RE: Christian Looking For Debate
October 26, 2011 at 8:00 pm
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2011 at 8:02 pm by fr0d0.)
(October 26, 2011 at 7:27 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Take your creation myth up with your fellow believers, who call BS on you. Even at "6 huge periods of time" it's still bullshit.*Sticks head above the parapet*
I've had my opinion on that rocked by John Walton in his book "The Lost World of Genesis One" Seeker. It shows in a very strongly supported study of Genesis that the way it should be interpreted is as a model for a temple with God at it's centre (on day 7). That these are functions that are desribed, and not literal events in any sense. The actual interpretation of the word to create (bara) means to arrange in context (hope I got that accurately). That there was demonstrably no material revelation of a scientific nature that we would shoe horn onto the account from our hugely materially influenced modern POV. The explanations used were common in neighbouring creation accounts of the time. It all proves pretty conclusively that a functional understanding is what we have to take from it. I'd recommend it to further your understanding.
