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Thank you so very much for your excellent insights, dear sister in Christ!

Truly, I sped right over that assertion that God could lie because it is absurd on the face. He is not "in" space/time and thus when He says a thing, it is. The Scriptures declare that God cannot lie, that He speaks of the end from the beginning, that Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, that our names are recorded in the book of life from the foundation of the world and so on.

God cannot lie.

It seems pretty obvious to me that the Universe is an unimaginably, astronomically spectacular instance of superb engineering, AND is also a sublimely beautiful creation, as in a work of art. Why do we have to accept an "either-or proposition" here, when the Universe is (apparently) both?

Truly said. Creation is both spiritual and physical, heaven and earth, art and engineering.

There is much more I'd love to say, but as you have noted - this thread is now in the backroom.