A SCIENTIFIC COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 1

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  • FireNBandits
    FireNBandits

    GENESIS 11-31

    1 In [the] beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
    Scientifically speaking, the first thing that needs to be pointed out here is that the Hebrew text is anarthrous, lacking the definite article. Like Koine Greek, biblical Hebrew uses the definite article more often than does English, so this is an unusual sentence construction. It's worhy of note that John 1:1 is also anarthrous, "In beginning." This is because the Bible doesn't tell us about THE beginning or it would SAY "The" beginning. It doesn't. So, this should be translated "In a beginning." You see, God IS Creator, He didn't BECOME the Creator. If God had existed throughout Eternity past without having created anything, and then suddenly created something, then God changed! He went from being a POTENTIAL Creator to an ACTUAL Creator. "I am Jehovah I change not." (Malachi) So, Jehovah has ETERNALLY been creating because he is ETERNALLY THE CREATOR! So, there is no "The" Beginning but only an infinite series of beginnings. Little beginnings. Anarthrous beginnings. What the writer of Genesis 1 and John 1 are doing is constructing an ETERNAL REGRESSION. Have you ever held a mirror up to a mirror and seen the infinite series of reflections? That's an infinite regression. That's what we have here. An infinite series of beginnings being alluded to.

    Notice that God CREATED the heavens and the Earth, he did not EVOLVE them! There is nothign here about coalescing space debris left over from exploding stars! Evolution is UNBIBLICAL.

    2 Now the earth proved to be formless and waste and there was darkness upon the surface of [the] watery deep; and God’s active force was moving to and fro over the surface of the waters.How can something be created "formless" and "waste"? That's stupid. In fact, this was pointed out in the Scopes Monkey Trial. God's Word is not stupid. Most of your garden variety Bible translations are inaccurate here. The Hebrew actually says the Earth BECAME "tohu" and "bohu." The Hebrew word means BECAME. In toehr words it was NOT CREATED "tohu and bohu" but it becamse that way later on, through the primal Disruption of the Kosmos. More on this later. Also. "tohu" and "bohu" do not mean formless and waste. Tohu means "chaos" or "chaotic" and bohu means "vacant" or "empty." "The Earth BECAME chaos and vacant." Which implies there was once ORDER and INHABITANTS for it to BECOME "chaos and vacant."

    The NT refers to this Event when it speaks of "the Lamb of God slain BEOFRE THE DISRUPTION OF THE WORLD." The word erroneously rendered "foundation" in this verse is "katabole" which literally means "down-cast" or to cast down. It's the source of the English word catabolism, which means a destructive process. The opposite of metabolism, a creative process. So, the Lam was slain before the disruption of the world, and that Disruption is spoken of here in Genesis.

    It is in this wonderful GAP that we can toss all of those pesky scientific questions and problems! The heavens and the earth can indeed be BILLIONS of years old because Genesis has this convenient GAP. Who knows how much time passed between the creation of the heavens and the earth and the Disruption? Probably all the billions of years that science tells us about. We know that it was The Serpent that caused this Disruption, so Dinosaurs--the giant serpents--were somehow involved in this Disruption. That's why serpents and snakes are such important religious symbols all over the world! But God destroyed them with a meterorite! He DISRUPTED their serpenty world! After the disruption, when that meteorite hit the earth, all was darkness, as we now know. The ejecta from that explosive impact filled the atmosphere and it shut out the sun. The Serpent dieds and became Spirit beings, beings with great Power that we now call the Devil and Demons.

    3 And God proceeded to say: “Let light come to be.” Then there came to be light. 4 After that God saw that the light was good, and God brought about a division between the light and the darkness. 5 And God began calling the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a first day.After it was dark for awhile, long enough to kill the Serpents, God cleared up the atmosphere and Light once again shone upon the surface. This is what was referred to when we're told that a "wind of God vibrated over the surface of the Submerged Chaos." The earth had been covered with water and was "chaos and vacant." So, God proceeded to oncer again being order out of chaos. He did this by breaking wind as the Bible assures us: "a wind [ruach] of the Elohim." Plus, this wind didn't just "move" no. It's a very vigorous movement referred to in Hebrew. The closest we have in English is vibrated. God broke wind and it vibrated over the surface of the submerged chaos and LIGHT once agin was manifested. God is Light, so we can rest assured that this is God Himself that shone down on the surface of the submerged chaos. God is wavicles, and that's why God saw that the light was good because God knows that he is good. That is also why there had to be a division between the light and the darkness. The NT tells us that "God is LIGHT and in Him THERE IS NO DARKNESS AT ALL." So there had to be a division put up. A sort of cosmic wall or something equally mysterious and spiritual.

