Re: Pour vous, encore I mean, a day: when did we start calling 24 hours a day? It does not mention "24 hours" in the Bible, because the idea that a day is 24 hours long did not exist then. --It does define what a day is though: sunrise to sunset.
Then there is the question of who beget who? Is incest not condemned in the Bible? --The laws that--among other things--condemn incest are not set down for some time after creation. They aren't even set down until after the flood. I believe in one of two things: either God created wives for the sons of Adam, or they married their sisters. I believe that Adam and Eve had way more kids than what the Bible mentions; it mentions only the important ones.
And what of Seth and Kenan? Did Seth live 912 years, as said in Genesis 5:7? Or Kenan? According to Genesis 5:14, he lived to be 910. God could make this possible, but did he? In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter if he did? --First off, it really doesn't matter to me how long they lived, but God says how long they lived, so that is what I believe. What purpose would there be in making something like that up?
How did the Bible come to be? Think about it. So many people act as if what they read in the Bible was first videotaped and then recorded with the accuracy as there would be if one was simply recounting what they had seen on a tape. Examine human memory and nature: eyewitness testimonies are shaky in their reliability. Humans exaggerate. They hear things wrong. They misinterpret. Human memory can change the color of someone’s eyes, the shape of a window, the time of day... --The Bible is not written from human memory. I am unsure, but I think it was Moses who wrote Genesis, and how could he remember creation? He wasn't there. Every word of the Bible was written by God through men.
Then we still have to consider: Who wrote the Bible? What was he doing at the time? What was going on at the time? Where was he living? I mean, so many factors go into what we say and write: mood, circumstance, knowledge… I know God’s divine hand was on each who contributed to the Bible, but nonetheless, humans wrote the text we read and yet we study it as if the text fell from the heavens, perfect. Is there not a chance that human error is present in the Bible? Our translations of the Bible are not even perfect. Then what about the record of the events in the Bible? --You say yourself that God's divine hand was on each who contributed to the Bible; how then do you expect those writers to have made errors? As far as translations go, yes, there are errors--16 to be exact, and that is not chapters, verses, or words; it's 16 characters--mostly in punctuation.
I do not think the Bible is perfect. Nothing but God is perfect. But being “imperfect” does not take away from the message of the Bible, from the importance of all that is recorded in it, from its meaning... Of what importance is it if God created the Earth and all that lives on it in 144 hours, or in 144, 444, 444 hours? The overall message is there: God created everything. His hand is upon us all, upon everything. --The Bible is God's word, and is therefore an extension of God, and is therefore perfect. I've mentioned the very miniscule imperfections (16 characters), but I don't think that really affects it. The overall message is there, just like the rest of it, and it is very important, but it is also extremely important that you trust God. When you start saying, "the Bible isn't exact, but the meaning is there," you are one step closer to one of those people saying, "you don't have to believe in God, it only matters that you have faith in something," and, sorry, but that is way wrong. God created us for the sole purpose of bringing honor and glory to himself, what makes you think he wants you worshipping someone/something else? I'm not saying you are like that, but you're headed in that direction.