What is it exactly that is making you doubt?
I'd love to offer advice but I'm not entirely sure what i is you're having issues with, is it just that it doesn't match up with science in your opinion?
Well first off, I apologize. I wrote that whole thing in a bit of a hurry. I was scared when I wrote this, so I was mostly just getting the fears down.
But as for my doubts, I have a few of them.
First off, the science does seem very off compared to the Bible. For example, I never really looked at creation real closely, but I have recently. How can light and plants be made before the sun? That doesn't seem right especially since we all need the sun to live, plants included.
Second off, there's a lot of questions I cannot find the answer to, try as I might. An example of this... Ok, God made everything correct? God knows everything correct? God can do anything correct? And God made the devil, right?
He made Lucifer, one of God's most beautiful angels. He knew he would wanna go against God. And so he did. Then God sent him and one third of the angels to hell... Despite the fact that God could have easily either gotten rid of him, or not made him to do that, or just... Not make him at all.
Then he makes humans, Adam and Eve... Has them naked, which... Is apparently evil. Puts up a tree of knowledge, which God knew they would eat from. All of a sudden, they realise they're naked, the way God made them, evil... And God gets mad and punishes them for it... Knowing he would punish them for it...It doesn't make sense
If I could just get some answers to these questions, I honestly would not mind, going back to Christianity. But unless my questions can get legitimate answers that make sense... Christianity is never gonna fully make sense to me ever again.
As for the creation part I get where you are coming from, but that's always been a small issue to me. There are countless theories about what you're talking about. Scientist believe the earth is billions of years old while most Bible scholars say thousands right. Here's a few theories to that.
Day age theory- It mentions in the Bible that to God a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years a day, meaning the time scale we get of 7 days could just be a metaphor for the different phases.
Pre- aged theory- self explanatory the earth seems older than it is because God made the earth pre aged.
Garden theory- My favorite of these, while adam and eve were in the garden they had access to the tree of life and thus did not age, the Bible doesn't specify how long they were there for. For all we know they spent a million years in the garden.
As for the order of creation, yes it says God made light before the plants, so that would sustain them as for the sun coming after like you said, they would have to, light itself did not exist before then, what would the stars be without it, the sun is merely a big ball of concentrated light, there was already light for the plants sustenance.
As for God knowing everything and creating things He knew would fail, that's a question that we've all pondered and I suspect will forever, the best response I can think of is this. When you decide to have children, you know they are going to make mistakes, break your heart, ect.. but you still want them because you want something to love, to teach and watch grow and to love you back. When existence began God was alone, this is just my thought, I don't presume to know God's mind but perhaps he was lonely.
Personally I thinks while His mind is on a level infinitely beyond ours his emotions mirror our own. We were made after His image, and the Bible makes numerous references to God being angry or jealous, just like a person would be. We're the same we get angry when our children misbehave even when we know they are going too. So if he has these emotions like us it stands to reason he can experience loneliness too.
I'm not sure if I answered your questions properly or not, let me know, I hope it helps.
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What is it exactly that is making you doubt?
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Well first off, I apologize. I wrote that whole thing in a bit of a hurry. I was scared when I wrote this, so I was mostly just getting the fears down.
But as for my doubts, I have a few of them.
First off, the science does seem very off compared to the Bible. For example, I never really looked at creation real closely, but I have recently. How can light and plants be made before the sun? That doesn't seem right especially since we all need the sun to live, plants included.
Second off, there's a lot of questions I cannot find the answer to, try as I might. An example of this... Ok, God made everything correct? God knows everything correct? God can do anything correct? And God made the devil, right?
He made Lucifer, one of God's most beautiful angels. He knew he would wanna go against God. And so he did. Then God sent him and one third of the angels to hell... Despite the fact that God could have easily either gotten rid of him, or not made him to do that, or just... Not make him at all.
Then he makes humans, Adam and Eve... Has them naked, which... Is apparently evil. Puts up a tree of knowledge, which God knew they would eat from. All of a sudden, they realise they're naked, the way God made them, evil... And God gets mad and punishes them for it... Knowing he would punish them for it...It doesn't make sense
If I could just get some answers to these questions, I honestly would not mind, going back to Christianity. But unless my questions can get legitimate answers that make sense... Christianity is never gonna fully make sense to me ever again.
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Ok thanks
As for the creation part I get where you are coming from, but that's always been a small issue to me. There are countless theories about what you're talking about. Scientist believe the earth is billions of years old while most Bible scholars say thousands right. Here's a few theories to that.
Day age theory- It mentions in the Bible that to God a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years a day, meaning the time scale we get of 7 days could just be a metaphor for the different phases.
Pre- aged theory- self explanatory the earth seems older than it is because God made the earth pre aged.
Garden theory- My favorite of these, while adam and eve were in the garden they had access to the tree of life and thus did not age, the Bible doesn't specify how long they were there for. For all we know they spent a million years in the garden.
As for the order of creation, yes it says God made light before the plants, so that would sustain them as for the sun coming after like you said, they would have to, light itself did not exist before then, what would the stars be without it, the sun is merely a big ball of concentrated light, there was already light for the plants sustenance.
As for God knowing everything and creating things He knew would fail, that's a question that we've all pondered and I suspect will forever, the best response I can think of is this. When you decide to have children, you know they are going to make mistakes, break your heart, ect.. but you still want them because you want something to love, to teach and watch grow and to love you back. When existence began God was alone, this is just my thought, I don't presume to know God's mind but perhaps he was lonely.
Personally I thinks while His mind is on a level infinitely beyond ours his emotions mirror our own. We were made after His image, and the Bible makes numerous references to God being angry or jealous, just like a person would be. We're the same we get angry when our children misbehave even when we know they are going too. So if he has these emotions like us it stands to reason he can experience loneliness too.
I'm not sure if I answered your questions properly or not, let me know, I hope it helps.