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Responding to Atheism

I'm going to keep it rolling. Keep it moving. My response to atheism is strictly [ha] a response to Biblical criticism. I was an unbeliever [I prefer the term unbeliever because most atheists are non-militant and more agnostic or apathetic than atheistic] most of my life, and though isolationism has always been my MO the few family and friends I've had have been almost exclusively atheists. I can relate to the skeptic but that has little to do with it because all of the atheists I've known couldn't care less. They see science and religion as pretty much the same as me. Nonsense. Ideology. they don't start out like that, they become that when appeal to the masses has been achieved. They are, in effect, politicized.

So, when an atheist, or theist for that matter, agnostic or whatever, anyone, says the Bible isn't factual because it says light was created after plants, I say, no it doesn't say that. Very basic stuff. Then, if we choose, we can hammer out the details. On forums like this, it's best to do that in small steps. No one wants to drown in text.
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Northwest · M
The bible does say that, but that's not why some people doubt the authenticity of the Bible and its stories. They do it, because it's fiction, not fact.
BibleData · M
@Northwest @Emosaur @LordShadowfire The Bible says, at Genesis 1:1 God created the heavens and Earth. The universe, I think science will agree, consists of the sun and moon. In Hebrew the word [bara] is the perfect state meaning at that point they were complete. Following that are more than 40 cases of the imperfect state [asah in various forms], meaning progress in action. So, when it says God made things thereafter it means he arranged them. Asah can be translated made, appointed, arranged etc. So, after they were complete he arranged them and appointed them to function in a specific way. Like a bed. Created and then made periodically.

With light there are two Hebrew words to consider. Ohr and maohr. Orh (Genesis 1:3) means light in a general sense. Later, at Genesis 1:14 the Hebrew word maohr is used, that means the source of light. So first light was visible, then the source of light. The imperfect states used throughout indicate gradual process. At Job 38:4, 9 a swaddling band surrounding the earth is mentioned. Apparently there was light visible, but the source only became visible later, from the perspective of someone on earth.
Northwest · M
@BibleData Huh? I'm sure you think your alphabet soup means something, It doesn't. Incidentally, maohr doesn't even come close to meaning the source of light. But hey, I just noticed you're new. Carry on.
BibleData · M
@Northwest That's really convincing. Boy.