Re: [asa] Mark 10:6 -- "beginning of creation"

David,

I think it may be that these verses from Psalm 139 imply that the time of
"creation" and the time when the events unfolded are not the same thing:

5 My frame was not hidden from you
       when I was made in the secret place.
       When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

 16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
       All the days ordained for me
       were written in your book
       before one of them came to be.

(Emphasis mine). Hence "made them male and female" doesn't have to imply
that they were physically created on that day - more like "ordained that
they would be male and female".
As a software engineer, I spend a lot of time designing a program before it
gets written, and indeed the order of implementation of the different
components doesn't match the order in which they were specified. Yet before
a line of code is written, there is a clear definition of what the program
shall be & hence it could be said that it was created before one line of
code came to be.

Iain

On 1/19/07, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a good article / source that discusses the exegesis of
> Mark 10:6, to reply to the YEC claim that Jesus must be affirming a one-week
> creation?
>
> --
> David W. Opderbeck
> Web: http://www.davidopderbeck.com
> Blog: http://www.davidopderbeck.com/throughaglass.html
>

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