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I decieved the beginning of genesis!

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dirtdevilgrunt13

PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:57 am


I finally got the first book of the bible!
I was talkin to my girlfriend and she said its god he can do anything in 6 days.
Then i talked to my grandmother and said one day to god is 1000 years,so it took 6,000 years to make the earth!
and on the 7000 year he rested!

Dang,my familys good!
lol
PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:43 am


LRD_nick
I finally got the first book of the bible!
I was talkin to my girlfriend and she said its god he can do anything in 6 days.
Then i talked to my grandmother and said one day to god is 1000 years,so it took 6,000 years to make the earth!
and on the 7000 year he rested!

Dang,my familys good!
lol

The whole' a day is a thousand years' thing is just figurative language. The actual word used is yôma, which translates as anything from a literal 24-hour day to an unspecified amount of time.

ioioouiouiouio


Gods Jester

PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:46 am


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LRD_nick
I finally got the first book of the bible!
I was talkin to my girlfriend and she said its god he can do anything in 6 days.
Then i talked to my grandmother and said one day to god is 1000 years,so it took 6,000 years to make the earth!
and on the 7000 year he rested!

Dang,my familys good!
lol

The whole' a day is a thousand years' thing is just figurative language. The actual word used is yôma, which translates as anything from a literal 24-hour day to an unspecified amount of time.
Actually, yoma, in the Bible, has never been used to mean ANYTHING more or less than a day.
PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:41 pm


Gods Jester
Cometh The Inquisitor
LRD_nick
I finally got the first book of the bible!
I was talkin to my girlfriend and she said its god he can do anything in 6 days.
Then i talked to my grandmother and said one day to god is 1000 years,so it took 6,000 years to make the earth!
and on the 7000 year he rested!

Dang,my familys good!
lol

The whole' a day is a thousand years' thing is just figurative language. The actual word used is yôma, which translates as anything from a literal 24-hour day to an unspecified amount of time.
Actually, yoma, in the Bible, has never been used to mean ANYTHING more or less than a day.


Truth.

But yes, the time G-d used to make the earth is a sketchy subject. Especially with that whole 'G-d's time is not our time' thing.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:03 pm


You do realize God could do anything in a split second? God can do ANYTHING. Why he did it in seven days? Was mainly a significant symbol of keeping the sabath day holy on the "7th day" which is probably the main reason.
PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:59 pm


I think it was an actual day, but God isn't bound by time.

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jamesthelittle

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:19 pm


We don't know if it truly was one day, or if it was longer, or if it was less. God spoke and it could have happened in minutes. We don't know how much of creation is miracle, and how much of creation is God allowing everything to grow on it's own.
PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:57 pm


Gods Jester
Actually, yoma, in the Bible, has never been used to mean ANYTHING more or less than a day.

(even if that is true...)
except, like... the fourteen-odd times in genesis.

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SinfulGuillotine

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:09 pm


Did you mean to say "decipher" in the thread title? Because I don't see how you could deceive Genesis...

And yeah, considering the enormous controversy over how long God really took to create the world, I find it rather doubtful that you just talked to your girlfriend and your family and whipped out the correct answer to a question that biblical scholars have been debating for an extremely long time.
PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:11 pm


LRD_nick
I finally got the first book of the bible!
I was talkin to my girlfriend and she said its god he can do anything in 6 days.
Then i talked to my grandmother and said one day to god is 1000 years,so it took 6,000 years to make the earth!
and on the 7000 year he rested!

Dang,my familys good!
lol

That is an absurd statement. God is an all powerful God who never changes. "And God said let there be light, and there was light." This is not stated as if it had taken thousands of years to do. It does not say GOd said let there be light, and thousands of years later there was light. It was done in an instant. "and there was light"
As to the fact that each day was thousands of years long. Genesis 1 states that the world was created in 6 days. "and the evening and the morning were the first day" After each day of creation these exact words are used with exception to the day that it had been(second day, third day,etc.... ) The definition of a 'day' is the time from sunrise to sunset. Am I not right? That is what the Bible refers to in Genesis 1. It does not speak of a year, which is many days. Nor does it speak of periods of time going by, which refers to many years and days. It simply says day. The time from morning until evening. And since GOD never changes, we know this time to be a simple 24 hour period.

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:10 am


AnimeMonkey
I think it was an actual day, but God isn't bound by time.
Exactly, people have a hard time understanding that. But God made time and He can do whatever He wants with it. ALthough I personally think that God created the world in six literal days.
PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:40 pm


Gods Jester
Cometh The Inquisitor
LRD_nick
I finally got the first book of the bible!
I was talkin to my girlfriend and she said its god he can do anything in 6 days.
Then i talked to my grandmother and said one day to god is 1000 years,so it took 6,000 years to make the earth!
and on the 7000 year he rested!

Dang,my familys good!
lol

The whole' a day is a thousand years' thing is just figurative language. The actual word used is yôma, which translates as anything from a literal 24-hour day to an unspecified amount of time.
Actually, yoma, in the Bible, has never been used to mean ANYTHING more or less than a day.

Actually your both wrong, if you look the way the word is written it shows which meaning is actually used. It's a real pain in the a**, I had open three different websites and compare closely as that I can't actually read ancient Hebrew. In this case it actually was the literal 24 hour day but since thought half of genesis one the sun doesn't exists it's pretty hard to say that it should be construed as a literal day. Although the difference between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2-3 alone makes it pretty clear that at least the first half of Genesis comes from premosaic sources from the Hebrew oral tradition. It makes it a lot harder interpret any proper exegesis.

AciDSniper

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