getting dates about a young earth
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Science is only about discovery and every so many years they discover something new and change their assumed facts over and over. The bible is fact and a better study. So why do people waste their precious time digging bones.
I'm all for science as a means of further understanding God's General Revelation.
General and Special Revelation must agree, if they are both true and from the Creator of the Universe.
To that end, we need people who are unbelievers and who are looking for only a naturalistic answer to the things that they discover. This way, we cannot say that theology clouded their worldview....and when their discoveries end up promoting Special Revelation, then we can be assured that it was done in an unbiased manner...
as I read the story, God and adam are looking among the animals to find a suitable helper for adam.
not finding any, God makes eve.
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Tell ya what cowboy, had a whole lot of response to your comment but cancelled it. Have noticed you seem to believe many on this site are not followers of Christ because of their beliefs or comments they make and tell them they are wrong, but you do not know them or myself. Only God knows their heart and mine, and you took an innocent response of mine and turned it into something you know nothing about. Do not accuse me of being something I am not...you are not God. How do you get "a follower of islam" out of that? Me thinks your sniffer is stopped up......
are there any books in the mt that Jesus didn't acknowlege?
Luke has Jesus quoting the lxx.
did Luke consider the lxx an inferior work, and hope that something better would come along? if so, why not ask Paul to help him out with the original hebrew when writing his gospel account?
the best explanations I can think of are
Jesus actually read from the lxx.
Luke figured, "close enough", which says to me that putting lots of effort into learning the original hebrew probably isn't worth it.
Not even close. That Heb.12 Scripture is about the shaking of this earth God is going to do on "the day of the Lord" when His consuming fire will burn all of man's works off this earth.
The Koran is not awesome, as you state.
The Koran is merely a knock-off of the Holy Bible.
Once you are cognizant of this fact, then you can better deal with muslims.
As it is, you have fallen for the Islamic lie that the Koran is superior to the Holy Bible.
Hi Bowman
My only question would be then, if You and I both believe the bible, then why are You digging bones and I don't need to? Could it be you are helping the unbeliever to believe and I am not?
My only question would be then, if You and I both believe the bible, then why are You digging bones and I don't need to? Could it be you are helping the unbeliever to believe and I am not?
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Brother, here's a brief but helpful article that I found regarding this very topic.
How could Adam have named all the animals in a single day? - creation.com
I think we all contribute in our own ways....so, no issue with your methods, over mine...
I shifted my theological contribution, over the years, to now allowing the 'evidences' to speak for themselves, after witnessing, time and again, that they point back to the God of the Bible, anyway.
We've all heard that experience is the best teacher, and, for many these days, they simply will not believe in the Holy Bible until they try to refute its sayings, first.
So...I say, have at it to those people...!
And when they have put a life-time of denying, into their endeavors, and they dig up some nuggets for us believers to use...then that's a win-win scenario.....as they saved us the investigation time!
Pretty bogus, brother.
Your worldview of Adam, as superman, was created as a full-grown adult, already knew how to speak, named all animals on the planet, tilled the garden, and realized that he was lonely...all in 24hrs!
Little wonder that seekers are turning away from Christianity when they see this type of belief system.....for them, sci-fi is more believable than the YEC interpretation...
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Where did I say God "had" to rest? I just quoted scripture. And when did I say "only God is good?" You might want to reread my post there fella. You have taken my post and done what you accuse others of doing with scripture...twisted it to fit your agenda (whatever that may be). Don't put words into my mouth. As stated in earlier post...you don't know me. God does. Thank you.
They probably didn't have atheistic universities spending billions over many decades to prop up evolution "theory", which "theory" didn't exist according to known record.
Now they are spending fortunes trying to explain how soft skin tissue and veins holding blood cells and elastic tissues in dinosaur fossils believed to be tens of millions of years old, are showing heavy evidence of age no more than a few thousand years.
All of their old age dating methods exist on the grace of circular reasoning as how to calibrate their methods. Assumptions that rock layers (strata) are currently accomplished very slowly gives them comfort to assume billions of years in the making, allowing for beliefs of very old ages. Fossils in those strata are aged according to those assumptions. Nevermind that recent volcanic eruptions in our time are being dated as millions of years past.
Sorry Dan, this is just not right. The OT was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic in a few places. When Alexander the Great came along, he decided to "Hellenized" the known world. That meant Greek language and culture took over. It also meant many of the Jews who were dispersed had lost their Hebrew language.
So one of the Ptolomies in Egypt got together a group of Jewish Scholars, supposedly 70, whch is why the Septuagint is named the way it is. They translated the Old Testament into Greek. There are stories about it being "inspired" but since there are a lot of differences between the Hebrew Text and the LXX, I would say not.
The Hebrew text was inspired for the OT. The Greek text was inspired for the NT. We only have copies of those. And there are many little changes, which don't affect theology, but it shows they are definitely are copies of copies.
As for the actual Masoretic text, it was the Masoretes that added the vowel pointing system to the OT, because it was being lost. The vowels are very important in determining the verb tenses and aspect, so that really was a God inspired idea, in my opinion. These vowel points were added somewhere in the 7th to 10th centuries.
I read Greek very well, but I have lost a lot of my Hebrew over the last couple of years. I am thinking about getting an LXX when I finish my Greek course I am taking. I will continue my studies of NT Greek, too.
It is good to have the LXX because a lot can be learned about the ancient Hebrew words by comparing the NT use of these words with the LXX. I did a couple of papers on word studies, and read quite a few more. One step in a word study of Hebrew is to compare it to the NT Greek word and the LXX.
But no, the LXX is not the inspired text of the OT. This fits in with the same nonsense as saying God inspired the KJV, rather than faithful men translated it, so England would have a Bible in their own language.