RE: Was at least the first life form created?
October 15, 2009 at 5:41 pm
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2009 at 5:42 pm by Rhizomorph13.)
(October 15, 2009 at 5:21 pm)rjh4 Wrote: I think it should be kept in mind that any Bible in English is a translation and if you run into troublesome sections finding out what the Greek or Hebrew actually says can help.
Because God is powerful enough to convey his message directly to many people knowing that it will be cobbled into one coherent tome, but NOT powerful enough to guide a translator to do a good job translating that work? This has been my greatest problem with the people who want me to accept an omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent God. Apparently he seems only to speak Greek or Hebrew even though he is omniscient, and he can only do a bang up job getting His word across when it is directly dictated.
When I was a Christian I wrote off even discussing it because it seemed ludicrous that God would fail to guide the translators, who had a book to start with, any worse than he guided holy men who had nothing but their own thoughts to go on.
Rhizo
