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†. Gen 1:29-30 . . God said: See, I give you every seed-bearing
plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-
bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food. And to all the animals
on land, to all the winged creatures of the sky, and to everything
that creeps on earth, in which there is the breath of life, I give all
the green plants for food. And it was so.
Prior to the Flood; man, beast, bug, and birds too-- even the lions and tigers
and hawks and eagles and vultures and crocodiles --subsisted on fruits,
nuts, grains, and vegetables. Precisely what kind of diet God intended for
sea life is not stated.
That raises an interesting question: why do carnivores have teeth so
uniquely suited for killing other creatures and ripping their flesh? Well, I
think it's obvious that they didn't use their teeth like that at first. For
example; buck-toothed beavers have incisors that could take your hand off
but they don't use them for that purpose. Male musk deer have saber-like
upper canine teeth and their diet is moss and grass and sometimes twigs
and lichen. And everybody knows about Wally the walrus' big ol' tusks;
which he doesn't use to kill his food, but rather, to plow up the sea bottom
in search of his favorite mollusks.
Though the fossilized remains of a therapsid, named Tiarajudens
eccentricus, exhibits saber tusks, it is believed to have efficiently chewed
leaves and stems with interlocking incisors and cow-like molars.
In the kingdom of God, carnivores won't be carnivorous any more, and
nothing in the animal kingdom will any longer pose a danger to either Man
or to each other. (Isa 11:6-9)
†. Gen 1:31 . . And God saw all that He had made, and found it very
good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Some feel that the cosmos-- all of its forms of life, matter, and energy --was
created incomplete, not quite up to snuff: that it was to Man that God
entrusted the task of putting on the finishing touches. But that is very
doubtful. Why ever would God, after an overall inspection, conclude His work
by pronouncing it all good-- and not just good, but "very" good. Why would
He say the creation was very good if in truth it was incomplete?
In reality, Man hasn't improved the planet at all. He has actually ravaged it
and left it with terrible damage-- leveled mountains, dried up rivers, emptied
lakes, drained marshes, indiscriminately obliterated habitat, wiped out
animals to extinction, scraped away perfectly good cropland and replaced it
with warehouses and factories and malls and residential communities; plus
denuded water sheds thus causing unnecessary erosion and stream
sedimentation, dammed rivers thus disrupting ancient fish migration routes,
over-exploited natural resources, filled the atmosphere with toxins and
greenhouse gas emissions, poisoned aquifers, contaminated soil and
waterways with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, GMO vegetation; and made
possible super germs, and seriously upset the balance of nature.
It seems that everything Mr. Ruddy touches, he ruins; and as if the earth
isn't enough, he's moved out into space where in just the 58 years since
Russia launched its first Sputnik into low earth orbit on Oct 04, 1957,
humans have littered the sky around their planet with 13,000 catalogued
pieces of space junk, which is only a fraction of the more than 600,000
objects circling the globe larger than one centimeter (a centimeter is a little
over 3/8ths of an inch). Humans have even discarded 374,782 pounds of
litter on the Moon, including Alan Shepherd's golf balls.
So; when God looked over His work and "found" that it was very good, does
that mean He was surprised it came out like it did? (chuckle) No. It would be
a strange craftsman indeed who couldn't look over their work with pride and
satisfaction in a job well done.
I believe creation's creator knew precisely what He was doing, and where He
was going with creation; and was highly pleased that it came out exactly as
planned. I seriously doubt that God was feeling His way along like
experimenters in medicine and rocket science. Nobody could build a fully
functioning cosmos and all of its forms of life, matter, and energy unless
they knew what they were doing from beginning to end.
"O Yhvh! . . what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have
made them all. (Ps 104:24)
NOTE: The information disclosed in the first chapter of Genesis is
incorporated in the text of a gospel labeled as "everlasting".
"And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting
gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and
kindred, and tongue, and people, announcing with a loud voice: Fear God,
and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship
him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."
(Rev 14:6-7)
The everlasting gospel is very elementary. Pretty much all it says is:
1• There's a supreme being.
2• He deserves respect.
3• There's a frightful reckoning looming on the horizon, and
4• The cosmos-- all of its forms of life, matter, and energy --is the product
of intelligent design.
Of particular interest to me is the inclusion of water in the everlasting
gospel. Scientists theorize the origin of the earth's amazing quantity of water
without really knowing exactly where it came from, nor how it got here.
Well; that is one of the things that I like about Genesis. It takes an
essentially unsophisticated, uneducated blue-collar welder like myself and
gives him answers to questions that people much brighter, and better
educated than I cannot answer.
Giving "glory" to God simply indicates giving someone credit where credit is
due; and "worship" basically just simply means admiration.
It's quite natural to admire celebrities, pro athletes, and super achievers-- to
give them credit where credit is due --but not quite so natural to do the
same for their creator.
Anyway, point being: people either believe in intelligent design, or they
don't. If they do believe, then they will admire both the originator's genius
and His handiwork. If they don't believe; then they won't admire anything
about Him: simple as that.
Cont.
