Bible Discussion Thread

Genisis is the greatest book in the bible. If one does not understand the fullness of knowledge of this book, one will certainly not only be lost in his scriptural understandings of today, but he/she will be continially confused, and never understand the middle or the end of the wonderful story of our GOD,YYVH, and His Saviour,Yeshua, Jesus Christ. I too enjoy, studying with Pastor Arnald Murray. I must say that His teachings are mostly, right on the money, as he says, it's so easy to understand, that a 10 year old has no problem. I see only a few misunderstandings of the word, in his teaching, versus, all other teachers, whom seem to go into another deminsion than the one I know and live in, everytime they teach. And they seem to have a different deminsion from which to teach each subject. One of these mustakes,is the same that every teacher that I know, misses a most obvious point in interpreting, the meaning of Peter, when He said, that with God, one day is as one thousand years. One can know, for sure that He did not mean that littlerally. Here is how we know. For that phrase to litterally mean that 1 day is the same as 1,000 years with God, then one must come to the conclusion that God experiences Night. WHAT DID I SAY?!!!!!!!!!! The God that I serve has never and shall never experience night/NEVER!!!!!!!!!!. Sorry for the reality check folks. Stop doing what the people whom peter was talking to, were doing. "trying to figure out how God tells time so they could know when he's coming" Peter could have said that 1,000,000 years with God is as 1 day. Also we can remember this understanding when reffering to Genesis on the 6th day, God, thru the hand of Jesus, created man,(nationalities except the jewish one, whom Jesus came thru), and all plants. Remimber now, the words says that as he created the Jewish Adam that he had not yet a man to farm, as he had made the others on the 6th fishers and hunters. And then it said that because He, God, had not yet caused it to rain,(said by God on the 8th day), had Peter's words been literal, all people/animals and plants would have perished, if the 2 days truely meant 2000 years. Peter was truely saying stop that and understand, that God has no time clock He is the time clock. In answer to this same querry, at an earlier time, Jesus said, learn the word,and watch for the signs,(he was speaking of the signs given buy the prophets before him, accompied with the illustration of the fig tree).What say you? COOL teacher Arnold Murray If there's anyone who can tell me how I might be wrong, it will be you. Go at it, friend. I love and bless every person who loves to study, not argue, this wonderful word. Jim Snyder