From: Glenn Morton (glennmorton@entouch.net)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 06:50:52 EDT
Allen wrote:
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>But what about today? Do fossils in the ground to day point to an old
>biosphere? Do they make God into a liar? yes, but only if you
>believe that the
>fossils in the ground predate the Creation week. If you believe that the
>fossils are the product of Noah's' flood, then they would not predate the
>Creation week and would not make God into a liar.
Allen there is not one assumption in your logic above but 2. You assume that
your interpretation of Scripture is infallible. You assume that Genesis 1
actually teaches about the actualization of the earth, not the planning for
what the universe would be like. If, as I argue, Genesis 1 represents the
pre-planning for the universe, then Genesis 1 should be interpreted not as
And God said, 'let there be light and it was so'
But as
And God said, 'let there be light'. [a later editor said]: 'And it was so.'
But the passage doesn't say (and this is very important) 'And it was so
IMMEDIATELY/Instantly'
There is no requirement for the sequence Proclamation->instant fulfillment
here any more than there was instant fulfillment in the proclamation that
Abraham would be the father of innumerable descendants.
Thus Genesis 1 is reporting 7 great pre-temporal proclamations which outline
what the world would be like. Some time after Genesis 1, the universe was
creation, and several billion years later Genesis 2 recounts the creation of
mankind. And after that some editor told his readers 'And it was so'.
The above interpretation doesn't make God a liar but makes your
interpretation only one among many that allow for a historical Genesis 1.
If your interpretation is wrong, then there can be fossils in the ground
prior to Genesis 2 and God still be truthful but we humans fallible
interpretors.
Glenn
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