If we all came from 2 people

[Indeependent]

Let's simplify that. God, in Himself, contains both masculine and feminine. If God possessed no feminine nature, then that would mean that women contained a nature that was completely outside of God. How could God create something which He Himself did not contain? Well, you might say, God doesn’t have an evil nature, but evil exists. No. Evil is merely the absence of good. Evil is not extant, just as cold is the absence of heat, and darkness is the absence of light. Femininity is an extant nature. Femininity is NOT the absence of masculinity. Femininity is an existential reality unto itself, and therefore God contains it in Himself.

But is that what God meant by "in His own image" which is in every version? No.

What did God do? He created for 6 days and then rested.

What did God command us to do? To do as He has done, to create for 6 days and then rest.

God is being that creates. We are beings that create.

Image is the wrong word.
Tzahl-mow means shadow, defined as freewill.
God uses uses His freewill to do good; so too should man use his freewill to do good.

 

[ding]

Let's simplify that. God, in Himself, contains both masculine and feminine. If God possessed no feminine nature, then that would mean that women contained a nature that was completely outside of God. How could God create something which He Himself did not contain? Well, you might say, God doesn’t have an evil nature, but evil exists. No. Evil is merely the absence of good. Evil is not extant, just as cold is the absence of heat, and darkness is the absence of light. Femininity is an extant nature. Femininity is NOT the absence of masculinity. Femininity is an existential reality unto itself, and therefore God contains it in Himself.

But is that what God meant by "in His own image" which is in every version? No.

What did God do? He created for 6 days and then rested.

What did God command us to do? To do as He has done, to create for 6 days and then rest.

God is being that creates. We are beings that create.

Image is the wrong word.
Tzahl-mow means shadow, defined as freewill.
God uses uses His freewill to do good; so too should man use his freewill to do good.

Genesis 1 / Hebrew - English Bible / Mechon-Mamre

The translation says image.

 

[Indeependent]

Let's simplify that. God, in Himself, contains both masculine and feminine. If God possessed no feminine nature, then that would mean that women contained a nature that was completely outside of God. How could God create something which He Himself did not contain? Well, you might say, God doesn’t have an evil nature, but evil exists. No. Evil is merely the absence of good. Evil is not extant, just as cold is the absence of heat, and darkness is the absence of light. Femininity is an extant nature. Femininity is NOT the absence of masculinity. Femininity is an existential reality unto itself, and therefore God contains it in Himself.

But is that what God meant by "in His own image" which is in every version? No.

What did God do? He created for 6 days and then rested.

What did God command us to do? To do as He has done, to create for 6 days and then rest.

God is being that creates. We are beings that create.

Image is the wrong word.
Tzahl-mow means shadow, defined as freewill.
God uses uses His freewill to do good; so too should man use his freewill to do good.

Genesis 1 / Hebrew - English Bible / Mechon-Mamre

The translation says image.

Not the only poor translation on the site.

 

[Indeependent]

Let's simplify that. God, in Himself, contains both masculine and feminine. If God possessed no feminine nature, then that would mean that women contained a nature that was completely outside of God. How could God create something which He Himself did not contain? Well, you might say, God doesn’t have an evil nature, but evil exists. No. Evil is merely the absence of good. Evil is not extant, just as cold is the absence of heat, and darkness is the absence of light. Femininity is an extant nature. Femininity is NOT the absence of masculinity. Femininity is an existential reality unto itself, and therefore God contains it in Himself.

But is that what God meant by "in His own image" which is in every version? No.

What did God do? He created for 6 days and then rested.

What did God command us to do? To do as He has done, to create for 6 days and then rest.

God is being that creates. We are beings that create.

Image is the wrong word.
Tzahl-mow means shadow, defined as freewill.
God uses uses His freewill to do good; so too should man use his freewill to do good.

Genesis 1 / Hebrew - English Bible / Mechon-Mamre

The translation says image.

Image is temunah
Shadow is tzal.
Since the Hebrew in the verse is tzelem, the English should say shadow.
If I remember, I'll send them an e-mail.

 

[deanrd]

why is incest frowned upon? Its human history Lol
Did We All Come from Adam and Eve?
Interesting article although i dont believe they could ever know how many people we descended from.

If you have to ask, then you can't be helped.

