Genesis 1:6-13 Then
God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it
separate the waters from the waters." God made the expanse, and separated
the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the
expanse; and it was so. God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening
and there was morning, a second day. Then
God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and
fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in
them"; and it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding
seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their
kind; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a
third day.
There
is a man who went to prison for not paying his taxes by the name of Dr. Kent
Hovind a.k.a. Dr. Dino. Aside from not practicing Christ’s words in Luke 20:25,
"Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things
that are God's…” Dr. Dino has some of the most convincing arguments of proving
up the Bible in terms of creation v evolution. If this is a subject that
fascinates you then I would encourage looking up his YouTube videos and
listening to them with the understanding that only Christ and the Father speak
the complete truth. But fascinating arguments none the less.
That
said, Dr Hovind argues that this scripture refers to the earth being encased in
a water bubble. That above the atmosphere was a gigantic bubble of water.
Remember, there was never rain on the earth until the time of Noah’s flood. It
was this bubble burst was the primary cause to the biblical flood. It too would
have led to higher oxygen content of the atmosphere, which would have led to
reptiles and other living things growing to enormous proportions. For Dr. Dino
this explains the dinosaurs, which too are mentioned in the bible.
Moving
into day 3 of the creation story I am drawn to one key statement by God. He
said, “Let the earth sprout…” This theory of evolution, and it is just that… a
theory and not a FACT, is not in conjecture completely contradicted by the word
of God. God said, “Let the earth sprout…” He did not say ‘I will make plants,’
He commanded the earth to do it. How can the earth do that? Perhaps the
mechanism is some evolutionary process? Perhaps something else, but why do
Christians doubt the infallibility of the word of God based on incomplete
science.
My
point is that life has enough distractions without allowing some ungodly
intellectual to convince you that thier human reasoning, and study of science
can every compare to expanse and greatness of a God who not only created the universe,
but set everything in it in motion.
The
smartest man I have ever know personally was a Catholic Priest and my high
school math teacher. His name was Father Leininger. He told us that he read a
novel a night. When asked how he did it he said, “Do you have to sound out every
letter in a word to say it and comprehend it? Well I first taught myself to
read two words at a time, and then three words at a time, and then a sentence
in the same time it takes to read a single word.” Eventually he trained his
brain to read a whole page at a time. And we even tested him on this, and it
was remarkable that he could read a whole page in a second and then answer
detailed questions about its content.
This
impossible task was accomplished with the human brain, and yet even the highest
IQ individual is a complete imbecile when compared to the understanding,
comprehension, capabilities, reason, judgment, love of the Father. God will
never be found to be a liar, whether we understand His words of not. But there
is plenty of science to prove God, though so many are unwilling, or unable to
accept it. Our tasks as Christians is to approach with faith, positive faith,
patiently waiting to understand the truth. Until then, we should question
science in view of the Bible, and not the Bible in view of science even though
the Bible will stand any test given it.
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| Father Leininger |
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