http://www.blueletterbible.org/
Well, the plot arc is pretty chaotic, I'll give you that...
Quote from: Blue Letter Bible
Chuck Smith
Study Guide for Genesis
The book of Genesis was written by Moses. Genesis is the book of beginnings: the beginning of creation, the beginning of man the beginning of sin, and the beginning of God's plan for the redemption of sinning man.
CHAPTER 1: CREATION
v.1 "In the beginning God" The subject of the Bible is God. The purpose of the Bible is to bring us to the knowledge of God and His love for us.
Doesn't nature reveal God to us? Why do we need the Bible to know Him? Nature reveals God's power, greatness, and wisdom, but this revelation is not complete. We need the Bible to provide us with a unified body of knowledge concerning God.
God is the creator of all things, the object of creation, and the sustainer of creation.
"God created the heaven and the earth". Men who do not accept God as the creator must find other explanations for our existence.
Problems with the theory of evolution:
1. No new creation taking place.
2. Matter is constantly changing but the trend is downward (deterioration), not upward.
3. The earth would have to be much older than it is to provide time for
simple cells to evolve to the complexity of the cells we see today.
A. Complexity of cells is not synonymous with higher life forms. Frog cells are more complex than human cells.
4. The dating of fossils is often inaccurate.
5. Mutations occur within a species but do not cross over to another species.
6. The population of earth would be greater if man were as old as the evolutionists claim.
7. Suggested reading: Evolution: The Fossils Say No by Duane Gish and Twilight of Evolution by Henry Morris.
The Hebrew word for God in verse 1 is "Elohim" which is plural. This indicates that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit acted together to create the world.
So the bible
actually says: "In the beginning
the Gods created
the heaven and the earth." Interesting.
Yes, there is a lot of 'they' in Genesis. Try asking xian fundies about it, they either don't know the word 'they' is even there, or they try to say it is angels, not gods.
i heard the Elohim were a "Master" Race from another star system, that
came here and impregnated earth with life, and when we matured to
civilization, they came in and subjegated us, creating many earth fronts
to control us with. ie, the illuminati, discordianism, christianity, islam,
etc..
and in the year 2012, they're going to finally gather us up, and cook the
stwe they've been planning for a million + years.
Psst! the rumor thread is thattaway...
But I have to admit, the Elohim's 200,000-year roux smells awesome!
Out of boredom I went to a Christian Chat Room, to ask a few questions about some uncertain parts of the bible... One of them being the whole 3 in 1 god idea. Were there 3 Gods, or 1 God and was Jesus a demi-god seeing as he was the son of God, or was he a God of his own from the God that created him?... I asked them if God created himself.
Best Response Ever:
QuoteJust don't think about it.
Quote from: unlike_someoneOut of boredom I went to a Christian Chat Room, to ask a few questions about some uncertain parts of the bible... One of them being the whole 3 in 1 god idea. Were there 3 Gods, or 1 God and was Jesus a demi-god seeing as he was the son of God, or was he a God of his own from the God that created him?... I asked them if God created himself.
Best Response Ever:
QuoteJust don't think about it.
brilliant summation of the past 2000 years!
oh yeah...forgot to mention...
elohim isn't the only linguistic oddity in the bible. [edit: DUH]
fire and suphur, for example, is drawn from teh vally of gehenna(sp?)
where they disposed of dead bodies, trash, waste, and sacrificed babies
to mammon.
this is not hell. the term most frequently used in the bible that translates
to hell is Sheol in hebrew (old test.) and Hades in greek Kon?© (new test.)
Sheol is an allegorical reference: Lit. A Hole in the Ground. This symbolizes
total death and oblivion. that "hell" is you leave the "grace of god for all
eternity." i.e., you poof out of existence.
Hades (sometimes specifically tartaros) generally refers to the underworld.
hades includes the elusian (sp?) fields, the greek equivalent to heaven.
(admittedly, tartaros does mean a place of eternal torment and suffering..
still no lake of fire, though.)
of the hebrew word Yom used in genesis for Day, there are several
possible inflections in the word, present without contextual modifiers of any kind.
check here: http://www.psyche.com/psyche/genesis/genesis1_1-5.html
mangrove might like that page, just cause
Quote from: N'yo B?©, Terrorist Zenjai heard the Elohim were a "Master" Race from another star system, that
came here and impregnated earth with life, and when we matured to
civilization, they came in and subjegated us, creating many earth fronts
to control us with. ie, the illuminati, discordianism, christianity, islam,
etc..
and in the year 2012, they're going to finally gather us up, and cook the
stwe they've been planning for a million + years.
Hah! This is going to taste like shit...
Quote from: Bob BarkerQuote from: N'yo B?©, Terrorist Zenjai heard the Elohim were a "Master" Race from another star system, that
came here and impregnated earth with life, and when we matured to
civilization, they came in and subjegated us, creating many earth fronts
to control us with. ie, the illuminati, discordianism, christianity, islam,
etc..
and in the year 2012, they're going to finally gather us up, and cook the
stwe they've been planning for a million + years.
Hah! This is going to taste like shit...
As full of shit as some of us are, I think your righter than you know :shock:
YOU ARE GOING TO TASTE LIKE SHIT! YUMMY YUCK!
Quote from: LMNOQuote from: unlike_someoneOut of boredom I went to a Christian Chat Room, to ask a few questions about some uncertain parts of the bible... One of them being the whole 3 in 1 god idea. Were there 3 Gods, or 1 God and was Jesus a demi-god seeing as he was the son of God, or was he a God of his own from the God that created him?... I asked them if God created himself.
Best Response Ever:
QuoteJust don't think about it.
brilliant summation of the past 2000 years!
And indeed the present.
WE MUST NOT DENY OUR BUDDHA NATURE! HAPPY SKITZO JESUS IS A WORSHIPPED? WHY FOR? HE GIVES THE SKITZO TO HIS LOYALS! DO YOU NOT SEE GREAT FOLLY? WEEEOOOO OH WHY!?
<STABS THE HIPPY WIMP-FOLLOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>