Originally Posted by
alanmolstad
Now let me take a moment to talk about what I teach the Text in the Bible supports.
I teach that the first thing the Bible lists that god created was the stars and all the other stuff out there in space, INCLUDING our own sun.
i teach that the Bible supports the idea that the word "day" has many different meanings depending on the context of how the word is used.
It can be talking about a limited amount of time, or a very unlimited amount of time...and the tricky part of that is that sometimes it cane be pointing to both understandings at the same time.
I teach that human are a part of this earth that has come to life.
I teach that humans share a common starting point with all other animals like the great apes,,,and that starting point is listed in the bible as being this earth itself.
I teach that the bible has very clear endings to 6 of the 7 days of the creation week....but that there is no ending listed for the 7th day.
I teach that there is no listed ending to the 7th day at any point that matches what is written about the other 6 days...not in the story of Genesis, not in the whole book of Genesis, notin the whole Old testament, nor at any point in the whole Bible!
I teach that the earth was created as a dead and DRY world.
I teach that the reason the earth is said to be in darkness was because God wrapped the early earth in a thick wrapping of dark clouds.
I teach that the clouds are from the mist that came later from underground.
I teach that this mist was able to cover the whole surface of the earth with water, and that this is where the water came from that is talked about in Genesis 1 as "the deep".
I teach that the whole story of Genesis and the creation is told from the point of view of someone just hovering over the surface of the waters.
I teach that the sun is created on the first day.
I teach that the "light" talked about in Genesis is, both the light talked about on Day 1,,,and the lights talked about on the 4th day, are all the same light, and that it has a single source the sun, that was created on the first day.
I teach that the 'lights' talked about on the 4thday are only the description of the "Amounts" of light seen from the perspective of someone hovering over the surface of the seas.
I teach that the Bible does not actually say that the stars were 'made"on the 4th day, but that this is an addition to the text of the Bible that was inserted later to agree with young earth creationism....
I teach that if you remove the un-needed and added wording to the story of the 4th day and read it as the writer intended,then all you see fits nicely with the story of what the "lesser light" rules over (ie the night and the stars)