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Can a literal Genesis creation story really hold up?
- Thread starter CG Didymus
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sandy whitelinger
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Skwim
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Looky...a navel!
Why not! Even god has a belly button
Ouroboros
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The one in the picture isn't God Father but Jesus the son.
Why not! Even god has a belly buttonbecause he came from . . . . er . . . . . . . . . Hey! Help me out here people.
You know... mama God and papa God on a warm and starry night...
Skwim
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Whaaaa???
Ouroboros
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Jesus God has a navel because ...Whaaaa???
Skwim
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"Jesus God," What's that? I didn't think Jesus made an appearance in the story until chapter 40 or 47.
Ouroboros
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Oh, no. According to legend he's from eternity and before the creation. He was the word, ya know. So he was born before eternity started. Time before time. That's a long time ago. But he was born. He's a son after all.
Satan's Right Hand Man
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The creation story in the bible can't be taken literally because of one damning - pardon the pun - evidence... or lack thereof: The Garden of Eden.
If the creation story was factual, there would be archeological evidence that a paradisal garden existed in the region of the earth where the first humans cropped up. There would also be some type of evidence to prove that two strange species of trees - the tree of knowledge and the tree of life - once existed.
If the creation story was factual, there would be archeological evidence that a paradisal garden existed in the region of the earth where the first humans cropped up. There would also be some type of evidence to prove that two strange species of trees - the tree of knowledge and the tree of life - once existed.
Ouroboros
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But you know, we can't find it because the angels with flaming swoards are protecting it from discovery. It's like the perception filter in Doctor Who. It's there, but we can't see it. It's in a time-space rift somewhere in Israel, probably Jerusalem.
God can do anything. He even used a shrink-ray to fit all animals in the ark. Quite a smart guy that God...
Satan's Right Hand Man
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LMAO... good point. Check this out: according to some sources there may be over 5 MILLION different species of insects in the world. Keep that in mind.
If a world wide flood happened and it covered the surface of the earth where trees and mountains were submerged, all the bugs in the world would die.
This means that Noah must have also collected two of each kind of insect species in the whole world. That's 2 times 5 MILLION which is 10 Million bugs to collect and fit into the arc.
Now, I don't know what type of guy Noah was, but no insectologist I know has even ever collected all the bug species in the Amazon forest... and that's just one forest on earth.
Ouroboros
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But, but... it's just one kind. The kind of insects.
Except flees.
Sometimes I feel there are 5 million bugs in my backyard from all the dog poop.
Maybe they all were flying for the 90 days?
Actually, I think it was raining for 90 days and nights, then land was covered with water for yet another 3-6 months. Quite a long time.
CG Didymus
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Not so smart. Why did he have Noah build such a big boat? Or, why didn't he shrink the damn Nephilim to a more manageable size? Then, he wouldn't have had to use so much water.
Satan's Right Hand Man
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Not smart...
If God can rapture billions of Christians into the clouds on Judgement day, why couldn't he just rapture the few million of people on the earth during Noah's time and simply make them vanish instead of making it rain for all those days, wasting water, killing every plant and animal in the process, and so on? I mean, isn't that overkill folks?
CG Didymus
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Why not rapture Noah and the animals he wants to save, shrink the planet, take a cup of water, soak the shrunken planet over night, then bring it back to full size the next day? Most of the plants would probably survive. But, since the people he did save produced more evil people, what did God really accomplish?
Ouroboros
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Ouroboros
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Perhaps God has a thing for dramatic effects? It wouldn't be such a story without some eggs and omelets.
Ouroboros
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A story to scare children with.
The best story in the Bible must be when God can't attack the Canaanites because they have iron chariots.
So tinfoil hats deflects alien mind reading rays and iron chariots will keep God at bay?
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CG Didymus
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I'm still scared. Thank God he promised never to kill us that way again. But since I don't know what he's planning next, I'm getting me an iron chariot.
But wait, what kind of chariots did the Egyptians have? They must have had some iron, don't you think? And, he drowned them! Forget it. I'm supplementing my iron chariot with a tinfoil hat. You can never be too careful.