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To: trapped_in_LA
Well, a careful and prayerful reading of the Bible does not necessitate the earth being 6000 years old, which idea seems to violate common sense.

Genesis 1:1 is a complete statement. God created the heavens and the earth. What God creates is complete and perfect. But then what? Well, we get Genesis 1:2. Something enormous and catastrophic has happened. Now we have "darkness" and "the deep" and "without form and void". Something big has happened between verse one and verse two. Nobody knows how long it took to get to verse two but a lot has happened between verse one and verse two. So the earth may very well be zillions of years old. True science only discovers the Bible has said all along.

28 posted on 02/06/2014 9:03:02 AM PST by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew
"What God creates is complete and perfect."

First you come up with a fanciful "re-creation". Then you say that the initial statement indicates that the universe was instantly "complete and perfect".

Why, then, was something "complete and perfect" "re-created"?

No doubt, you can quote Scripture references (or at least your mind-warped misinterpretations of them) that support your conflicting claims. right?

51 posted on 02/06/2014 9:19:57 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: PapaNew
knows how long it took to get to verse two but a lot has happened between verse one and verse two.

The Bible says it was a day.

159 posted on 02/06/2014 11:59:42 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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