    There was an EVENING and a MORNING and this is a DAY, not an age. Unbelievers!

    6 And God went on to say: “Let an expanse come to be in between the waters and let a dividing occur between the waters and the waters.” 7 Then God proceeded to make the expanse and to make a division between the waters that should be beneath the expanse and the waters that should be above the expanse. And it came to be so. 8 And God began to call the expanse Heaven. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a second day.Now, this "expanse" in Hebrew is "rawkeeah" and it means "stretched out thinness." It refers to the act of hammering out metal into a thin sheet. That's the etymology of the word. God built a DOME over the earth. Many modern Bible translations are more acurate and say "dome." If you go out and look at the sky, either day or night, the sky looks like a vast DOME. Fromn this we can safely conclude that the Universe is a vast SPHERE and we in America see only the upper hemiSPHERE of the whole universe! There is, or rather WAS, water above this dome, but it came down onto the Earth during the flood, but that comes later on. So shut up and pay attention. It's interesting to note that God called this DOME "Heaven" In fact, we can safely infer from the Bible there are THREE heavens, just as Paul mentioned when he said he was "caught up to the third heaven." There is the "heaven" in which the birds are said to fly. This is the atmosphere. There is a second heaven which is where the sun,moon, planets, and stars are. Then the third heavne which is outside of the dome, where God dwells. But inside the dome it is GOD HIMSELF that is fusioning in the stars, creting more of Himself to shine down upon us! We are His Handiwork, and we would die without the Wavicle God. See? God is not a wafer as the Catholics maintain! he is WAVICLES he is LIGHT! PRAISE JAH [you people]!

    9 And God went on to say: “Let the waters under the heavens be brought together into one place and let the dry land appear.” And it came to be so. 10 And God began calling the dry land Earth, but the bringing together of the waters he called Seas. Further, God saw that [it was] good. 11 And God went on to say: “Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth, vegetation bearing seed, fruit trees yielding fruit according to their kinds, the seed of which is in it, upon the earth.” And it came to be so. 12 And the earth began to put forth grass, vegetation bearing seed according to its kind and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is in it according to its kind. Then God saw that [it was] good. 13 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a third day.It get's tricky here. See, the water that was up in God's level of Heaven...well..part of it came down in a thoroughly scientific manner in accordance with the physical laws of nature and etcetera and merged with the water on earth. All of that added pressure and caused the dry land to POP UP out of the water and DRY LAND APPEARED! Jehovah God looked at this dry material and called it "adamah" which basically means "red-stuff." It must have been red colored clay and that's why the first man was named "Adam" which means RED! Because he was made out of the "adamah.". From this we can safely conclude that God's favorite color is RED. Which is why RED is the color of Christmas, the Birthday of Jesus. Now, we are further told that God made "grass." We all know what "grass" is, and "fruits" and we are told these are for our consumption. Yum yum. Smoke some grass get laid by some fruits. Why not? Its SCIENTIFIC because it's God's Word! Saw saw that IT WAS GOOD. So, from tis we can safely conclude that God likes to smoke grass and really digs fruits, especially their seed.

    14 And God went on to say: “Let luminaries come to be in the expanse of the heavens to make a division between the day and the night; and they must serve as signs and for seasons and for days and years. 15 And they must serve as luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth.” And it came to be so. 16 And God proceeded to make the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for dominating the day and the lesser luminary for dominating the night, and also the stars. 17 Thus God put them in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth, 18 and to dominate by day and by night and to make a division between the light and the darkness. Then God saw that [it was] good. 19 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a fourth day.These "luminaries" are not stars in the sense of famous people, not even Mel Gibson. No, these light sources are little pieces of God Himself that are placed in the dome so that we can tell what month it is and so forth. Even galaxies. Not ford galaxies though. Here we see that ther moon is only a lesser luminary, which is only fitting since the moon symbolizes woman, who is "the glory of man" in a reflected way. Woman reflects mans glory as Man reflects God's glory. The sun is dominant and the Sun is male and that's why the Son of God came to earth, not a daughter of God. Everyone in heaven is a HE, there are no shes in the dome. Except here on Earth. This is both a scientific and Biblical fact.

