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I stated that Plato said that Timeus said that Solon said the flood was 9000 years before Plato. No other source has that date, and the "Famine Stele" (Sahal marker) implies that Tscheser (2700BC) was able to consult the records of how the "ancestors took themselves quickly to the double doors in the sky", as the records were intact. I presume that Solon checked the Egyptian records himself, and was confused by the fact that the same Egyptian hieroglyph means "year" as means "season", and there are three seasons to a year. That makes the date agree with most of the sources.
Unforfortunately, "Jewish knowledge base" does not say how they arrived at the date. It just keeps repeating it over and over. It occurred to me last night that the Septuagint gives different patriarchal chronology than the Hebrew Bible, and it calculates creation out to 4500 BC or so. Since it puts the flood at close to 2900, that's 1600 years. If you mistakenly subtract 1600 years from the Hebrew Bible's calculation of the birth of Enosh (3700), you get right about 2100 BC. I'm guessing that's what the website did, but unfortunately, they don't tell us. Matthew 1 puts a roughly identical timespan between Babylonian return and Jesus, as from David to Babylonian return, and again from Abraham to David. Abraham to David is longer, since lifespans were still declining at Abraham's time. That puts Babylonian return just after 600, David 1200, Abraham 1900. Matthew must reflect what the Jews of Jesus' time believed, since it was an evangelical tool for that group. It would be most curious to see what the website you quote does to the entire range of people from Noah through Arphaxad, down to Terah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, the 400 years until the Exodus. If they keep counting people, by Ezekiel's time, people would have to be having babies at age 4 just to get to the date of Gamaliel, and have him around during Roman Empire days. The date simply cannot be reconciled with the Old Testament and Talmud itself, let alone with archeology or history.
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The word day refers to geneology or generation, as in ' the day of the dinosaurs'. Chapter 2 kind of fills in gaps in Genesis 1; 2:4 - 6 fills in between 1:10 and 1:11, then 2:7 fills in between 1:26 and 1:27.
Just a tip, don't study individual verses. Study contexts. What a verse means depends entirely upon what's around it.
Just a tip, don't study individual verses. Study contexts. What a verse means depends entirely upon what's around it.
K
I assume you mean why is the order different from Gen. 1? Gen. 1 is about the heavenly viewpoint, Gen. 2 is about the earthly completion. In Gen. 1, God creates "bara" (gives purpose to), in Gen. 2, He creates "asher" (completes the work).
It's like you want to make a dinner. You make the lemon cream pie dessert in the morning, so it can gel in the refrigerator. You make the roast at around 2PM. You make the salad at 5PM. You put the mashed potatoes on 3 minutes before. Then you serve it, salad first, roast and potatoes next, and then the pie. Different order; one for the kitchen, the other for the dining table. The first reflects the cook's ideas, the second the meal as eaten. Both are correct; and a perfect description of how to make a proper meal to impress requires both.
It's like you want to make a dinner. You make the lemon cream pie dessert in the morning, so it can gel in the refrigerator. You make the roast at around 2PM. You make the salad at 5PM. You put the mashed potatoes on 3 minutes before. Then you serve it, salad first, roast and potatoes next, and then the pie. Different order; one for the kitchen, the other for the dining table. The first reflects the cook's ideas, the second the meal as eaten. Both are correct; and a perfect description of how to make a proper meal to impress requires both.
here is a fantastic explanation of the young earth topic FreeHovind -
please just click on the link FreeHovind -
Kent Hovind also points out with pictures the fact that human footprints are documented in the same fossilized footprints of dinosaurs. The foot print was a 24 I think, but either way, I don't see how the earth could be more than 6000 years old myself, and I've done a bunch of research on it. Too much science and Bible point to the earth being around 6000 years old, which means we're about to start the 7th day in a hundred years or so (in my opinion).
where does it say in the bible that God is still creating or recreating..says He finished creating and I know you do not take literally the first book of the bible that is counted as part of the Pentateuch as in books of the law that Jesus referred back to as literal so I guess you will have to argue with Jesus on your suppositions when He returns
That's because the flood was local....it only needed to flood the Mesopotamian valley to fulfill its purpose in killing humanity.
Psalm 104.26 - 30
There the ships go; You formed this great sea-animal to play in it. All of them wait for You to give them their food in due season. You give to them; they gather; You open Your hand, and they are filled with good.
You hide Your face, and they are troubled; You gather their breath, and they expire and return to their dust. You send out Your Spirit, and they are created; and You renew the face of the earth.
Psalm 104.26 - 30
There the ships go; You formed this great sea-animal to play in it. All of them wait for You to give them their food in due season. You give to them; they gather; You open Your hand, and they are filled with good.
You hide Your face, and they are troubled; You gather their breath, and they expire and return to their dust. You send out Your Spirit, and they are created; and You renew the face of the earth.
if it was only a local flood why then did God get Noah to accomodate all the animal kinds of the earth on an ark instead of just telling Noah to move to dry land? and as far as the verse you give me is concerned it is talking about death and life being created in the sense of being conceived and born..not created from the dust and the Word of God as it was in the Beginning..the origin of creation