In Genisis it talks about how God repented ever making mankind, so he decided to destroy him...then he recreates and promises to never do that again until the 2nd coming. Now, two problems with this. If God is all knowing, then he would have known he was going to do this...so, either this world is Sim City to him, or we have the wrong understanding of what "All Knowing" is. Also, If God repented for ever creating, then seen he made a mistake by killing everyone, wouldn't that undo the "God is All Perfect" theory? just a few thoughts. stainless
Admit it, bud. God didnt create man; man created God. The new american standard? Is that a joke? Is that the new interpretation of God's word? That is until the next true meaning of the Bible comes along.
You're kidding, right? The New American Standard is a very literal translation of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek of the Bible. The translation was completed around 2001. Literal translations, along with the original language, are good for in-depth Bible study. The King James Version (sometimes called the Authorized Version) was completed in 1611, and the NKJV is just the "modernized" version of it, completed I believe, in the 1990s. Both of them are very literal translations. The NIV, although considered a literal translation, is rather less literal than the NASB, KJV, or NKJV. My personal favorite translation is the English Standard Version, also literal and completed shortly after the NASB. There are also paraphrases, which try to catch the idea of the original, without promising literality (sic?). The most famous, in the US, are the Good News Bible, completed in the 60s and 70s, and The Message, completed in the late 90s. Paraphrases are best as a second source in a Bible study, and/or as a Bible for those for whom English is a second language.
What he said, lol. Just because there are different intreprations, that does not mean they have different meanings. They all are the same Bible, same meaning, different words. Phoenix
Yeah, He knew it would happen. It wasn't His will for it to happen, but it happened. There is a difference between Gods' Will, and God's Plan. What other alternative did He have, however? To leave the world in void and nothingness, or to create man, and make use out of it? True, you could use the argument that He could've just made man perfect. But, for us to be perfect, we couldn't have a free will I don't think. And if we have no free will, then what are we? Robots. And don't you think that were the case, that would be flawed, and people would be complaining about that? How could people complain if they are robots?...and, God does have the power to create happy robots, just as humans with free will stainless
Anthony, I hope you re-read this thread and open your eyes. Realize you are grasping threads and trying to get as technical as you can with Tyler. Quite trying to find flaws in his posts, he is "dumbing it up" so people can understand what he is trying to say... Kind of like what all the translations for the bible do. It is the same from one bible to another, just different words. The same meaning is coming across, it just comes down to how you interpret it.
