Creation Etc.

[DeighAnn]

2 hours ago, Riverwalker said:

I still can't understand why people think that God, when he Decided to create man would go through this long laborious process when He could just speak things into existant

When Jesus turned water into wine, he didn't take the water, and hydrate the grape seedling, then wait for the vine to grow, blossom and eventually bear fruit.  Then take that fruit, crush it, filter strain it and age it,  and then show back up at the wedding feast 2 years later with the wine

You want wine....poof it's wine

You want light? Let there be light and there was light

 

It is only our limited thinking that requires God to jump through all these hoops

 

Understanding His ways are not our ways I think He took a long time because it was fun and something to do and what was the rush.  I totally understand that He can, but why would He want to.  If we look at all the many insects or fish in the sea there is ALOT of thought in all these different processes.  

I took a bit of a sandwich the other day and started thinking of all the things that went into that one bite.  And I sat in wonder.  But yes, I do believe He speaks and things that weren't are but I still think there is an eternal explanation.  And God really makes us aware of eternity past.  Like what was He doing 3 trillion years ago?  And I understand the irrelevance of time and all but if we are in His image, and we know so many of His feelings and how He thinks it just seems well, like this isn't His first dance so to speak.  Just seems there must be a reason He must swear by Himself.  That's lots of power He has there.  And He tells us He has fury.  I've spent hours and hours meditating on the words of God and length of time and ages and all we see around us more than SUGGESTS a really really long history.  And again, what's His rush?  Might as well have a great time on the journey.  And like I always say, if you aren't failing you aren't trying hard enough.  I know, I know but 

Genesis 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Genesis 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Genesis 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Have you ever imagined if He hadn't?  I have.  Bunch of times.  Sure, it's all speculation on my part, but that is what reading about Him all the time leads to for me at least.   

[Riverwalker]

1 minute ago, DeighAnn said:

  If we look at all the many insects or fish in the sea there is ALOT of thought in all these different processes.  

I took a bit of a sandwich the other day and started thinking of all the things that went into that one bite

All due respect but you are humanizing God, Making God think like we do, and that I think is inappropriate.  How could creation take time, if time is part of creation?

[BeyondET]

3 minutes ago, Riverwalker said:

All due respect but you are humanizing God, Making God think like we do, and that I think is inappropriate.  How could creation take time, if time is part of creation?

He created man in his likeness, does God not ? 

Eternal a Time frame? 

[Starise]

God rested on the 7th day . Why would God rest ?

[Justin Adams]

Do you need a clock in order to create time?

[teddyv]

22 hours ago, BeyondET said:

theres quite a bit of natural things to know about seasons of coarse hot drought cold snow leaves falling growing, unless you lived somewhere the weather was pretty much the same.

Equatorial regions are basically dry season/wet season. Not the seasons we are used to in the more northerly (our southerly) regions.

[Starise]

@Justin Adams Here's my very uneducated comment on that one.

God is divisional. All through scripture we see divisions and measures meaning deep things. Divisions of all things hold great significance. Time is a measure. God is  well acquainted with measures and divisions for different purposes. Everything is made from things we need to calculate to measure ( if we can) and that have precise measurements. Men were delegated to live in a continuum. We are  encapsulated. We are moving about in an arena made just for us. Earth creation made to God's specifications. I think God showed the 7th day for our benefit not His.

If time was pulled in from existing "structures and divisions" it wasn't something that had no beginning.

The Bible doesn't say in the beginning God made time the heavens and the earth. Those components were already in existence IMHO.

[BeyondET]

52 minutes ago, teddyv said:

Equatorial regions are basically dry season/wet season. Not the seasons we are used to in the more northerly (our southerly) regions.

yup i agree, the equator is a interesting place where there is no short day or long day, short night/long night, its equal across the plain of night and day, no equinox.

[teddyv]

1 minute ago, BeyondET said:

yup i agree, the equator is a interesting place where there is no short day or long day, short night/long night, its equal across the plain of night and day, no equinox.

And no twilight!

[BeyondET]

1 hour ago, Starise said:

God rested on the 7th day . Why would God rest ?

good question, i think maybe everything that needed to be established pertaining to creation of the physical world was established.