Thoughts on the Beginning

[Gideon300]

Bought “The Mystery of Creation” half way thru and I having that feeling that I may have subconsciously read this book before. Very interesting so far.

Sure is. It makes sense to me. However, it's not a salvation issue.

 

[God-fearing]

Agreed, the Book of Bereshyt is not a timeline of events but rather the Creation that leads us to the Messiah. Too many proofs throughout the Tanakh reveal there's more than what we are reading.

For me, the Earth itself is existing even destroyed or in the form that Chapter 1 reveals and we don't see God speaking that much into existence. It's already there and God manipulates for it's current use we're in now

The Hebrew text of created is Bara which means created out of nothing.

 

[God-fearing]

2Pet 3:8 with the Lord, a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day.

Rev 22:12 "Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done"

Absolutely, for the Lord our whole creation is like a couple la days, and as we grow in Christ like mindedness and begin to think more like God, I think older Christians also begin to see the creation as a couple la days mate.

I like how Enoch prophesied to all those before the flood, not about the coming flood, But about the Lords coming (second coming) to earth in judgment, Adam and the line of Seth would have been well acquainted with and would know the Lords plan which would soon be fulfilled, Adam lived to 900yrs old, nearly a seventh of the the time our creation will be in existence.

Jude :14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones :15 to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him


I like how you said evolution is evolving, they get to change their theories all the time, showing that the old theories were wrong, yet people think this is totally logical and acceptable practice and still factual. even changing the dates for certain things from 150,000 years to 2 million years. One day science may be honest and correct itself and will line up with God, the ultimate all knowing scientist.

I like what you said about the age of Adam, but was hoping you would see the connection,
Adam was told that in the day you eat of the fruit you will surly die. But he lived to 900 and something.
That's where the saying in 2 Peter 3:8 came from. It points to a appointed time as Paul says.