 

[hobelim]

3) Whether the flood was world wide or local, it does not change the bottom line. And the bottom line is, IF the flood were world wide, Noah still took two of every living creature onto the Ark, which would include those "beasts" with the hands, feet, power of speech that work for hire, wear sack cloth, and cry mightily unto God (references given in one of my earlier posts on this thread.)

exactly.

The "wild beasts" in scripture usually refer to what the authors perceived as less evolved knuckle dragging barbarians.

That would make the question of kangaroos irrelevant.

It doesn't even refer to pre-Adamic beings as being wild. See post # 40 in this thread. The child trolling this thread has yet to respond to that set of facts.

Did you ever consider that the trees in eden whose fruit was pleasing to the eye and good to eat also represented pre-Adamic beings....

 

[hobelim]

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone;

Thats does not mean there were not any available wild women running around.

Adam becoming a "living being" set him apart from whatever preexisting people that he physically descended from.

God created Eve from Adams rib, a bone or underlying structure that God used to form Adam supporting his new existence as a living being, making Eve like him, a new creature...created in the image and likeness of a Holy God

 

[hobelim]

and belief is not proof of existence.

that's pretty much why it's "faith" and not "fact".

Judaism is a religion of behavior.

so if someone picks what they observe, they aren't a Jew?

The 613 Commandments are our behavior.

You know, there are a lot of Christians who think that the Jewish people have to follow all 613 mitzvot. They don't realize that the rules are broken down by who you are in the community. And, as far as a template for how to run a society, it's a pretty decent one.

And, many of the restrictions they had on diet made a lot of sense at the time. Not eating shellfish or pork are two good examples. Why? Because shellfish are filter feeders, and they can be bad for you if harvested in the summer months. Pork has a parasite called trichinosis which lives in the flesh of the animal. Today, it is possible to make the meat safe to eat, but back in Biblical times, there was no such technology.

God demands restrictions for one reason...to be holy...separate.
The Hebrew word Kodesh is almost always mistranslated as holy, but that's not the meaning.
I also hear that the Roman Empire was devastated by trichinosis.
Just kidding...everybody was aware of trichinosis and cooked their food to perfection.

Exactly which suggests that the prohibition against eating the flesh of swine that do not ruminate is not about what you cannot serve or eat for dinner.

 

[Taz]

God. He tossed out Adam and Eve for getting it on, he drowned nearly everyone in a flood because he didn't like them anymore, or messed up making them, depending on the interpretation, sends souls to hell because they did something he didn't like, ...

Dude................Adam and Eve weren't kicked out of the Garden because they "were getting it on", they were kicked out because they ate of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge, and when asked about it, they didn't take responsibility for their actions, choosing instead to blame each other and the serpent.

As far as the flood? God had seen that because of the angels mating with the daughters of Eve (humans), they had created Nephilim, which are half angel and half human. Think of a human with superpowers who doesn't know what kind of power they wield. And, the angels had also taught mankind things like magic and war, which is why God found one righteous man and decided to save him and his family (Noah).

And, interestingly enough, according to both the Jewish tradition and the Gospel of Thomas, nobody stays in hell forever. Think of it as more like a place to get clean and be purged of your sins before you rejoin God in Heaven. Christians are the ones who like to tell others they will go to hell for eternity.

Just curious, do you think that these things actually happened? Because the rest of the believers here don't seem to. As in, a real worldwide flood? An actual placed called Eden? An actual place called hell?

God. He tossed out Adam and Eve for getting it on, he drowned nearly everyone in a flood because he didn't like them anymore, or messed up making them, depending on the interpretation, sends souls to hell because they did something he didn't like, ...

Dude................Adam and Eve weren't kicked out of the Garden because they "were getting it on", they were kicked out because they ate of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge, and when asked about it, they didn't take responsibility for their actions, choosing instead to blame each other and the serpent.

As far as the flood? God had seen that because of the angels mating with the daughters of Eve (humans), they had created Nephilim, which are half angel and half human. Think of a human with superpowers who doesn't know what kind of power they wield. And, the angels had also taught mankind things like magic and war, which is why God found one righteous man and decided to save him and his family (Noah).

And, interestingly enough, according to both the Jewish tradition and the Gospel of Thomas, nobody stays in hell forever. Think of it as more like a place to get clean and be purged of your sins before you rejoin God in Heaven. Christians are the ones who like to tell others they will go to hell for eternity.

Just curious, do you think that these things actually happened? Because the rest of the believers here don't seem to. As in, a real worldwide flood? An actual placed called Eden? An actual place called hell?

