What are the Characteristics of a NT Christian?

[Harry Nevis]

contradicts this:


And I'm thinking in relation to thoughts, either Steve is incapable of thought, otherwise he would think it out for himself, or he's a big fan of Big Brother.

I hesitate to respond, because quite frankly you behave like an ass. However, perhaps it will be helpful to someone else or start a real discussion with someone else.

The first three chapters of Genesis are linguistically different from the rest of Genesis both in style and come from a different time in history (use of older language). The context was that there were other creation accounts from other civilization (including the recent 400 years the Jews spent in Egypt) and it is likely that the Jews were passing this one down long before Genesis was written to teach their children the distinctions from other religions: that the world is a created entity (no endowed with its own spirituality) and done so by the monotheistic God they worshiped. The actual Hebrew is poetic and highly structured--which is easier to recite and teach from generation to generation (oral tradition) and clearly not meant to be a science text (since very few science text are written in poetic form). 

So, was it 6 days, 6 periods, 6 billion years? Who knows. As long as you believe that God is responsible for the creation of the cosmos and humans are in the image of God, there are a variety of ways you can assemble a systematic theology and still be internally consistent.

I guess living in a bubble makes you work for internal consistency.