New Translation Says God Did Not Create the Earth

I think it could also refer to the Big Bang

Whatever. You're going to hell for trying to stir stupid crap up. God made all and if you don't like it, don't try to mislead Christians into your ways because it won't work. Shut up and burn.

-Shane

Shane,

You do not get to dictate who goes to hell and who doesn't. Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord.

Erica

I could've told you that god didn't create Earth a long time ago...

Regardless, this new translation isn't going to change anything even if proven true. There are plenty of facts regarding evolution that are disregarded by many religious people; I don't see how a fact regarding a common mistranslation will have an impact when evolution fails to.

Also, though I'm not a believer in the Bible, even if Genesis fails to mention specifically that God created the Earth, that doesn't exactly mean he didn't. The reason it's so hard to talk to very religious people is the philosophy of "Well, you can't prove that it DOESN'T exist".

Unless the Bible very specifically says "God did not create the Earth", a majority of religious people are going to continue believing what they always have...

so i understand the Heaven and the Earth it was created before

SO,If the earth is only 6000 years old and Adam was the first man, then, I guess there is no such thing as the ice age or the Egyptians, because they were around before Adam came into play which means there could never have been an Egyptian man or woman because man did not exist, am I getting you right?

I would be more to believe that the human race was living on another planet and used and abused it as it is being done today and they found an habitable planet like we are looking for today.

It has been proven that Egyptians did exist and were a very intelligent race of people and were here long before Adam came into the picture. I feel for people that can only believe in what a book has in it and people were made to believe in it or die from the Catholics way back in the day.

Flying space ships have been documented for centuries, they have been seen by the human eye from thousands of people, have you ever seen anyone from that book? Didn't think so!

"To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth" (Quran, 6:101)

"Moreover He comprehended in His design the sky, and it had been (as) smoke*: He said to it and to the earth: "Come ye together, willingly or unwillingly." They said: "We do come (together), in willing obedience."" (Quran, 41:11) *hot gas/nebula

"Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?" (Quran, 21:30)

I don't really see how new translation negates that Lord Almighty created the Earth out of nothing. The new translation could only be addition to how He has done it and add more details about it. As i can see, [new translation] is more science friendly, since according to modern science "the Solar System (including the Earth) formed from a large, rotating cloud of interstellar dust and gas called the solar nebula. It was composed of hydrogen and helium produced in the Big Bang at 13.7 Ga, as well as heavier elements ejected by supernovas" (Wikipedia)

"Soon will We show them our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?" (Quran, 41:53)

God created man and his surroundings God gave man instructions how to live/use things He gave him and how to overcome his rotten nature.

It is sad to see how science and intellect is wasted for wrong causes. Who needs proof that there is no God?! Starving kid in Africa, or arrogant wealthy capitalist/sheiks from East and West?!

We need God for our souls and morals, and we need science for our reality and wealth. These two go together!

The professor has it backwards in more ways than one. The story is all in the last sentence "I consider myself to be religious and the Creator used to be very special, as a notion of trust. I want to keep that trust. The traditional view of God the Creator is untenable now,” van Wolde admitts. Right.

The original speakers of Hebrew disagree with the professor. Creation Ex Nihilo is the clear understanding they have of this sentence. Physical science also disagrees with the professor. Cosmology has now dated the age of the entire universe and time itself as we know it at about fifteen billion years and of the earth at about five billion. God on the other hand is known to the original Hebrew speakers as eternal, or outside time, space and the imagination, including the professor's imagination. The origin or material existence must come from a source external to the system, or in plain terms from the supernatural and metaphysical.

If God is younger than the earth then the question of the creation of the earth is left open, and the question of the origin of God is also left open. The professor kindly creates a god in her own image to fill in the blanks, who basically is just a cook in someone else's kitchen. Whose?

For starters if anyone says anyone else is going to hell for something that is extremely hypocritical and you call yourself a christian...

Also the human race needs something to believe in and christians choose to believe in the bible regardless if it is true or not. It was supposedly written by many different people throughout history that were moved by God to write what they wrote. Then it was translated over and over again throughout time by other men. As we know in todays world men are not always honest so the bible could be made up and false or it could be completely true, it is up to YOUR OWN beliefs to decide that for yourself.

For someone to say that a translation is all of a sudden wrong is bizarre to me and then it has to be proven.... how does someone do that? the only true way to do that is to go back in time and ask the writer... which is IMPOSSIBLE!

Another thing, how do we really know the things we know? we don't! we make things up like time and assume that our time is the same now as it was at the beginning. but if you try to relate the time given in the bible to our time now you will most likely be wrong so we can't say what was created first and what was already here or how old something really is because we truly don't know for sure.

but even by the "new" translation it is an assumption that earth was already created and it was just separated. but the translation says God separated heaven from earth. with this we know God has the power to do this first off, we also DON'T know when or who created either. maybe God did create them both and then separated them after they were both made together.

I agree with chuy. Infact i was just explaining that to someone exept in different words but the same meaning.

im very confused. I did alpha and read the bible. I have love for my fellow human. I believe in something to do with the human spirit but was not sure what it was so i turned to religion hoping to find the truth and an answer. But i have come to realise the bible is a book written by the hand of man based on words of man inspired by a God that we have no evidence for. The bible is full of contradictions and atrocities. The god of the old testament is one of wrath and jealousy. Where is the love in that? Job and many other books show us another side of god. But does he even exist? There is no divine evidence whatsoever to support god. There is evidence of a creator but not god as depicted by the bible. Thats because the bible is just a book of man. I was so disappointed and saddened by the whole thing. I was told to have faith. Faith in what? Believe something that originated from the mouth of man? The suffering of innocents the allowing of evil. That does not sound like an omnipotent god to me. But then again there is no smoke without fire. What started the belief in god thing in the first place? I am still looking for answers. I still believe in love and compassion and the human spirit but not the writings of ancient mystics that have been slammed together in a book which is riddled with contradiction and error. If there is evidence, real proof, some floating holy parchment written by gods hand then point me to it. I want to believe but i'm not, after reading the book, going to accept that. All that we know about god is from the mouth and writing of man. Nothing from god himself. Why is that?

In the beginning was the WORD

hey =) i dont know if this will help at all but when God created man He gave man total rule and dominion on the earth - which is why God uses man to speak His own word onto the earth - we are His mouth we are His hands...etc. Alot of old testament scripture was given to 'men' from God himself - i mean how could isaiah and david so accurately describe the things that happened to jesus thousands of years before it happened - they could not have forseen that without God revealing it to them.

hope that helps, but if not dont feel bad for having questions, it's a really positive trait to want to know the truth and know for sure, not to follow things just because others do - you need to know the reality of God for yourself and all I can suggest is that you ask/pray for the truth the be revealed to you - ask for faith.

x

I am sorry for this woman. She is in a horrible place. God is her creator, creator of all things.