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   From: woden@charter.net   
      
   Blak  wrote in news:vJDng.1430$Gh.1329@trnddc02:   
      
   > Creation of the heavens and the earth, and the preparation of the   
   > earth for human habitation (1:1–2:25). Reaching back evidently through   
   > billions of years of time, Genesis opens with impressive simplicity:   
   > “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”   
   > Significantly, this opening sentence identifies God as the Creator and   
   > his material creation as the heavens and the earth. In majestic,   
   > well-chosen words, the first chapter continues on to give a general   
   > account of the creative work relative to the earth. This is   
   > accomplished in six time periods called days, each beginning with an   
   > evening, when the creative work for that period is undefined, and   
   > ending in the brightness of a morning, as the glory of the creative   
   > work becomes clearly manifest. On successive “days” appear the light;   
   > the expanse of the atmosphere; dry land and vegetation; the luminaries   
   > to divide day and night; fish and fowl; and land animals and finally   
   > man. God here makes known his law governing kinds, the impassable   
   > barrier making it impossible for one kind to evolve into another.   
   > Having made man in His own image, God announces His threefold purpose   
   > for man on earth: to fill it with righteous offspring, to subdue it,   
   > and to have in subjection the animal creation. The seventh “day” is   
   > blessed and pronounced sacred by Jehovah, who now proceeds ‘to rest   
   > from all his work that he has made.’ The account next gives a   
   > close-up, or magnified view, of God’s creative work as regards man. It   
   > describes the garden of Eden and its location, states God’s law of the   
   > forbidden tree, relates Adam’s naming of the animals, and then gives   
   > the account of Jehovah’s arranging the first marriage by forming a   
   > wife from Adam’s own body and bringing her to Adam.   
   >   
      
   Yeah, we've all heard this bullshit before.  What makes you think it's   
   worth crossposting to alt.atheism?   
      
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   Woden   
      
   "religion is a socio-political system for controlling people's thoughts,   
   lives and actions based on ancient myths and superstitions, perpetrated   
   through generations of subtle yet pervasive brainwashing."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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