One.
How about many?
Post 37In the creation story, Adam is created first then, after naming all the animals and failing to find a helpmeet, God creates a woman for him. Later on in the bible, Jesus says “Do you not know that in the beginning God created man and woman, male and female, He created them.”
Is Jesus misinformed, or lying then? Or is the point not that there was some time elapsed between the creation of the male and female of the human species, BUT instead that GOD created them, together in the sense of meaning to complete each other?
Post 71(The creation-story appears again, right there in Genesis wherein God creates man and woman at the same time in that account.) Do you mean to say then that, because things SHOULD be read literally, always, that BOTH accounts are factually true down to minuta even though on the literal side they contradict each other?
Post 71 - Set 2Answer this: How can there be a meaningful conversation when you have already condemned me? How can I present a defense of my views when you refuse to listen?
Post 71 - Set 3
Was answered, Correction needed.
Zacheeus* Nicodemus asked Jesus "How can a man be born again? Can he enter his mother's womb a second time?" This was a perfectly valid question to a very literal taking of Jesus's own words. But is that what Jesus was talking about?
* - I confused Zacheus for Nicodemus in the original post.
Post 214
It could be argued that these are not technically questions. Now, I ask you to answer my questions. I also ask how that keeping the sabbath precludes an literary reading.
Mr shark, you are on dangerous ground when you attempt to create false contradictions in God’s word. - You are doing exactly what the serpent did in Genesis 3.
You cannot excape this, since you have called all of us here as witnesses to your attack, and pointless argument with P-Marlowe, who has tried to give it to you straight, as far as I can see.
Do you really want to continue in this mode?
Jesus was referring to Creation Week. Eve was created on Day 6 of Creation Week. Thus her creation qualifies as part of the beginning:
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. 27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God
he created him;
male and female
he created them.
No
Or is the point not that there was some time elapsed between the creation of the male and female of the human species, BUT instead that GOD created them, together in the sense of meaning to complete each other?
I'm not sure what you mean. God created man and woman. Neither one evolved. I'm not sure what amount of time elapsed between the time he created man and he made woman out of one of Adam's ribs, but he made them male and female.
Post 71
Do you mean to say then that, because things SHOULD be read literally, always, that BOTH accounts are factually true down to minuta even though on the literal side they contradict each other?
No.
Answer this: How can there be a meaningful conversation when you have already condemned me? How can I present a defense of my views when you refuse to listen?
I must have missed where I "condemned" you. I must have missed where I "refused to listen".
But is that what Jesus was talking about?
No.
"Now, I ask you to answer my questions"
I've now answered all your questions except the following:
I also ask how that keeping the sabbath precludes an literary reading.
But I did respond to that question. I said I had no idea what you are talking about.
Now that I've answered all your questions, I suppose you can get on with the business of insulting me.
Bring it on.