Bible Chronology.

[Major]

What would that something else be?

The glory of God just as is seen in Revelation 22.

 

[crossnote]

The glory of God just as is seen in Revelation 22.

Isn't his glory eternally so, not something created?

 

[Major]

Even the definition of cosmology differs according to who you ask...

Google.."Cosmology is the study of the universe's origin, evolution, and eventual fate, encompassing its large-scale structure and fundamental properties. It explores the universe's beginnings (like the Big Bang theory), its current state, and its potential future. Essentially, cosmology seeks to understand how the universe came to be, how it has changed over time, and what it might become."

DOE.gov..."Cosmology is the study of the origin, development, structure, history, and future of the entire universe. In modern science, cosmology is divided into two branches. Observational cosmology studies the universe using telescopes and other equipment to examine the direct evidence of the universe’s development and structure. Physical cosmology studies the structures and development of the universe and the physics that created them. It uses a mix of theory and experiments to construct and research cosmological models. These models are sometimes called “cosmologies.” They incorporate theories and the information collected by observational cosmology. Cosmology draws on advances from many scientific disciplines, including astrophysics, plasma physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, relativity, and quantum mechanics."

So, Google appears to be doing its conflating. The problem with DOE.gov's definition is that it relies on observation, and we all know that no one was present at creation, except God. Once again, it is God's word over empirical science or the ear over the eye.


The world pursues through its wondering eyes
the secret that lies beyond the skies;
Those who know their God quite dear
hold to their ears His Word so near.

Until those wandering eyes come home
the soul abides all alone,
Onto the pages of Holy Writ
the eye and ear make a perfect fit.

What is your definition of cosmology?

I have read and spoken to several people who suggest there are some good, textual reasons—in the creation account itself—for questioning the exegesis that insists on the days as strict 24 hour 7 days a week periods.

Allow me to say that I am totally confident in the birth, death and of the resurrection of Christ?

But in most segments of the church, my fear is that we’ve built an exegetical “fence around the Torah,” fearful that if we question any aspect of young-earth dogmatics we have opened the gate to liberalism. We have seen that manifested right here on our forum.

A passion for sola Scriptura provides us with the humility and willingness to go back to the text again to see if what we were taught is factual.

Allow me to give an example that was presented to me several years ago.

In Gen. 2:2-3, we are told that “on the seventh day [yom] God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day [yom] from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day [yom] and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.”

OK. Now the question we have to ask here is: ......
was God’s creation “rest” limited to a 24-hour period? On the contrary, Psalms 95 and Hebrews 4 and teach us that God’s Sabbath rest “remains” and that we can enter into it or be prevented from entering it.

Havent we been taught and told that the Sabbath is a day of rest and it is 24 hours????

What then does....."God's Sabbath remains" mean?

 

[Major]

Isn't his glory eternally so, not something created?

Absolultly. We all know that, However that is not the question.

The question was.....What was the light before the Sun was created on day 4.

 

[BibleLover]

Absolultly. We all know that, However that is not the question.

The question was.....What was the light before the Sun was created on day 4.

I believe it was the light released as a result of the creation of the universe, the light emanating from the center of the universe.

BTW: Did you know that the static we get on our radios and televisions is the remnant of the light that was released from the center of the universe during creation?

 

[Major]

I believe it was the light released as a result of the creation of the universe, the light emanating from the center of the universe.

BTW: Did you know that the static we get on our radios and televisions is the remnant of the light that was released from the center of the universe during creation?

Yes sir......about 1% .

FYI.....If you turned on a light bulb on Proxima Centura, the closest star to Earth, it would take that beam of light 6500 years to reach the earth.

 

[BibleLover]

Yes sir......about 1% .

FYI.....If you turned on a light bulb on Proxima Centura, the closest star to Earth, it would take that beam of light 6500 years to reach the earth.

Yeah, I knew that.

 

[crossnote]

Allow me to say that I am totally confident in the birth, death and of the resurrection of Christ?

Why do you say that?

But in most segments of the church, my fear is that we’ve built an exegetical “fence around the Torah,” fearful that if we question any aspect of young-earth dogmatics we have opened the gate to liberalism. We have seen that manifested right here on our forum.

Yet many in Christendom are tearing down that fence.

Allow me to give an example that was presented to me several years ago.

In Gen. 2:2-3, we are told that “on the seventh day [yom] God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day [yom] from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day [yom] and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.”

OK. Now the question we have to ask here is: ......
was God’s creation “rest” limited to a 24-hour period? On the contrary, Psalms 95 and Hebrews 4 and teach us that God’s Sabbath rest “remains” and that we can enter into it or be prevented from entering it.

Havent we been taught and told that the Sabbath is a day of rest and it is 24 hours????

Good point, but looking at the context, I see that as a slide from the literal (Genesis 1) to the allegorical (Hebrews 4).

 

[crossnote]

Absolultly. We all know that, However that is not the question.

The question was.....What was the light before the Sun was created on day 4.

I was only responding to your response of 'the glory of God'

 

[Major]

Why do you say that?

Yet many in Christendom are tearing down that fence.

Good point, but looking at the context, I see that as a slide from the literal (Genesis 1) to the allegorical (Hebrews 4).

I wanted every one to know where I stand!

Yes......that example is not literal, but God's Sabbath was not one day either but was symbolic of something else.

 

[Origen]

I believe it was the light released as a result of the creation of the universe, the light emanating from the center of the universe.

Intersting point. According big bang cosmology, light first appeared in the universe roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang. That is long before any stars were formed.

 

[BibleLover]

Intersting point. According big bang cosmology, light first appeared in the universe roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang. That is long before any stars were formed.

That would match the sequencing of Genesis 1:1-3.