RE: What's up with creationism?
January 17, 2016 at 1:00 am
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2016 at 1:06 am by Catholic_Lady.)
(January 17, 2016 at 12:45 am)Mr.wizard Wrote:(January 17, 2016 at 12:31 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Most of us believe it simply means God is the father of all creation. Whether it was done in 7 days or over the coarse of billions of years, is not important to this one, fundamental belief.
Why not just say god created everything? Why give an exact time frame and day by day breakdown of creation if it wasn't true?
I don't know, you'd have to ask the people who wrote it. Perhaps just for the sake of telling a story rather than just saying "God created everything. The end." After all, that was the style of writing back then. A lot of poetry, allegory, metaphor, figurative speech, etc. Yes, the Old Testament was inspired by God but it wasn't written by God. It was written by men from thousands of years ago.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
