Man was in Pangaea

[BeyondET]

9 hours ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

Yes. My body produced stones through my kidneys. 

In your ears also, helps keep your balance and coordinating your eye movements while your head is in motion. Sometimes rock slides in the ears can cause vertigo.

Edited February 10, 2023 by BeyondET

[dad2]

8 hours ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

I don't believe in a world wide flood which I've gone into at length on another thread I authored based on a literal translation of the Bible. I am not going to repeat it here.

 That is usually the case. When people wave off creation as real, the rest follows as well eventually.

[dad2]

8 hours ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

You are misinterpreting scripture.

Not in any way is that close to even a shadow of the truth. Believe it. Or not.

[dad2]

19 hours ago, The Barbarian said:

God says otherwise.   I believe Him.

 

God does not say mankind was here before Adam actually. Not sure who or what you think you believe.

[dad2]

15 hours ago, The Barbarian said:

We know this is figurative, since God is omniscient, and would not repent at anything that He has done.   An all-powerful God would have seen the results of His creation before they happened.

 

He is not a liar. When He says He was sorry man was made because of how wicked they had gotten, that is what He means. Your invented notion that because He is Almighty, He should have made robots who could not disobey or whatever is simply nonsense. Despite being grieved by the utter deprivation and horrors  of fallen mankind, notice that He saved us? Notice also how He planned to save us from before the time the world was made?

[The Barbarian]

2 hours ago, dad2 said:

He is not a liar. When He says He was sorry man was made because of how wicked they had gotten, that is what He means.

Here you're confusing God with a limited creature.   He is all-knowing and all-powerful.

For God to say, “I feel sorrow that I made Saul king” is not the same thing as saying, “I would not make him king if I had to do it over.” Oh yes, he would. God is able to feel sorrow for an act in view of foreknown evil — foreknown pain and sorrow and misery — and yet go ahead and do it for wise reasons. And so, later when he looks back on the act, he can feel that very sorrow for the act that he knew was leading to the sad conditions, like Saul’s disobedience.

One of the great implications of all of this is that when God makes a promise to us, he does it with complete foreknowledge of all the future circumstances and is, therefore, never caught off guard by anything. And so, his promises will stand according to his infinite wisdom.

https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/why-does-god-regret-and-repent-in-the-bible

The person writing down the verse is unable to use a word for what goes on in God's mind when He is aware of the consequences of some action he takes, and has sorrow over it.   There is no word in human discourse for some things of God, and this is one of them.  Does He feel sorrow?  Yes.  Does He repent in the human sense that He would not do it if He could go back and change it?   No, He does not.  

 

 

 

[The Barbarian]

2 hours ago, dad2 said:

God does not say mankind was here before Adam actually.

He makes no statement at all as to the first humans.   But He sets mankind at the point that he gave each human a living soul.   Which species of human that was, He does not say, nor does it matter.

[The Barbarian]

11 hours ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

I don't believe in a world wide flood which I've gone into at length on another thread I authored based on a literal translation of the Bible. I am not going to repeat it here.

Since the Bible does not say it was worldwide, one would have to add that to scripture.  

[BeyondET]

8 hours ago, dad2 said:

He is not a liar. When He says He was sorry man was made because of how wicked they had gotten, that is what He means. Your invented notion that because He is Almighty, He should have made robots who could not disobey or whatever is simply nonsense. Despite being grieved by the utter deprivation and horrors  of fallen mankind, notice that He saved us? Notice also how He planned to save us from before the time the world was made?

It's a hard passage but to take it literally would mean God's knowledge is limited.

God certainly wouldn't cause Himself grief beforehand.

The passage is for man's benefit not a expression of His emotions.

Edited February 11, 2023 by BeyondET

[dad2]

2 hours ago, BeyondET said:

It's a hard passage but to take it literally would mean God's knowledge is limited.

God certainly wouldn't cause Himself grief beforehand.

The passage is for man's benefit not a expression of His emotions.

I see no problem with it at all. God was disgusted with the filth and murder and desperate wickedness and regretted creating man. Can you blame Him? But He had a plan. He knew He would have to come to earth and suffer horribly and be killed one day for us. Basically man was so bad even God had to shake His head. It was not the kind of regret that meant He was going to change His plan of salvation for man. Probably it was more like a clear realization that fallen man when allowed to ferment in sin too long was simply unacceptable. That is what the last days are like also as you know. What we see today more and more is simply unacceptable and He will step in with the Rapture and Tribulation.