Was Genesis wrong about creation?

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No it is a very simplified version of creation
God create everything visible and invisible and the spirit gave life to all things.
Trees produce fruit of their kind and animals produce of their kind
the sun the moon and stars are for times and seasons
Mankind was create to be lords of all creation for a time in paradise
Eve blew it with allowing seductive devil crawl inside her heart and brought death into the world
God forms covenants with his children to guide them
God helps his people and punishes his people for sin
God leads his people to a holy land and sets them once again over all the land
God promises a saviour in time.

Sounds about right to me
God bless
 
You might get better responses if you ask about specific arguments for or against genesis. I’d imagine you can write a book about some of them.

Your question is pretty general.
 
It’s pretty much agreed by scholars that the first five books of Genesis are allegorical, and shouldn’t be taken literally.

Yes, God created all and humans separated from God by disobeying Him.

What and how man disobeyed God is not known in details.

Jim
 
Hard to argue that God created all ?

Nothing doesn’t create something.

There had to be a higher supreme creator to have made it happen.

Jim
 
I guess that because Genesis is a simplified version of creation, the arguments against Genesis are really just there because some may make The Bible look like a science textbook which it isn’t.

I forgot about that 🙂 Thank you all
 
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Then why do some treat the Genesis account in the Bible as if it was a scientific textbook?
 
JimR-OCDS said:
It’s pretty much agreed by scholars that the first five books of Genesis are allegorical, and shouldn’t be taken literally.
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First five books or first five chapters? I think you mean chapters? First five books of the Bible is the Torah. Not nitpicking but I am sure you mean chapters.
 
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Then why do some treat the Genesis account in the Bible as if it was a scientific textbook?
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I don’t know. We have to look at the time period the book was written, where there was no understanding of biology, chemistry, physics, even including astronomy. God most likely simplified creation because of all the advanced knowledge of the event. Surely the description of the birth of creation would be too advanced when the book was written?
 
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Just a personal thought but I have always thought Genesis was an allegorical story, as is much of the Old Testament. One of my supports for that is the Jesus used allegorical stories to make his points about moral practices. Just sayin…….
Allegory seems to be a favorite device of the early Jews and Christians.
 
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God could have added highly simplified details contemporary and modern readers could understand. “In ages long past, men looked like animals and lived like animals but as the ages passed, men became the men you are today.” But He didn’t. Or “I made the lights in the sky you see at night” but He didn’t.
 
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God could have added highly simplified details contemporary and modern readers could understand. “In ages long past, men looked like animals and lived like animals but as the ages passed, men became the men you are today.” But He didn’t. Or “I made the lights in the sky you see at night” but He didn’t.
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And so what are you trying to tell me? How should I know what God was thinking or what his reasons were? I only have a hypothesis of my own as to why Genesis is the way it is
 
That’s not Biblical in the case of Jesus. He referred to the Old Testament and His current time, and the connection.

John 5:46

New International Version
If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

New Living Translation
If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

English Standard Version
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.

Luke 8:10

New International Version
He said, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, "‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’

New Living Translation
He replied, "You are permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of God. But I use parables to teach the others so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled: ‘When they look, they won’t really see. When they hear, they won’t understand.’

English Standard Version
he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
 
So??? Allegory is not fantasy or irrelevance. It may incorporate fiction but it does point to truth.

There are several things that must be taken from Genesis. One God created all, He created man in His image and likeness; man defied God and forfeited the life God had intended for him; by his disobedience man needed one who would repair the breach between man and God and restore man to his original purpose, and lastly that one was He who we call Jesus the Christ. The story may be allegorical but it does point to truth.
 
Wrong on what grounds?

Of course it wasn’t wrong. If you’re referring to its account on HOW the universe was created rather than why, then that’s a different story.
 
I reject the how/why argument. There are things God actually did that are outside the bounds of science.
 
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