walksalone
1/29/2006 12:28:00 AM
In <drgjr7$r96$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>, on 01/29/06
at 09:43 AM, colp <colp@solder.ath.cx> said:
>Josh wrote:
>> And sorry to tell you, but evidence is all around me where I live that
>> evolution took place over millions of years . None of this nonsense about
>> six days. Why didn't God do it all in six minutes? He could have.
>The six days of creation does not include the early history of this
The claim is as follows:
Legends of the Hebrews, various sources.
3. When God set out to create Heaven and Earth, He found nothing around
Him but Tohu and Bohu, namely Chaos and Emptiness. The face of the Deep,
over which His Spirit hovered, was clothed in darkness. On the first day
of Creation, therefore, He said: `Let there be light!', and light
appeared. On the second day, He made a firmament to divide the Upper
Waters from the Lower Waters, and named it `Heaven'. On the third day, He
assembled the Lower Waters in one place and let dry land emerge. After
naming the dry land `Earth', and the assembled waters `Sea', He told Earth
to bring forth grass and herbs and trees. On the fourth day, He created
the sun, moon and stars.
On the fifth day, the sea-beasts, fish and birds.
On the sixth day, the land-beasts, creeping things and mankind. On the
seventh day, satisfied with His work, He rested.'
4. But some say that after creating Earth and Heaven, God caused a mist to
moisten the dry land so that grasses and herbs could spring up. Next, He
made a garden in Eden, also a man named Adam to be its overseer, and
planted it with trees. He then created all beasts, birds, creeping things;
and lastly woman.'
i. Genesis I-n. 3. 2_ Genesis ii. 4-23.
OR:
Genesis JPS 1917 ver.
1:1 IN THE beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of
the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters. 1:3
And God said: 'Let there be light' And there was light. 1:4 And God saw
the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night And
there was evening and there was morning, one day. 1:6 And God said: 'Let
there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the
waters from the waters'. 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the
waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the
firmament; and it was so. 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven And
there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
>planet. In Genesis the earth is described as the dry land between the
Not in any version I've read. The earth is surrounded by waters, & a
firmament is above tghe earth. Hence, the waters cover the entire earth.
>waters (the seas), not the planet itself. The waters of the planet were
>already in existence before any of the six day events began.
Actually that is almost correct, the waters seem to have engulfed the
earth, as in it was underwater. 1:6 points this out.
>Why do you think that God could do it all in six minutes?
Its the old goddidit argument.
HTH
walksalone who has much to learn on this subject, but suspects he won't
do that here.
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