There are all kinds of beliefs regarding the Bible. I believe, based upon the weight of the evidence:

1) That God created man and a "pre-Adamic man." Whether that man was one man and Adam is an eighth day creation is speculative, but pre-Adamic man can (and most likely is) also the "chay" as it is called in Hebrew. By either theory, we can account for preadamites

2) When Eve enters the Garden of Eden and sins, the offense was a sexual offense (which is why God made the punishment of childbirth to be so painful for a woman.) The Eve ate the apple story is a metaphor for what happened

the two seeds of genesis 3 15 my study | Cain And Abel | Serpents In The Bible

3) Whether the flood was world wide or local, it does not change the bottom line. And the bottom line is, IF the flood were world wide, Noah still took two of every living creature onto the Ark, which would include those "beasts" with the hands, feet, power of speech that work for hire, wear sack cloth, and cry mightily unto God (references given in one of my earlier posts on this thread.)

4) There was a real Garden of Eden; there is a real physical Devil with offspring; there is a place called Hell

So what is your "overwhelming" proof of 1, 2, 3 and 4? And how would Noah have gotten kangaroos from Australia and back again?

You really need to come up with some new material Captain Kangaroo.

I'm STILL trying to get proper answers to these subjects. You sure haven't provided ANYTHING logical as an answer. But You're free to please try again.

 

[Taz]

Ahh the people that came up with it, contradicted their own books? Really?
Pre-adamites were pagan responses to the abrahamic version of creation.
Julian the apostate for example. Or Isaac de La Peyrère. He cited the bibles contradictions for his theory. There are records of this. Do you have records? I can post links. Can you? Im kinda getting tired of your broken record response of "uh-uh"

You see, I DID post post links that you conveniently ignored. You cannot go to a link and then read two sentences and think your disbelief disproves the balance of the evidence.

YOU'RE the one with the same song and dance. You think if you keep repeating your skepticism over modern misconceptions the masses have created, you've proven the basis for your criticism. You haven't. You did not address one, single, solitary link I've left here... and we both know why.

The pagans got their viewpoint from God's account of how man came to be. The people who claim the Bible calls Adam the first man are liars. The Bible absolutely does not say that and it was, most likely, people with a grudge against the Bible who pretended to be in favor of it that fed Adamic man the kool aid you keep drinking.

So, I'm tired of your broken record as well. When you go back to my earlier posts and base your responses to your now debunked bovine dung, we can move forward. If not, I can play your little game all day long.

GENESIS
How is a 2000+ year old book a "modern misconception?" My gawd man...
So pre adamic theory WAS created by pagans?
You are boring AND dumb. Sucks dude. You have my sympathy.

I'm dumb because you are ignorant? Yeah, right. You think your beliefs discount the facts? WRONG.

What's with this game wherein I tell you that IF the pagans tell some story about preadamic man, they took it from biblical sources, you come back with that idiotic line it "WAS created by pagans?"

The real deal is, you obviously read at a fifth grade level and you spend way too much time on the Internet pretending to be honing your imagined superior reasoning skills. If you're going to discuss this topic, you must first decide to be rational, respectful and when someone presents you with facts, deal with them.

Created or evolved - creation.com

Your childishness doesn't impress me and I pity anyone stupid enough to think you have been in any serious discussion over this issue.

You didnt say "if"
Dude, that link states the world is 6K years old
You are sitting there stating the people that wrote the OT started a pagan belief that contradicts their books.
You are sitting there adding shit to the bible that isnt there and discrediting what it actually says.
And you have the gall to talk about me?
You are a fucking joke.

There were no stars or planets until the 4th “day” so we don’t know, by today’s measurements, how old the universe or our solar system is.

Of course we know how old the universe is, 13.8 billion years old. Now you know.

 

[Taz]

God. He tossed out Adam and Eve for getting it on, he drowned nearly everyone in a flood because he didn't like them anymore, or messed up making them, depending on the interpretation, sends souls to hell because they did something he didn't like, ...

Dude................Adam and Eve weren't kicked out of the Garden because they "were getting it on", they were kicked out because they ate of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge, and when asked about it, they didn't take responsibility for their actions, choosing instead to blame each other and the serpent.

