Did other people inhabit the earth before we did?

When we magnify the word, Jesus is seen more clearly. A magnifying glass allows one to see the details of the subject more clearly and defined. We magnify the word, not worship it. We worship Jesus and what He has done because His word has been magnified.

I know. The angels were created first, And Adam and Eve were the only people on earth, but some people think there were people before them. It was taught in school about cavemen.

hahaha, I was merely making a point that God knew Adam would sin, and then die, and needed bacteria to decompose.

Of course we need bacteria!!

If you catch a cold and then I catch it, it's good to have previous bacteria from other colds to fight new colds.

I love micro biology and the basic study of micro-organisms!!

The adversary is not the morning star.

See John Calvin

repeat:

John Calvin commentary

12. How art thou fallen from heaven!

Isaiah proceeds with the discourse which he had formerly begun as personating the dead, and concludes that the tyrant differs in no respect from other men, though his object was to lead men to believe that he was some god. He employs an elegant metaphor, by comparing him to Lucifer, and calls him the Son of the Dawn; {1} and that on account of his splendor and brightness with which he shone above others. The exposition of this passage, which some have given, as if it referred to Satan, has arisen from ignorance; for the context plainly shows that these statements must be understood in reference to the king of the Babylonians.

But when passages of Scripture are taken up at random, and no attention is paid to the context, we need not wonder that mistakes of this kind frequently arise. Yet it was an instance of very gross ignorance, to imagine that Lucifer was the king of devils, and that the Prophet gave him this name. But as these inventions have no probability whatever, let us pass by them as useless fables.

Once again what you are pushing the teaching of Luciferians

hahaha.... but colds are caused by viruses not bacteria, but yes your body will have a memory of the virus and then be able to activate antibodies more quickly next time.

morning star is from the Hebrew.

It is 100% accurate.

Lucifer however, is not!!

the bacteria is the memory!!

the bacteria is the memory!!

23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.

27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end


Let's look at this verse by verse to see what exactly God did do as in destruction:

Verse 23 indicates the final end result.

Verse 24 indicates the power of God made even the mountains tremble and hills to move.

Verse 25 indicates LIFE in human form has ended and the birds were nowhere to be found.

Verse 26 indicates everything that flourished and prospered was now a barren wasteland, including the once thriving cities built by humans all destroyed by the FIERCE ANGER of God {that you claim God did not do as such, while scripture is specific of God's FIERCE ANGER).

Verse 27 indicates God admitting causing destruction that resulted in what we read in verses 23 - 26.


For you to claim, "God did nothing," while 2 verses state otherwise, is quite alarming!!

The only cavemen that I am aware of are those in the old GEICO commercials and the Flintstone's.

God bless you tourist.

Suppliment

In my last post I mentioned literalism. Another curse Preachers and others suffer from is selective amnesia. This takes the form of
forgetting or rather ignoring parts of the bible that either don't fit into their pre conceived ideas or they are reluctant to share with
their hearers anything that may disturb them. One thing they firmly believe is that ignorance is bliss. They spend a few years at Seminaries and never allow their knowledge to filter down to their congregations.

Hey! Jim... PTL!
Scripture that is inspired by the Lord means what is says! The Lord has magnified his word above all his name and means exactly what he says! To twist scripture to mean what you want it to; what is doesn't say; is how men go into error, sadly. Everyone has their own opinion, but lets let God be true and every man a liar. Was the king of the Babylonians cast out of his grave? Or did that not mean what it says too? Yikes at such twisting of scripture to mean something other than what the Spirit says. If it was a parable, then some interpretation might be understood, but not here. With the standard of interpretation that is being used here, one can make the scriptures say whatever they want. For whatever reason; like making it agree to agree with one's own personal belief. Sorry that this sounds harsh brother, but I'll let God be true and trust the scriptures to mean exactly what the Spirit is telling us. If we use other sources beside scripture for our understanding and none of us has the whole truth; then their error, which we all have, will be compounded with our own. Praise the Lord in the name of Jesus; our God and King!
Maranatha!

Bible is a book. God is God. God is more than a book.

All we know about God is through the Scriptures. Magnify His word to the world so they can see Jesus more clearly.

Thats not true, but because you are KJV Only, we will never get to the same conclusion, so... whatever

Do you know something about God that's not in His word?

Of course.

1. For example how can God be outside of our time and still work in our time is nicely illustrated by the current modern cosmology.

2. Or, how can spiritual beings see and interact with us while we cannot see them is nicely explained by higher dimensions of the Universe.

3. Or, his eternal attributes and powers can be seen in Big Bang, His style of creation and probability can be seen in quantum mechanics and double slit experience, observer effect and similar.

4. His special revelations to Adam, Noah, Job, Abraham, to Moses, to David, to apostles, to many gifted church members happened outside of Scripture's area. So, God works frequently with special individuals and do not need any book for it.

5. Logic, philosophy and general church can lead us into various levels of knowledge

6. Nature and the world around us tells us about God, about His greatness, power, goodness and majesty

7. Paul repeatedly affirms that people apart from special revelation (Jewish Scriptures) know God and that this knowledge is mediated to them in and through creation.

8. Moral law in us is a voice of God and we have it naturally. You know its wrong to murder somebody and you do not need the KJV for it.

9. Human nature, especially human need of worship and of a higher being proves, philosophically that there is a God and we are created for Him

10. Christian songs, books, catechisms and various other helpful things brought to us by Church or by wise men.

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And these are just areas I was able to come with in 5 minutes of thinking.

Also, do remember that the Bible itself was shaped and given to you by church.

None of them can be trusted 100% unless we compare it to Scripture. You only see God through some of these because His word said it to be so. Any attributes of God you can see in nature is there because Scripture says so. God's word spoke everything into existence.

Hey! blueluna5... PTL!
The sons of God mentioned in the book of Genesis, can not be fallen angels! Even though so many seem to want angels to be such.
2 Pet 2:4 "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment."
Angels that sinned were cast into hell! No way they could be with the daughters of men, from there!

Heb 1 tells us that the Lord doesn't call angels the sons of God.

Also, in the natural world; ie... the daughters of men; crossbreeds that are actually born are sterile, like mules.

Perhaps you see a distinction between angels that sinned verses some other reason for them coming to the earth; that is answered in Jude 1:6 "And the angels that kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved under everlasting chains of darkness unto the judgment of the great day." Looks like the exact same consequence as those who sinned. But is has always been up to us what we allow ourselves to believe and sadly, error feels exactly the same as the truth does or the suicide bombers that are killing themselves for their false god, would know better, don't you think?
Maranatha!