There ya go again w/that "looseness." Even if you could claim that you grew the tree from a seedling from which you got the wood and then "made" the boards, I got news for you: The seed, the tree, the wood, was not original from you. You cannot get a patent on that wood and that tree and that seed.
The biblical doctrine of creation is that Christ has a patent on creation, and that it's ex nihilo (Latin from out of nothing)...all based upon Hebrews 11:3 and other passages.
>>>>If I make the boards, then organize those boards into a house, haven’t I done both?
>>There ya go again w/that "looseness." Even if you could claim that you grew the tree
>>from a seedling from which you got the wood and then "made" the boards, I got news
>>for you: The seed, the tree, the wood, was not original from you. You cannot get a
>>patent on that wood and that tree and that seed.
The boards and house was your analogy, and now you don’t like it? What if I created the Boards out of thin air?
>>The biblical doctrine of creation is that Christ has a patent on creation, and that it's
>>ex nihilo (Latin from out of nothing)...all based upon Hebrews 11:3 and other
>>passages.
Ex nihilo is from the Nicene Creed and I think we have been there enough for one thread, don’t you? And patents only last for twenty years, and you have to basically publish how you do it (God did neither)
Here: Heb 11: 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
I see nothing in your Quotation that contradicts what I have said, in fact it supports it. This scripture could also be read that Christ created things that can be seen using things that can’t like atoms being made up of smaller particles.