Genesis 1\n 1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. \n 2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. \n 3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. \n 4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. \n 5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day....................................................... \n 14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: \n 15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. \n 16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. \n SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE???
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It seems that the earth had been established in orbit around the sun and was a globe covered with water before the six “days,” or periods, of special creative works began. “There was darkness upon the surface of the watery deep.” (Genesis 1:2) At that early point, something—perhaps a mixture of water vapor, other gases, and volcanic dust—must have prevented sunlight from reaching the surface of the earth. The Bible describes the first creative period this way: “God proceeded to say, ‘Let there be light’; and gradually light came into existence,” or reached the surface of the earth.—Genesis 1:3,\n\nThe expression “gradually . . . came” accurately reflects a form of the Hebrew verb involved, denoting a progressive action that takes time to complete. Anyone who reads the Hebrew language can find this form some 40 times in Genesis chapter 1, and it is a key to understanding the chapter. What God began in the figurative evening of a creative period, or age, became progressively clear, or apparent, after the morning of that “day.” Also, what was started in one period did not have to be fully completed when the next period began. To illustrate, light gradually began to appear on the first “day,” yet it was not until the fourth creative period that the sun, moon, and stars could have been discerned.\n\nThe Bible does not specify the length of each of the creative periods. Yet all six of them have ended, it being said with respect to the sixth day (as in the case of each of the preceding five days): “And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day.” (Ge 1:31) However, this statement is not made regarding the seventh day, on which God proceeded to rest, indicating that it continued. (Ge 2:1-3) Also, more than 4,000 years after the seventh day, or God’s rest day, commenced, Paul indicated that it was still in progress. At Hebrews 4:1-11\n\nThe first day did not complete the “creation” of light with respect to the earth. The sources of it, of course, existed before that first day but were invisible from the surface of the earth. (Genesis 1:1) The first day saw only the penetration of diffused light to the surface of the earth, made possible by the thinning of obscuring layers that enveloped the earth like ‘swaddling bands.’ (Job 38:9) Illumination at the surface gradually increased with the thinning of the interfering layers.
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You should have read Genesis first  to formulate a good question. The Bible doesn't begin with Adam and Eve, rather "In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth"...Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light (Gen 1:1-3).\n\nGen 1:24-25 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth all kinds of living creatures: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals of all kinds." And so it happened: \nGod made all kinds of wild animals, all kinds of cattle, and all kinds of creeping things of the earth.\n\nThe Bible is not to be treated like an Almanac, Encylopedia nor wikipedia. Because if you do, you'll end up looking also for lemurs, armadillo etc.
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Didn't he build the ark before the rains came?\n\nHere is a suggestion:\n\nOnce upon a time they say, they say\nNoah built a big ark\nFor family, friends, and animal pairs.\n\nAnd the rains came down day after day\nAnd he sailed away in the dark\nTil the day he saw land everywhere.
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Rich C good question, after ready many answers they all forgot Genesis 1:24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 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. Some may read this and say what's the point, the point is that God created every living thing according to their own kind, in Latin it says according to their own gene.
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No one created the tree, it was planted. That god can't create, he can only "form" and "plant" and clone what already exists. He was a mad scientist. The tree is knowledge and that god didn't want Eve & Adam to have it [knowledge]. What sort of god is this? Eve [who is life], was much wiser and desired wisdom, her husband Adam [the intellectual mammal] was stupid. So then Zoe (daughter of the holy spirit; consort of the cosmic christ) opened their eyes and liberated them [joined them to become one again] (for this reason the man will leave his parents and join to his wife and they will become one being again; when you make the two into one, and there is neither male nor female, you will enter the kingdom; gospel of Thomas). Then Ialdaboath the tyrant became furious because they became one again (I and the Father are one), and cursed christ's daughter [the serpent] and he also cursed what he created (actually what he formed, he "forms the light" that christ's father creates; bends time-space; second law of thermodynamics; entropy). God is invisible light (knowledge). That's level three of the Myth.
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On the sixth day God created man, male and female. God said be fruitful and multiply, and replentish the earth. So according to that statement sex was not a sin at that time. It was a gift from God.\n\nSince God had no beginning he would'nt rush creating everything in just 7 literal days.\n\n2Peter 3:8  But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.\nIt could have taken 7 billion years to create earth and man and everything in it. Adam and Eve could have enjoyed Eden for millions of years before that great and awful thing that they did.\nSince God said be fruitful and multiply they could have had many children before that sinful day.\nCain could have been the result of the first child being born into a sinful world.
