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Originally Posted by tptp
God created the world as depicted in the book of Genesis. It does not explicitly (word-for-word) say that was 8000 years ago or a million years ago or whatever. According to ages and deaths and events in the Bible (and some events cross-dated with other ancient manuscripts) that is the age of the earth/world as far as can be ascertained. Could 8000 be a wrong figure? Im open-minded enough to say that it might be wrong. It might be right too! The age of earth argument isnt a pillar to what I have next:
God created Adam. God created Eve as a helper to Adam. From Adam and Eve the rest of the peoples of the world were created. One day the serpent (the devil) deceived Eve in to breaking the only rule that God had made for Adam and Eve in their Garden of Eden (suggested as the present day area somewhere around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East). Gods explicit rule was not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The serpent fooled Eve in to eating the trees fruit and then she gave some to Adam and he ate it too. God found out and punished them as depicted in Gen 3. From that moment on, sin entered the world.
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Tptp,
Let me ask you a question. You say that Bible is the absolute truth. Then why does the Genesis contradict itself regarding creation. In the first part of the Genesis it states that God created all the animals and
then made man. In the second chapter, it says that God made man first and animals later to keep the man company. The Bible starts with this huge contradiction. Religious scholars have attempted really hard to give some satisfactory explanation... but no one has any definite answer for this yet. How can Christians slam the evolution theory when the Genesis contradicts itself?
Part 1 in Genesis: God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, "Let us make man (Genesis 1:25-26)
Part 2 in Genesis: Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him." So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. (Genesis 2:18-19 )