Wouldn't it be amazing to fully reconcile science with the Bible? To be able to show all the scientists that the Bible fully supports their findings? To me, this would be very good to bring the two groups together and reduce one of the barriers the scientific mind has against God and the Bible. I see them as one and the same. God is
all truth and science is based on truth and tangible, physical proof or evidence. Science will never prove God because faith is only what pleases God and faith is not tangible in this realm (yet). But, this is one step closer.
Thus, I am attempting to create unity between the "scientific" mind that will not consider the Bible to be true because of the discrepancies, and the Biblical teacher who can not give solid answers to all the mountains of scientific, hard evidence. I am just seeking the truth at all costs as I know there is great reward in seeking the truth even when or
especially when it goes "against the grain". "The grain" is often what keeps us from seeing the truth. I have personally studied this idea immensely and a
lot of scriptures support the "time gap" idea with none outright refuting it that I have found. I shared
here. To me, this gives me great peace because then science and God in my mind and heart fully reconcile just like my heart has been telling me all along but I couldn't "prove" it. I want the scientific man who rejects the Bible to know "God has you covered" and there's much more to this than we first realized, so we can all come together in unity. He will see that the God he has been radically opposed to actually did create and make everything he studies and it all fits together perfectly.
If we notice, God doesn't give us any dates or times in the Word. I would submit to you that Genesis is a
spiritual book mostly
outside of space and time focusing on what God sees rather than an actual historical account in time from man's perspective. If we see Genesis (and the rest of the Bible) as a book from natural (carnal) man's perspective, this will put God at odds with science because we can't reconcile things then. "How could there exist a pre-Adamic man who has different DNA?" for example. Does this mean we can't trust proven scientific DNA testing? Or are we missing something in Genesis? NOPE! Both can be trusted as both are based on the truth who is God himself. God simply has not chose to reveal the whole truth, only part of it. It is the job of Christ inside our hearts to unveil our minds and show us the truth according to God's will which makes it come via faith.
On the other hand, if a person insists that the Earth is definitely 7-10K years old as the Bible would indicate, then they have to also explain the amazing amount of rock-solid scientific evidence that says the Earth is much older. For example, the advanced age testing of bones and rocks as well as the previously mentioned DNA testing of the "types" of man before our current Homo-sapiens whom I believe to be Adam. I have believed both but all my scripture study has led me to conclusively believe the time gap covers all of the scientific findings. If anything, each time science make's a "new finding", it seems to further confirm scripture. Isn't this what we want? I know I do. My God looks bigger and more glorious, and science keeps proving that.
The reason why I am so interested in this because if you read the article I wrote about this, you will see that a time gap between the verses fully supports current and ongoing scientific evidence. This is very good because like I have been saying and believing, science and God are
not against each other and when seen this way, science actually proves GOD! God
owns science and science is but a small subset or "spec" of God. The only reason they appear to be against each other is when we insist on a natural, carnal understanding of scripture and force all events into space and time of the natural mind. This creates the dichotomy between science and God that IMHO does not exist. If we ever want to resolve this, we have to be open to new understanding as the Spirit leads us instead of always accepting the "traditions" that man has told us to believe. Look at what Jesus said in Mark 7:13. I believe this is very relevant to my point.
thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that." Mark 7:13
When we follow our "tradition" that man has told us is true instead of asking the very Spirit inside us to teach us, we are actually invalidating the Word itself.
I am so glad times are changing as we are getting new and deeper revelation and understanding. I suspect we will one day find that science and God or truth are in complete congruence with each other. God himself is truth and science will not accept anything false. They will merge as one. God is one.
Great discussion.
Kicked.