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And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. \nNoah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. \n Make thee an ark \nthou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. \nOf every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. \n And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.  And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. \n And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. \nAnd the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. \n And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:  All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. \n And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. \n And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. \nGen 8:5  And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. \nGen 8:6  And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: \nGen 8:7  And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. \nGen 8:8  Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; \nGen 8:9  But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. \nGen 8:10  And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; \nGen 8:11  And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. \nGen 8:12  And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.\n \nGen 8:13  And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. \n\nthey were in the ark a year noah was 600 when he went in and 601 when he came out.
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No one. God is eternal. Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." The beginning of our time. Time itself was created by God - He exists outside of our realm of comprehension.
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There are 3 earth ages (II Pet.3:5-7), same earth but different ages. We are now in the 2nd earth age. Between Gen.1:1 and Gen.1:2 is a vast amount of time, if time existed. Between these 2 verses is Satan’s rebellion (Rev.12:3-4) and “his tail” drew 1/3 of God’s children. Between these 2 verses also belongs all fossils and remains, such as Dinosaurs.\n\nIn Gen.1:2 we have the of the end of the 1st earth age and the beginning of the 2nd. For clarity Gen.1:2 needs to be divided (see below).\n\n(A) Gen.1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. \n\n(B) Gen.1:2 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.\n\nIn (A) Gen.1:2 the first occurrence of the word “was” has been corrupted and is “became”. It reads “And the earth became without form, and void”. The end of the 1st earth age.\n\nIn (B) Gen.1:2 we have the beginning of 2nd earth age, the one we live in now. Man did not exist in flesh till this earth age.\n\nBetween (A & B) Gen.1:2 is also a vast amount of time, if time existed. Between (A & B) Gen.1:2  is; a global flood (not Noah’s which was a local flood), the destruction of Atlantis, the breakup of Gondwana Land, and the Ice Age. \n\nTime means nothing to our Father. He is very patient and loves His children. Instead of destroying Satan and 1/3 of His children, He destroyed that first earth age. Now in this 2nd earth age we all are born innocent in the flesh. Father came in the flesh Himself, Jesus Christ, and paid the price for all. Father defeated Satin, that is death, legally. So now His children have a decision, to choose life or to choose death. It’s your decision. Choose life!!
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This is a good question...it's actually something I've thought about before. It seems snobbish to believe that we are the only living things in the infinite universe, yet the Bible does not describe creation of anything but the Earth and its beings. \n\n"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1 \n\nThis verse states that the heavens were also created by God. Although the heavens are mentioned, the Bible may not go into detail about them for the simple reason that they were unknown at that time. For all we know, God could have created an identical planet to ours that we know nothing about. But in the past and present, it has been impossible to find out about anything much beyond our solar system.\n\nAs for the question of 6,000 years ago...well, it is pretty much a proven fact that time was measured differently when the Bible was written. People were recorded to live into their nine hundreds. So some of the "heavens" could have been created much before the earth and simply recorded as a day.\n\nThis is my theory...I hope I helped.
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God created the universe. He made man and woman in His own image. ("In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." -Genesis 1:1) ("So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." -Genesis 1:27)\n\nHe loves us and desires a friendship with us, but we have turned our backs on Him (the one who made us and gave us so much) and have sinned. (For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." -Romans 3:23).\n\nGod is just, so He has to punish us for our sins. If there was no punishment for our sins, this world would be completely chaotic. (Picture a world w/o law enforcement for example). The punishment that we deserve is eternal separation from God (death). ("For the wages of sin is death. -Romans 6:23a).\n\nGod is also merciful, and He doesn't want to punish us b/c He wants a friendship with us. So He sent His Son Jesus to die on the cross to take the punishment for our sins that we deserve. ("But the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." -Romans 6:23b).\nJesus not only died, but He also rose from the dead after 3 days, gaining victory over death. ("In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." -1 Peter 1:3b)\n\nIn order to receive forgiveness for our sins, we have to admit that we are sinners, repent for our sins, turn away from living sinful lives, and accept Jesus as our Savior (Basically allowing Him to take the punishment for our sins). \n\nIf we don't allow Jesus to take the punishment for our sins, then we have to take the punishment ourselves, and spend eternity away from God (hell). If we do accept Jesus, then we get to do the exact opposite: Spend eternity with God (heaven).\n\nPS. When we receive forgiveness from Jesus (a free gift), the Holy Spirit becomes a part of our lives. He continually helps us to change and grow to be more like Jesus. It's not always easy being a Christian (in fact, it can be very hard), but I wouldn't give up my relationship with God for the world. I love the Lord, and I would be nothing without Him. God bless...
