Just curious. How do you reconcile the math discrepancy in the bible as to how long mankind has been on earth? It conflicts with science and ....

the obvious. That has been the biggest seed of doubt in my walk, other than the paradox of omniscience.

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SW-User

Actually, that part is quite explainable, through theory 😅
At some point, there is mention of a day for God being many years on Earth. Let's say it's 1000 years on Earth, per day in heaven. So, the beginning took like 7 days for him. So about 7000 years. Then Adam (virtually?) immortal at this point, spent quite a while in Eden. Then Eve came, and they were seemingly there for a bit. Then they were cast out. God also could have been experimenting with other versions of them, trying to work out the bugs for Adam and Eve. Hence the lesser evolved species. Then when they were cast out, they joined them all. We certainly pretty much always had highly intelligent races after a certain point.
I'm just spitballing though 🤷‍♂️

puck61

@SW-User It uses the phrase " ..and the morning and the everning were the first day." "and the morning and the evening were the second day." "and the morning and the evening were the third day" etc etc .....

SW-User

@puck61 This could simply be a metaphor to make it more understandable though.
Don't get me wrong. I don't believe the Bible is true, though I'm almost certain there are some truths in it. But based on the logic used to interpret the text, and the logic of those who believe it blindly, it is explainable

puck61

@SW-User Still, depending on how angry I am, I have thought the same things....I never understood why HE dropped a hungry predator in His terrarium of Love either.........

ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 46-50, M

@puck61 "morning" and "evening" may also be allegory

SW-User

@puck61 I think if God is/was real, people have a very biased view of him.
Objectively, I'd say he's quite similar to a man, only far more powerful, in ways we don't even understand. Maybe extra-dimensional or something. He proves angry, vengeful, jealous, prideful etc. As a man, he would be quite hated. Having said that, if the stories are true, there's literally nothing we can do about it

puck61

@SW-User That's what I've rested on. The creation story is an allegory describing man changing from a creature of instinct not capable of sin, to a creature of complex and abstract thought and reason, thus being capable of sin. Grunting bipedal primates by the water hole mated by force and trickery and there wasn't a damn thing wrong with it., We can't do that anymore!

SW-User

@puck61 Makes sense. Hanging on to this past image really drags people down. Wanting things to be the way they were when there was less sin. We've changed though. We have to move forward. There are good lessons in there though.