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Is The Genesis Creation Account Literal Or Symbollic Parable?

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The Argument
In the media we have seen stories of conflict between atheists claiming the authority of science and creationists claiming the authority of the Bible. The basis for this argument is a literal interpretation of the story of creation in the Bible. Some say that this universe had to have been created literally in six days as stated in the Bible. Others claim that scientific evidence points to the universe being 13.7 billion years old. A minority of Christians insist that the only valid interpretation of the Bible is a literal one (Gallup). The larger portion of Christians believe that the Bible is the Word of God, but not always to be taken literally. Setting aside various opinions and scientific observations, it is worth considering what the Bible itself says about how to interpret it.

How Does the Bible Interpret Itself?
Many passages in the Bible suggest that it contains a deeper meaning. Jesus’ own words were symbolic. In fact, “He didn’t speak to the people without a parable” (Matthew 13:34, Mark 4:34). He said to His disciples, “These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Father” (John 16:25). Paul, too, warned us not to take everything literally: “We should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter” (Romans 7:6). “The letter kills, but the spirit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:6).

These statements in the Bible itself direct us to look for a deeper meaning, as if the literal meaning were a container holding precious contents, with a label that says, “Open me.” Now on the other side, there is not a single passage anywhere in the Bible that directs us to take everything literally. There is nothing on the box that says, “Do not open.”

What Kind of Light?
The first chapter of Genesis has all the marks of a symbolic story. For example, on the first day God created light, and made day and night, evening and morning. Then on the fourth day God created the sun, the moon and the stars. If the sun wasn’t created on the first day, then obviously the light on that day was not sunlight. So what kind of light was there in the beginning? The answer is in John chapter 1. “In beginning,” it says with obvious reference to Genesis 1:1, “was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:1-5). So the light which was in the beginning was not physical light, but the creative Word of God which gives life and light to all people.

Which Creation?
Another indication that the story of Creation is symbolic is the fact that there are two creation stories in Genesis. The first chapter has all kinds of plants on the third day, birds and fish on the fifth day, animals on the sixth, and last of all human beings, male and female. Chapter 2 has a different order of creation: first Man, then plants, next animals and birds, and finally Woman. This reminds me of Jesus’ words, “Many who are first will be last, and the last first” (Matthew 19:30). Spiritual creation changes our priorities and the order of our lives.

Taking these two stories as literal, historical descriptions, we have to stretch and twist them to reconcile the conflicts. Looking a little deeper we see that the Bible was not intended either by God or by the original inspired writers as a scientific treatise. Rather, it focuses on a different level of creation. All created things are manifestations of the invisible qualities of God:

