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Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by AQuestion
I've been saying more and more that it isn't where it comes from, but what it is. The author doesn't matter, so much as the philosophy involved.
On that, I think we can find some common ground, yes?
For thousands of years it was read metaphorically and allegorically. Everything was a symbol for something.
As an atheist that use to be christian i think genesis is to be taken very very litterally.I believe the abrahamic god is/was real and had chosen Israel as his people.
Originally posted by ConspiracyNut23
reply to post by wildapache
As an atheist that use to be christian i think genesis is to be taken very very litterally.I believe the abrahamic god is/was real and had chosen Israel as his people.
My sarcasm detector must be off.
You're an atheist who believes Yahveh is real?
Originally posted by buster2010
If a person believes in Genesis then they have to believe the human race is nothing but a bunch of inbreeds. Families that keep breeding in their family circle isn't a good idea. Just like Cain and Abel marrying their sisters.
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). 1:3-5
reply to post by ExNihilo
He made the stars also." God spends a day making light (before making the stars) and separating light from darkness; then, at the end of a hard day's work, and almost as an afterthought, he makes the trillions of stars. 1:16
Originally posted by Seede
TextAll animals were originally herbivores. Tapeworms, vampire bats, mosquitoes, and barracudas -- all were strict vegetarians, as they were created by God. But, of course, we now know that there were carnivorous animals millions of years before humans existed. 1:30
Originally posted by ExNihilo
Self deceptiveness is a powerful smokescreen that hides the true beauty to behold.edit on 8-9-2012 by ExNihilo because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ExNihilo
God creates light
Originally posted by visualmiscreant
reply to post by ExNihilo
This reply will perhaps cause me problems with fellow Christians, but this is my take...
Nowhere in the New Testament, nor out of Jesus' mouth am I commanded or obliged to defend The Old Testament.
My task is to spread the good news of The New Testament. Perhaps you should ask those of Jewish Faith...