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†. Gen 1:29-30 . . God said: See, I give you every seed-bearing
plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-
bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food. And to all the animals
on land, to all the winged creatures of the sky, and to everything
that creeps on earth, in which there is the breath of life, I give all
the green plants for food. And it was so.
Prior to the Flood; man, beast, bug, and birds too-- even the lions and tigers
and hawks and eagles and vultures and crocodiles --subsisted on fruits,
nuts, grains, and vegetables. Precisely what kind of diet God intended for
sea life is not stated.
That raises an interesting question: why do carnivores have teeth so
uniquely suited for killing other creatures and ripping their flesh? Well, I
think it's obvious that they didn't use their teeth like that at first. For
example; buck-toothed beavers have incisors that could take your hand off
but they don't use them for that purpose. Male musk deer have saber-like
upper canine teeth and their diet is moss and grass and sometimes twigs
and lichen. And everybody knows about Wally the walrus' big ol' tusks;
which he doesn't use to kill his food, but rather, to plow up the sea bottom
in search of his favorite mollusks.
Though the fossilized remains of a therapsid, named Tiarajudens
eccentricus, exhibits saber tusks, it is believed to have efficiently chewed
leaves and stems with interlocking incisors and cow-like molars.
In the kingdom of God, carnivores won't be carnivorous any more, and
nothing in the animal kingdom will any longer pose a danger to either Man
or to each other. (Isa 11:6-9)
†. Gen 1:31 . . And God saw all that He had made, and found it very
good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Some feel that the cosmos-- all of its forms of life, matter, and energy --was
created incomplete, not quite up to snuff: that it was to Man that God
entrusted the task of putting on the finishing touches. But that is very
doubtful. Why ever would God, after an overall inspection, conclude His work
by pronouncing it all good-- and not just good, but "very" good. Why would
He say the creation was very good if in truth it was incomplete?
In reality, Man hasn't improved the planet at all. He has actually ravaged it
and left it with terrible damage-- leveled mountains, dried up rivers, emptied
lakes, drained marshes, indiscriminately obliterated habitat, wiped out
animals to extinction, scraped away perfectly good cropland and replaced it
with warehouses and factories and malls and residential communities; plus
denuded water sheds thus causing unnecessary erosion and stream
sedimentation, dammed rivers thus disrupting ancient fish migration routes,
over-exploited natural resources, filled the atmosphere with toxins and
greenhouse gas emissions, poisoned aquifers, contaminated soil and
waterways with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, GMO vegetation; and made
possible super germs, and seriously upset the balance of nature.
It seems that everything Mr. Ruddy touches, he ruins; and as if the earth
isn't enough, he's moved out into space where in just the 58 years since
Russia launched its first Sputnik into low earth orbit on Oct 04, 1957,
humans have littered the sky around their planet with 13,000 catalogued
pieces of space junk, which is only a fraction of the more than 600,000
objects circling the globe larger than one centimeter (a centimeter is a little
over 3/8ths of an inch). Humans have even discarded 374,782 pounds of
litter on the Moon, including Alan Shepherd's golf balls.
So; when God looked over His work and "found" that it was very good, does
that mean He was surprised it came out like it did? (chuckle) No. It would be
a strange craftsman indeed who couldn't look over their work with pride and
satisfaction in a job well done.
I believe creation's creator knew precisely what He was doing, and where He
was going with creation; and was highly pleased that it came out exactly as
planned. I seriously doubt that God was feeling His way along like
experimenters in medicine and rocket science. Nobody could build a fully
functioning cosmos and all of its forms of life, matter, and energy unless
they knew what they were doing from beginning to end.
"O Yhvh! . . what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have
made them all. (Ps 104:24)
NOTE: The information disclosed in the first chapter of Genesis is
incorporated in the text of a gospel labeled as "everlasting".
"And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting
gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and
kindred, and tongue, and people, announcing with a loud voice: Fear God,
and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship
him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."
(Rev 14:6-7)
The everlasting gospel is very elementary. Pretty much all it says is:
1• There's a supreme being.
2• He deserves respect.
3• There's a frightful reckoning looming on the horizon, and
4• The cosmos-- all of its forms of life, matter, and energy --is the product
of intelligent design.
Of particular interest to me is the inclusion of water in the everlasting
gospel. Scientists theorize the origin of the earth's amazing quantity of water
without really knowing exactly where it came from, nor how it got here.
Well; that is one of the things that I like about Genesis. It takes an
essentially unsophisticated, uneducated blue-collar welder like myself and
gives him answers to questions that people much brighter, and better
educated than I cannot answer.
Giving "glory" to God simply indicates giving someone credit where credit is
due; and "worship" basically just simply means admiration.
It's quite natural to admire celebrities, pro athletes, and super achievers-- to
give them credit where credit is due --but not quite so natural to do the
same for their creator.
Anyway, point being: people either believe in intelligent design, or they
don't. If they do believe, then they will admire both the originator's genius
and His handiwork. If they don't believe; then they won't admire anything
about Him: simple as that.
Cont.
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