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Newsflash: The Documentary Hypothesis is nonsense. It comes from a time when it was thought that writing did not exist at the time of Moses and that he, therefore, could not have written the Torah. We now know this is not the case.The six-day scheme ending in the seventh day has nothing to do with the time God took - that’s a ridiculous idea
It is a reflection of the theology of the “Priestly” writer, or P for short, who is interested in indications of time, & in the worship of Israel; so he tells of creation by God in a way which emphasises the importance of time & of the sabbath.God is not man, He does not weary or need rest.
The fuss over “evolution” versus “creation” is a modern concern, which has been imposed upon the text. There is no more reason or justification to find it in the Bible than there is to find the Heimlich Manouevre in the Fathers. P & J were not concerned with questions of what processes God used in creation - to look to them for answers to questions they do not even consider is to treat the Bible in the superstitious way people do when they expect an answer to a problem by opening it at random. Why should the ancients have bothered themselves with our controversies ? P & J are concerned with the fact that God is the Unique & Sovereign Creator - not with the
biological or palaeological or other-ological details that are so vitally important to “evolutionists” or “creationists”.
So those passages, like others which have implications for Israel’s ideas about “first things” such as “creation” do not exclude evolutionary ideas; they are not written with them in mind. The whole controversy is a gigantic fuss over nothing - if the Bible had been read with its environment & development in mind, the whole wretched controversy need never have arisen. But when the understanding of these passages traditional in the Churches was being formed, the environment in which the texts developed had been forgotten.Only in recent centuries has some of it been recovered, & Biblical scholars would be acting wrongly to ignore this.
Of course you are free to believe it if you want but I’m certainly not going to take your comments serioudsly if they are rooted in that nonsense.
Moses wrote Genesis inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Gary
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buffalo
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Bottle of Beer is quite enamored with the DH. I doubt he will be convinced otherwise. It will shatter his though process and his belief in his teachers.
Further info - The Toledoths of Genesis
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AnyoneAnybody
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Sorry. I must be very dull at the moment (seriously). Are these textbooks?
I was expecting to scriptural passages so I’m confused.
I was expecting to scriptural passages so I’m confused.
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garysibio
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If you believe that God created everything then you must reject evolution which says that life was created by random mutations acted on by natural selection. There is no room for God in the theory of evolution. You either believe that God created the universe or it developed by natural processes which do not need God to occur.
Gary
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buffalo
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It is really one article. In it you will find how we got to infused knowledge.
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Orogeny
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Nope. I believe that God created everything and that He used evolution as one of His tools.
I don’t really need to be told what I must believe.
Peace
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AnyoneAnybody
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Does it cite any key scriptural passages to which I may turn? (hope I’m not bugging ya)
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