Adam:  I am finding many answers to my life long queries on these ancient Biblical texts.

Are you really?  Perhaps you’d highlight the best “answers” you’ve found, so we can evaluate the crux of your position without having to read huge volumes of ignorant people spouting off about things they couldn’t possibly prove.  Here, I’ll get you st…[Read more]

Berean: Hi Mike

I really appreciate all of your replies and comments.
best wishes.

Thanks Berean.  I reciprocate that notion. 👍

Adam:  In fact I have come out of all my beliefs and now on rational position of understanding these ancient religious texts.

And how are we to determine the validity of your claim that you are being “rational” and actually “understanding” ancient texts?  You continually post very long writings that offer no actual proof of their claims, and t…[Read more]

Gene: This debate is ……Did this earth and the heavens exist “before” the first day of Gods present creation take place?

I say, the  “key” word is the word (WAS) . In verse 2,  I say that word strongly indicates it did preexist “before” the Six day creation took place…

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Hi Berean, I just sent you a private message.

Carmel: PROCREATION IS NOT A ONE-MAN JOB!

Then you better tell that to Genesis 5, which is loaded with all kinds of instances of a man (SINGULAR) begetting children.  And tell it to Eve too, who said in Gen 4 that, “with the help of Yahweh, I have created a man”.

I’m not interested in your diversions, Carmel.  Post something with substance – lik…[Read more]

Hi Berean,  I think that is a question of semantics that doesn’t really change anything.  Whether rock and dirt existed within the waters from which the earth was made (2 Pet 3:5: “the earth was made FROM water and THROUGH water”), or the earth was created FROM those waters makes no major difference, because the point remains that it wasn’t u…[Read more]

Adam:  In later developments, of course, El and Yahweh were merged into one god…

Another example of baseless nonsense.  SHOW ME, Adam.  Where is your PROOF of your claim?  (Well, not actually YOUR claim, but the claim of somebody else that you copied and pasted. 🙄)

Adam: Deuteronomy 4:19

And when you see the sun or moon or stars, don’t be tem…

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Adam:  Monotheism, like any influential idea, developed over centuries and entered history gradually.

Here’s another example of the nonsense that you copy and paste – but won’t stand and defend.

And here’s my answer to it:

Monotheism is the belief that there literally exists only one deity.  The Bible – all the way from the earliest OT to the l…[Read more]

Adam:  …you are using non-kind words towards others which is not permitted in any public Forum.

Says who?  Have you never heard of Twitter or Facebook?  I try to imitate my Lord, not you.  And my Lord openly called out hypocrites and those spreading falsehoods.  I will continue to do the same, thanks.

Mike:  Now… you have claimed that Deut 32…

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So after all the epiphanies I was given yesterday, another one came this morning as I wondered what it meant for the earth (ie: the dry land portion of our world and ONLY the dry land portion) to be “bohu” and “tohu” (“formless” and “void”).  And then I remembered reading something one of those words meaning “invisible”.   So I went back th…[Read more]

It also dawned on me yesterday that the Bible often makes a clear distinction between “the earth” and “the sea”.  So I started to wonder about that (or God lead me to it, I don’t know).  And so I did a little searching today and realized that the word “earth” ALWAYS refers to dry land in the Bible – the place where humans actually live.  I co…[Read more]

I think God is trying to help me here, because all of a sudden yesterday, it dawned on me that I’ve been arguing about the singular word “day” (which allows some wiggle room since we use it idiomatically to refer to a general time period) when I could just make my case undeniable using the plural word “days”!

Unlike the singular “day”, which can…[Read more]

For Carmel, Gene, and Proclaimer…
This is a technical note about Gen 1:1 from the NET Bible scholars…

1 tn The disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) at the beginning of v. 2 gives background information for the following narrative, explaining the state of things when “God said…” (v. 3).

Verse one is a title to the chapter

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Gene: Mike……First of all your “Fred” story is full of false asumptions,  because if Fred created a “car” then it was not “void” , it was a car   that means it had design and was not void at all…

Everything that ever WAS created (past tense) began as not existing.  If I say that Henry Ford created (past tense) his first automobile in 1896,…[Read more]

And my next “Must Answer” question will be…

Exodus 20:11… For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them…

Psalm 96:11… Let the heaven rejoice, let the earth be glad; let the sea resound, and all that is in it.

Acts 4:24… “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heaven and the earth and the sea…[Read more]

Okay, I’ve come up with my next “Must Answer” question, since it’s been a week with no answers or questions from you.
Proclaimer, DOES THE PLURAL WORD “DAYS” EVER REFER TO anything OTHER THAN LITERAL DAYS IN THE BIBLE?  YES OR NO?  AND IF YES, SHOW THE SCRIPTURE(S).

Carmel: PROCREATION IS NOT A ONE-MAN JOB!

Sorry Charlie, I’ve no time for childish nonsense.  Nor any time for someone who flat out lies that the words are not synonymous after I screenshot an actual mainstream thesaurus page that lists all of them as synonyms and added it to a post to you just last week.

Carmel: NOW IF GENESIS WAS A SUMMARY, THE…

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Mike: Nobody is claiming that “was” means “always existed that way”, Gene.  Let’s use your car example…

In 2002, Fred created a car.  Now the car was formless and void.  Then Fred welded the frame together on day one.  Then Fred installed the engine on day two.  Then Fred attached the body on day three.  Then Fred painted the car red on day four.…

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Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock…