RE: Firmament and the Water above was [asa] Re: Slug

Hi Phil:
 
>>The creation account in Gen.2 is discussing why there are no wild
plants, and the reason is because there is no rain, and so it says God
solved the problem by causing a "fog" or "mist" (i.e., rain clouds) to
rise up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground. This
cured the problem of no rain and therefore wild plants could grow
henceforth. In parallel (and **not** chronologically) the author says
that there were no cultivated plants because there was no man to
cultivate them, and therefore God made man. This cured the problem of
there being no mankind and therefore cultivated plants could grow
henceforth.<<
 
The phrase you are discussing is Gen. 2: 5-6. The man God formed comes
in Gen. 2:7. You have just put over 4 billion years between these
verses because the earth had to have rain to create soil. Pre-Cambrian
sedimentary rock was formed by watershed. Further, where did the four
rivers in Genesis get their water? That doesn't tell you something? On
Day Three of creation we have vegetation, even fruit trees long before
the garden was planted or Adam created. How did they get watered?
Where have you seen "fog" sufficient to water fruit trees and animals
that were created on Day Three and Five?
 
Eden was an oases watered by irrigation from the Euphrates. It did not
rain upon the land because Southern Mesopotamia is very dry just as it
is today. When Adam was cast out he was forced to toil among thorns and
thistles which were out there all along from when God told the land to
bring forth vegetation.
 
Genesis is not mysterious. Put in context it all makes good sense.
It's only when you try to impose on the text demands that it must apply
to the whole earth, or that Adam is the first of the Homo sapiens, or
that the flood was worldwide are you forced into these bad
interpretations.
 
If I thought the Bible writers were half as dumb as some of you guys try
to make them out to be I would have looked for some other religion long
ago.
 
Dick Fischer
Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
 <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org> www.genesisproclaimed.org
 
 

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Received on Sun Jun 18 20:34:25 2006