As a Christian and firm believer in God and the Bible, I still struggle with some of the history. I can reconcile that the creation was in God days, not 24 hour days as we think of them today (sorry, too much evidence against a 6000 year old Earth, and that’s God’s evidence). The “miracles” are harder to grasp. I guess I would like to think that God’s miracles still confirm to God’s physical laws of the universe so that some physical explanation can be found. The parting of the Red Sea is still in the miracle category.
Any number of natural phenomena could temporarily empty a relatively shallow seabed. Wind, hurricanes have been known to empty out the shallow sounds of coastal NC. Tsunami, the ocean does withdraw from coastal areas in advance. The miracle wasn’t that it happened so much as the timing of it.
(sorry, too much evidence against a 6000 year old Earth, and that’s God’s evidence)
Really? polonium halos- rapid creation- the total impossibilities associated with macroevolution (biological, mathematical, chemical, thermodynamic impossibilities=- not just improbabilities- but actual impossibilities- as in could never happen- not even once, let along billions of times-)
[[I guess I would like to think that God’s miracles still confirm to God’s physical laws of the universe so that some physical explanation can be found.]]
That’s a tiny god- The very definition of a TRUE miracle is ‘supernatural event’ Super as in beyond the confinements of natural physical laws- If you don’t believe in supernatural miracles,- then how can you possibly believe Christ was God enough to conquer death for the sins of the world?
Your post doesn’t sound like the thoughts of a “firm believer”.
I believe God could've made everything instantaneously if He wanted to, but used six days to give us an example that we should work six days & rest on the seventh.
I am sure that people 500-1000 years ago would have considered some of the technology and science that we take for granted today as miraculous and too difficult to comprehend as being real. The God of science has no trouble with the natural components He has at hand...after all, He made them, He is not restrained by them. What we consider miracles, He just considers a way of life — nothing outside of his abilities. What is more miraculous than a human life? or even a human death? The universe and the planets? If we can take those on faith and believe that He did these things...why not all of the rest. Nothing is too difficult or too impossible for the One who created it all with a word.
In my small mind I find that I can be satisfied with: In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth as it pertains to man...
Who really knows how many worlds and peoples God has created.. We know of at least one other... Angels, right.??
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Yep.
Time being a derivative function of state-change that progresses relative to E within the inertial frame(s) in which it is observed.
Whose inertial frame did a day transpire in during creation?
It’s all relative.
Furthermore - the Big Bang doesn't contradict scripture. In the begining there was nothing, and then, a moment later - all the energy in the universe existed. BOOM!
“God’s miracles still confirm to God’s physical laws of the universe...”
Of course then they wouldn’t be considered miracles! Like that whole “rising from the dead” thing. An insteresting thought I just had when you wrote “God’s physical laws”. I wonder if God has a “complete” set of laws (natural, supernatural, spiritual, etc.) and we are only allowed to see some of them. Or - that we have lost those gifts over time. Back in the New Testament and earlier there were all sorts of healing miracles going on by many people, although Jesus was the only one to have brought somebody back from the dead.
Well, actually, some scientists claim that a world wide flood can cause problems with carbon dating and those millions of years the earth has been hanging around may not be accurate.