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Hi Alamo-Girl. I got stuck right away, but let me ask, if a grain of wheat that has been ground up and raised to a temperature of approximately 350 degrees, i.e. bread, is planted in the earth, how long will it take to reproduce itself? I would expect that one year would be insufficient. But if we gave it one hundred years, would that suffice? Is there some other method that we can apply that would make the experiment more plausible? We could certainly project outward to say one billion years and postulate all kinds of mechanisms by which a loaf of bread might be able to reproduce in kind, couldn't we? I'm rambling, you see, because I have never understood the "mystery" of creation since a window on the effortless power of God was opened by Jesus Christ.

The experiment I described is impossible, yet given enough time we could assume anything, even the spontaneous reproduction of bread from bread...precisely the event that occured repeatedly, without effort and without time in the hands of the disciples of Jesus.

Is creation more difficult than bread from bread simply because of the scope of the undertaking? Do we therefore need to give God plenty of time to complete his tasks? If so, how long must we give God to raise the cold, dead body of his Son? Would that be only marginally more difficult than bread from bread but not nearly as difficult as creation? I'd say it must be, as God needed billions of years to create the universe, but raised Jesus in only three days.

I'm just a little confused.

Thank you for your post!

If I may sum it up, your view is that God can do whatever He wants anyway, e.g. create a universe that appears old in whatever time He chooses. I've heard that point of view before and certainly have no objection to it.

Is creation more difficult than bread from bread simply because of the scope of the undertaking? Do we therefore need to give God plenty of time to complete his tasks? If so, how long must we give God to raise the cold, dead body of his Son? Would that be only marginally more difficult than bread from bread but not nearly as difficult as creation? I'd say it must be, as God needed billions of years to create the universe, but raised Jesus in only three days.

Good point.