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. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking spent a large percentage of his life figuring out how the cosmos works; but had to admit that he couldn't figure out the "why" of the cosmos; viz: why it exists at all instead of nothing at all. I was once asked by a co-worker why I believed the Bible. I...

. ● Gen 1:16 . . He made the stars also. Alexander Friedmann's theory of an expanding universe was lent some credibility by Edwin Hubble's discovery that galaxies, in all directions, appear to be moving away from each other. Further studies revealed that the movement isn't steady. For example...

. ● Gen 2:2-3 . . On the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. That passage states that...

. ● Gen 2:1-2 . .The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their array. Some feel that the Earth 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...

. Non human life for the Earth was created on a different scale than human life. Non human life was created in swarms, while human life was created just one solo individual. ● Gen 2:7 . .The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life...

. Do you honestly believe that your interpretations of the Bible are 100% infallible and speaking for God ex cathedra? Let me give you some friendly advice Benjamin Calvary. Don't be conceited. Leave yourself some room for error lest the hapless day arrives when it's discovered that you...

. Please go read post #46; prayerfully and carefully. BTW: Your take on the matter, whatever it might be, is fine with me. Viewers are entitled to a second opinion. _

. ● Gen 1:3 . . Then God said "Let there be light" and there was light. The creation of light was a very, very intricate process. First God had to create particulate matter, and along with those particles their specific properties, including mass; if any. Then He had to invent the laws of...

. ● Gen 1:2c . . and Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. When that verse is considered with Gen 1:9; it's readily deduced that that the Earth's surface was completely submerged at first; so that the planet has been flooded twice in the past; but that was it. ● Gen 9:11 . ...

. According to Gen 8:1-3, the Flood's waters were blown off the Earth; and according to Gen 1:9-10 the oceans were here before the Flood. _

. I'm confident in my own mind that Ps 104:5-9 is a reference to Gen 1:2. The waters of the Flood were removed, whereas the waters of Ps 10:5-9 are still here. _

. ● Ps 104:5-9 . . He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight. The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to...

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. Each of the six days of creation are bounded by an evening and a morning. The seventh is not bounded; it's an open-ended day which means that God is still on sabbatical and hasn't created anything new for the current cosmos since the end of the sixth day, i.e. while the Jews' commemorative...

. Well; for sure we have to buy some time somewhere, lots of time-- either with the gap theory or the yowm/epoch theory --in order to account for the 4.5 billion-year age of the earth, and factor in the various eras, e.g. Triassic, Jurassic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, and Cretaceous, etc, plus the ice...

. ● Rev 14:6-7 . . And I saw another angel flying through the sky, carrying the everlasting gospel to preach to the people who dwell on the earth-- to every nation, tribe, language, and people. Fear God! he shouted. Give glory to Him! For the time has come when He will sit as judge. Worship Him...

. Back in the Old Testament, a curse was leveled upon a really bad king in Solomon's royal line to David's throne that reads like this: ● Jer 22:29-30 . . O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord! Thus said the Lord: Record this man as without succession, one who shall never be found...

. ● Gen 3:7 . .Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they perceived that they were naked; and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves loincloths. For convenience sake; let's attribute Eve's new perception to the so-called fallen nature. The big question is: From where did she...

. ● Gen 3:15 . . I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel Q: Where does Adam fit in that picture? A: The key element in understanding Jesus Christ's human origin is first understanding Eve's human...

. I encounter Christians from time to time that sincerely believe Joseph was Jesus' stepfather. However; in order for Mary's baby to qualify for a legitimate place in Joseph's genealogy as per Matthew 1:1-17, he had to adopt the lad because stepchildren do not have inheritance rights. I've...