[__ Science __ ] The Reckoning of Time

[Barbarian]

Your opinion is so noted. But for the record, I'm not using any particular human interpretation. I'm using the very words that the one who created it all has told me is the truth of the matter.

I notice those words have always been interpreted in different ways by Christians from ancient times on. Even ancient Jewish theologians were not in agreement on them.

 

[Barbarian]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think your statement should be that the evidence from the creation...

And that's exactly what Paul wrote to us in that passage of Colossians that I posted previously. We try to understand by looking at what has been created rather than trying to understand things by looking at the Creator. The universe was made as it needed to be made to fulfill God's purpose for its creation. Man looks at it and studies it and comes up with all sorts of ideas as to 'how' it was made. And that's exactly why believers are instructed to gain their understanding from the Creator rather than the created.

God says otherwise...

Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; his eternal power also, and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.

He says that creation itself is a reliable guide to the truth.

 

[Barbarian]

Just as you deny the seemingly clear account of the flood that it covered the whole earth

God says it covered the land. But He doesn't say it covered the whole Earth. That is an interpretation of man.

 

[miamited]

So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people,

I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

That's what God said, according to the Scriptures.

 

[miamited]

Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; his eternal power also, and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.

He says that creation itself is a reliable guide to the truth.

That's not what that passage says. He says that we, you and I, can understand the invisible things of God from what has been made. His eternal power and divinity are understood by what He has made.

 

[Barbarian]

That's not what that passage says. He says that we, you and I, can understand the invisible things of God from what has been made. His eternal power and divinity are understood by what He has made.

"being understood by the things that are made"

Creation itself tells us about God, from the creation of the world.

 

[Barbarian]

That's what God said, according to the Scriptures

Actually, he said "land" not "the entire Earth." The "under heaven" was a figure of speech; the Earth is not a flat disk below a disk-shaped heaven and above the great sea under the Earth. Surely God knows this.

 

[hawkman]

The OP is about time , let us keep Noah out if possible . There are plenty of Noah threads already going .