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15. The Gospel in the Stars Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night.  And let them be for signs and for seasons...  —Genesis 1:14 God's  entire  story of redemption is summed up in one chapter in the Bible, and I bet you'll never guess which one.  In fact, I will gift you a copy of Unbreakable Vow (sequel to Primordium ) if you can tell me which chapter. Simply email me at redemptionchapter [at] blogginghisstory [dot] com with 2 words in the subject line—the book of the bible and the chapter number. Lamps vs Deities One of the interesting non-parallels in the Genesis account of creation vs other creation accounts (Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, etc.), is the sun and moon are not named. In ancient pagan cultures, the sun and moon were deities. Even today, our sun's unofficial name is Sol, as in the Roman sun god, Sol, the equivalent of the Greek sun god Helios. But the writer of the first toledoth (or Moses as a pole...

14. Rodinia and Panthalassa "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place,  and let the dry land appear.”  —Genesis 1:9 On Day Two, God created Earth's atmosphere, and on Day Three the super-continent, Rodinia, rose up out of the solitary ocean. (Sadly, the oceanic floor of Panthalassa, aka the proto-Pacific, no longer exists. More on that in another post.) According to both ASA and Creationist scientists, our modern continents are made out of pieces from the original earth (before continental drift). These core pieces are called cratons. North America holds one of the largest cratons. Cratons can be described as: shields—in which the basement rock crops out at the surface platforms—in which the basement is overlaid by sediments and sedimentary rock.  In North America, there is an exposed portion of the craton called the Canadian Shield. It may not be the most interesting vacation spot ever, but I would still find it fascinating to actually touch i...

14. The Dome and Genesis Cosmology, part 2 And God said, "Let there be a dome..." —Genesis 1:6a In our last post, we talked about Tillett's supposition that the Bible is 100% scientifically accurate by modern 21st century standards. The main problem with such a supposition is that it becomes the linchpin for the Judaeo-Christian faith. Meaning, the Bible is now dependent on the supposition being true, and if the supposition is proven false, then the Bible has proven to be myth and God doesn't really exist. So what if the ancient people (including Moses or Adam) thought the sky was a dome? What's the big deal, anyway? My second guess — Because "Then God said , "Let there be a dome.."? The Heberw word for dome = raqiya: the   visible arch of the sky. In other words, this is a hotter-than-Gehenna point of contention because if God called it a dome then it wasn't really God, it was Moses/Adam claiming to be writing for God, which means there might n...

13. The Dome and Genesis Cosmology, part 1 And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. God called the dome Sky. —Genesis 1:6-8 According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the sky, the abode of the stars, is described as a “rakia”; that is, a rigid, broad, solid plate possessing a certain thickness. [1]  Many scholars believe that cosmology in ancient cultures (including Israel's) is accurately reflected in the picture above: a flat earth with a dome "sky," the underworld located underground (hence, it's name), and water (or ice) above our solar system. Strangely enough, this is a hotter-than-Gehenna topic. Why? My first guess — because this: "The Holy Spirit so dominated and guided the minds and pens of those who wrote (the Bible) as to make their writings free from mistakes o...

12. Time And God separated the light from the darkness.  God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.  And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. —Genesis 1:4b, 5 Beyond the issue of First Cause (i.e. who or what pressed the primeval Hadrian collider button), there is the issue of time. More importantly to our discussion is the creation of time and/or the answer to the question, when did time begin? According to the more popular Big Bang theory, after the ion collision, the universe needed billions of years to cool in order for matter to form. About 380,000 years after the Big Bang, matter cooled enough for electrons to combine with nuclei to form neutral atoms. This phase is known as 'recombination,' and the absorption of free electrons caused the universe to become transparent. The light that was unleashed at this time is detectable today in the form of radiation from the cosmic microwave background[1].  So was the ion collision "Let ther...

11. Let There Be Light and the Heavy Ion Collider "Let there be light..." —Gen 1:3 With those four words, Eternity Past fades into obscurity, and the Anno Mundi* (Latin for In the Year of the World) Epoch begins. Years ago, I saw a bumper sticker that read:  I believe in the Big Bang. God said it, and BANG it happened.  I always liked that because I felt it helped bridge the so-called gap between science and religion. Why "so-called"? Since the ASA believes science = natural laws and forces only, it is an oxymoron to be a scientist who believes in both natural and supernatural forces. By the ASA's own definition, the scientific method must be observable and repeatable. Thus, ASA scientists denounce Creation scientists and deem Creation Science a pseudoscience, and any adherents are ignorant and absurd, if not downright idiotic, because they resolve "to describe natural history in terms of scientifically untestable supernatural causes. Think about that. If s...

10. In the Beginning, Nothing became Something. "In the beginning, God..."  —Gen 1:1 Aha! We arrive at the beginning...probably where most of you assumed this journey would start. A new Epoch, Time itself, is about to begin, but more on that in our next post. First, the war, and the battle of the worldviews. The ASA would have you to believe that: science = natural / random chance religion = supernatural / design, and thus a designer If the above formula is correct, then yes, there is a gap, because the above is a conflicting worldview; i.e., they can't both be right. Obviously, the ASA's natural explanation of the origins of the universe will automatically conflict with any supernatural explanation. But is the above formula correct? The Battle of the Worldviews. #1: ASA Worldview/Bias held by ASA scientists (geologists, physicists, astronomers, etc., who believe in natural forces only): God does not exist. / Only natural laws and forces operate in the world. #2: Chri...

9. Genesis is Toledoths This is the written record of the generations of Adam.  —Genesis 5:1  Aha! We are finally in Genesis. But wait, we’re starting with Genesis 2:4, not Genesis 1:1??? And Tole-colo what??? The History channel and most “Biblical” documentaries hold to the ASA’s method of Bible study . So you’ve likely heard that Moses, the “author” of Genesis, borrowed from Sumerian and Babylonian creation and flood myths when writing Genesis. You may have even heard of the J-E-P-D theory (that four different authors complied the first few books of Genesis traditionally attributed to Moses). In the last post, we talked about myth versus history. And we ended with questioning how one would go about determining the original account. That’s where the Toledoth comes in. In Hebrew, Genesis 2:4a reads “This is the toledoth of the creation of the Heavens and the Earth.” Toledoth can be translated generations, book, record, or account. Genesis is a collection of these Toledoths…ni...

8. Genesis is Myth Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.  —Proverbs 30:5-6 "The story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth that really happened." These words were written by J. R. R. Tolkien (author of the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) in a letter he wrote to his good friend C. S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia). According to the dictionary, Myth is: a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. By that definition, myth is interconnected with history. But wait. History is fact and myth is fiction, right? According to the historical theory of myth, myths are distorted accounts of historical events. So the original historical event is true, and then each culture that experiences that historical event endeavors to pass o...

7. Genesis is Poetry For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made,  so that people are without excuse. —Romans 1:20 The ASA (Agenda of Secular Academia) has been circulating the "Genesis is poetry" rumor for nearly a century. (Even Christian theologians and apologists have been recruited into the ASA...another reason to remember that the ASA is a weapon of the enemy, not the enemy itself…though admittedly it’s easy to forget this due to the vehemence of their attacks against any who would disagree with them). The “logical” conclusion is, of course, that poetry is fiction; thus, the Creation account in Genesis is fiction. Say you wrote a poem about something you experienced—bullying or abuse, the death of a friend or loved one. Because you wrote about that experience as poetry, it automatically isn’t true? Obviously. Not. So the ASA’s assumption that poetry aut...