Posted: Sep 15, 2011 6:45 am
Moonwatcher wrote:Lion IRC wrote:The bible does NOT say... "the Earth existed before the sun"
Go back and read it again. It says..."in the beginning God created the heavens AND the earth."
The sun and the Earth are "made of" the same matter/energy/matter/energy......
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
Overview: God creates heavens and Earth.
Day One specifically : God creates the Earth.
He creates light.
Day One ends.
Day 2: God creates a dome to separate the waters below the sky from those above it.
Day 3: The land (gee the planet Earth?) produces vegetation and so on.
Day 4: Let me guess. The "Greater Light to rule the day" specifically created on this day isn't the sun and the lesser light to rule the night isn't the Moon and the stars aren't the stars, right, Lion? DAY 4.
It states categorically what day each thing was done on. Jesus Christ, how fucking ridiculous can literalist arguments get. Now even what the Bible says isn't what the Bible says.
Well, damn! If you fellows keep this up, I might just memorize this drivel.
My usual nitpicking in bold red. The folks who compiled the good book, and whose experience and narrow-minded worldview is reflected in it, quite obviously didn't know that the "greater light" was also one of billions and billions of "stars". Otherwise they wouldn't have written their divinely inspired, or (holy-)ghost-written holy book as such, that it clearly makes a distinction between the "greater light" and the "stars".
This is just another error, within and error, that Lion has repeatedly failed to acknowledge/accept. He certainly addressed the issue, though, completely unfazed, unshaken in his fidelity to the book, the gospel writers, and to jesus. As a good christian should be.
