RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day"
September 22, 2010 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2010 at 11:00 am by Skipper.)
(September 22, 2010 at 9:51 am)bucky Wrote: I think people have a responsibility to look at the bible in the right context. because parts are to be taken literally and other parts are to be taken Metaphorically and. This part falls into the metaphorical category.
Because even though it is not a scientific account of how the universe came into being. The underlying important bit is that it was God who created it,
I love how you religious folk can pick and choose which parts are to be taken literally or not.
"What nasty bits in the bible?! O NO, don't take them literally!"
"Bits that we now know to be impossible?! O NO, their just stories as well"
"The bits that can be seen to make us look good?! O yea, read literally please!"
"So science has better ideas now than people did back then about how the universe could have come about?!?! Well just ignore most of genesis then, but God was definitely the cause of it all! Thats the important bit!"
Am I right in thinking genesis (As like much of the old testament) is written by Moses as told to him by God? Why the fuck then didn't god give a proper explanation for the start of things a long the lines of, "yea I kicked started it all but then pretty much left the universe to do it's own thing". Why are we lead to believe god spent a week putting it all together in its current form? Why are we also told humans were created as they are now, why is there no mention of evolution? Why does god have to talk in fucking riddles all the time!?
Could it be that the humans that were writing it, with no help from any creator, were an un-advanced bunch who knew nothing like we know today and if their type tried to write the bible for the first time today they would just be laughed at by people who were no longer superstitious enough to buy into this crap?
