Posted on 08/11/2014 7:54:35 PM PDT by Jeremiah Jr
2480590000 x 7 = 17364130000
1+7+3+6+4+1+3 = 25, 2 + 5 = 7 days!
“The seven days of creation!”
Wait... I thought it was 6.
I heard the boys are back in town.
I thought everything was 23?
It almost reads like English . . . but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
This reminds me of the old joke about the CEO hiring an accountant. He asked each one: “What’s 2+2?” The first three applicants all replied: Four! The next applicant sits down. CEO: “What 2+2?” The applicant slides his chair closer and quietly asks: “What do you want it to be?” He got the job.
It looks like this accountant is still at work!
Well, this is an article from the Jewish perspective.
I think, when you refuse to accept the obvious answer, the Gospel, then you often go further and further afield in search of other answers. First, you might scour the Torah, then the Rabbinical writings, then the mystical stuff like Kabbalah. Plenty of Jews keep searching until they wander away from God’s Word entirely and wind up chasing philosophy, Buddhism, or New Age nonsense. All because they are not satisfied with the answer God gave them, and think they might find a better one for themselves if they just keep looking.
Of course the gentile unbelievers do the same things, but it’s a bit sadder when God’s people do it, since they are so close to the truth to begin with.
“Beware the deadly black tarantula.”
Pete: “Do not seek the treasure!”
Delmar: “We thought you were a toad!”
We love Hugh Ross & his wife Kathy. We have been to Hugh’s Sunday School class many times in California, and when they come to Houston, we go to hear him speak there too. I do not always agree with Hugh, even though his IQ is a trillion times higher than mine.
What is crazy, my husband doesn’t believe the world was created in 6 days as the Bible says it was. But he believes people did live hundreds of years, and that Sarah had a baby at age 80. I am right the opposite. I believe if God had wanted to He could have created the world in less than a nano second. But I don’t believe Sarah had a baby at age 80.
The good thing for us is that none of this matters. The only theological question is WHY. Not when, where, how, etc. WHY did God create us? That is the question.
Wow, you said in one sentence what I was trying to say in a paragraph. GREAT JOB!
On what day did Lucifer fall?
I heard Chuck Smith pose this question once regarding 6 day creation. I’d be curious to know your answer.
Delmar said, “we thought you was a toad” his grammar wasn’t so great! LOL
and
Everything except Jesus.
He was really into Baha'i
Nope. It’s 42. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Before the creation of the Universe, Satan was in heaven. Heaven was already there. It is not part of our physical universe. The laws of Physics do not apply to heaven.
I knew Chuck Smith and Hugh Ross.
I still can’t look at a photo of Chuck, or think of him without crying. He was our son’s pastor in Costa Mesa. We were so blessed to go to hear him right before we moved back to Texas from California. He was there with Franklin Graham for a huge outdoor revival. It was wonderful.
The day that my son told me Chuck died, I put on my CD player and the song that came on was “Heaven, I’m in heaven, And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek...
Now any time I think of Chuck, that song comes into my head. What a great man, he lead thousands, maybe millions to Christ. All because he started a church in So Calif to surfers who had no church, and it grew to so many campuses.
We were there for a service one time when they were blessing the children. One little toddler girl was crying uncontrollably. Chuck went up to her and whispered something to her, with his huge smile on his face. She stopped crying, and didn’t cry anymore during that service. He had a magic touch with all ages.
My husband was in the hospital today for outpatient back surgery, epidural injection. He is in so much pain he cannot sit, stand, walk, lay down without great pain. So many things wrong with his back. While he was prepped for surgery and waiting for his doctor to arrive, he read a whole Chuck Smith book.
When Chuck passed away my son said that the world was making a big fuss over Nelson Mandela’s passing, yet because of Chuck’s lifelong dedication/ministry thousands of souls will be with us in heaven.
As I said how many days or hours or a fraction of a nanosecond it took God to create the world, matters not. All that matters is that we are all Saved By Grace Alone, Gospel Alone, Faith Alone.
We have all sinned and some short of the Glory of God. There is nothing we can DO to win salvation, it was already won for us by Christ on the cross, and in His resurrection. We cannot add one whit to it.
But it is FUN to think in human terms of how God created the world, and when, and how long, etc. But it doesn’t matter. I don’t base my faith on human trivia. That is all it is, trivia.
But the Bible says God created the world in 6 days, and on the 7th day He rested, and until GOD Himself tells me otherwise, I will believe the Word Of God and not the trifles of man.
I already said that... 42...
several posts back
A big problem with such theories is that they tend to upstage the gospel. John 3:16 does not go away or lose its meaning as a result of any details we may get about events that don’t impact us here and now.
Old earth ... new earth .... it doesn’t matter to me. A lot of people will question creation (or question God). I usually tell them that I have faith that Jesus rose from the dead after three days. Therefore, I believe God can do a lot of things beyond our comprehension.
God is outside of time. This doesn’t matter. He could have folded “time” as we know it back on itself a million times in one “so called” day. He did create light after all.
How many of us even understand the most basic Quantum Physics, yet we claim to know how God did this thing and could not have done that thing?
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