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To: Hebrews 11:6
Your failure to cite him or his work in such an article is perplexing.

Ross's books are coming up on my reading list. I've listened to a lot of his lectures on YouTube and I follow his channel as well. I've also listened to his debates with Kent Hovind, which were very...interesting, lol. A friend has highly recommended Navigating Genesis and Why the Universe is the Way it is, so they're on my Amazon wish list. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Ross is a Day-Age Creationist, which posits that the seven days of Genesis are actually eons of time...an interesting idea, but one I don't fully agree with (though I'm looking forward to researching his proposals further). He is a brilliant cosmologist; that I won't deny. :)

7 posted on 01/27/2019 5:21:29 PM PST by pcottraux (depthsofpentecost.com)
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To: pcottraux
You've made an excellent decision in adding Hugh Ross's books to your reading list. Since he is new to you, and I'm an insider of sorts, I can fill you in on his backstory.

Hugh was a postgraduate astronomer at CalTech when he heard the Spirit's call to leave astronomy for Christian ministry. He became Minister of Evangelism at Sierra Madre [CA] Congregational Church (where I met and got to know him well). Soon he started an adult Sunday School class, Paradoxes in Scripture, which is now in its fifth decade.

In the mid-80s the Spirit moved again and Hugh and his wife Kathy started Reasons to Believe in order to demonstrate the true congruity of proper science and faith. Since then he has written seventeen books, including those you mentioned; I've read them all, to my very great benefit.

Finally, as to Hugh's rightful place. He shows, rationally and brilliantly with the mind of the trained scientist and careful Bible scholar, and patiently and generously with the heart of the experienced pastor, how to reconcile God’s two revelations, the physical and the scriptural. In doing so Dr. Ross has become, in my opinion, the most important scientist ever, for he has drawn back the curtain at long last on the studiously-unappreciated purpose, plan and details of the Creator’s work. As Isaac Newton was unique, because “there is only one universe to discover,” so is Hugh Ross, for there is only one universe’s biblical congruity and ultimate meaning to demonstrate—only one universe to explain.

12 posted on 01/28/2019 9:45:03 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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