Wow. That’s pretty complicated. Congrats on putting that together.
I’m sure you will view this as an attack, but it’s not, really. I’m just trying to make a point.
It seems supremely ironic that you will not type the “o” in G_d, out of respect but refuse to believe what he plainly said. Yes, he gave us minds to investigate things, but we should respect Him enough to believe he is powerful enough to do things just exactly as we have been told. If we don’t, we might be saying He’s not who He says He is.
I wasn’t there, so I don’t know how old the universe/world is. But neither were you or any of the other Rabbis or scientists who claim they do by invoking these theories.
I can tell you one thing, however - even a mediocre artist can paint a picture of a redwood tree that is several hundred years old, and do it in one day. It’s not that old, but it looks like it. It’s not even a tree, but it looks like one.
ANYTHING scientists come up with requires assumptions. What if those assumptions are wrong? To quote your post:
“The “Big Bang Theory” says the universe started as a singularity, then the laws of physics were suspended for a while as everything expanded at faster than the speed of light.”
Suppose that was a few thousand years, and not just for an instant. Boy, it might make the universe look lots older. If you can’t count on the constant speed of light, you’ve really got a mess on your hands, haven’t you? Suppose that Doppler shift is not the product of motion, but of a still-changing light speed out there?
I’ll stick with what God chooses to tell me. Does he mean a 1000-year day? Perhaps, but that doesn’t appear to be what He chose to tell us in the text.
Maybe he just painted those stars a few thousand years ago... Have a nice day.
It seems supremely ironic that you will not type the “o” in G_d, out of respect but refuse to believe what he plainly said.
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When I quote from a source, I don’t edit the source’s use of language.
As long as you have confessed with you mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
There is a story about a Rabbi who was particularly pleased with himself for fashioning a beautiful prayer. Elohim told him that there was a man in another town who created a better prayer, and told the Rabbi how to find that person. When the Rabbi found the person, he found an almost illiterate peasant. The Rabbi asked the peasant about his prayer, and peasant told the Rabbi that he only knew the first ten letters of the Aleph-Bet, so he recited these and then asked Elohim to put them together in the form of a prayer that pleased Elohim.