Science often disproves the religious instruction that we learned in our youth. The world was not created in 7 days just 4000 years ago. You can think that because well meaning Bible teachers have said so, but if this is what we believe, it and you are wrong. Besides, there are two different versions of the creation in Genesis(see Genesis 1 and Genesis 2: which is right?)
Scientific advancement doesn’t mean that God doesn’t exist, it just means that what was written 2500 years ago was written for an audience 2500 years ago. Most of the Genesis story was adopted from the Sumerians and written down once in Israel, and once in Judah around 850 BC. Sometimes the lessons of the Old Testament are universally true (pride goeth before the fall), but sometimes(and on the third day…) science shows otherwise.
So how can you count on anything? Faith?
Maybe.
Suppose we ultimately discover how everything works in the universe. We answer questions all the way back to the big bang, or maybe before. We still won’t know the answer to the most fundamental of all questions: “Why is there anything at all?” Nature shows us that something doesn’t spring from nothing. Really, nothing should exist, much less be in motion like our universe. But stuff does exist and it is in motion tho our limited perceptive abilities may not actually see the real motion.(gravity is a function of mass in the space time continuum. (It’s Einstein. It’s real)
Something preferred everything and set everything in motion. Something probably isn’t an old white man with a long beard surrounded by winged creatures with harps.(but it could be). What started everything is still the ultimate question. The fact that anything exists at all tells me that God, whatever He(or She if you prefer) is, exists.
And the fact that God made everything tells me that He(or She) is a God of love because He used some incomprehensible power to create something that really did nothing for him, and everything for me.
It's a beautiful day in God's world be sure to see the good.
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Suppose we ultimately discover how everything works in the universe. We answer questions all the way back to the big bang, or maybe before. We still won’t know the answer to the most fundamental of all questions: “Why is there anything at all?” Nature shows us that something doesn’t spring from nothing. Really, nothing should exist, much less be in motion like our universe. But stuff does exist and it is in motion tho our limited perceptive abilities may not actually see the real motion.(gravity is a function of mass in the space time continuum. (It’s Einstein. It’s real)
Something preferred everything and set everything in motion. Something probably isn’t an old white man with a long beard surrounded by winged creatures with harps.(but it could be). What started everything is still the ultimate question. The fact that anything exists at all tells me that God, whatever He(or She if you prefer) is, exists.
And the fact that God made everything tells me that He(or She) is a God of love because He used some incomprehensible power to create something that really did nothing for him, and everything for me.
It's a beautiful day in God's world be sure to see the good.
Send replies to jsbrink57@gmail.com
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I am leading a trip to Ireland next year. If you are interested in reading about it, or joining in, the link is below.....
Treasures of Ireland
July 13-22, 2020
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