    20 And God went on to say: “Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls and let flying creatures fly over the earth upon the face of the expanse of the heavens.” 21 And God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind. And God got to see that [it was] good. 22 With that God blessed them, saying: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the waters in the sea basins, and let the flying creatures become many in the earth.” 23 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a fifth day.Blah blah blah blah blah.

    24 And God went on to say: “Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kinds, domestic animal and moving animal and wild beast of the earth according to its kind.” And it came to be so. 25 And God proceeded to make the wild beast of the earth according to its kind and the domestic animal according to its kind and every moving animal of the ground according to its kind. And God got to see that [it was] good.Here we see that animals are souls too. Not just humans. "Wild beast" is NOT a reference to dinosaurs because the Serpent was destroyed in the Disruption. Pay closer attention when I'm taking to you, m'k? M'k.

    26 And God went on to say: “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth.” 27 And God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 Further, God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth.”I like to fish. It fun in a relaxing and boring sort of way, and God here gives me permission. Thats why its unscriptural to buy a fishing license! God has already given you the license you need to fish! You don't want to be a blasphmer now do you? Her we are told that MAN looks like God! Not woman! God has a pecker not a vagina! Nonetheless, without a vagina handy nearby Man wouldnt have anywhere to put his pecker but in one of his hands. So Eve was taken out Adam. Adam's Ribs. It's in Detroit, just outisde the Ren Center. Yummy pork andf beef ribs. Anyway, planned parenthood is wrong because God wants us to FILL THE EARTH and to SUBDUE IT. This is what we are doing. We are carrying out the Divine Mandate by subduing Mother Earth, making her scream and go crazy.

    29 And God went on to say: “Here I have given to YOU all vegetation bearing seed which is on the surface of the whole earth and every tree on which there is the fruit of a tree bearing seed. To YOU let it serve as food. 30 And to every wild beast of the earth and to every flying creature of the heavens and to everything moving upon the earth in which there is life as a soul I have given all green vegetation for food.” And it came to be so.MMM. Vegetation bearing seed. Harvest it and grow it back with the seeds. SCIENCE has confirmed this! if you plant a seed and water it just enough IT WILL GROW. This is called the Miracle of Plant Growth. Some folks call it photosynthesis, whereby God is transformed into plant material. Which ius why you get high when you smoke certain kinds of transubstantiated God.

    31 After that God saw everything he had made and, look! [it was] very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day.Blah blah blah. I think God is wrong. It;s isn't all good. What about maggots? They grow up to be flies. Mosquitos and black widow spiders. Ick. Viruses. Of course, if we all lived forever we'd have to eventually stop having procreative sex, and that would be a sin. Sex for pleasures sake is sin. No I am NOT getting off topic, you just aren't paying close enough attention. N stuff. Anyway, God chilled out after all of this crap and so should you. Go have some herb.

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  • nvrgnbk
    nvrgnbk

    Slowly but surely FNB, you're restoring my faith in the veracity of The Holy Bible.

    Nvr

  • FireNBandits
    FireNBandits

    :-)


    Glad to hear it nvr! FNB

  • Mad
    Mad

    Your point? Seems you did a LOTR of research for a Book you ridiculed...

    the Mad JW

  • FireNBandits
    FireNBandits

    Hey Mad JW, sorry to rain on yer parade but all I did was ramble...stream of consciousness...when you've been studying the Bible for over thirty years there's all sorts of junk cluttering the attic, making this sort of whimsical fun easy. Take it slow and easy mad JW, life is short.

  • Hortensia
    Hortensia

    I love your posts. You and a lot of others who post here are so great.

  • AlanF
    AlanF

    Good job, FNB! Nothing like biting parody to *uck up the Fundies.

    AlanF

  • FireNBandits
    FireNBandits

    Hey Hortensia and AlanF! Thanks for taking the time to read my mythic mental meanderings. Thank you especially Hortensia.

  • TheOldHippie
    TheOldHippie

    Copied and pasted from good old Herbert Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God, sort of.

  • FireNBandits
    FireNBandits

    I thought they turned "evangelical"?

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