mark wrote:
Sophiee1 wrote:

I note you didn't answer any of my questions regarding the use of "light" in B'reshit / Genesis 1
Obviously nobody can answer those questions. So I assumed they were rhetorical, asked only to make a point about language. And I responded accordingly. It's amazing to me that after all this time, you still think I'm trying to stonewall you. I really wish we could just stick to the discussion.
The question was not rhetorical and there IS an answer.   Rather than assume (if you do not know the answer) the logical thing to do is ask for the answer.  

Sorry, I don't buy the "innocent me" tack you so often proffer.   You simply gloss over this very important question -- just as you ignore all those quotes where clearly we are told that G-d does not change, is not a man, and so on.   If G-d did change then G-d lied.   This is very black and white -- and yet you try to twist a word here or there to fit your agenda.  You stonewall.   You focus on a gnat and ignore the ocean -- insisting that the gnat must have some enormous significance while you drown by ignoring the ocean of facts surrounding you.

Your choice, just don't try to take anyone under water with you.

You have an agenda and you ignore anything that doesn't fit your agenda -- hence your not answering my question about "what does the Torah mean using the word "light" in "B'reshit / Genesis 1" when it tells us
"And G-d said let there be light"
What kind of light?  What does this mean since there was not yet a sun or atmosphere?  My asking you the meaning of this phrase is very pertinent to the discussion at hand (the fact that you think it is not pertinent and is off topic is very telling).    Just as telling is your ignoring the multitude of quotes I've given 2 or 3 times in this thread wherein we are told G-d does not change and that G-d is as He was as He will be. . .  you simply ignore them because they don't further your evangelical purpose. . .

Bottom line, Mark?  G-d does NOT change!
Lastly, it is important to recognize that Hashem has no emotions. This somehow seems to escape the attention of many people. . .  Humans have a natural tendency to ascribe human qualities and emotions to G-d. Indeed, pagan gods are nothing more than imagined beings with the same feelings and characteristics of the people who worship them. We must be very careful not to project our own qualities onto Hashem, as the prophet admonishes:
"The Children of Israel ascribed things that were not so to Hashem their G-d" (Melachim II 17:9)..

סופי

And everything that Sarah tells you, listen to her voice. Bereshit (Genesis) 21:12
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