@Jennifer1984 Said
Erm.... actually, it does say when the sun was created. It must have been created on the first day, because if the sun had already existed, then there would have
already been light. The sun must have been created on the first day to produce the light that God said would be so.
Not if, as science confirms may have been the case, there was too dense a cloud layer or dust cloud for the light to be visible on earth.
Your trouble is you are so determined to prove the bible wrong to justify ourself that you aren't prepred to think it through past the point that suits what you want.
@Jennifer1984 Said
As for the moon... well, that begs the question, doesn't it..? Exactly what
is the purpose of the moon. What is the purpose of creating any of the planets, come to that...? If God created man in his image (oh, the vanity...!! but hey, isn't vanity a sin..?), as some sort of celestial hobby, then what is the purpose of all the other planets..? Surely they're superfluous to God's plan..?
What is the use of crating su with colour vision? We don't need it. There are so many things like that, some of whihc have obvious answers, some of which, literally, only God knows. Maybe we will one day.
Do you not think that some of it was designed simply for something good to look at, for us and for Him?
However the moon does have other uses. It's gravity causes tides which keep the oceans from going stagnant on us. It is, as the bible says "a luminary for the night". It is also a means of measuring time periods longer than one day. That's why the early calendars were usually lunar ones, especially the Hebrew Calendar.
Again, don;t just read
think.
@Jennifer1984 Said
Which is the neat little loop hole which allows for your very convenient, and verrrry liberal interpretation of what constitutes a "day".
It's called "the English Language."
How about the fact that all of the first 6 days were carefully closed off with very much the same phrase, and yet the 7th has never been closed down? Could that be because it is not yet over? It was the basis for the "Sabbath" in the law, both the weekly one and the one every 7th years. Christ was called the "Lord of the Sabbath". Could that be because that day is still open for him to be called that?
Once again, lol,
think.
@Jennifer1984 Said
Now we're blaming the English language..? Well, if God was so perfect, then why didn't he give us a better one, which would be more in his image. Oh yeah... that's another little incongruity, isn't it..? We are created in God's image, which is perfect, but the language we use to articulate ourselves is "poor".
It is not God's fault we have made English so ambiguous over the years. It was less so when I was a child, and even less so in Shakespeare's day, even less so in Chaucer's day, so much less ambiguous that we can barely understand it now.
What makes you think that the original language wasn't perfect before God was forced to confuse it to slow us down in our suicidal course back at Babel? You accuse me of making assumptions and yet your belief is full of them, as full of them as it is lacking in true thought and consideration. That is why your posts are always so easy to answer.
@Jennifer1984 Said
Sounds like a lack of joined-up thinking there, God..!!
As you display so eloquently, the lack of joined up thinking is all yours I'm afraid.
@Jennifer1984 Said
I have thought about it, but not as a slave to it. For religionists, the Holy Bible is unimpeachable and can.... nay, MUST.... be used and interpreted in any way which preserves the doctrine of divine perfection. You can't NOT see it in any other way.
Others, who are not enslaved by it have the luxury of being able to see the gaps.... the inconsistencies.... the illogicalities of it. We can look at it and say "That doesn't make sense". Religionists cannot do that because to do so would be blasphemy.
The Bible takes religionists and holds them in a grip that is unyielding. It denies you free thought. You're the one who doesn't think about it.
All you think about is how to justify it.
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No, you have only thought of it as a slave to your own bodily impulses, not with any intention to truly understand it. It is you who is the slave, slave to your own desires. To our own self interests.
If I am a slave, I am a slave of God and Christ, and there is no better way to be a slave. Better than being enslaved by the mt of freedom. There is no such thing. In this war you can only be a slave to God or a slave to Satan. There are not alternatives because simply refusing to be a slave of God makes you a slave of Satan.
You have chosen to swap an eternal future in peace and happiness fro a few short years of sexual ecstasy in this life. Your choice, but you will reap what you sow unless you stop sowing it.