It doesn't get any plainer than..."The evening and the morning was the first day"
If the sun was out for a few billion years, and then the night was a few billion years....it would be kinda hard to sustain life of any kind that way....huh?(IMG:http://www.teens-4-christ.org/board/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif )
God created the world in 6 literal days....evening and the morning constituted each day. There is no way around that if you believe that the Bible is the inherrant word of God. You can't try to incorporate a theory without changing what God said....and changing what God says is heresy.
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"You can't try to incorporate a theory without changing what God said....and changing what God says is heresy."
As is intentionally misinterpeting the word of God to justify your own means. You can be as goody two shoe as you like Mrs. Kellie, the truth is that you really don't know what the Hell you're talking about.
I prefer funides to think like this to be honest.
"There is no way around that
if
you believe that the Bible is the inherrant word of God."
I just decided to emphasize the most important word in that sentence.
Of course the real way to avoid such a conflict is to understand that the sun pre-dated life on earth by at least a billion years.
If the bible was inerrant, Thomas Jefferson wouldn't think of it as "a dunghill...with a few diamonds hidden therein".
If the bible was inerrant, we could possibly, by this time, have achieved interstellar flight and conquered death from old age...
If the bible was inerrant, hate and bigotry in the US would be only a miniscule fraction of what it is now.
If the bible was inerrant, we wouldn't need gangs of assholes trying to shove it down the throats of respectable citizens.
Kellie, if the bible was inerrant, you wouldn't be so stupid.
Learn to spell "inerrant", mmmkay?
Ok, Mrs Kellie, if God created the sun and the moon in the third day, how do you mesure the previous two "days"?
and changing what God says is heresy
Heresy? That sounds awfully Catholic of you Mrs Kellie; you're going teh Hellz0rsz will all the Mary-Worshippers, oh noez!
You only have to believe in the literal Creation story if you're a Biblical literalist; and a lot of Christian denoms (including Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) don't adhere to strict Biblical literalism. That's for the Fundie Protestants.
*ahem* now,let's get on with this, shall we?
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
Fine. Go ahead and make your God a liar. I don't mind.
Comrades, I will now shock you all. I agree with Mrs. K. It's fairly clear that the authors of Genesis 1 & 2 really were talking about literal days, and intended their audience to understand that. (This is why the 'day-age' type of creationism is so lame). She's quite right to say that IF you believe the Bible is the in(h)errant word of god, there is no way round the 6-day business.
However, IF you don't, the whole question is kind of acedemic, no? (But then again, if you don't, what are you basing your faith on? Why believe one part of scripture but not the other? Illogical, captain).
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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