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Originally posted by Karl:
Except He didn't say that. He told the earth and the seas and the skies to bring forth animals and fish and birds, each according to their kinds. Each time, it then says "so God created..." - it seems to me that "the earth/sea/sky 'bringing forth'" is equated with God creating. Or, to put it another way, as I have said several times, abiogenesis and evolution are the outworking of God's creative activity. I don't see a requirement in these verses that each "kind" is "brought forth" in a particular manner, and I do see a hint of abiogenesis. I do see a powerful and poetic statement affirming God to be the creator of all things.
hi karl... i guess i'm curious as to what that means, to you... for example, does this
"20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky. 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind..."
mean (in your opinion) that the birds came from the same primordial soup as the sea creatures? or this
"24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds...."
to you does that also mean the land creatures came from the same soup? i'm just trying to get a take on your thoughts... finally,
"7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.."
in your opinion does that mean God may have created man in a way different from the way it's reported? thanks
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