A sheep in wolf's clothing.
I gotta have a place where I just tell you stuff.
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
(Titus 1:2) KJV
Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979) reconciled science with the Bible as an atheist. His name is universally scorned but not because he was wrong, because no one wanted to hear what he had to say.
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Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
(John 6:29) KJV
We’re frequently challenged to prove the existence of God, but there’s two reasons why it’s not necessary to:
And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4:19) NKJV
Once upon a time we (that’s me and the Holy spirit) did an experiment: we put God to the test. If God is going to supply our every need, we figured, and we need a book on astronomy, then God needs to give us one.
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A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
(1 Timothy 3:2) KJV
In 2019 we we resolved the confusion we were in about our calling, what it is and what we’re supposed to be doing.
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The second river is the Gihon; it flows around the country of Cush (Ethiopia).
(Genesis 2:13) Good News Translation
The fear of doubt, that we (me and the Holy Spirit) actually had a calling, lead us to volunteer for a missions trip to Ethiopia in 2013. We were desperate to find the will of God. We wanted to do something for God.
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But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
(Acts 9:10-22) KJV
We can be in doubt and wondering about the way forward in God’s will. For some of us it feels like a maze. Our passage is an example of what it’s like when God answers prayer in a decisive way.
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For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
(1 Corinthians 1:21) KJV
September 11, 2001 will live in infamy. Islamic extremists attacked the USA and destroyed the World Trade Center buildings, among other things. That was a Thursday. The following Sunday we decided to give church one last try and we walked into an Independent Fundamental Baptist church in Carrboro, North Carolina.
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That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
(Romans 10:9-10) KJV
In July 1997, all alone in an old farmhouse in the North Carolina countryside, we fell down on our knees and begged Jesus to save us, expecting a lightening bolt to blast through the ceiling and fry us on the spot. It was what we deserved. But it didn’t happen, and there we were, saved. You can be saved too.
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The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
(2 Thessalonians 2:9-12) NKJV
The lie isn’t Evolution. The lie is the popular science paradigm (SciPop) starting with gravitation. Evolution is just one badly abused facet.
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And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
( Genesis 1:6 ) KJV
If we are going to use deductive reasoning to understand what the Bible is teaching us about creation then we have to be willing to accept what we deduce. In science the idea is to use inductive reasoning to make everything work out the way you want and promote the Star Trek universe as real.
Deduction requires that we know the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end. The major issue that is going to confront us is this: what is the firmament?
This is an issue that Christianity has refused to deal with. In part because it appears that science has rendered the firmament as below mythological status, it’s just a joke. This has had a very interesting effect on Bible versions. In general they are written so as to make it seem as if the issue does not exist.
I got saved in July 1997. Starting in 1998 I began to read the Bible. The one which I had at the time was a New International Version. I loved it. I became so interested in the Bible that I began collecting Bible versions. I went to used book stores and went directly to the Bible or Religion section to see if there were any Bible versions that I had not seen before.
At this time, 1998-99 I was struggling to understand today’s passage. The reason I struggled was that I was using Bible versions that do not contain the truth. My favorite version at the time, the NIV, translates the passage as such:
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
( Genesis 1:6-8 ) NIV
This is how the New Living Translation renders it:
Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.” And that is what happened. God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens. God called the space “sky.”
And evening passed and morning came, marking the second day.
( Genesis 1:6-8 ) NLT
The English Standard Version:
And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven.c And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
( Genesis 1:6-8 ) ESV
The New American Standard Version:
Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
( Genesis 1:6-8 ) NASB
The Holman Christian Standard Version:
Then God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water.”i 7So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so. God called the expanse “sky.” Evening came and then morning: the second day.
( Genesis 1:6-8 ) HCSB
This is just a small sampling. I can’t really remember my thought process at the time but I was concerned that there was something important in the description of the second day that I was missing. In every Bible version I found I looked to see what Genesis 1:6 said. There are words, as you can see, like vault, space, expanse and we are told that this is the sky. It didn’t make sense to me.
At the time I was the Custodian at a large Presbyterian Church in a major college town in North Carolina. They were not able to help me. However, as I made my rounds every day with my trash can and my vacuum cleaner I noticed that there was one particular lounge type lobby area, parlor, in which there was a large leather-bound King James Version on a table stand. I thought it wouldn’t hurt to take a look to see what it said.
Firmament.
The more conservative a Christian you are the more likely you are to pound a Bible. If you’re pounding a Bible then it will be the King James Version.
Conservative Christians have an extensive rationalization for why the KJV is the only Bible you should use. It’s tedious and unnecessary. If your Bible doesn’t have the word firmament in Genesis 1:6 then it’s not a real Bible.
Matty (Headwind) 