ToBs: The Genesis Account-Ancient Astronomy.

Phil Cav wrote:
I'm a top poster and LOVIN IT! THANK YOU SIR! MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!

If you're unable to comport yourself to the proper way of acting on
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"DanielSan" wrote in message
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Phil Cav wrote:

Oh,that's right, it all happened by accident. That seems more logical.
Riiiigggghhhht.

Accident? I don't believe that is was Starlord was saying. But, thanks
for putting words in his mouth.

Oh, and top-posting is rude.


"Starlord" wrote in message
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I do NOT belive in any so called 'GOD", when I look out into the vast
endless sea of Stars with my telescope, and I think of the 3 to 5 billion
stars just within our own galaxy and then I think about the billions of
galaxys that have even mosr Stars which may have planets in orbit around
them and someone trys to tell me one so called all powerfull god made all
of this? Nope, no way will that ever wash with me.


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"Rampart" wrote in message
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Wait, are you saying God was Born on Earth? LOL

But you are getting close to my point. Anyone ever considered that what
is written in Genesis describe a teraforming event?

No magic.. advance technology.

Starlord wrote:


Oh! Now we have ET's visting Earth, and I'd bet they never saw the
super
land mass that was to become all the land mass's that we see today.


186,000 MPS, not just a good Idea, it's the LAW.


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"Libertarius" wrote in message
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SlammerPendragon wrote:



Libertarius wrote:


Rampart wrote:



When examining the Genesis account, it is helpful to keep in
mind
that it approaches matters from the standpoint of people on earth.

===Of course it does.
It was written by a HUMAN author who knew absolutely NOTHING
about the universe, his universe was what he was able to see.



So
it describes events as they would have been seen by human observers
had
they been present. This can be noted from its treatment of events
on
the fourth Genesis "day." There the sun and moon are described as
great luminaries in comparison to the stars. Yet many stars are far
greater than our sun, and the moon is insignificant in comparison
to
them. But not to an earthly observer. So, as seen from the earth,
the
sun appears to be a 'greater light that rules the day' and the moon
a 'lesser light that dominates the night.'-Genesis 1:14-18.

===Exactly.
But some believers think it is a description given by "God"! ;-) --
L.



Let look deeper into this, the first part of Genesis indicates that
the
earth could have existed for billions of years before the first
Genesis
"day," though it does not say for how long.

===If you mean the formless watery mass (ERETZ) from which the entire
"universe" was formed, yes indeed, it does not say when or if it was
created
by anyone.



However, it does
describe what earth's condition was just before that first "day"
began: "Now the earth proved to be formless and waste and there was
darkness upon the surface of the watery deep; and God's active force
was moving to and fro over the surface of the waters."-Genesis 1:2.

===A better translation is by the Hebrew scholars of the JPS TANAKH.
It says a "wind from God" was over the waters.



Would this comform to the theory that the planet was submerged into
water from the very start?

===As I pointed out, the whole thing was a watery mass,
according to the story.
No dry land was visible to the extraterrestrials
(ELOHIM, translated as "God"). -- L.


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