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To: metmom; EnglishCon
Considering how concise the creation account and other places in Scripture where God deals with scientific type information is and the level at which He speaks so that any can understand it, it is remarkably accurate.

Yes, I agree. God takes credit for it and I give him credit for it.

The particular manner by which he chose to carry out the creation process is not something he felt was important to what he was trying to accomplish with the bible otherwise, he would have told us more about it.

Scientists in their quest for greater understanding observe and theorize possible paths God may have chosen. While many of them may try to remove God from their theories, that doesn't prevent me from seeing the hand of God and giving him ultimate credit just in case this was the manner by which he chose to carry out his creation.

After all, when comparing two hypothetical creators, one who used intelligent design versus another creator who used theories compatible with orthodox science, I think it safe to say that the greater act of creation was carried out by the creator able to trigger the big bang and have everything ultimately form from that as opposed to the creator who had to periodically get involved via "intelligent design".

102 posted on 03/21/2012 2:40:02 AM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301; EnglishCon

So many people have a problem with the idea that God is in and is able to be in complete control of EVERY minute details of the universe, and yet we know that it's all being held together by His power.

As for Him controlling the details of our lives,.....

Psalm 139:13-18 13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

Acts 17:24-27 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.

26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

God is the ultimate micromanager and not only is He capable of it, He cares enough for His creation to DO it.

104 posted on 03/21/2012 5:49:17 AM PDT by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: fso301

Do you believe that Jesus overruled the laws of nature in order to perform His miracles?

Did He really walk on water? Did He really change water to wine? Did He really cause dead people to come back alive? Did He really make a violent storm come to an end by speaking to it?

The Creator, since before the beginning, has been injecting Himself into His creation, overruling the laws of nature.

The last sentence of your last paragraph makes you sound more like a Deist than a Christian. Would you consider yourself a Deist, rather than a Theist?


108 posted on 03/21/2012 7:01:05 AM PDT by Theo (May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
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