Reply to Re: Bible Study
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Firstly, we need an English/history lesson on "God." The word "god" hails from the Germanic word "ghuto" which means "invoke." The reality is that "God" is the English/ Christian title for the Hebrew/ Jewish title Anglicised as "Yahweh" which basically means "the self-existent one." The Holy Bible (as it is based on the Jewish records) uses God or Lord in the place of Yahweh, Elohim (powerful being) and Adonai (the judge/ruler). It is important to notice that Elohim, Ba-al and Allah are quintessentially the same title, meaning "Master."
Now on to "The Creation." The belief is that God (Elohim, Allah, whatever you desire.), being self-existent, operates outside of the confines of time, space and whatever other dimension form the framework of our universe. The Holy Bible never says "and God said: let there be 360 days to year, 30 days to a month and 24 hours to the day." All it says is that "God allocated darkness to night and lightness to day." Later on (Genesis 1: 14&15), it is stated that God allocated the astral bodies patterns and cycles ("for signs and for seasons and for days and years.")
Now the proclamation that God didn't exist because Torah wasn't written before the Rigveda is equivalent to saying Woolly Mammoths didn't thousands of years ago, because they weren't documented thousands of years ago; A completely redundant argument.
"It also says God created all the modern animals right after he created Earth" Well, The Holy Bible nor the Koran never actually says that. Looks like you made that up, Skull
I agree that people take things too literally. I believe the creation story is less about the origin of humans then it is about the balance of the world.
Now on to "The Creation." The belief is that God (Elohim, Allah, whatever you desire.), being self-existent, operates outside of the confines of time, space and whatever other dimension form the framework of our universe. The Holy Bible never says "and God said: let there be 360 days to year, 30 days to a month and 24 hours to the day." All it says is that "God allocated darkness to night and lightness to day." Later on (Genesis 1: 14&15), it is stated that God allocated the astral bodies patterns and cycles ("for signs and for seasons and for days and years.")
Now the proclamation that God didn't exist because Torah wasn't written before the Rigveda is equivalent to saying Woolly Mammoths didn't thousands of years ago, because they weren't documented thousands of years ago; A completely redundant argument.
"It also says God created all the modern animals right after he created Earth" Well, The Holy Bible nor the Koran never actually says that. Looks like you made that up, Skull
I agree that people take things too literally. I believe the creation story is less about the origin of humans then it is about the balance of the world.
