Those long hairs sort of resemble evergreen needles.
Posted on 03/08/2010 6:27:24 PM PST by TaraP
The problem with today’s scientists is that they cannot wrap their arms around GOD and his Physics about creation, they have some distorted image of *GOD* as some magician or Samantha type that just twitched his nose and makes things appear, and of course that kind of image does sound like a fairytale.
It's canonical for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, one of the Latin rite Eastern tradition Catholic churches...;)
He was a creative soul!
3 Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
4 “Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone-
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels [a] shouted for joy?
8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
9 when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt’?
12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
13 that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?
Even if it does speak of dinosaurs, it needen’t be suggesting that such were contemporaneous with Job.
Job answers God that he had spoken of things beyond his comprehension.
A light-year is also indicative of how long light takes, to travel the distance specified.
A star 10 million light years away from Earth, has light which has taken 10 million years to arrive Earth. That means the star has to be older than 10 million years, if the star is visible in the sky.
This, unless you have a model challenging the currently accepted laws of physics.
17 His tail [b] sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit.18 His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron.
19 He ranks first among the works of God, yet his Maker can approach him with his sword.
Verse 17 clearly talks about the beast, as does verse 18. Verse 19 starts with "He", about the beast, and calls it the first among the works of God. And then we find out about his Maker - God - can approach him with his sword. Not you, not me, not anyone else. The beast's Maker - God.
It seems pretty clear to me, quite explicit if you take the words at face value. The beast has a tail that moves like a cedar, and has bones like tubes of bronze with arms like iron. And while the beast is the biggest and baddest God ever made, God can still approach with His sword.
17 His tail [b] sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit.18 His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron.
19 He ranks first among the works of God, yet his Maker can approach him with his sword.
Verse 17 clearly talks about the beast, as does verse 18. Verse 19 starts with "He", about the beast, and calls it the first among the works of God. And then we find out about his Maker - God - can approach him with his sword. Not you, not me, not anyone else. The beast's Maker - God.
It seems pretty clear to me, quite explicit if you take the words at face value. The beast has a tail that moves like a cedar, and has bones like tubes of bronze with arms like iron. And while the beast is the biggest and baddest God ever made, God can still approach with His sword.
I think beyond mine too!
But very interesting! We can never learn all the Mysteries of the Creator...
Yes people tend to forget that writers of the Bible were in direct communication with the Creator.
Also many persons mock believers in the Bible thinking the Earth must be only 6000 years old because of some misinterpretations of Genesis. Genesis never says how long Adam and Eve lived as spiritual immortals in the Garden of Eden. For all that anyone knows, they may have been there for billions of Earth years before following the deception of Satan.
It is amazing that nothing literal in the Bible can be taken to refute its truthfulness. It would have been entirely possible for deceptive writers of biblical books to state unequivocally that the Earth was 6000 years old but nothing was so stated. Genesis only refers to how many years Adam lived after he was cast out of the Garden.
So many things could have been said in the Bible that would be easy to prove were untrue. Plenty of things were said that are incredible to believe such as parting the Red Sea or Jesus rising from the dead. These are incredible things but they can’t be proven true or untrue. To accept they are true takes faith not proof. To think they are untrue requires the same.
Nonbelievers think that because they have never witnessed seas parting or dead people rising to life, that this is enough to refute any such reference in the Bible. They use their life experience as proof that no such things can occur. That is not proof they are claiming, that is merely a testimony that they have never been chosen by God to see these incredible things.
Right, so we agree the writer is not talking about an elephant, anyone can approach an elephant, it doesn’t take an act of God to do that.
No, you’re not reading what I wrote, or what the Bible states. Only God can approach the beast with God’s sword. Do you have God’s sword? Can you wield it? No, only God can. And only God can approach the beast with it.
But let’s just say it’s not an elephant - what is it?
Well, in that case, has anyone found dinosaur fossils yet, made of brass?
Those long hairs sort of resemble evergreen needles.
That’s what I thought as well.....
Thanks for mentioning that, as I forgot when the term Dinosaur came about.
Cedar elephant? Yes, I cedar elephant. It’s right there!
I have no problem at all.
You are trying to twist the plain written descriptions to avail your level of unbelief; that is your problem.
Facts are inconvenient to those such as yourself.
Since it is written that God created man in His own image, it seems that God gave man many of the qualities that God possessed. To God, time means nothing. The immortal omnipotent everlasting Creator is not bound by the physical laws that man must now contend with in this physical realm. God gave man the ability to reason and that ability to reason has led man to some comprehension of the created universe. What man seems to have “discovered” in the theories surrounding the creation of the solar system seems to correlate with how God, as described in Genesis, created the world on which we now dwell. God spoke to the prophets and to man in Biblical times and man heard God......because in those Biblical days, man actually listened.
So, if something is cold like a block of ice, is it a block of ice?
“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Now according to this verse, I can not only wield the sword of God, but I'm commanded too.
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