As far as the flood? God had seen that because of the angels mating with the daughters of Eve (humans), they had created Nephilim, which are half angel and half human. Think of a human with superpowers who doesn't know what kind of power they wield. And, the angels had also taught mankind things like magic and war, which is why God found one righteous man and decided to save him and his family (Noah).

And, interestingly enough, according to both the Jewish tradition and the Gospel of Thomas, nobody stays in hell forever. Think of it as more like a place to get clean and be purged of your sins before you rejoin God in Heaven. Christians are the ones who like to tell others they will go to hell for eternity.

Just curious, do you think that these things actually happened? Because the rest of the believers here don't seem to. As in, a real worldwide flood? An actual placed called Eden? An actual place called hell?

God. He tossed out Adam and Eve for getting it on, he drowned nearly everyone in a flood because he didn't like them anymore, or messed up making them, depending on the interpretation, sends souls to hell because they did something he didn't like, ...

Dude................Adam and Eve weren't kicked out of the Garden because they "were getting it on", they were kicked out because they ate of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge, and when asked about it, they didn't take responsibility for their actions, choosing instead to blame each other and the serpent.

As far as the flood? God had seen that because of the angels mating with the daughters of Eve (humans), they had created Nephilim, which are half angel and half human. Think of a human with superpowers who doesn't know what kind of power they wield. And, the angels had also taught mankind things like magic and war, which is why God found one righteous man and decided to save him and his family (Noah).

And, interestingly enough, according to both the Jewish tradition and the Gospel of Thomas, nobody stays in hell forever. Think of it as more like a place to get clean and be purged of your sins before you rejoin God in Heaven. Christians are the ones who like to tell others they will go to hell for eternity.

Just curious, do you think that these things actually happened? Because the rest of the believers here don't seem to. As in, a real worldwide flood? An actual placed called Eden? An actual place called hell?

There are all kinds of beliefs regarding the Bible. I believe, based upon the weight of the evidence:

1) That God created man and a "pre-Adamic man." Whether that man was one man and Adam is an eighth day creation is speculative, but pre-Adamic man can (and most likely is) also the "chay" as it is called in Hebrew. By either theory, we can account for preadamites

2) When Eve enters the Garden of Eden and sins, the offense was a sexual offense (which is why God made the punishment of childbirth to be so painful for a woman.) The Eve ate the apple story is a metaphor for what happened

the two seeds of genesis 3 15 my study | Cain And Abel | Serpents In The Bible

3) Whether the flood was world wide or local, it does not change the bottom line. And the bottom line is, IF the flood were world wide, Noah still took two of every living creature onto the Ark, which would include those "beasts" with the hands, feet, power of speech that work for hire, wear sack cloth, and cry mightily unto God (references given in one of my earlier posts on this thread.)

4) There was a real Garden of Eden; there is a real physical Devil with offspring; there is a place called Hell

So what is your "overwhelming" proof of 1, 2, 3 and 4? And how would Noah have gotten kangaroos from Australia and back again?

You still insist that no scientists say there use to be one land mass.

There used to be one land mass 250 million years ago and there were also DINOSAURS at that time. Is that when the flood happened?

 

[sealybobo]

why is incest frowned upon? Its human history Lol
Did We All Come from Adam and Eve?
Interesting article although i dont believe they could ever know how many people we descended from.

Google there is no first human. The creature we were before we were human slowly evolved into us. Same with that species.

I wonder who was the first fish to crawl out of the ocean. And was he the only fish to do it? I think a black fish crawled out and became Africans. The fish in the cold became Eskimo. Lol

 

[ding]

You see, I DID post post links that you conveniently ignored. You cannot go to a link and then read two sentences and think your disbelief disproves the balance of the evidence.

YOU'RE the one with the same song and dance. You think if you keep repeating your skepticism over modern misconceptions the masses have created, you've proven the basis for your criticism. You haven't. You did not address one, single, solitary link I've left here... and we both know why.

The pagans got their viewpoint from God's account of how man came to be. The people who claim the Bible calls Adam the first man are liars. The Bible absolutely does not say that and it was, most likely, people with a grudge against the Bible who pretended to be in favor of it that fed Adamic man the kool aid you keep drinking.

So, I'm tired of your broken record as well. When you go back to my earlier posts and base your responses to your now debunked bovine dung, we can move forward. If not, I can play your little game all day long.

GENESIS
How is a 2000+ year old book a "modern misconception?" My gawd man...
So pre adamic theory WAS created by pagans?
You are boring AND dumb. Sucks dude. You have my sympathy.

