Was there some kind of prototype of creation before the one we know of?
Can someone please help me figure out what this guy was answering?
My question: Proverbs 8:26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. Were the "fields" mentioned, quantum fields? Does the Bible use dust to describe atoms? Atoms to form Adam?
His answer:
Nope. Just fields, as in, you plant your wheat, corn, and veggies there.
The passage is referring to Wisdom, and essentially says that Wisdom was God’s creation before the creation. Remember that Proverbs is poetry, and unless you are a fundamentalist, you realize that it isn’t literal, was never meant to be literal, and needs to be interpreted using the cultural understandings and world-view of the writers.
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Back to me: If there was creation of humans beforehand it could explain evolution.
Can someone please help me figure out what this guy was answering?
My question: Proverbs 8:26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. Were the "fields" mentioned, quantum fields? Does the Bible use dust to describe atoms? Atoms to form Adam?
His answer:
Nope. Just fields, as in, you plant your wheat, corn, and veggies there.
The passage is referring to Wisdom, and essentially says that Wisdom was God’s creation before the creation. Remember that Proverbs is poetry, and unless you are a fundamentalist, you realize that it isn’t literal, was never meant to be literal, and needs to be interpreted using the cultural understandings and world-view of the writers.
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Back to me: If there was creation of humans beforehand it could explain evolution.