Genesis 1 and 2
spuriousmonkey said:Genesis 1 and 2
c7ityi_ said:gen 1:2 also says: "and the earth was WITHOUT FORM, and VOID; and darkness was upon the face of the deep". so the earth doesn't refer to our planet, but something formless.
Woody said:How are 1 & 2 in conflict? because of 2 creation accounts of man?
superluminal said:Woody,
Dosen't it strike you as the least bit of a stretch to be reading so much into what amount to a few paragraphs in genesis? It says "God created Man IN HIS IMAGE". Without adding spin to this statement, what does it say? It dosen't say "Man was developed into God's image". It says Man was created in his image. If I say I created this scuplture in my image, do you think that I meant that I developed a nanobacteria that would, through successive generations, ingest clay deposits, and slowly "evolve" a structure that ultimately looked like me? That's what you're reading into genesis. Why?
spuriousmonkey said:Do a google. I'm too lazy. Or read your bible.
Woody said:Yes, I understand where you are coming from, as any religion can take the bible and twist it to their liking. But there are some interesting possibilities here. God could have created Adam in his own image so his descendants would breed with another form of humanity described as coming form the land of Nod. I never have liked the idea of Adam and Eve's children marrying each other in an incestuous relationship.
To resolve this issue some theologians suggest that other humans were created as well that the bible does not mention. They could have evolved just as well into the image of God, God being the "most fit form of life" -- I risk starting a new religion.
VitalOne said:Compare this Creation view to the Indian Vedas:
"Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminated chaos.All that existed then was void and form less: by the great power of Warmth was born that Unit. Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit"
Or to the Ancient Egyptian Thoth's view:
"Then to me spoke He, the Master: "Know ye, O Thoth, in the beginning there was void and nothingness: a timeless, spaceless, nothingness. And into the nothingness came a thought, purposeful, all-pervading, and It filled the Void. There existed no matter, only force, a movement, a vortex of vibration of the purposeful thought that filled the Void." '
Gen 1:2The current Bible seems distorted, missing key information. I don't think the Bible is referring to the Earth at all. The Indian and Egyptian creation are strikingly similar, and who knows may be true.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
superluminal said:Well, all of that just strikes me as grasping at straws for some way to avoid the fact that the bible reads like any other creation myth from any number of other cultures that christians scoff at.
superluminal said:What does this mean, that the earth was "without form" and "void" yet it had waters?
Woody said:Moses got it about all animals originally coming from the ocean. Pretty remarkable I must say. What did he know about evolution?
Woody said:No prominant landscape and no life.
'Cause it is fact. It's just called a theory because science has no stronger words for something of that nature, snce things are constantly changing, evolving, adapting, etc.a_ht said:is only a theory, yet is presented as fact in our children's classrooms.
c7ityi_ said:the water doesn't mean physical water
astral light.spiritual invisible fiery water
"The Ocean of Spirit, " within which all created and uncreated things exist and by the life of which they are animated
superluminal said:Wait. If I said this or that object was without form and void, what would you picture? I'll tell you. "without form" means it has no definable shape. Void means NOTHING. A void is a complete emptiness. So, the earth was something without any definable existence. Yet "it" had water around it.
You're reaching Woody.