From: allenroy (allenroy@peoplepc.com)
Date: Sat Oct 11 2003 - 20:20:38 EDT
Glenn Morton wrote:
> GRM: Allen, that is an interesting reaction since the word
> immediately doesn't appear in Genesis' creation account. If anyone
> is adding to what the Bible says, it is those who hold that it all
> happened immediately, lacking that word in the text. I don't argue
> that that was the historical way of interpreting that passage, but
> quite simply the verbage doesn't support it
>
A word need not actually be there for it to be implied. The speed of creating
something is implied by the mode of creating. "God said" -- "and it was done"
The completion of the creation correlates to the creative mode of speech. Are
we to suppose that it took God millions of years to say
"l..........e.............t..............................
t........h........e.........r........e......................................
b........e.............................
l........i........g.........h.........t."
> It is not necessary to interpret Genesis 1 to be such that the
> universe is created on "day four" of the creation week. Rather,
> Genesis 1 can be interpreted to allow for a previously created
> universe to come into view from the planet through a series of
> events during the Creation Week.
> GRM: It is necessary if one wants to match observational reality. If
> one wishes to belive things which have long ago been falsified, be
> my guest.
>
I just showed how one can understand (interpret) the observed events of the days
of the Creation Week as recorded in Genesis 1, from the POV of planet earth
(which implied in the texts) and within a previously existing universe (which is
implied by the literary structures found in Genesis and the fall of lucifer,
etc.). If you have some problem with the logic and exegesis let's here it.
Allen
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