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Chapter Five Ge nesis Chapter One - Creation Day Two Verse 6 (The Stretching of the Raqia)
Two millenni a a go, long before paleontologists discovered fossils of dinosaurs and cavemen, long before data from the Hubble and Keck telescopes hinted at a multi-billion-year-old universe, the Bible stated explicitly that the opening chapter of Genesis, all 31 verses, is presented in a manner that intentionally conceals information. Furthermore, Moses, on the day of his death, exhorted the people three times to read the Bible as a text having within it a subtext harboring multiple meanings ( Deut. 31:19, 30; 32:44 ). In the very first sentence of the Bible we read – "God created the heavens and the earth” ( Gen. 1:1 ). The heavens precede the earth. As scientific data demonstrating the sun’s centrality accumulated, the church was forced into an embarrassing retreat. So today, the popular perception is that science ha s proven the Bible wrong. In reality, the claim of earth’s centrality had nothing to do with the Bible. Similarly, Johanne Kepler’s discovery of the elliptical orbit of the planets did not sit well with the religious establishment. Circles were perfect geometric shapes, ellipses were defective. An infinitely powerful God would be expected to produce perfect orbits. Of course, the Bible doesn’t teach that a circle is better than an ellipse! Yet the church condemned Kepler’s discovery. Science is one of the primary paths to knowing God, and for that reason the Bible commences with a description of Creation. Throughout the Bible, knowledge of God is compared with the wonders of nature, as stated so well in Psalm 19:1 : “ The heavens tell of God’s glory, and the sky declares his handiwork. " By distinguished physicist and Biblical scholar, Dr. Gerald Schroeder. Quotes from his bestselling book, The Science of God
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