40b50b No.5892
I am not a Christian; I am a disciple of Christ. Can we just admit that we don't know whether creationism is true and I can't know? I follow the Teachings of Jesus which is found in the 4 gospels(Loving your enemies, forsaking everything, turning the other cheek, full devotion to God etc…) Nobody is going to hell for not believing the earth was literally created in 6 days.
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9c58e2 No.5894
He that believeth not God hath made him a liar (1 John 5:10)
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09d072 No.5896
>>5892
>I am not a Christian; I am a disciple of Christ.
What
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803d6f No.6300
>>5892
Yes, I believe in the truth of Genesis.
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886d16 No.6307
>>5892
>Nobody is going to hell for not believing the earth was literally created in 6 days.
A day for God is uncountable for man. The original word for day in Hebrew is "yom". Yom can mean any number of days.
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3e3b2e No.6308
>>6307
What's the Hebrew word for "the evening and the morning?"
What about Exodus 20 9-11?
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a040dd No.6309
>>6307
>Yom can mean any number of days.
How do you know that?
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3fda5a No.6312
>>6307
In all parts of the Bible the days were considered literal. If you believe in the Bible, you have to be a creationist, whether you like it or not.
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9f2945 No.6332
>>6307
>akshually
The Bible is meant literally at all times
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1b7bd4 No.6335
>>6332
Well that's not true, literal means without metaphor or allegory. There are these in most books of the Bible.
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f6e535 No.6339
>>6332
No it isn't, it is full of allegory and metaphor. Try reading it you dumbass.
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9f2945 No.6343
>>6339
>>6335
>muh metaphor
>muh allegory
This is how you get led down the path of the Satan. If you read the Bible hunting for these things, you can extrapolate and interpret to your heart's desire! There is one meaning.
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197010 No.6345
>>6343
There is one meaning, yes, but sometimes that meaning is conveyed through metaphor (like when Jesus refers to himself as the door for the sheep, for example).
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1b7bd4 No.6347
>>6343
I respect your zeal but you're making the wrong argument. What you mean to be arguing is that we shouldn't be explaining away the Bible's historical prose (like creation) to be some big metaphor.
Look up "historical-grammatical method". You use rules of literary genre to determine how to treat the text. This is the position held by we conservatives that is pejoratively called "literalism"
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2e27e6 No.6354
>>6335
>literal means without metaphor or allegory
Not necessarily. Since God is the author of reality, a story in the Bible can both be a literal account of an event that actually occurred and a metaphor for something else. The idea that literal truth and metaphorical meaning are mutually exclusive is based on an atheistic/deistic worldview in which reality is governed in an impersonal manner, rather than by a loving God.
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f6e535 No.6361
>>6343
>This is how you get led down the path of the Satan
No, it is simply being literate.
>If you read the Bible hunting for these things, you can extrapolate and interpret to your heart's desire!
That has nothing to do with it.
>There is one meaning.
That meaning is frequently conveyed non-literally. Are you a literal sheep? Did Jesus come to literally save sheep?
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a040dd No.6362
>>6354
That's called typology. It doesn't make the event non-literal.
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aa2ed2 No.6365
>>5892
>this entire fucking post
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a31526 No.6396
>>6354
Also, you can't prove that yesterday existed (in fact, Quantum physics isn't sure that it did), much less something that happened thousands of years ago. Maybe the earth looks the way it does to give scientists something to do, and not because archaeology and geology reflect the events of this world from the Ultimate Perspective.
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a040dd No.6419
>>6396
>you can't prove that yesterday existed
This is such a dumb statement only a very educated person could fall for it.
Yesterday I built a wardrobe. Today I have tangible evidence of the built wardrobe, in addition to my memory of building it.
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3e3b2e No.6423
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