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Dallas12 wrote:
Okay, so provide me with exact detail as to your view of God’s involvement in creation? What did He have to do with creating the universe and living things? And again, why should anyone believe that God holds everything together? Don’t natural laws hold everything together? How exactly is He involved in holding everything together?

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I don't think anyone knows exact details of God's involvement in creation. He hasn't revealed those details to us.
People who take the first chapters of Genesis literally have difficulty with determining the exact details. Did God form man from dust, then form the animals from dust after man was there as we read in Genesis 2? Or did God create man after the animals as in Genesis 1? We don't know.
How much of the passages are we to take literally?
We can read 2 Samuel 22, the story of David's rescue from Saul, and it speaks of God riding on cherubs to earth, breathing smoking and shooting arrows at David's enemies. We know that is not what really happened, because we have the actual events recorded in the books of history. There is no book of history that records the actual events of creation, other than nature (the fossil record, scenes we can record with space telescopes, etc), so we don't know how much of the first chapters of Genesis to take literally.

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Genesis 2 does not contradict Genesis 1, it is infact an expansion of the sixth day of Creation. Unfortunately problems can be caused in translation to english, but I can assure you it in no way contradicts Genesis 1.

It mentions man but it does not go, then God created animals, it actually talks of them as if they are already in existence.

As for other events in the Bible well it all depends on what you want to believe. There are many ancient manuscripts to compare and draw information from which show a consistency that is to be quite honest, amazing. Our view on history however is quite often far more likely to use books that have far fewer in existence. Julius Caesars Gallic Wars for example is a book that has only 10 copies (not the original) and the earliest of those was written 1000 years after it was first written.
Historically the Bible stand up very well indeed and the accuracy of its text is remarkable and further shows the inspiration of God.

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Gentlemen please - this thread is not for the discussion of evolution or really for discussion at all - UNTIL AFTER and only IF you attend the event mentioned in the OP. So for now I am locking this thread. Take all discussions to the appropriate forums. Thanks

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