(February 26, 2015 at 2:56 am)snowtracks Wrote:(February 25, 2015 at 5:37 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Bible says the earth was created in 6 days. I don't care if you claim to be a old earth believer. That does not square with what the bible says. You are cherry picking the bible.Agree, it does say 6 literal days (Yom in Hebrew); however; context is important. Genesis is definition 4 which is 'literal'. Like I mentioned, Day 7 is at least 50,000 years and counting.
And no, I don't feel threatened by fictional beings but that book does contain language in it that condemns people and people do read those words and act on them. No different than if someone read Harry Potter and decided to murder someone over that. Holy books are used as weapons, and the worst part is that humans are willing to murder over these antiquated myths.
http://sententias.org/2013/11/21/the-mea...in-hebrew/ - "The four definitions are 1) a portion of the daylight hours (2) the entire daylight segment of a twenty-four-hour day, (3) a twenty-four-hour day, and (4) a long but finite time period. - Unlike the modern Hebrew and English, biblical Hebrew had no other word for a finite era or epoch. The four definitions of YOM are literal definitions"
That is a relatively new tactic over the past 150 years, when called out you re interpret the words. Sorry it was 6 literal days. When Darwin blew the creation story out of the water, believers got scared of that truth and have since tried to either attack evolution or have tried to square it with their antiquated comic book.
But, if we are to insist on wading through your comic book, and pretend. I find it absurd for an all powerful god to "poof" the entire universe into existence, then suddenly have a problem compiling a a book having to resort to using humans to write it only to have them argue over it's meaning. I wouldn't hire your alleged god to run a bicycle factory. The bikes would end up with squid for spokes and the workers would murder over the words in the assembly manual.
No sorry, I cannot take seriously a book that claims humans magically popped out of dirt, a book that claims women popped out of a mans rib. A book that treats the sun and moon as separate sources of light. A book depicting talking snakes and talking bushes. Or are you going to deny those depictions as well?
FYI the Hebrews stole their characters from the Canaanites. Yahweh was a lesser god in their polytheism. Hebrews simply were a splinter sect who managed to market their new sect and elevated that lesser god character to a monotheistic god.
You are not the only believer or the only religion when science calls you out to go from attacking science to attempting to co opt science to prop up your antiquated book of myth. I have been at this for 14 years and seen this same tactic from Christians, Jews, Muslims and even a couple of Hindus.
How about you considering you got sold a bill of goods? You really want me to believe that the people who wrote that back then had the same modern knowledge we have now? I find it much more reasonable that you simply like what you believe and are fishing for excuses to cling to it.
You will not find in any of those books of Abraham, words like "entropy", "thermodynamics" much less any modern math or modern science that would demonstrate they had a working knowledge of reality. It was a book written by scientifically ignorant humans who didn't know any better and it was a book reflecting the superstitions and social norms that were popular back then, nothing more.
