The Bible does not discuss evolution.

Most Jews and Christians do not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. We believe the stories included in first 11 chapters of Genesis tell religious truth through figurative language and not necessarily historical fact.

People often reflect that every ancient culture has a flood story like that of Gilgamesh and this fact discounts the story of Noah. Or they claim the Jews stole the story from another people. But wouldn't a truly worldwide flood prove the "flood" instead?

About 10 to 12 thousand years ago the last ice age ended, melting a lot of ice. So much that sea level rose about 400 feet. This "flood" was worldwide and it is reasonably expected that the story would live on in every culture.

Sources:

Anisimov et al., Chapter 11: Changes in Sea Level, Section 11.2.3.4: Sensitivity to climatic change, Figure 11.4, in IPCC TAR WG1 2001.

http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?s...

Science Daily: Lost civilization under Persian Gulf? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/10120...

Current Anthropology: New Light on Human Prehistory in the

Arabo-Persian Gulf Oasis http://z6.ifrm.com/4802/123/0/p1011060/Persian_Gul...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_ris...

With love in Christ.

If the Bible was wrong about evolution, and Noah’s flood: then is it wrong about coveting your neighbor’s wife?

1) If you have a wife, ask her.

2) Ask your neighbour.

The bible does not mention evolution, and the flood would surely be better described as Gods not Noah's, so what you say would need to be true to have a chance of being wrong.

The Bible's wording is compatible with evolution. It seems evolution is how God chose to create, and this fits perfectly with Genesis chapter 1 if you read fully and naturally, without prejudice, without an agenda or ideology to impose over the words.

The vision poetically recounted in the text does not specify the amount of time passing in verse 2, nor whatever amount of time might be passing between the individuals days. They are like scenes taken out of a timeline, even. This is all beside the point though(!).

The text clearly has an different goal than history. It's very obviously not for history, unlike some parts of the Bible that are obviously for history.

It's about the wonder of existence and all that is, and God as the ultimate source, even though we are given no small details at all, no physics, no chemistry, no small details anywhere. It's not a small detail text, but a kind of poem about existence and the wonder of everything, and to me, it's about God as our ultimate spring of joy.

Coveting your neighbor's wife, and of course then eventually acting on it, has led to a *lot* of murders over human existence. Probably by now to hundreds of millions of killings, and to tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of little wars sparked in prehistory leading to perhaps hundreds of millions of deaths (perhaps 50-100 billion humans have lived over time in the last 200,000 years).

It does not follow. The Bible is right about the existence of humans, for example, so why should it be wrong about coveting your neighbor’s wife?

It is not wrong about evolution (never happened...never proven)

Or the Flood (did happen, the fact that all early civilizations had a flood story proves this)

The bible has never been wrong

so zip your pants back up

- Genesis is wrong about origin of species.

- Genesis is not totally wrong about Noah's Flood, just exaggerated.

- Biblical patriarchs did have wives, concubines, and slave women, But that was the law 2500 years ago.

However they weren't supposed to covet others wives. Even David got into trouble when he coveted Uriah's wife Bathsheba

- Your neighbor is a married woman, married under 21st century laws: the only spouse of only one... until they decide together to break their contract.

Both basic morals and the laws of your century command you to not interfere in their marriage... regardless Ancient Israelite biologists opinion.

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Just let her know discreetly, just in case...

observable scientific evidence supports the global flood and refutes evolution.

If you think anything good can come from coveting your neighbors wife, go ahead and do it and find out what the results will be.

The problem with the bible is that it says one thing, then the opposite. Nothing in the bible can be taken seriously once that fact has become obvious. I heavily recommend christians to read your damned bibles people. We tire of schooling you on your own vile book. Read it yourself.

You make the choice. My personal rule is to not do another man's wife. Not for any biblical reasons, only because it is the right thing.