You're beginning to sound like a used car salesman, Drich.
You're stopping at what's on the page is one problem. There's ANE literary traditions which you fail to take into account, for one. Reading the passages in Genesis 2 it becomes clear how each segment of Genesis 2 is connected with some variant of the Hebrew word for 'and'. This concatenation of events is not an indicator that they all happened contemporaneously, but that they form a series of events, starting I guess you can say on day 3, but not limited to day 3. You're no bible scholar, Drich. Others have looked at the Hebrew for millennia and come away with different answers. I trust them a whole lot more than your reading of English "Easy To Read" versions of the bible.
Then there's the problem of Genesis 1:26 which indicates that God made Adam (Hebrew for man) on day 6. How do you reconcile that with Adam being supposedly created on day 3 in Genesis 2?
Clever girl, the way you phrase that. How many do you personally know who came to God through A/S/K? Perhaps the ones who didn't simply didn't share it with you.
(May 24, 2016 at 10:02 am)Drich Wrote:(May 23, 2016 at 1:43 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Your interpretation of Genesis 2 is enough to land you firmly in crackpot territory.Why? Is it because I am simply reading what is on page and stopping with what is on page. Not filtering it first through the traditional church view?
You're stopping at what's on the page is one problem. There's ANE literary traditions which you fail to take into account, for one. Reading the passages in Genesis 2 it becomes clear how each segment of Genesis 2 is connected with some variant of the Hebrew word for 'and'. This concatenation of events is not an indicator that they all happened contemporaneously, but that they form a series of events, starting I guess you can say on day 3, but not limited to day 3. You're no bible scholar, Drich. Others have looked at the Hebrew for millennia and come away with different answers. I trust them a whole lot more than your reading of English "Easy To Read" versions of the bible.
Then there's the problem of Genesis 1:26 which indicates that God made Adam (Hebrew for man) on day 6. How do you reconcile that with Adam being supposedly created on day 3 in Genesis 2?
(May 24, 2016 at 10:02 am)Drich Wrote:Quote:Sure, and when the promise is shown to be empty, you'll be there to blame the disappointed. You're a true Christian.I honestly do not know one person who A/S/K the God of the bible (not some Idol they themselves spun up) and was disappointed. So there's that.
Clever girl, the way you phrase that. How many do you personally know who came to God through A/S/K? Perhaps the ones who didn't simply didn't share it with you.