I'm dumb because you are ignorant? Yeah, right. You think your beliefs discount the facts? WRONG.

What's with this game wherein I tell you that IF the pagans tell some story about preadamic man, they took it from biblical sources, you come back with that idiotic line it "WAS created by pagans?"

The real deal is, you obviously read at a fifth grade level and you spend way too much time on the Internet pretending to be honing your imagined superior reasoning skills. If you're going to discuss this topic, you must first decide to be rational, respectful and when someone presents you with facts, deal with them.

Created or evolved - creation.com

Your childishness doesn't impress me and I pity anyone stupid enough to think you have been in any serious discussion over this issue.

You didnt say "if"
Dude, that link states the world is 6K years old
You are sitting there stating the people that wrote the OT started a pagan belief that contradicts their books.
You are sitting there adding shit to the bible that isnt there and discrediting what it actually says.
And you have the gall to talk about me?
You are a fucking joke.

There were no stars or planets until the 4th “day” so we don’t know, by today’s measurements, how old the universe or our solar system is.

Of course we know how old the universe is, 13.8 billion years old. Now you know.

Unless it's 14.5 billion years old.

 

[ding]

Dude................Adam and Eve weren't kicked out of the Garden because they "were getting it on", they were kicked out because they ate of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge, and when asked about it, they didn't take responsibility for their actions, choosing instead to blame each other and the serpent.

As far as the flood? God had seen that because of the angels mating with the daughters of Eve (humans), they had created Nephilim, which are half angel and half human. Think of a human with superpowers who doesn't know what kind of power they wield. And, the angels had also taught mankind things like magic and war, which is why God found one righteous man and decided to save him and his family (Noah).

And, interestingly enough, according to both the Jewish tradition and the Gospel of Thomas, nobody stays in hell forever. Think of it as more like a place to get clean and be purged of your sins before you rejoin God in Heaven. Christians are the ones who like to tell others they will go to hell for eternity.

Just curious, do you think that these things actually happened? Because the rest of the believers here don't seem to. As in, a real worldwide flood? An actual placed called Eden? An actual place called hell?

Dude................Adam and Eve weren't kicked out of the Garden because they "were getting it on", they were kicked out because they ate of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge, and when asked about it, they didn't take responsibility for their actions, choosing instead to blame each other and the serpent.

As far as the flood? God had seen that because of the angels mating with the daughters of Eve (humans), they had created Nephilim, which are half angel and half human. Think of a human with superpowers who doesn't know what kind of power they wield. And, the angels had also taught mankind things like magic and war, which is why God found one righteous man and decided to save him and his family (Noah).

And, interestingly enough, according to both the Jewish tradition and the Gospel of Thomas, nobody stays in hell forever. Think of it as more like a place to get clean and be purged of your sins before you rejoin God in Heaven. Christians are the ones who like to tell others they will go to hell for eternity.

Just curious, do you think that these things actually happened? Because the rest of the believers here don't seem to. As in, a real worldwide flood? An actual placed called Eden? An actual place called hell?

There are all kinds of beliefs regarding the Bible. I believe, based upon the weight of the evidence:

1) That God created man and a "pre-Adamic man." Whether that man was one man and Adam is an eighth day creation is speculative, but pre-Adamic man can (and most likely is) also the "chay" as it is called in Hebrew. By either theory, we can account for preadamites

2) When Eve enters the Garden of Eden and sins, the offense was a sexual offense (which is why God made the punishment of childbirth to be so painful for a woman.) The Eve ate the apple story is a metaphor for what happened

the two seeds of genesis 3 15 my study | Cain And Abel | Serpents In The Bible

3) Whether the flood was world wide or local, it does not change the bottom line. And the bottom line is, IF the flood were world wide, Noah still took two of every living creature onto the Ark, which would include those "beasts" with the hands, feet, power of speech that work for hire, wear sack cloth, and cry mightily unto God (references given in one of my earlier posts on this thread.)

4) There was a real Garden of Eden; there is a real physical Devil with offspring; there is a place called Hell

So what is your "overwhelming" proof of 1, 2, 3 and 4? And how would Noah have gotten kangaroos from Australia and back again?

You still insist that no scientists say there use to be one land mass.

There used to be one land mass 250 million years ago and there were also DINOSAURS at that time. Is that when the flood happened?

Who knows? What we do know is that every major culture has an account of a great flood.

