The universe is expanding at an astonishingly rapid pace....... Genesis chapter one, is correct in my opinion, but the English language translation of Hebrew presents us with lots and lots of problems. Einstein's Theory of Relativity pertains to the age of the universe....... We Theists tend to offend Agnostics and Atheists by our dogmatic and overly simplistic thinking as to exactly what was meant by what is written in Genesis.
A near death experiencer was shown information that reminds me of chapter thirteen of "Stephen Hawking's Universe" that is entitled The Anthropic Principle. https://near-death.com/mellen-thomas-benedict/
There are writings by William Dankenbring that add a lot to the topic of the age of the earth....... and the duration of time since the creation of Adam and Eve. This is a link that can help us to get started on researching what he wrote. https://www.friendsofsabbath.org/Further_Research/Miscellaneous/Beyond Star Wars-Dankenbring.pdf Ancient Cosmic Conflicts in the Space-Time Continuum BEYOND STAR WARS William F. Dankenbring I am of the belief that near death experiencer Dr. Richard Eby saw the same information from another angle. https://near-death.com/richard-eby-nde/ Isaiah chapter fourteen adds important details to all of this........ as well as Biblical verification to what these others wrote. [Isaiah 14].... " Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. 9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
It's disconcerting that you switch between religion and science at a sentence by sentence rate. I don't believe all theists are "dogmatic and overly simplistic" in their thinking, but I agree those are not good traits when addressing any question. Assuming Genesis is a physics manual is not a good starting point. It seems far more likely that it was written for the purpose of conveying religious principles.
I can see why this might tend to sound strange to you.... but I am convinced that The Bible is actually in line with physics... [but the translation from Hebrew to English leaves us with some misunderstandings that are difficult to avoid]. This may help.... https://www.warriornotesschool.com/p/unveiling-israel-bundle
The fundamental assumption of the Bible is that there is a god of a specific description. The fundamental assumption of physics is that we may observe. That is a gigantic difference. For example, your Robert Vander Maten says; • From this perspective, looking back, with the expansion of the universe, it's 14 billion years. • From God's perspective, moving forward and looking forward, it's six days—exactly what the word of God says. The 14 billion years comes from a plethora of actual measurements of our physical world that combine to suggest an age. Physicists fully recognize that this age may be wrong, as there could be observations which would suggest a change in that date. The "God's perspective" side is that god says it is 6 days, so it is 6 days. After all, god said so. There really is absolutely no way to suggest those two methods can be compared.
Serious rumour has it that the Book of Genesis was essentially shown to Moses / Moshe during one or both of those forty day periods when he was at the top of Mt. Sinai in the presence of The Being of Light of near death experience fame..... and he simply wrote down what he was shown line by line. This is one of the only logical ways to explain the off the scale implications of the hidden meaning that is there in the Book of Genesis.... and all the Books written by Moses. The topic is fascinating if you have the time to get into it..... The Bible Code Paperback – April 7, 1998 EVERYTHING is Secretly Encoded in the Bible even YOUR Birth, Death (and the End of the World)
Genesis is so illogical, unreasonable, unrealistic, that it is obviously a story to convey religious principles to the simple minded. God does his creation in 6 days, and everything he created was declared "GOOD" by Himself, then shortly after that, humanity went almost totally evil, except for Noah and his family, so God decided to kill everybody else, and all animals except for 2 of every kind, and all vegetation. This is an insane homicidal maniac comparable to gods of the Aztecs and Maya. Then he decides to save us by sending his "only" son to die for OUR sins, as a sacrifice to WHOM? To HIMSELF! He wrote the insane fiction.
According to the Bible, light is not photons, but Torah, i.e. Teaching from God. According to the Revelation of John, the waters are nations. According to the 2nd book of Esdras, Heaven is the expanse of the Holy Spirit. And so on. The teaching about the creation of the world in the Bible does not contradict astrophysics, because the world of the Bible is the inner world of man.
