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The Creation of the World – The Torah’s Simple Description

שו”תCategory: Torah and ScienceThe Creation of the World – The Torah’s Simple Description
asked 3 years ago

To my understanding, God can create a world that, from a scientific perspective, seems to have come from nothing, whether it was created millions of years ago or the evolution of species and dinosaurs, etc. He created a mature world in six days, as well as the creation of man, and there is no Bible that is beyond His reach. I appreciate your opinion.


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מיכי Staff answered 3 years ago
Indeed he can. He can plant within himself fossils and manuscripts and works of creatures from millions of years ago. The question is whether he is likely to have done so or not. By the way, there are other explanations for the gap between the scientific and Torah dating. And the things are ancient.

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אורי replied 3 years ago

What I wrote, Torah scholars say and know what you wrote, I assume it can be explained that way and I am in favor of simplifying the Bible as much as possible.
I do understand that those who explain in additional ways are not heretical.

ניב replied 3 years ago

For example, the "simpleness of the Bible" cannot be understood either according to the time of the giving of the Torah (about 3300 years) or according to the time of the signing of the Torah according to the "criticism" of the Bible (about 2100 years. The beginning of the Second Temple period).
It does not fit in with the human knowledge and understanding of that time or with the human knowledge and understanding of today.
Therefore, modern Torah commentators who see the Torah as a product of Ionian-Roman wisdom with Chaldean-Persian influence have taken such pains to adapt the musings of the Ionians and Romans to Genesis 1 so that it fits "the period in which it was composed".
The first verse is hidden by the second, etc. And it is strange that those who see contradictions point to a contradiction between Genesis 1 and chapter 2 but do not see the frontal contradiction “in the plainness of the Bible” between verse 1 and verse 2 and in general between the entire first parsha (verses 1-5).
It seems that there is no more unclear description of creation than that presented in the biblical description – it is not for nothing that Gentiles and their admirers have mocked (until now) the Bible in this context. If so, it is clear that the Bible is a very problematic concept in this context.
Therefore, by its very nature it is called the “secret of the Genesis story”. Within this framework, in what is possible and must be understood, there are those who take the ‘literal’ approach and there are those who take the ’figurative’ approach.
And it seems to me that the answer is

ישי replied 3 years ago

The fact that the order of the verses is unclear and it is not understood how they fit together does not resolve the question of whether the Torah intended the literal interpretation of the Bible or not. Apparently, one must understand it from the content of the words themselves. (For example, it is even possible to arrange the literal interpretation with evolution, and the Seferno already said something along these lines.)

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