Well, I guess nobody wants to discuss the something there concept then???

If you go out of your way to misinterpret and try to make any story told to you look silly, you can.  The Bible isn't an exception - it's not written to avoid ridicule, it's written to tell a story.  So basically, you make assumptions.  God got tired so he had to rest.  That doesn't make sense, so why did he rest?  Maybe because he was done?  Would that make more sense?

Maybe it wasn't done in a finger snap because God repeatedly, throughout the Bible, weaves together stories that communicate principles, so well in fact that the skeptics today want them to just be fables that communicate principles instead of actual things that happened. 

The Day 4 account (he forgot he created light, lolz) is really missing the point.  God somehow had light... without a light source.  For 3 days.  Then he made sources of light.  What kind of being is this that can create light without a source?  Okay, now we're talking a mind-blowingly powerful being here, not a forgetful sort.  You may ask, why'd he create light sources when he could just create light?  And that's a darn good question.  Perhaps to leave room for faith.

Day 6's question lacks wisdom. How were they given dominion over other people if there were none?  They weren't given that authority!  They were given authority over the Earth, the plants and animals, etc.  Not other people.  Adam, however, was given authority over Eve as her husband.

Definitely you're missing the context.  The creatures who crawl on the ground were created before the humans, then the humans were created.  They're separated out in the creation account, so they are separate here too.

I like the way I should know all these things, according to you, but you provide nothing that actually says why I should know those things.  I have my book and I have personal experience that backs up the fact that God does exist, he works today, and is extremely powerful. 

The point I was driving at is that if you treat the Bible with the disrespect and misinterpretation from the original post, you will never make any sense of it.  It can be funny to do that but it's also the actual arguments that people put forth for the Bible not being true.  "Oh, there's a contradiction... if he's so powerful, why does he have to rest, lol you're so stupid Bible thumpers!!!111"

Which is why someone needs to come behind and provide the actual explanations that you would hear from the pulpit of any decent church.

Now, the thing about being a believer is that you know the Bible is true and God's word, and therefore won't contradict itself, and therefore, should be used as a sounding board for any specific interpretation you pull from the Word of God.  This will keep you from making up silly doctrines, if properly applied.  For example, if you try to doctrinally take anything from Ecclesiastes, you are probably going the wrong direction, because it was written from the viewpoint of the world with the conclusion that everything under the sun is worthless, except when you have God.

Also, witches are real.  Wicca.  Possible that they even have some supernatural powers granted by demons.  I don't know.  But there is certainly a Wiccan religion.

The intellectual dishonesty comes in where you don't consider the book BECAUSE you don't believe in God.  If I don't believe in cats, and therefore, I don't believe any books written about cats, that doesn't mean cats don't exist - it means I'm letting assumptions become reality.  If someone holds up a cat to me I could say 'That's not a cat!' but it doesn't make it true.  You're doing that with God.  That assumption there is what makes your beliefs beliefs and not facts.

I know why religions despise knowledge, it is so simple. If humanity were to get smarter, they would invent cheap computers to analyze and dissect Bronze Age mythology and make the results readily available to anyone. God forbid ... the atheists have them too ... and with the internet and all, well bad times are ahead for religious orthodoxy IMO. This is one of the best clips I have found on the creation myth.

The Bible: The Old Testament   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj1rNz5YD8M&NR=1&feature=endscreen

If there is any wonder why there is confusion between the scientific and religious proponents, this clip amply shows why. What could you expect when trying to compare real apples to invisible oranges so to speak, hahaha. This is a scientific view trying to comply with creation.

The Bible Revisited: Genesis 2.0   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9EVMzVQKTk

Hello Lula, I see you haven't changed either. I just don't believe in god ... assume whatever else you like. Whatever happened to "a picture is worth a thousand words", probably just an atheist ploy, whatever? (I still haven’t seen the movie, but I will)

Oh okay.  Enjoy your religion.  Eventually you will die, and end up in intense pain for all eternity.  And that's going to suck.  My thought was always, well, if I die and nothing happens, that's all fine.  If I die and I'm going to be judged by God, I might want to examine the evidence of this God just a little bit closer and make sure.  But if you're sure, then I guess we're done here.

BT writes in the OP......

Personally I like the Book of Genesis as it makes an interesting read if one is into strange fantasy.  In The beginning there was either nothing or something depending on your point of view. It is strange but let’s take a look at the nothing concept first:

DAY 1: In The beginning there was nothing but darkness and out of the darkness came the One God who always was … in the darkness? Well eventually God became tired (?) of the darkness after however long and decided to have a go at empire building. God created the heavens and the earth from the dark nothingness. But the earth was without form however spiritually He was still able to ‘hover’ above the surface of the waters of the formless earth, some trick there. So God brought light into existence and managed to separate it from the dark somehow all the while wondering what the “????” had made Him live in the dark sooo long (at least the first half of infinity anyway).

 
DAY 2: This whole day was spent making Heaven to separate the waters above from the waters below. I would think that omnipotent and all-knowing could have made this whole six day process happen pronto like. As concerns the all-knowing part … why bother when you already know you will be destroying your creations anyway??? As a curiosity, I wonder where Heaven is supposed to be besides in the minds of the blind.
 
