Fw: Another attempt to get back into the list (Till)
Matthew Bell mbkbell@aapi.co.uk
Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:36:27 -0000 (00887675787, 19980216192532640.AAB577@mbell.aapi.co.uk)
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> From: Ian & Pam Dorion <dorioni@ipa.net>
> To: Matthew Bell <mbkbell@aapi.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Another attempt to get back into the list (Till)
> Date: 15 February 1998 22:45
>
> Dear Matt,
>
> Here is my interpretation of Genesis I. Certainly we are not going to
agree
> on everything and I do hope we can agree to disagree. I don't mind if you
> make fun of my interpretations and hope you don't mind if I make fun of
> yours. I will try to watch my language since I know you don't care for
what
> some people call obscenities.
>
> Genesis: Chapter I, The first six days
>
> To make a short story even shorter, the scenario for creation as
outlined
> in this first chapter of Genesis, states that the entire universe,
> including man was created in six days. Of course this isn't exactly true
> because God screwed up, created some things twice, and had to recreate
> other things a second time as I will show.
> Day 1: God creates heaven and earth (and apparently water), creates
light,
> and divides the light from the darkness. And the evening and the morning
> were the 1st day (Ateatmwt 1st day).
> (Where did God live before he created heaven?)
> Day 2: God creates a firmament in the midst of the waters and divides
the
> waters from the waters and calls the firmament Heaven. Ateatmwt 2nd day.
> (Is this his second attempt at heaven?)
> Day 3: God gathers the waters together and makes dry land appear and he
> calls the land, Earth, and the waters, Seas. Having a little time left,
he
> creates grass, herb, and trees, and just so he doesn't have to do this
> every year, he has them produce seed so they can reproduce themselves and
> save him the bother.. Ateatmwt 3rd day
> ( It seems he flooded the earth of day one with the waters of day two.)
> Day 4: God says, "Let there be lights in the heaven to divide day from
> night to tell the seasons and days and years." So God made the sun and
the
> moon and the stars and it was a beautiful sight. Ateatmwt 4th day.
> (Somehow I thought the light of day one included the sun, moon and
stars.
> This is certainly inferred when after each days work it says, "And the
> evening and the morning were the ___ day." How could they have days
without
> this planet, spinning on it's axis as it orbits around the sun?)
> Day 5: God creates all sea life and fowls of the air. He makes them male
> and female so they can reproduce. Knowing he has a big day ahead of him
> tomorrow, he knocks off early. Ateatmwt 5th day.
> Day 6: This is the big day. God wakes up, well rested and creates all
> manner of beast and insect and of course, he makes them male and female
to
> reproduce. Lastly, he creates man by saying, "Let us make man in our
image,
> after our likeness; and let them have dominion over ...(all the animals,
> fish, fowl and insects). So God created man in his own image, in the
image
> of God created he him; male and female created he them."
> (As you can see, God is our, his, male and female. Obviously there was
> more than one God, or the belief in more than one God, and God must have
> been a collective term.)
>
> Your turn Matt.
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