Genesis 2:19 "And out of the ground the Lord God formed (Greek "yasar"
to
form, mold, or fashion) every beast...and every bird..."
(God is the subject, not the land)
Genesis 3:1 "...more crafty than any beast... which the Lord God had
made."
again, "asah" ( which Genesis uses as a synonym for "bara" to create,
and
again God is the subject)
Note John 1:3, 10, 1 Cor 8:6, Eph 3:9, Col 1:16-17, etc..
In fact Hebrews 11:3 says something very interesting... "By faith we
understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, SO THAT
WHAT IS SEEN WAS NOT MADE OUT OF THINGS THAT ARE VISIBLE"
(emphasis added)
>Finally and most importantly, nowhere does the Bible say animals reproduce
>after their own kind! Look at verse 24 above. Land is the subject of the
>sentence, not animals.
Then in verse 25 we see God as the subject. (?)
>The land produces, according to their kind,
>animals! Animals do not produce animals according to their kind.
Hmmm, Lev:19:19: says "Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let
thy
cattle gender with a diverse kind"
>Why we have missed that distinction in the Genesis account I will never
>know.
It is not a distinction, only a misinterpretation and translation..
Scripture must
harmonize with itself and it speaks an entirely different message than
God
letting the land do the creating through TE!
>Thus I would contend that in spite of what we Christians often teach, the
>Bible does not rule out evolution and may even teach it.
Since this is not so plainly seen, you have to fight the battle on two
fronts,
the scientific acceptability of TE and the obvious contradictions to it
in the
Bible.
... meet you at Christ and Creation in a week or so!
God bless you, Glenn
(I gotta' get a Greek-Hebrew e-mail program) :-)
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"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." Proverbs 27:17"
Paul Durham pdd@gcc.cc.md.us Oakland, Maryland
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