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Makes me smile..... your "truth" is not offensive.....hardly, as it is not truth at all...... you are simply one who does not know whereof he speaks. What is a bit sad is that you seemingly cannot see truth or do not care to know the truth.
Perhaps some day you will.
Well, it's not my truth. I have nothing to do with what the bible, genesis in this instance, says or describes. I merely point to what genesis says and describes in terms of mornings and evenings of each day of creation, the day on which the sun, moon stars were created, animals, plants, etc.
It says what it says.
It's there for anyone to see and read.
The composition, the wording or the descriptions, are not being 'interpreted' by me.
Of course it is …your…”truth.” You clearly have not understood the concept and action of “eisegesis” and until you do, you will continue to post meaningless drivel like what we read above.
You seemingly refuse to comment on Psalm 91:4….. I suspect you do not want to increase your understanding and are content to wallow in your ignorance…..so be it.
It's not my truth. I neither add or subtract from what Genesis itself says, or what it describes.
That Genesis describes mornings and evenings of each day of creation is there for anyone to see and read. I have quoted the verses, changing nothing.
I don't interpret what is there for all to see.
It is you who wants to transform what Genesis says and describes into something else entirely. You try to make out mornings and evenings of each day of creation represent millions of years, when clearly a morning and evening of a day is simple that: a day.
Consequently is it you who is suffering from an acute case of Eisegesis.
Consider this: The text you are reading in the English language is a translation of Hebrew writings. The word that is translated "day".....the one your read in English... is a translation of the Hebrew word "yom."
The word "yom" does not necessarily mean a 24 hour solar day. The numbered days in Genesis need not be
solar days..... Yes, I know you want it to be 24 hours days.... that is your anti-Jesus bias manifesting in "eisegesis".... ERROR!
"Exegesis" is letting the text give you the information as it is contained in the text...without laying your own bias on it.
The word "yom" can mean an "extended time".... it can mean an "age" .... it can simply be some duration of time.
Here is a brief summary lifted from a Hebrew language scholar:
Genesis 1:5 "... This was the close and the dawn of the first PERIOD."
Genesis 1:8 "...This was the close and the dawn of the second PERIOD."
Genesis 1:13 "This was the close of the close and the dawn of the third PERIOD."
Genesis 1:19 "This was the close and the dawn of the fourth PERIOD."
Genesis 1:23 "This was the close and the dawn of the fifth PERIOD."
Genesis 1:31 "...This the close came, and the dawn came of the sixth PERIOD."
But I would wager that you don't really want to see... nor understand.... any of this... you love your own opinion and are comfortable in your bias. This is OK with me, but you are limiting yourself.
To close..... The creation story in Genesis is... in my opinion....
absolutely brilliant..... It was true and relevant 2000 years ago and it is true and relevant today. Science has changed, but the Genesis message has not. It is btw, exciting to see how scientific discovery fit right in the the the truth of the Bible.
It is
more important to know and understand .....
THAT God created... rather than
HOW he created.
btw... I remember reading that the universe had gone through many cycles of expansion and contraction... big bang... then expand... then gravity takes over and contraction .... and then another "big bang." Non-God believers would point to this scientific theory to just an "ever being universe" and God and the creation story was not needed to explain this physical world. But now, the prevailing theory seems to be one of continual expansion. OK... I wonder what we will know or think in 50 years?
