tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27078130.post3171886720274059899..comments2024-01-04T03:48:46.920-08:00Comments on Reinventing the Adventist Wheel: The Genesis Account: Six Hebrew Words Make All the DifferenceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27078130.post-13677555072560183252012-12-13T12:19:49.062-08:002012-12-13T12:19:49.062-08:00It is quite a leap from speculating about the word...It is quite a leap from speculating about the words in the genesis story to believing we can know what actually occurred. And, regardless of the quality of the evidence considered, the outcome seems to be the same: the God concept is invented by humans and defined in human terms by description in human language. Try as we might, we seem incapable of freeing God from the box in which we define Him/Her/It. I can't help thinking that our attempts to understand something so profound are pathetically trivial. Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164997885157839477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27078130.post-19691777035645400412012-12-13T08:09:11.381-08:002012-12-13T08:09:11.381-08:00I think that is reasonable to both science and rev...I think that is reasonable to both science and revelation.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11461098129321557584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27078130.post-16959031957005951562012-12-13T08:06:55.533-08:002012-12-13T08:06:55.533-08:00Very good. I have often thought of the idea behind... Very good. I have often thought of the idea behind this substitution of terms. And I have gone a step further.<br /><br /> Recently, astronomists have surmised that there exist planets without stars, rogue orbs that live in a perpetual, star-studded night sky. It would come close to the description of Genesis 1:2. Could our transcendent Creator have chosen an already existent orb to do His special work? Why not? So, when God arrived to begin creating, He had a very normal ball to create on and to fill with exceptional wonder; and, without a star, only darkness surrounded the planet.<br /><br /> Another thought is to compare Neptune to Earth. It has a core close to the size of our planet and its atmosphere mimics the Earth before the second day (as we can infer from the Genesis day two event). Neptune's atmosphere has dense ice and water (mixed with other chemicals) that gradually becomes less dense toward the edge of the upper atmosphere.<br /><br /> So, maybe we can surmise that what Elohim did on day two was to create a gap in pressures, condensing most of the moisture into a very dense global ocean and leaving the rest in its original condition, rather than the original graduated densities from core to space, and thus create a breathable space for mammals and birds to live in.<br /><br /> Then on day three He made use of what was already there, in terms of the core (land), making deep trenches and bringing some tectonic plates above the surface of the newly created ocean, as we see from the Himalayas.<br />Davidhttp://biking4theblind.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com