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In the Beginning God created heavens and earth.\nGod gives you air to breathe and sunshine to enjoy.\nGod gives you water to drink and food to eat.\nGod gives you a wonderful body and sound mind, to live.\nGod loves you, and you are precious to Him.\nSon of God died on the Cross to save us from condemnation.\nJesus’ love is boundless and everlasting.\nWe have the hope of Heaven through Jesus.\nLife therefore has fantastic and glorious future!
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In Genesis 1:26, God said, "let us make people in our image..."\n\nMan didn't create God by writing the bible.  The bible was litterally God-breathed, or inspired by God.
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Chapter two is just rehashing of the creation. Not another creation. It is like a synopsis of what happened in the first chapter.\n\n Chapter 2 of Genesis apparently adds some details. However, it is not, as some have concluded, another account of creation in conflict with that of chapter 1. It just takes up at a point in the third “day,” after dry land appeared but before land plants were created, adding details that were pertinent to the arrival of humans—Adam the living soul, his garden home, Eden, and the woman Eve, his wife.—Genesis 2:5-9, 15-18, 21, 22.\n\n The foregoing is presented to help us understand what Genesis says. And this quite realistic account indicates that the creative process continued throughout a period of, not just 144 hours (6 × 24), but over many millenniums of time.
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The dinosaurs fit right in. What I don't get is how more people don't see how it fits but let me give you my humble opinion. This is not doctrine, this is one man's opinion. This is what I believe. On things of God we have a couple a sacred texts or scripture, in the oldest book about God written by the hands of prophets on stone, papyrii and what not we have accounts of the creation, in Genesis the first of even the pentetauch we are given such as slim or incomplete description that it is possible that 1 billion years could pass by as we read in a matter of one stanza. It has been said that 1 day in God's time is 1000 of our years in our reckoning. So lets take the first 6 days of the creation, or in particuliar the the 5th day after he had made some grass and light and stuff. In Gen 1:20 it say that He said" Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21. And God created great whales, and every living vreature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and Multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 32. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind; and it was so. " So that 5th day was very busy and at 1000yr /day reckoning its possible that it took 365,000 years to complete but cant know precisely yet . The beast of the earth that is referred to, also the great whales that are referred to, also refences to unicorns and all manner of beasts now extinct, isn't it possible that although not specifically mentioned that and on the 5th day about the 6th and 1/2 hour God made the T-rex and he blessed them and saw that they were ferocious. No . We only have this small wordage to assemble together the whole of creation. I dont see a problem with 17 billion year universe age and putting it into Gods plan at all. Bless you and have a pleasant tomorrow.
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I would ask you to pull out the Bible that it appears you're already a little familiar with. Notice. It does NOT say that Adam and Eve were the ONLY people God created, just the first. Two points:\n\nA) Cain took a wife after he killed Abel... Hmm... The only woman on Earth at the time that the Bible tells about is Eve... Where did he get his wife? (God made other individuals elsewhere).\n\nB) When God banished Cain from the garden, he said that people would surely find him and kill him, wherever he went... If his mom and dad and brothers and sisters were the only people God had created, what was he afraid of???\n\nTo your second notion, the Ages... The Bible REPEATEDLY says that God's time is not like our time and that a second to God could be a million years here on Earth. Isaiah is the best example. "My ways are not like the ways of man." Meaning, simply, that God doesn't operate the same way we do.\n\nIn summation, it is quite simple for Christians to believe in both Creation and Evolution... You just have to be willing to do your homework...
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Since the first guy did not even bother to read your question...\n\nYea, you've hit one of the big mysteries in Science - the early atmosphere. Lots of people are doing research in this area.  I just read a great book that talks about it: "Genesis: The Scientific Qest for the origins of life." Great book - check it out.