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Thank you! Oh, this quiet, all new year's day, oh, world is wild, it's on the way. I want to be with you tonight, nothing changes on you, you stay. Oh, do you stay? I will be with you again, I will be with you again. On the red blood red sky, when I'm in the sky, like it was. I'll finish my, whose your will be. Okay, so one more go at this Genesis one and the Babylonian creation story. So this is really important because we are truthers. Yeah, so we go with whatever the truth is, not just what we want to believe. Now do bear with me because I do know, realize that, you know, the 40% of Americans, according to Richard Dawkins, 40% of Americans believe the Genesis creation account is science. Okay, so before you've thumbed this down because you're one of those 40% just please listen to the evidence. Okay, this is the evidence and it's what I'm saying. In the middle of the 19th century, our colleges were digging in the library king, yeah, in the book. They just covered thousands of clay tablets written in a language thing. Came known, came to be known as Akadian. Can these tablets contain all sorts of things, including the creation account. This was found among ruins was a Babylonian creation story referred to today as a new man, Elish. It's a story of a highly dysfunctional divine family engaged in a major power struggle at the dawn of time. The heart of this story is where the god mad it kills the nemesis, Tyramat, and then fill its her body into making the sky of one half. Yeah, so I mean, even the Babylonian version was not literal. They, you know, this is it was symbolic. It was, you know, a cosmic battle. But the whole point is the theology of it was dualism. Yeah, two dualism. Do you know what that means? That's a good god and a bad god. They're having a battle as represented by good and evil. That's not biblical. That's not biblical at all. Remember, eyes I have to keep reminding you of this. Eyes I tell us that I create lighting darkness. I create good and evil. I the Lord do all these things. All these things. Yeah. It's no two. There's no good god and bad god. There has to be good and evil for a time. There has to be for us to experience. There's no other way if you actually think it through. So don't worry about it. Okay. There is no two gods. The ancients hadn't quite thought it through properly. So what happens is a few hundred years later, or by the way, yeah. The Babylonian version. We've got exactly the same story. There is a division of the waters above and below. We are with a barrier holding back the upper waters. You know, the dome, the flat earth dome. Okay. So first of all, this was written 200 years. So 300 years later, was the Hebrew version of Genesis is formed and it is mimicking instructor in the literal sense. The Babylonian version, but it is as a parody because this is how you change people's existing theology. There is no other way. Otherwise, they wouldn't know, no one would know what they were talking about. If they didn't parry the Babylonian question text, nobody would know what the text was talking about. It's changing the theology from two gods to one god. Okay. So this is the conundrum that you face. And you know, you have to be intellectually honest here. You have to be intellectually honest. Otherwise, you just wasting everyone's time. If I'm not in this to believe whatever I want to believe, I've always said that. Okay. We go with the evidence and we go with the truth. And the fact of the matter is, as I've already told you, you've got to accommodate the whole Bible. A covenants exist in our days and symbolism. We're pagan ideas and symbolism and subverts it metaphorically to something completely different to what God wants to say. This is really important. For example, here in Genesis the serpent is this is comparing the two creation stories. Yeah. The Babylonian one and the so in the Babylonian one in the Babylonian myth of serpent is a friend who helps in his search for immortality. Yeah, this is where they get the audience. So the serpent is the enemy. But in Genesis the serpent is the enemy of Adam. Do you see so it's actually, you know, it's subverting the symbols to the exact opposite to the exact opposite because it is a polemic against it. A polemic against it. Pilemic against the existing ideas of the time. So if you therefore, if it's a polemic against the existing ideas of the time, which it is, which is which the scholars agree on the theology of the great, then by saying, then by agreeing that you agree with the literal, with the Babylonian version that there's water above and water below literally and in a dome, an outer space is water, which it may well be. But this is, this is pure myth. This is pure myth. You are basing, I'm the guy who debunked the Apollo hoax landings. I'm the guy who debunked the Mars landings, all of them. I debunked space. I debunked the ICC, the international space station. So the I debunked the international space station. I, I spaces fake. Space is fake. I've proved spaces fake. But so is the Babylonian creation version, creation and text. Yeah, you can't go from one extreme to another. So all because spaces fake, I agree spaces fake. Yeah, don't, doesn't give you, doesn't give us the, the right to therefore say the Babylonians who God was mocking and parody, parodying to subvert is what, you know, is the Babylonian version is, is correct that they're, you know, that we live on a, that there's a dome of us and on waters above waters below, you know, this is like I say, I've proven this is symbolic. The waters above represent the waters above, which is Joel, I will pour out my, the waters upon all flesh, the Holy Spirit upon all flesh and the waters below again, you know, the flood, that's the waters below the wicked waters that come up from Egypt and cover the whole earth, the lower the higher forms of knowledge and understanding, the lower forms of knowledge and understanding, that's what the symbolism means. It's all symbolic and it's all subverted by the symbols and the Bible gives us the interpretation for those symbols. It's a spiritual and what does Jesus do? Jesus teaches in parables that they, that's myths. Jesus teaches, I'll repeat again parables in the gospels, that's myths. Jesus teaches great spiritual truths from myths myths, which is what this is. It's a myth. You know, all I'm saying is, you know, do you think, why do you think the Babylonians got it right? Oh, because aliens landed and told them, is that, is that really it? Is that really it? So again, I ask you, how did the Babylonians get science right? God, God's in a polymer against the Babylonians. Why would God reveal scientific information to the Babylonians? Oh, it was angel, it was aliens. Where's your evidence that it was aliens? You know, is this what we're going by really? The Babylonian creation text is science because you believe aliens landed and told them is where is Zachary Stichens work has been debunked? Yeah, he was just trying to sell books. It was all garbage. There, there no aliens landed. Yeah, and the Anuki stories again, all of these stories are cosmic stories, but they're actually about kings and about people and about rulers on earth and about the fallen sons of Shem and all this stuff. You don't understand how the ancient used to write and, you know, this is leading to a lot of problems. It's leading to 40% of Americans believing that, you know, this is science when it's never was. So what can I do apart from say that that's your belief? Your belief is in the Babylonian creation text unless you, unless you understand what I'm saying here, this is a modern, free Mason deception. 2000 years ago, everybody knew the Genesis creation account was a part was non literal was symbolic. You know, it wasn't science. They knew that. It was a parody of the Babylonian version, which they knew wasn't science. You know, the we told that such things are alligery, the book of Revelation, using the same symbols of Genesis. Okay, so over and over again, so this I can't, obviously we've got massive amount of very, very immature Christians who don't understand the basics. Yeah, we've got 40% of Americans believing it's literal. So it's a massive problem because these are the same people that also believe the rebirth of Israel is literal. And this is the deception of Satan politically is how we are always deceived. They send out messengers of Satan to make us believe in the literal creation account. Yeah, that's a sigh up my friends. Just like the rebirth of the nation of Israel in the little census site because Israel is a metaphor again completely transferred from the little to the symbolic. It's a metaphor for the spiritual man or for the church or for the true people of God. It's not racial. It's spiritual. It's not an a you know, this is Babylon. Babylon isn't is the Roman church again. Yeah. Oh, honestly, what can I say? I'll put these links below anyway, but you know, I mean, okay, what if true to the context which is spiritual creation and not neutral and natural creation? What if the Genesis creation account amongst other things was a beautiful prophecy of our spiritual evolution over a 7,000 year period ending in God's rest which is the 1,000 year millennial reign of Christ which is the period we just about to enter.