[James]

Quote by: Isherwood James, since you believe this: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:"-2 Timothy 3:16, then I have a few points that perhaps you can clear up for me. If you get through these, I've got a hundred more;

I started to reply to this last night, and I swear.... I think all y'all list SO many verses so that I'll just be too tired to answer about all of them. *sigh* But then you'd think that I'm just trying to get out of it...

Quote by: Isherwood GE 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness. GE 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day.

In verses three through five the Bible says that God first created light and dark, and then separated them. It doesn't say tnything about the sun or the moon. The way the Bible puts it, the sun doesn't or didn't necessarily make the difference between night and day.

Quote by: Isherwood GE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created. GE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.

Actually, four through nine would suggest that plants came before man... What are you reading??? So... what is your argument? Maybe you need to read more before you bring something against me.

Quote by: Isherwood GE 1:20-21, 26-27 Birds were created before man was created. GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before birds were created.

Verse seven has nothing to do with what you're talking about. Anyway, verse nineteen is just saying that God created birds, not right then. It is just re-stating that God created birds and animals before it says that Adam named them.

Quote by: Isherwood GE 1:24-27 Animals were created before man was created. GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before animals were created.

Again... it's just saying again before it goes into Adam naming them.

Quote by: Isherwood GE 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time. GE 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later.

Verses 26 and 27 say that God created them, not necessarily at the same time.

Quote by: Isherwood GE 1:28 God encourages reproduction. LE 12:1-8 God requires purification rites following childbirth which, in effect, makes childbirth a sin. (Note: The period for purification following the birth of a daughter is twice that for a son.)

Childbirth is not a sin, the sex that causes it is. Before the fall of man, we don't know. People may have been able to reproduce without sex... Nobody knows for sure. Because the world was a perfect place, there couldn't have been sin until it was finally introduced.

Quote by: Isherwood GE 1:31 God was pleased with his creation. GE 6:5-6 God was not pleased with his creation. (Note: That God should be displeased is inconsistent with the concept of omniscience.)

Genesis chapter one says that God looked upon all His creation, and it was VERY good. But later God was displeased with His creation, man. Not everything else. But it was not His fault that He was displeased, it was ours. Man has free will and brought the flood upon themselves.

And how is that inconsistent with His omniscience? God controls everything, but man has free will and made his own choices. Man was corrupting God's world. His creation turned against Him, and it was man's own fault.

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