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Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!

Indeed, I find myself in agreement with Jewish Physicist Gerald Schroeder. Namely, that when one considers General Relativity and the Inflationary Theory, the universe is both approximately 14 billion years old from our space/time coordinates and also approximately an equivalent week old from the inception space/time coordinates.

For instance, while a week may elapse in the vicinity of a black hole, 40 years may elapse on earth. This is the effect of gravity - the warping of the space/time continuum (equivalence principle.)

Physicists know this but rarely finish their sentence when speaking of the age of the universe, i.e. from our space/time coordinates.

Also, I aver that God the Father has revealed Himself to us in four ways: (1) through the Person of His only begotten son, Jesus; (2) through the Person of the indwelling Holy Spirit; (3) through His words, Scripture and (4) through His Creation both physical and spiritual. I see no contradictions in any of these revelations.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. [There is] no speech nor language, [where] their voice is not heard.– Psalms 19:1-3

For the record, the words of God come alive in me when I read them. The words of men do not and thus, I do not cherish them.

For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. – Hebrews 4:12

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. – John 6:63

And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. – John 10:4-5

The people in the following passage were physically hearing Christ (pressure or sound waves) but they could not spiritually hear Him:

Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. – John 8:43

To God be the glory, not man, never man.

Thank you so much for your reply. I do sense that we are very much on the same page so to speak, for a great many things among those which truly matter (no pun intended on that last use of the word "matter").

As you said;

For the record, the words of God come alive in me when I read them. The words of men do not and thus, I do not cherish them.

Yes, the word is sharper than any two-edged sword Hebrews 4:12 (and we ain't just whistlin' Dixie ...while dying from the slices of a thousand-thousand paper-cuts).