Tony, I'm not allowed to mention my journal, but I think you would appreciate what it is trying to say about creation. I believe that the biblical phrase 'spreading out' (Job, Psalms, Isaiah), has to do with a mass explosion before Day 1. This is what gives the distant universe its lifeless, random feature. I can support this with details about Gen 1:2 and the vocab of the entire chapter. I still regard the creation week as found; I'm referring to pre-conditions.
I even have the exact celestial mechanical problem remaining to solve, and perhaps you can help. If 'illumination' arriving Day 1 is starlight, or at least the visual confirmation of Centauri, our nearest neighbor, so that a person would know 24 hours past (not that there were people yet), then that is, in normal LYs, 4 years prior to Day 1. Then the question is what amount of time passed between the said explosion and Centauri's locating 'here' near a water-covered fragment now called earth? Not much I think.
Factors: explosions have sharp declines in energy immediately.
Upside: those who believe in a BB are often convinced that there had to be a Cause (God). But the rigid and rote treatment of Gen 1 cannot reach them. I hope this view will.
As Dr. Lennox says, the text clearly starts each day with God's spoken order for the day. That means the conditions described in 1:2 are before that, in an indefinite amount time.
Thanks That's interesting .Indefinite amount.
As a blessing of God I am no scientist . It would seem day one, infinite God introduces invisible presence as Light in order to begin his parable "the pursuit of a wife" . Light, camera, action. Show time LOL
God divided or gave the light of his understanding and the created darkness. . hiding the spiritual understanding . Called a "God who hides himself". whose name is jealous He owns all things. It would seem to me revealed his understanding in the light of parables the figurative speech
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and
create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the Lord do all these thing
s.
Genesis 1 Day 2. The moving of the
living water .Not hoary frost of heaven ice vapor as in the absence of heat. Separated water or vapor coming up from earth as a fog from above. It would seem to filter out the direct rays of the Sun. Not a cloud in the sky until after the flood .
The believers as sons of God had become unevenly yoked with unredeemed mankind God no longer used them as a witness inspired from earth they no longer shared his glory with dying mankind and gave us a sign as a rainbow . The the age expectance 80 was established
Genesis 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the
waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it
divide the waters from the waters.
Christ declarers of his children, they are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. and then the new heaven and earth appear .
In another parable confirming the sign of the
rainbow the true gaiety (salvation).
Truth divided from or inspired from above
falling (moving) like
rain or any form of
water . transparent or translucence.
”Deuteronomy 32King James Version32 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and
hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
My doctrine shall
drop as the
rain,
my speech shall
distil as the
dew, as the
small rain upon the
tender herb, and as the
showers upon the
grass:
The living water of the living word.
