Digital Cowboy

As with most of the Bible, there’s more than one message in the account of creation. It’s pretty clear to me that the intent was not to spell it all out for us. I think the central message is the power of words. Count how many times you read “God said” in that passage. Whenever I encounter something that repetitive in the Bible, even an idiot like me can figure out that there’s a message there. The power of words is important to understand. He starts right off in the first verses of the Bible emphasizing that and does it all the way through the book.

I also need to clarify, as I’ve already done in the comments of the previous post, that I believe that God made the earth we now know and everything on it in 6 literal 24 hour days. I wasn’t denying that. I was throwing out a theory that does not contradict that. I should have been more clear about that.

To those that commented that this kind of speculation is dangerous, I say, “No, it’s good clean fun.” If you read the very first line of the very first comment posted there, you’ll see that ajw308 took this in the spirit it was intended. This is not a matter of faith or doctrine with me. I tried to make it clear that this post was for a mental exercise and not a matter of faith or doctrine. I have fun debating and discussing the questions that the Bible leaves to us. It never changes my faith. The Bible is very clear about what it was intended to be clear about. I find that discussions of curiosity like this sharpen my knowledge of the Bible as a whole. I’m not married to this theory, I acknowledged that I can’t prove it scripturally, but I also don’t think it can be disproven with scripture. I also don’t see anywhere that it opens any doors to evolutionary theory.

Also, JACIII said:
Interesting DC. You really did some homework there.

Thanks, JAC. I take that compliment with a smile and a big dose of humility for a number of reasons.

First, I did all that “homework” about 20 years ago, as a teenager. That is what I was referencing when I said in another comment there that I posted it as a mental exercise. I went back to my notes to refresh my memory about the details and did the post to hone my writing skills, which are weak but improving, I hope. (I left out a lot of the “homework,” by the way. There’s a lot more minutiae than I annoyed you with here.)

Second, my Hebrew and Greek skills are pretty much limited to knowing how to read a Strong’s concordance. The thought crossed my mind as I was writing that post that I might get corrected on my Hebrew by Serena or someone else that knows it far better than me. (I welcome that, incidentally. I want Truth and if I miss it somewhere, I want to know.)

Third, I think it’s a topic that everyone that fights over could be a little more humble about. I think God intentionally left out some of the details about creation and left us with questions because a) we probably couldn’t understand a lot of it, b) it’s not important to Him that we fully understand it and (most important) c) it’s humbling. Science doesn’t have the answers and neither does the Bible offer all of them.

Fourth, I appreciate JAC’s graciousness. I’ve been “fighting” with him and his brothers recently over doctrinal differences and other things. Throughout it all, JAC was always a gentleman. I think both of his brothers and I all three got a little carried away in the debate and were too obnoxious about it.

Wisdom comes in part from years. He shows it.

To JAC and both of his brothers, I apologize for unChrist-like behavior. I am capable of agreeably disagreeing and usually do, in religious matters at least. I just so love a good debate and I let myself get carried away with the debate to the point of forgetting why I was in it in the first place.

Happy Resurrection Sunday, everyone!