To: dayglored; PieterCasparzen
The Bible tells us of our relationship with God and His Son, Jesus.
It is not a scientific text.
The Bible does not define Gravity (nor tells us from whence it comes which is less known than TToE), defines the Speed of Light, Avogadro’s Constant onr how to eek light out of excited molecules, much less Boolean logic as an applicable discipline.
God speaks to use through the Bible and the biggest statement is: “I gave you a rational Universe with rational laws: discover them and you will see Me with each discovery.”
54 posted on
03/10/2015 10:07:16 PM PDT by
freedumb2003
(islam: The hands of the Chinese, the mouths of the arabs, the minds of the French.)
To: freedumb2003
> God speaks to us through the Bible and the biggest statement is: I gave you a rational Universe with rational laws: discover them and you will see Me with each discovery.
I like that, it aligns well with my own experience in physics, philosophy, engineering, and my efforts to understand the nature of God and the Universe. Thanks!
60 posted on
03/10/2015 10:17:41 PM PDT by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: freedumb2003
The Bible does not define Gravity (nor tells us from whence it comes which is less known than TToE), defines the Speed of Light, Avogadros Constant onr how to eek light out of excited molecules, much less Boolean logic as an applicable discipline.
Yes, the Bible is not a scientific text.
But the Bible does give us a historical account of Creation, along with many other historical accounts. The Book of Genesis is not loaded with imagery and metaphors, but it is consistently historical, as opposed to a book like the Song of Solomon, a very large, complex and incredibly beautiful poetic discourse on the relationship of Christ and his Church.
The book of Genesis even quite specifically gives several geneologies, lending even more weight to the idea that the book is largely factual, not allegorical. Of course, as is the case with much of the Old Testament - history documented in Genesis, as God caused it to unfold, certainly does have a a lot of rich meaning relating to the New Testament, prefiguring Christ, etc., making the entire Bible a perfectly unified expression. But that in no way can be taken to mean that Genesis historical accounts are not factually true. It simply means that in all of history God is glorified, and he is indeed the author of history.
79 posted on
03/10/2015 11:25:27 PM PDT by
PieterCasparzen
(Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.)
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