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To: spirited irish; Alamo-Girl; betty boop
First of all, let me congratulate you on making a distinction that many fail to make: between "create" [bara]", "make" [asah]. and "form" or "fashion" [yatsar]. Many who claim to understand Genesis (yet pontificate loudly about it) confuse or conflate those three terms.

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However, I, find fault with with your judgmental

"From what God said rather than from what spiritually blind men have said. By elevating what can be learned from creation above what God said, men have fallen into egregious errors with respect to who and what they are, what is desperately wrong with them and what must happen to rectify this before their one lifetime is over."

Your (apparently intended) application of the above to me and my work bears strong indication of an egregious malapplication of the Reformation principle of "Sola Scriptura":

The Reformation principle of sola Scriptura has to do with the sufficiency of Scripture as our supreme authority in all spiritual matters. Sola Scriptura simply means that all truth necessary for our salvation and spiritual life is taught either explicitly or implicitly in Scripture. It is not a claim that all truth of every kind is found in Scripture. The most ardent defender of sola Scriptura will concede, for example, that Scripture has little or nothing to say about DNA structures, microbiology, the rules of Chinese grammar, or rocket science.

...and, I might add, the development or age (as measured from our spatio-temporal reference frame) of the universe, or its components such as life, this planet, or galaxies, etc...

Furthermore, your disregard of the manifest limitation of Sola Scriptura to spiritual matters is also in blithe diseregard of specific instructions from our Creator, Himself:

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

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...and your excuse is...?

247 posted on 05/28/2014 10:58:07 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: TXnMA; spirited irish; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; marron; metmom
The Reformation principle of sola Scriptura has to do with the sufficiency of Scripture as our supreme authority in all spiritual matters. Sola Scriptura simply means that all truth necessary for our salvation and spiritual life is taught either explicitly or implicitly in Scripture. It is not a claim that all truth of every kind is found in Scripture.

Which, I gather, is why our Gracious and Loving Father blessed humankind with three other Revelations as well: Through His Son, His Logos Alpha to Omega, Jesus Christ, our Lord, Redeemer, and Final Judge; through the Holy Spirit Who abides with us (if we let Him); and the Book of Creation itself — i.e., the natural world, created ex nihilo, in the Beginning....

There is deep wisdom in all four Revelations of God. All four, finally, are in agreement with each other. I imagine our Lord is pleased when He sees His sons seeking to find Him "revealed" in that natural picture — in its fundamental organizational principles, His natural and moral law as increasingly revealed in human observations of what He hath wrought....

It may come as a surprise, but the latter insight was a major motivator of two of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Newton and Einstein.

Who has eyes to see, and/or ears to hear, please note.

Thank you ever so much for this superb essay/post, dear brother in Christ!

250 posted on 05/28/2014 4:53:45 PM PDT by betty boop (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. —Thomas Jefferson)
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