The Chinese even captured the account as symbols in their written language 1500 years before Moses penned the account in Genesis.

And yet you still want to pretend it is a fairy tale that never happened.

You probably think the account of the great migration from the cradle of civilization is a fairy tale too.

 

[ding]

Let's simplify that. God, in Himself, contains both masculine and feminine. If God possessed no feminine nature, then that would mean that women contained a nature that was completely outside of God. How could God create something which He Himself did not contain? Well, you might say, God doesn’t have an evil nature, but evil exists. No. Evil is merely the absence of good. Evil is not extant, just as cold is the absence of heat, and darkness is the absence of light. Femininity is an extant nature. Femininity is NOT the absence of masculinity. Femininity is an existential reality unto itself, and therefore God contains it in Himself.

But is that what God meant by "in His own image" which is in every version? No.

What did God do? He created for 6 days and then rested.

What did God command us to do? To do as He has done, to create for 6 days and then rest.

God is being that creates. We are beings that create.

Image is the wrong word.
Tzahl-mow means shadow, defined as freewill.
God uses uses His freewill to do good; so too should man use his freewill to do good.

Genesis 1 / Hebrew - English Bible / Mechon-Mamre

The translation says image.

Not the only poor translation on the site.

I thought that site was supposed to be your secret weapon.

 

[Indeependent]

You see, I DID post post links that you conveniently ignored. You cannot go to a link and then read two sentences and think your disbelief disproves the balance of the evidence.

YOU'RE the one with the same song and dance. You think if you keep repeating your skepticism over modern misconceptions the masses have created, you've proven the basis for your criticism. You haven't. You did not address one, single, solitary link I've left here... and we both know why.

The pagans got their viewpoint from God's account of how man came to be. The people who claim the Bible calls Adam the first man are liars. The Bible absolutely does not say that and it was, most likely, people with a grudge against the Bible who pretended to be in favor of it that fed Adamic man the kool aid you keep drinking.

So, I'm tired of your broken record as well. When you go back to my earlier posts and base your responses to your now debunked bovine dung, we can move forward. If not, I can play your little game all day long.

GENESIS
How is a 2000+ year old book a "modern misconception?" My gawd man...
So pre adamic theory WAS created by pagans?
You are boring AND dumb. Sucks dude. You have my sympathy.

I'm dumb because you are ignorant? Yeah, right. You think your beliefs discount the facts? WRONG.

What's with this game wherein I tell you that IF the pagans tell some story about preadamic man, they took it from biblical sources, you come back with that idiotic line it "WAS created by pagans?"

The real deal is, you obviously read at a fifth grade level and you spend way too much time on the Internet pretending to be honing your imagined superior reasoning skills. If you're going to discuss this topic, you must first decide to be rational, respectful and when someone presents you with facts, deal with them.

Created or evolved - creation.com

Your childishness doesn't impress me and I pity anyone stupid enough to think you have been in any serious discussion over this issue.

You didnt say "if"
Dude, that link states the world is 6K years old
You are sitting there stating the people that wrote the OT started a pagan belief that contradicts their books.
You are sitting there adding shit to the bible that isnt there and discrediting what it actually says.
And you have the gall to talk about me?
You are a fucking joke.

There were no stars or planets until the 4th “day” so we don’t know, by today’s measurements, how old the universe or our solar system is.

Of course we know how old the universe is, 13.8 billion years old. Now you know.

We all know the age of the universe.
Fundamentalists, who take English translations literally, are stuck.

 

[Indeependent]

Let's simplify that. God, in Himself, contains both masculine and feminine. If God possessed no feminine nature, then that would mean that women contained a nature that was completely outside of God. How could God create something which He Himself did not contain? Well, you might say, God doesn’t have an evil nature, but evil exists. No. Evil is merely the absence of good. Evil is not extant, just as cold is the absence of heat, and darkness is the absence of light. Femininity is an extant nature. Femininity is NOT the absence of masculinity. Femininity is an existential reality unto itself, and therefore God contains it in Himself.

But is that what God meant by "in His own image" which is in every version? No.

What did God do? He created for 6 days and then rested.

What did God command us to do? To do as He has done, to create for 6 days and then rest.

God is being that creates. We are beings that create.

Image is the wrong word.
Tzahl-mow means shadow, defined as freewill.
God uses uses His freewill to do good; so too should man use his freewill to do good.

