commentary on racism and such is portrayed. A talking serpent serves that same purpose in Genesis.
It's a story that conveys the meaning of betrayal of trust and loyalty to God.
I don't think it actually took place.
That's one of the reasons why I cannot trust the bible. None of the scientific discoveries are prefigured in scripture.
For instance, when God made water, why doesn't the bible read this way....
And the Lord took two of the most common thing and one of a lesser common thing and created water.
Two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen.
Because it doesn't read this way, compels me to reject the Bible's divine inspiration.
2007-11-10 05:57:19 · answer #1 · answered by Starstuff58 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have often wondered if God had let early man watch a video of creation, if The Creation story would come out any different than the book of Genesis. How much can a non scientist absorb.
2007-11-10 05:44:15 · answer #2 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a sense yes. Before the early Jewish writings put Genesis down in print, oral history traditions was the norm. In Genesis, there's more to it then meets the eye. The oral history was made as such to be easily remembered.
2007-11-10 05:36:36 · answer #3 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A simple time? When God spoke the stars into existence? When He flung them into space? When there was darkness on the face of the earth and with His word, He hung the moon and the sun and separated the darkness and the light, the waters from the land. He breathed life into a lump of clay and created Adam. He caused a sleep to fall upon Adam and took a rib to create Eve because it was not good for man to be alone. Somehow that doesn't seem simple to me.
2007-11-10 05:39:14 · answer #4 · answered by missingora 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Absolutely
2007-11-10 05:34:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Sure was. In fact it's a total rip-off of the Sumerian creation myth. Virtually word-for-word.
2007-11-10 05:39:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I liked Genesis better with Peter Gabriel.
2007-11-10 05:30:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
Yes, but sadly, the world is still filled with simple people.
2007-11-10 05:34:44 · answer #8 · answered by Brent Y 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Well the book had to start somewhere. "The earth exists so lets say it happened like this." People were so ignorant then they had no idea that is was fiction.
2007-11-10 05:37:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Genesis
IS a simple explanation for
ALL people in
ALL times!!!
2007-11-10 05:39:27 · answer #10 · answered by Devon 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