I have no reason to question the uses of Yom and yomim.
I have no interest in time travel. Science is able to allow us to see into the past and into the future. Looking for a past that isn't there is foolish, and ends with standing on outcrops of rock and declaring them to be Noah's Ark.
Pity. It'll be interesting if they ever succeed and prevent its abuse.
future... really. Now I know you're full of it.
Really? I thought you said science knows everything.
I know that within a hundred years you will be dead and that eventually the sun will swell, engulf the earth and become a red giant.
Nomadic cattle pastoralists, gradually heading south and west as this is the last century or so of the green Sahara.
Nothing, since Riyadh didn't exist at this time. The Ubaid civilisation with its distinctive pottery was evident throughout Saudi Arabia and had trading posts on the Persian Gulf, but Riyadh itself did not exist by that name until 1590 CE, a small oasis town, better known once Deham Ibn Dawwas, took over the city and built walls in 1790.
Look it up. If nothing else these days, we are blessed with easy access to the accumulated knowledge of our species.
Really? Can you quote me? Science will never know everything. It knows a lot. What it knows is refined and becomes more certain. Eventually it may know enough, but it will never know everything.
Within a hundred?
Pity. You've got to do better than this.
how would you know?
yeah, i said nothing of the ubaid civilization.
Pity you think lying about what's available is going to help you.
apparently nowhere near as much as you want them to.
It's a great thing that YHVH actually knows everything.
Which is within a hundred. I can only work on the data available to me, which would suggest that you are no younger than four years old.
Why? Who's judging and against what criteria?
You need to be more precise in your question. There may well have been an oasis settlement on the site, but it wasn't known as Riyadh
That would be the Ubaid people then. They were the society in that area from 5500BCE to 4000BCE.
Pity that you think that accusing others of lying is all you can come up with.
Someone who thinks that small pieces of highly specialised information being largely unknown means that "science is clueless", is themselves clueless.At least the scientific community is honest enough to use phrases like6th millennium BC structure discovered in Saudi Arabia
In contrast to the prehistoric remains of the Near East, the megalithic monuments of Arabia remain largely unknown. These monumental structures, made of dry stone walls, still hold many secrets in terms of their construction, function and chronology.phys.org
Largely unknown, probably, still hold many secrets...
I.e., science is clueless.
But rather more than you want them to. The difference between us is that I want science to know more, while you want it to know less, and refuse to acknowledge what it does know. As evidenced by puerile remarks such as "science is clueless"
@SteveB I very much agree with your approach to arriving at conclusions. I am one of those who look at the Genesis one and two days as long periods of time, because there's quite a bit of data in the Bible that suggests to me that the inference we might draw from the English translation about short days was not intended in the original language. At this moment I'm thinking of Hebrews 4:1-13. By my reading it suggests that we are living in God's seventh day of rest from the work of creation, and further that this singular seventh day is the only day on which redemption is available to mankind. If my interpretation of this passage is correct, then the only reason that we can be saved is because those days mentioned in genesis are very long, and not short. The language associated with the first days "morning and evening" does not appear in the seventh day (Genesis 2:1–2) suggesting (at least to me) that the seventh day had a beginning but it didn't end, at least yet. Under this view the eighth day will be the re-creation of the universe when Christ returns to make a suitable place to receive the redeemed (Romans 8:18–27). Thus this eighth day will represent a new creation week in which the redeemed will participate, or at least benefit, as administrators of the new creation ( Luke 19:17).
Roger, thanks for the reply back. I can appreciate your response, though we would probably disagree some, g. I would say a mature, not older, g! Just like Adam, once he was created, he was mature and not an infant. Indeed, if you are I were able to step back in time to Adam's creation, we'd swear he was say, 30 to 40 years old when in fact, age wise, he was just seconds old. Fully mature in other words and a mature creation. Thank you for your kind response my friend.
Which "Authoritative" version do you hang your hat on??? It's only "Theology", so unimportant.
What part have you not heard before? I don't understand from your response what part you are responding about. I don't attest to speculation either and prefer to stick to what the context is and to accurately portray what the writers intent was without tainting it with personal bias.
Never heard the one about Adam.
I’m sure you don’tI don't isolate Ex 20:11
