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Author Topic:   Genesis: is it to be taken literally?
Mike_King
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Message 259 of 301 (182121)
01-31-2005 6:13 PM
Reply to: Message 249 by Terry48420
01-31-2005 12:03 PM


Meaning of Genesis 1
Hi Terry,
I have not had time to go through all the detail, but I have heard it said; to quote "The six days of creation represent a great systematic presentation of God's work which becomes the foundational pattern for human work and activity. In turn, the human understanding of the 'week'has become the framework for telling the creation story and its climax;the Sabbath.. The cosmic story moves towards a twin crested peak; humanity and Sabbath. People are the crown of creation, but the Sabbath with its rest and communion with God crowns its purpose'
In other words, its literacy for the truth that God created the world, but not neccessarily literal.

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Mike_King
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Message 295 of 301 (182399)
02-01-2005 5:44 PM
Reply to: Message 291 by Terry48420
02-01-2005 4:25 PM


Flood
Hi terry,
I am also a Christian. But Geology does not 'prove' there was a single world wide catastrophic flood which created all the rock formations we see today. Within a sequence, one can see many diferent processes, environments etc which suggest many different events. There was a world wide flood, to some probably the majority of mankind was the end of the last ice age when sea level rose by some 100s of feet.The present black sea is evidence of flooded civilsation and also off the coast of India.

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Mike_King
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Message 298 of 301 (182408)
02-01-2005 6:08 PM
Reply to: Message 296 by jar
02-01-2005 5:54 PM


A reason for you!
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Why should I, as a Christian, believe either of the creation myths in Genesis when they so clearly do not correspond to the record GOD left us?
First of all, there is truth in the first opening chapters of Genesis. As Christians, we all accept God does the creating. It also sets the scene of Mans' relationship to God. Genesis 1 to 2 was never meant to be a science book, but it does say at least 4 times in the Hebrew scriptures that God encourages us to explore his creation (=science. Of course it will always come to problems when one applies a literal interpretation to the text, but biblical interpretation needs to be measured witht he style of which it is written. In Genesis 1 is a clearly strucured poem to how God set aside the Sabbath as a special place of rest and communion with God on the model of a seven day week which is still running to this day.
Genesis nor the bible was ever meant to be a science book of "how", but "why".

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