DAY 3: God then proceeded to gather all the water below heaven into one place so there could be land but is vague on why this displaced water didn’t flow back where it was happy. This must have been relatively easy though because there was still time on the third day to seed the entire flat earth with fruit bearing trees and grains.
 
DAY 4: God forgot he had already created light on DAY 1 but He created the stars anyway and placed them in Heaven so the sheeple to come could discern day from night and tell time.  Then He put the Sun and moon in the sky at the exact right distance for human life (so far unknown) to flourish.
 
DAY 5: God populated the earth with every living flying and swimming organism able to claim the breath of life. Now it might be pointed out here that countless animals have come and gone as well as whole species so this day I think was completely wasted or at best quite unsuccessful.
 
DAY 6: Here God populated the earth with all the animals and crawly things that were to exist??? This is where we come in, the sheeple. Lastly and I suppose this is where the problems creep in because he was so tired by now … He created man from the dirt and woman from man and gave them dominion over all other life on earth. How could they be given dominion over other people as there were no others?
 
DAY 7: God the all-powerful and all-knowing had to rest on the Sabbath to recover His weariness from creating everything from nothing out of the darkness of nothingness. Oh did I mention that in time because God was so exhausted from what should have been a finger snap, that he would have put to death anyone who is bold enough to work on Sunday, go figure. As we are just into Genesis part 2 of 50 … there is quite a bit to cover still, but I thought people would like to know how they and the entire Universe came into being is all. These are the only facts and only the facts, so help me God.

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Well, you've given your rendition of what you think Genesis means. Now, I'll give you my rendition of your rendition. 

BT's interpretation of Genesis is what is strange fantasy.

This, together with that which your UTube video friend says, is thoughtless thought GOING ON.

GFT and her UTUBE video friend take the Book of Genesis.  They read but they do not read. they see words. Their head is in a whirl. They turn the page. There is nothing. It means nothing. Nothing is anything. There isn't anything that means anything. They look at the beginning. They look at the end. There is no beginning at the beginning, either. They think there is no beginning and on and on and on...... 

I typed the word ‘Gravitation’ into Wiki and this is the first paragraph (what confusion???) that popped up and this will do nicely for me:

Gravitation, or gravity, is a natural phenomenon by which physical bodies attract with a force proportional to their masses. Gravitation is most familiar as the agent that gives weight to objects with mass and causes them to fall to the ground when dropped. Gravitation causes dispersed matter to coalesce, and coalesced matter to remain intact, thus accounting for the existence of the Earth, the Sun, and most of the macroscopic objects in the universe.

Next please!!!

I don't have to assume anything...I'm just going by what you've written here.

No, only minutes into this video proves it is not the scientific view trying to comply with the Creation account in Genesis. 

For example, Take the opening verses of Genesis. What happened on Day One?

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth." 

Look at that! Reading Scripture just as it is even though it gives us a bare outline, we must accept a few things....

1---that Almighty God tells us that He created the Earth first..three days before the sun, moon, and stars which do not appear until the Fourth Day.....but that's not what modern science tells us is it? No, the Stellar Evolutionary and Big Bang concepts reject this. 

2---that the Light created on the First Day is prior to and independent of the light radiating from the sun and stars from the Fourth Day.

3---that the creation of an expansive firmament on the Second Day that rests in outer space and upon which waters rest.

Modern science dogmatically insists that the universe came into being with a "Big Bang" which originated from a cosmological "singularity" some of which, over billions of years, evolved into objects such as our Earth. Yet,  Genesis 1 teaches that the Earth appeared first before anything remotely resembling a "Big Bang" ever occurred and which after billions of years produced it. 

Which one is the real apples? 

This idea of "in the beginning" is starting to resonate with some scientists (and not just the orthodox Christian ones) who are starting to distant themselves from the "Big Bang" theory.The flaws in the BB cosmology are appearing in scientific journals. 

Hi Lula!  Even though I almost never agree with you, I still missed you a bit!

Believers do not need to see God for proof and belief of His existence.

Atheists must be shown before they believe, so they say. 

Oh c'mon GFTess. 

My point stands. Even you must believe things by faith. I'm just pointing out that you (and I and all of us) believe gravity exists upon faith...not becasue you ( we) have seen gravity. 

You believe gravity exists upon faith in whom? Faith in scientists and what they have told you about gravity  including its definition. 

Told ya..you'd have a very intelligent answer. 

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Sir John Hershel, the discoverer of Uranus and its satellites called gravitation, the "mystery of mysteries". You can decide if he was a real scientist or not. 

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Scientists believe Electricity exists but science does not know what electricity is in substance. 

Scientists believe Darwinian, neo-Darwinism and Stellar Evolution on faith in random chance.

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Concerning faith I've said this before....

God's revealed religion, the Holy Bible and Science call for belief by both faith and study. Faith proceeds all study. True Religion begins with Divine Faith that will not deceive; whereas science begins with human faith that is fallible.   It's utterly impossible to study them without accepting first principles upon faith, without faith in the respective teachers. Science and true religion begins with mysteries, truths which are not fully understood. 

Gravity and electricity are natural mysteries yet their manifestations prove their existence. 

Well, same with God. "The heavens show forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the works of his hands."  

Hi Jythier, 

Great that you're posting again.  I'm finding we agree quite a bit here. 

We certainly agree on this one.

Bingo on this one too.

Atheism is a denial of the ultimate cause and designer of things, including the law of our being; including the law of gravity.