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However there is inconsistency on believing that death, pain, suffering and extinctions are the method God chose to create.
It's inconsistent to go through scripture saying it means something other than what it says.*
Jesus said "Haven't you read the Scriptures?They record that from the beginning 'God made them male and female.'"
Exodus 20:11 For in six days God created the heavens and the earth and everything that is in them.
Jesus said "But since you do not believe what he (Moses) wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"
Joe Boot, President of Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity
“Since the doctrines of Creation, the Fall and Redemption stand in an absolute historical continuum, we get a distorted worldview when we play games with Genesis.
“The apologist seeks to present biblical truth with coherence. In my experience, one cannot even formulate a compelling response to classic questions like the problem of evil and pain without a clear stand with Scripture on the creation issue.
“I have never been able to see how anyone who wants to defend the faith and proclaim the Gospel can compromise the foundation stones of that defence and then expect clear-thinking people to find a proclamation of salvation in Christ compelling.”
Are you still putting death...suffering of all things on the same level as mans? What happened before the fall when Adam and Eve ate plants?
Ex 20 was written to validate God's role as creator about the 10 commands. It is not a passage about details of creation, like what was before day 1, as is Gen 1 or 2 Pet 3.
Sequential, not fused,
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