On Feb 16, 9:23�pm, Robert <
holling...@gmail.com> wrote:
> EVOLUTION OR THE BIBLE?
>
> GENESIS CHAPTER 1:1-5,
> � � � � DAY ONE; �HE CREATED LIGHT AND DIVIDED IT FROM DARKNESS, AND THE
> EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID.
> � � � � DAT TWO; �HE CREATED FIRMAMENT AND DIVIDED THE WATERS FROM THE
> WATERS, AND THE FIRMAMENT HE CALLED HEAVEN.
> � � � � DAY THREE; �HE DIVIDED THE EARTH FROM THE WATERS AND ON THE DRY LAND
> HE COMMANDED THE EARTH TO BRING FORTH GRASS, HERBS, AND TREES.
> � � � � DAY FOUR; � HE SET THE LIGHTS IN THE FIRMAMENT, THE GREATER TO RULE
> THE DAY AND THE LESSER TO RULE THE NIGHT, AND THE STARS ALSO HE MADE.
> AND THE LIGHTS WERE TO BE SIGNS FOR THE SEASONS, FOR DAYS, AND YEARS.
> � � � � DAY FIVE; �20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the
> moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth
> in the open firmament of heaven. � � � �21 And God created great whales, and
> every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth
> abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind:
> and God saw that it was good. �22 And God blessed them, saying, Be
> fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl
> multiply in the earth.
> � � � � DAY 6; �26 �And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
> likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
> over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,
> and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. �27 So God
> created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male
> and female created he them. �28 And God blessed them, and God said
> unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and
> subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
> fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the
> earth.
> � � � � THE STORY IN GENESIS 1 IS THAT GOD SAID; ��Let the waters bring forth
> abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly
> above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. �THIS CLEARLY STATES
> GOD USED EVOLUTION TO CREATE LIFE FROM THE SEA. �AND THEN HE CREATES
> MAN, IN DAY SIX, IN HIS OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD CREATED HE
> THEM, BOTH MALE AND FEMALE. �IT DOESN�T STATE THAT HE CREATED MAN FROM
> THE EARTH BUT HE DOES THIS JUST AFTER HE SAID; ��20; �LET THE WATERS
> BRING FORTH, ABUNDANTLY, THE MOVING CREATURE THAT HATH LIFE.� � IN
> GENESIS CHAPTER 1 GOD CREATES LIFE FROM THE SEA AND THE MAN IS THE
> LAST OF THESE CREATURES HE CREATED FROM THE SEA, IN DAY SIX, AND THEN
> HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY..
> � � � � GENESIS CHAPTER ONE EXPLAINS HOW GOD CREATED LIFE, INCLUDING MAN,
> FROM THE SEA. �CHAPTER TWO HE USES A PARABLE TO TRY AND EXPLAIN
> EVOLUTION TO PRIMITIVE MAN. �CHAPTER TWO TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY THAN
> CHAPTER ONE. �IN CHAPTER ONE, DAY THREE, HE COMMANDED THE EARTH TO
> BRING FORTH GRASS, HERBS, AND TREES FOR FRUIT AND HE DIDN�T CREATE MAN
> UNTIL DAY SIX. �CHAPTER TWO TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY. �HE CREATES MAN
> FROM THE DUST OF THE EARTH AND THEN PLANTS A GARDEN. �GENESIS 2:7-9,
> 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed
> into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. �8
> �And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put
> the man whom he had formed. �9 And out of the ground made the Lord God
> to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
> the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of
> knowledge of good and evil.
>
> � � � � SO, I ASK YOU, �IS THE STORY OF ADAM AND EVE AN ACTUAL EVENT, OR A
> PARABLE, LIKE JESUS USED. �IF IT WAS AN EVENT, THEN WHERE IS THE
> GARDEN OF EDEN TODAY? �I WOULD THINK WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THE
> CHERUBIM AND THE FLAMING SWORD, FOR GOD DID NOT REMOVE THE GARDEN, HE
> JUST BLOCKED THE EAST GATE TO PROTECT THE WAY OF THE TREE OF LIFE.
