Creation
In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1 Brenton) For in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, and the sea and all things in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:11 Brenton)
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The Finished Work of Creation
When I began voicing my objections to the Virgin Birth doctrine, stating there was no precedent in the Old Testament for such an occurrence, I was met with the claim that the Creation of Adam is the needed precedent for the Creator to create again. Let’s evaluate what took place in the beginning and test that claim. In the Beginning… Genesis 1:1 establishes the notion of a Creator God when it records: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth land. (Genesis 1:1 KJV, adaptation mine) For six days, the author lays out the creation or fashioning of the heaven and the land and seas with vegetation, seed-bearing…
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In the Beginning Was the Word – Part 2
This is the second installment of a two-part series on John 1:1-18. If you have not read part one yet, please do so now. 😉 Since we already explored the foundation laid for chapter 1 of John in Part 1 of In the Beginning Was the Word, let’s consider the structural base that is built upon it by delving into verses 6-18.
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In the Beginning was the Word – Part 1
Too often we either assume or take the words of others concerning various matters as truth without applying proper investigation for ourselves. In this series I’m calling, “In the Beginning was the Word”, I’m going to break down what I have come to understand concerning John 1:1-18. This first installment will focus on the first five verses, which I believe to be the foundation of not just the first chapter of John, but the entire book. The second installment will cover the remaining verses. It appears to me that this opening passage is laid out in a precept upon precept manner, one thing building upon another, therefore it seems logical that we study and receive it…
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Syncing with the Sun
Last night was supposed to mark the beginning of Daylight Savings Time. This is when we “spring” forward an hour on our timekeeping devices. But I think the title of this event is misleading. How are we saving any daylight here? All we’re really doing is syncing our man-made devices with the light of the sun (or at least trying to), so why not just call it “Syncing with the Sun”?
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Shooting the Stars Videos using a Nikon Coolpix P900
About a week ago I came across the following video Emily S. Connors took of the star named “Procyon”, and I was totally fascinated by it. I never knew stars looked like this! Most pictures I’ve seen of the stars are usually just a bunch of points of light on a dark backdrop, similar to what I see when I look up to the sky with the naked eye. I’ve seen how they twinkle, but I never really bothered to get a closer look. That is, until I saw the above video.
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Syncing with the Sun
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Defining Heaven
And God said, Let there be a firmament/an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide/separate the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament/expanse, and divided/separated the waters which/that were under the firmament/expanse from the waters which were above the firmament/expanse: and it was so. And God called the firmament/expanse Heaven. (Genesis 1:6-8a KJV/ESV) When you look up, what do you see? What does “Heaven” look like? Is it as it appears to us? Can we really know it’s true form?
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The Circle of the Earth
We have been raised to believe that the land where we dwell is mixed with the seas to form the shape of a ball we call Earth, and one of the most popular Biblical passages I’ve seen used to defend this notion is Isaiah 40:22. Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the…
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The Earth Is Not My Home
Have you ever seen this image or something similar to it? From what I have been able to gather, the concept is based on a photograph named the Pale Blue Dot (below), supposedly taken “of planet Earth…on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of the Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.” (- Wikipedia) Do you see the pale blue dot about half way down the middle of the brown band on the right of this image pictured left? That’s supposed to be us, our home: the Earth. This photo was credited as being taken at the request of…
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Does the Sun Really Rise?
We have all seen the sun move across the sky at some point or another. From our vantage point, it appears that the sun rises up over the horizon in the east, travels in an upward motion in the sky overhead until it reaches its peak and then descends the rest of the way as it sets in the west. That’s what it looks like. But is that what is really happening? We’ve been taught from early childhood, that what we see concerning the sun is actually a result of the globe earth rotating on its own tilted axis in the face of a relatively still sun. However, there is no…
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The Heavens and the Earth – A Find and Replace Exercise
One of the most popular verses in the entire Bible appears right in the beginning: Genesis 1:1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. I think most would agree that this verse lays the groundwork for creation and the notion of a Creator God. It is fundamental for all that comes after it. But so often we read this passage with a preconceived idea in our minds of what this looks like. For example, what picture comes to mind right now when you hear the entire phrase “the heavens and the earth?”