Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to
separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for
seasons and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. God.... made the stars also. God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He
rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
God created the universe in six days and then he rested.
He? Rested?
Written from earth's perspective, even though its supposed to be gods words, this bible. A tad geocentric in a universe of billions upon billions of suns don't you think? Would be oh so more much believable if reference was made to the true size of this universe, and our insignificance in comparison. Or imagine if general relativity was embedded in these holy words - god had to know how what he had created worked even if the authors of the bible didn't, right?
1,200 billion galaxies each with 200 billions suns in this universe - all created to govern day and night, and to separate light from darkness as experienced by human eyes here on earth? Seems like a lot of trouble to go to for a species that can experience only a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum. And the visible light from those stars has taken millions of years to reach us - yet all of this supposedly occurred 6000 years ago? Huh?
St Augustine tells us it took six days to create the universe because six is the first perfect number. Because a number's proper positive divisors add up to the number itself - 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 that's why? Whew - just knew there had to be a reason! And here I thought it was because dogs bark at the moon.
The word "day" in Hebrew can mean: a 24-hour day, daytime, today, forever, continually, or an undetermined amount of time. So, the "sixth day" is actually an unknown length of time. There is nothing that requires us to read it as six 24-hour days.
Whew - I mean how can an omnipotent being that can control time take six 24 hour days to do anything? Good thing day has no clear meaning in Hebrew. Or for that matter create, or rest, or he, or years, or night, or bible, or faith, or GOD...
Or this whole made up magic show.
God created the universe in six days and then he rested.
He? Rested?
Written from earth's perspective, even though its supposed to be gods words, this bible. A tad geocentric in a universe of billions upon billions of suns don't you think? Would be oh so more much believable if reference was made to the true size of this universe, and our insignificance in comparison. Or imagine if general relativity was embedded in these holy words - god had to know how what he had created worked even if the authors of the bible didn't, right?
1,200 billion galaxies each with 200 billions suns in this universe - all created to govern day and night, and to separate light from darkness as experienced by human eyes here on earth? Seems like a lot of trouble to go to for a species that can experience only a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum. And the visible light from those stars has taken millions of years to reach us - yet all of this supposedly occurred 6000 years ago? Huh?
St Augustine tells us it took six days to create the universe because six is the first perfect number. Because a number's proper positive divisors add up to the number itself - 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 that's why? Whew - just knew there had to be a reason! And here I thought it was because dogs bark at the moon.
The word "day" in Hebrew can mean: a 24-hour day, daytime, today, forever, continually, or an undetermined amount of time. So, the "sixth day" is actually an unknown length of time. There is nothing that requires us to read it as six 24-hour days.
Whew - I mean how can an omnipotent being that can control time take six 24 hour days to do anything? Good thing day has no clear meaning in Hebrew. Or for that matter create, or rest, or he, or years, or night, or bible, or faith, or GOD...
Or this whole made up magic show.
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