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This idea popped in my head after I read a comment on these very forums. Supposedly, evolution is supposed to disprove the bible because it goes against the literal meaning of God creating the heavens and the earth in 6 days. I think the logic was... Evolution disproves bible, which disproves God, which disproves christianity.
Now normally, I would just ignore it, if it wasn't for the same thought I had when I read the Masoretic texts of genesis, 3 months ago.
This only works if christianity continues to hold the belief that it holds today. Not that God created the heavens and earth in 6 days, rather, God created the everything in 6 days. This belief, that christians hold today, come to find out, is not biblical. From Genesis 1:1-2 of the Masoretic Texts, translated literally.
1 In the beginning of God creating the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth had been without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
Tenses mean everything people. There are countless lessons to be learned from these passages but the important one is that when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth HAD ALREADY BEEN THERE, it was just without form and void of all life(and apparently, water was already there, a deep ocean of water.)
Now we see where the ancient, and particularly jewish idea that the earth was created and destroyed, perhaps dozens of times before creation, comes from. That idea is biblical; the idea that there was no earth before God started his creation business, is not. This destroys the atheist's argument. The bible really says nothing at all of evolution/abiogenesis. It just opens it up, probably purposely by God himself, to mere individual interpretation.
The stranger part is, the ancient christians, Jesus, Paul, Peter, Luke, etc. Probably already knew of this, as did many of their followers who were very fluent in the old laws and Hebrew, and therefore, failed to spread it because sharing that idea was not needed at the time. One can see how, when the catholic church became popular and installed their perverted interpretations, the meaning would have been lost. Probably the first scribal error in the translation from hebrew to latin to german to english.
Now, is this biblical approval of evolution? maybe, maybe not. Depends on the point of view. One thing is for certain, it's not disapproved as everyone thinks.
One could say, this is almost an ultra-literal interpretation. But hey, it's the masoretic texts, you can't really beat those.
So the lesson is, the world as we know it was created in 6 days, doesn't necessarily mean the earth, this rock we stand on in the solar system, was created in 6 days.
Now normally, I would just ignore it, if it wasn't for the same thought I had when I read the Masoretic texts of genesis, 3 months ago.
This only works if christianity continues to hold the belief that it holds today. Not that God created the heavens and earth in 6 days, rather, God created the everything in 6 days. This belief, that christians hold today, come to find out, is not biblical. From Genesis 1:1-2 of the Masoretic Texts, translated literally.
1 In the beginning of God creating the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth had been without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
Tenses mean everything people. There are countless lessons to be learned from these passages but the important one is that when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth HAD ALREADY BEEN THERE, it was just without form and void of all life(and apparently, water was already there, a deep ocean of water.)
Now we see where the ancient, and particularly jewish idea that the earth was created and destroyed, perhaps dozens of times before creation, comes from. That idea is biblical; the idea that there was no earth before God started his creation business, is not. This destroys the atheist's argument. The bible really says nothing at all of evolution/abiogenesis. It just opens it up, probably purposely by God himself, to mere individual interpretation.
The stranger part is, the ancient christians, Jesus, Paul, Peter, Luke, etc. Probably already knew of this, as did many of their followers who were very fluent in the old laws and Hebrew, and therefore, failed to spread it because sharing that idea was not needed at the time. One can see how, when the catholic church became popular and installed their perverted interpretations, the meaning would have been lost. Probably the first scribal error in the translation from hebrew to latin to german to english.
Now, is this biblical approval of evolution? maybe, maybe not. Depends on the point of view. One thing is for certain, it's not disapproved as everyone thinks.
One could say, this is almost an ultra-literal interpretation. But hey, it's the masoretic texts, you can't really beat those.
So the lesson is, the world as we know it was created in 6 days, doesn't necessarily mean the earth, this rock we stand on in the solar system, was created in 6 days.
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