“1:1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
1:3 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 - And God saw the light, and it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
So, the cosmos was without form, Big Bang created light, long after a local star went supernova for MORE light, and the resulting caused the solar system to form; fish were formed before man, man came about in God’s spiritual image having the capacity to think and understand good and evil, and our human nature leads us to choose what is selfish rather than think first of others. Science again runs parallel to Scripture.”
Why must we think of others first? Why is it wrong to be selfish if selfishness means concern with ones own interests. Why can’t we be primarily concerned with our own lives and happiness and concern ourselves with others when we choose to? Because “God said so” or “the bible said so” is not a rational reason. No one has ever given me a rational answer to these questions. Don’t we first have to take care of our own needs before we can help others? Do we exist to serve others’ lives and never our own? Why do you feel the need to make such a statement on a thread about a supernova? And by the way you pulled a fast one and changed the wording from “in the beginning the Earth was without form” to “in the beginning the cosmos was without form”. Now why did you do that? Earth came much later than the big bang. And isn’t it true that man was not created with the ability to understand good and evil according to he bible but gained that ability from eating the forbidden fruit, for which he was thrown out of the garden and became fallen?
To ancient peoples without science who knew the stars as only lights hanging in glass domes, Earth would BE the cosmos. I merely sought to show how the Genesis that some take as literal (I don't) runs parallel to science if you allow it to. Clearly Earth is mentioned later than the creation of Light. Works for me.