(January 26, 2015 at 9:41 am)Drich Wrote: ...
No sport what I am saying is In the beginning God literally created everything Genesis Accounts for in 7 days. Then between the last day of creation (the rest) and the fall of Man your 4.6 billion (or whatever number your precious science wants to plug into that slot) happened, then about 5000 years ago (give or take) the fall happened and Man was expelled from the garden.
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The problem is that science has a timeline for the items in the 7 days of creation too. For example, the sun and the moon didn't evolve on the same day. I think you can't take those days literally - they need to be "heavenly days" or something. Even using "heavenly days", the sequence is wrong.
(January 26, 2015 at 9:41 am)Drich Wrote:(January 23, 2015 at 8:14 am)watchamadoodle Wrote: I believe Drich is arguing that the genealogies can start when Adam and Eve leave the Garden of Eden? So Adam lived 930 years outside the Garden of Eden and millions or billions of years inside the Garden of Eden?
Of course the simpler explanation is that Genesis is fiction. How could the Israelite slaves live in Egypt among cats and not take one cat with them when they embark on the Exodus? There is not one mention of "cat" in the Bible, and I believe Biblical archaeology has yet to find any evidence of cats in early Israel. Who would take gold when you could take a cat? Therefore the Israelites were never in Egypt. Therefore the Garden of Eden is also fiction.
Maybe they took 1000's of cats... however a strictly manna diet is not the same as the meow mix needed to keep one alive.
Don't forget, the Bible says there was quail in the evening. Also cats evolved in the Sahara, so they would have no problem surviving on a desert journey.
Assuming the Exodus is true, the Israelites surely would have stolen the Egyptians' cats along with their jewelry and silverware. They would surely have written Psalms later thanking God for creating the cat. Proverbs would have held up the cat as an example of wisdom. Etc... Instead there is not one mention of "cat" in the Bible. Archaeologists have found no ancient cat dishes, no litter boxes, no cat toys. I rest my case.