> GENESIS �3:24, �24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east
> of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned
> every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
> � � � � AFTER CAIN KILLED ABLE, HE TOOK A WIFE FROM ANOTHER LAND, WHERE DID
> THIS WOMAN COME FROM? �GENESIS �4:16-17, � 16 �And Cain went out from
> the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of
> Eden. �17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch:
> and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name
> of his son, Enoch.
> � � � � ABLE WAS A SHEPHERD LIKE CHRIST. �CAIN WAS A TILLER OF THE EARTH,
> CARNAL, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.
> � � � � ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN IS A STORY TO EXPOSE THE TRICKERY OF
> SATAN, FALSE PROPHET. � WHAT THIS STORY TELLS US IS TO BEWARE OF FALSE
> PROPHETS. �THEY WILL BE APPEALING TO THE EYE AND AMIABLE, CHARISMATIC,
> LIKABLE, FRIENDLY, BEINGS AND THEY WILL TELL THE TRUTH, (JUST NOT THE
> WHOLE TRUTH,) �TO CONVINCE US THEY ARE OF GOD, HIS MESSENGER. � THE
> SERPENT DIDN�T LIE TO EVE, HE TOLD HER SHE WOULD NOT SURELY DIE IF SHE
> PARTOOK OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, AND SHE DIDN�T.
> AND HE ALSO TOLD HER THEY WOULD BECOME AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD FROM
> EVIL, AND GOD SAID: �GENESIS �3:24, �22 �And the Lord God said,
> Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and
> now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life,
> and eat, and live for ever:
> � � � � GOD GAVE MAN LOVE, JOY, PEACE, FOR GOD IS LOVE. �AFTER THEY DISOBEYED
> GOD, THEY KNEW THEY WERE NAKED, THEY WERE AFRAID, THEY LEARNED TO MAKE
> EXCUSES AND PUT THE BLAME ON OTHERS FOR THEIR ACTIONS. �GENESIS
> 3:9-13, �9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where
> art thou? �10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was
> afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. �11 And he said, Who
> told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I
> commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? �12 And the man said, The
> woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I
> did eat. �13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that
> thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did
> eat.
> � � � � LET ME ASK YOU TO THINK ABOUT SOMETHING: �IF GOD CREATED MAN BY
> EVOLUTION, HOW WOULD HE EXPLAIN THIS PROCESS TO PRIMITIVE MAN? �NOW, I
> CAN�T FIND PROOF THAT THE GARDEN EXISTED, AND THAT THERE WAS AN ADAM
> AND EVE IN THE GARDEN, ON THE OTHER HAND, I THINK THERE IS, AT LEAST,
> A HINT OF MAN BEING CREATED BY EVOLUTION. �THAT IS THE MIRACLE OF
> BIRTH. �BIRTH OF MAN BEGINS WITH THE EGG BEING FERTILIZED BY A SPERM,
> A TINY LITTLE THING THAT SWIMS UP A CANAL OF BODILY FLUIDS. �ONCE
> IMPREGNATED, IT BEGINS TO MUTATE AND SPLIT INTO MANY CELLS, DIFFERENT
> CELLS TO MAKE BONE, SKIN, FLESH, ORGANS, AND OVER A PERIOD OF TIME,
> BEGINS TO TAKE THE SHAPE OF A HUMAN BEING. �FOR 9 MONTHS, THIS EMBRYO
> IS SUBMERSED IN AN OCEAN OF BODILY FLUIDS, MUCH THE SAME WAY SCIENCE
> TELLS US LIFE BEGAN ON EARTH, FROM THE OCEAN. �FOR ME, THE MIRACLE OF
> BIRTH IS A DUPLICATE, AN EXACT EXAMPLE IN MINIATURE, OF THE WAY GOD
> USED EVOLUTION TO CREATE LIFE ON EARTH.
Calm down, take your caps lock off, and *breathe*. It's a *myth*.
None of it is meant to be taken literally.
Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
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