Genesis 1 / Hebrew - English Bible / Mechon-Mamre

The translation says image.

Not the only poor translation on the site.

I thought that site was supposed to be your secret weapon.

It’s a pretty good site but some of the word translations leave a bit to be desired.

 

[Indeependent]

Judaism is a religion of behavior.

so if someone picks what they observe, they aren't a Jew?

The 613 Commandments are our behavior.

You know, there are a lot of Christians who think that the Jewish people have to follow all 613 mitzvot. They don't realize that the rules are broken down by who you are in the community. And, as far as a template for how to run a society, it's a pretty decent one.

And, many of the restrictions they had on diet made a lot of sense at the time. Not eating shellfish or pork are two good examples. Why? Because shellfish are filter feeders, and they can be bad for you if harvested in the summer months. Pork has a parasite called trichinosis which lives in the flesh of the animal. Today, it is possible to make the meat safe to eat, but back in Biblical times, there was no such technology.

God demands restrictions for one reason...to be holy...separate.
The Hebrew word Kodesh is almost always mistranslated as holy, but that's not the meaning.
I also hear that the Roman Empire was devastated by trichinosis.
Just kidding...everybody was aware of trichinosis and cooked their food to perfection.

Exactly which suggests that the prohibition against eating the flesh of swine that do not ruminate is not about what you cannot serve or eat for dinner.

I presume you haven’t read the Ramchal’s Derech Hashem or Nefesh Hachaim.

 

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GENESIS
How is a 2000+ year old book a "modern misconception?" My gawd man...
So pre adamic theory WAS created by pagans?
You are boring AND dumb. Sucks dude. You have my sympathy.

I'm dumb because you are ignorant? Yeah, right. You think your beliefs discount the facts? WRONG.

What's with this game wherein I tell you that IF the pagans tell some story about preadamic man, they took it from biblical sources, you come back with that idiotic line it "WAS created by pagans?"

The real deal is, you obviously read at a fifth grade level and you spend way too much time on the Internet pretending to be honing your imagined superior reasoning skills. If you're going to discuss this topic, you must first decide to be rational, respectful and when someone presents you with facts, deal with them.

Created or evolved - creation.com

Your childishness doesn't impress me and I pity anyone stupid enough to think you have been in any serious discussion over this issue.

You didnt say "if"
Dude, that link states the world is 6K years old
You are sitting there stating the people that wrote the OT started a pagan belief that contradicts their books.
You are sitting there adding shit to the bible that isnt there and discrediting what it actually says.
And you have the gall to talk about me?
You are a fucking joke.

There were no stars or planets until the 4th “day” so we don’t know, by today’s measurements, how old the universe or our solar system is.

Of course we know how old the universe is, 13.8 billion years old. Now you know.

We all know the age of the universe.
Fundamentalists, who take English translations literally, are stuck.

We believe we know the approximate age of the universe.

The fact that Taz thinks he knows the approximate age of the universe means that he believes the universe had a beginning. Something they knew over 4500 years ago.

 

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I'm dumb because you are ignorant? Yeah, right. You think your beliefs discount the facts? WRONG.

What's with this game wherein I tell you that IF the pagans tell some story about preadamic man, they took it from biblical sources, you come back with that idiotic line it "WAS created by pagans?"

The real deal is, you obviously read at a fifth grade level and you spend way too much time on the Internet pretending to be honing your imagined superior reasoning skills. If you're going to discuss this topic, you must first decide to be rational, respectful and when someone presents you with facts, deal with them.

Created or evolved - creation.com

Your childishness doesn't impress me and I pity anyone stupid enough to think you have been in any serious discussion over this issue.

You didnt say "if"
Dude, that link states the world is 6K years old
You are sitting there stating the people that wrote the OT started a pagan belief that contradicts their books.
You are sitting there adding shit to the bible that isnt there and discrediting what it actually says.
And you have the gall to talk about me?
You are a fucking joke.

There were no stars or planets until the 4th “day” so we don’t know, by today’s measurements, how old the universe or our solar system is.

Of course we know how old the universe is, 13.8 billion years old. Now you know.

We all know the age of the universe.
Fundamentalists, who take English translations literally, are stuck.

We believe we know the approximate age of the universe.

The fact that Taz thinks he knows the approximate age of the universe means that he believes the universe had a beginning. Something they knew over 4500 years ago.

That’s why the Torah’s first statement is, “In the beginning...”.