Question & Answers on God and related subject by Pastor Doug

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[daisy10731]

There is no authority greater than God`s Word.Ellen White never claimed to have authority over the Scriptures.Her writings are in perfect harmony with the Scriptures.

[terryoldham]

at least the sda can back up their doctrins with Bible scripture and you can read it for yourself in black and white or red

[Porojukaha]

@pistolyab looking back at your question i guess i didnt clearly answer it. Im saying that the book of genesis IS literal, but its a bare bones description and it doesnt specify the actual length of time taken in each part but separates it into seven parts to highlight the equal importance of the things done each day. I think that there is a lot of symbolism in the creation story. I think that we have seven days justly because its in reference to those seven periods.

[Porojukaha]

@Porojukaha im not saying the bible isnt perfect. But that in english it loses some of its meaning because of the difficulties of translation.

[Porojukaha]

@pistolyab he possibly be referring to when there were not yet days on this earth? further, the way the story is written is more like a symbolic general explanation of the way things happened then a blow by blow scientific recipe for the creation of the world. I mean given the brief references to the creation by God he obviously didnt think it was important to our salvation enough to dwell on the subject. I dont think we should take it SO literally when we know the translation is not perfect.

[Porojukaha]

@pistolyab I get what you are saying. Im saying the hebrew translation lieterally would be better translated as time. Further, even if it does mean day a day on whose planet? Gods or ours? I mean, im assuming that given the nature of the physical universe Heaven must be either a planet or an alternate dimension to ours that runs on different physics. Maybe a day on gods planet is like a million years on ours....we dont know. He made ths sun and the moon the third day, so what DAY could

[pistolyab]

if you say that the word "seven days" in the book of Genesis is not literal, then what day would that be? And if you say that a day is symbolizing a year like what other people believe, then literally our seven day in a week calendar now would mean a seven year cycle.. that's insane brother. so in that case, if today is monday, then we should wait a year and then comes tuesday. I recommend you to read again and again the whole story of creation in the book of Genesis and analyze those verses..

[AnointedByGod777]

@Porojukaha YOU ARE JEALOUS LOL!!!

[AnointedByGod777]

@Porojukaha REPENT!!!!

[Porojukaha]

@Imagine to be explicitly clear. hebrew word day =day OR period of time. so Genesis speaks of seven creation periods time of unknown length that could possibly have been a day, or not been. The hebrew word for create could mean either organize/create or order/plan. so he could have planned it, then created it. If he did the creation would be chiastic. this would be symbolic because chiastic structuring is what separates the bible from other aincient texts and is a staple in Jewish Holy writings.

[Porojukaha]

@Imaginefree69 the discrepancy in Genesis is due to its poor translation. The word day could also have been translated as time. God did not necessarily create the world in only seven days. Further, the word order and organize/create could be translated from what we have as create. Meaning that God likely planned the creation of plants before the creation of man but then actually created man first. This would make the Creation chiastic in nature and would give it more symbolic meaning.

[Porojukaha]

@AnointedByGod777 lol veal ftw!!