Quote (uraharakiskue @ Dec 1 2010 11:20pm)
i knoww sry but can u explain on the first page of the bible... im having trouble... how long is each day to the holy spirit... my point is the sun!* was made on the 3rd day.
God is light. There was light before there was the sun. The sun is a reflection of God's light in the same way that the moon is a reflection of the sun's light. In hebrew the word day is used variously; to refer to the time from sunrise to sunset, the 24 hour period that we consider to be a standard day, and a generally described period of time ("in the day of noah" or something)
Quote (splatius421 @ Dec 3 2010 05:12am)
"Thou Shall Not Kill"
Deuteronomy 7:1-4 (New International Version, ©2010)
Deuteronomy 7
Driving Out the Nations
1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— 2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.[a] Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.
Deuteronomy 20:16-18 (New International Version, ©2010)
16 However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.
this is quite simply a misleading english translation. kill should most definitely be rendered murder.