Wow! Near death experiencer and former Atheist Rabbi Alon Anava reports being shown our Creator forming everything...... out of HEBREW LETTERS!!!!!!!!!?????? I cannot remember if this is the video in which he does that in....... but it might be...... One of these days I will find the correct one again. Rabbi Alon Anava - His Life After Death experience - Amazing New lecture! www.AlonAnava.com/ https://www.alonanava.com/about/
Man lives by myths. Our myths determine our actions in this world. The divine myth leads us along the right path, although the parable is a fairy tale, but the moral of this fairy tale creates the kingdom of God in relations between people. Human myths can be false and lead us to false gods, the path to which ultimately ends in a general catastrophe. The Bible is a myth from God, which gives birth to God in people. That is, the Bible is truly a text that was revealed to the Jews from Heaven so that all humanity could reach God.
Did you see the miracle that happened yesterday when the fatal bullet just pierced President Trump's right ear? This is not an accident. An amazing photograph taken by famed photographer Doug Mills shows the flight of this bullet that nailed Donald Trump's right ear to Heaven. Do you remember what it says in Deuteronomy 15:17? The sign showed that President Trump would be God's eternal servant who would facilitate the construction of the Third Temple in 2025 - this is how it can be interpreted.
Yes... at the 44 minute mark in that video near death experiencer Rabbi Alon Anava goes into detail on how he was shown that YHWH formed the universe out of Hebrew Letters as something like a Programming Code! "18,859 views Apr 4, 2019 Rabbi Alon Anava - His Life After Death experience - Amazing New lecture! " Yes..... and I find it fascinating that the specific near death experience of Rabbi Alon Anava reminds me of Matthew chapter four on many levels...... and his down to earth and basic teachings on Judaism since his 2001 brush with death remind me very much of Matthew chapters five, six and seven...... The Sermon on the Mount!
Which Epstein? The only Republican presidential candidate is Donald Trump. If he wins, we have a chance to receive support from the United States. If the Democrats win, there will be no such chance; the Israelis will have to act alone, and this will be much more difficult.
Israel has more problems than simply not having enough US weapons to carry out its genocide. Israelis are strongly opposed to Netanyahu. Their economy is in sad shape and they are losing trade partners. The IDF says it is short on ammo. Large numbers are leaving, as a fair percent of the population has dual citizenship, thus other places to live, besides under the assault of surrounding nations. Israel is in desperate need of an election.
~ I believe that the universe is ageless. It's seems that for most of us , infinity is difficult to accept.
Israel has the same enemies as the Americans - leftist parties. God gave Israel the territory of the Gaza Strip, Judea, Samaria, all of Lebanon, part of what is now Egypt up to Wadi El-Arish, and coastal Syria up to the city of Hamath on the Orontes River. This is written in the Bible, the holy book of two billion Christians. Israel must fulfill God's word and build the Third Temple. Then he will not even need the IDF: the Lord God himself will destroy all the enemies of Israel and drive out the Arab occupiers from the holy land that God gave to the Jews.
Jews have a belief that the Lord God strikes that part of the body with which a person sins. The ear that was to be pierced had first heard the words of the law, where God commanded the Jews to come out of Egyptian slavery. Therefore, the one who sinned against the commandment of the exodus from Egypt had his ear pierced. Jesus taught us to be prepared to pluck out our right eye if that eye causes us to sin. With the right eye a person looks into this world, with the left eye a person looks into the spiritual world. With his right hand a person conducts affairs in this world, with his left hand a person does spiritual affairs. Therefore, the lesion in Trump's right ear indicates that his right ear was too ready to listen to speeches from this world. Hopefully, after God nailed Trump's ear to Heaven, his situation with listening to God's word will improve.
This is NOT how national borders are determined. If history is the issue, then NO borders of today are valid. And, even though Joshua was helped by God to slaughter every man, woman, child in Jericho, our world of today does not tolerate that level of absolute criminality. I'd also point out that the slaughter of Jericho was terrorism. The slaughter was intended as a political statement to other city states that they better surrender, or God would help Joshua extend his hand of genocide to them as well.
For this world, God is indifferent; equally, this world is indifferent for God. Therefore, when Israel fulfills the will of God as written in the Bible, the cries from the UN will have no force. This world has come to an end, and many can already see it from the madness of the authorities of this world. Physically destroying homosexuals is a completely legal decision based on the law of God, but walking around Jerusalem with rainbow flags is blasphemy and lawlessness. And if people do not want to do the will of God as written in Scripture, then God has ways to destroy such people even without restoring the Sanhedrin. Destroying hostile nations is normal practice when you shoot a bandit who broke into your house. An abnormal practice of humanity, which has gone crazy from false humanism, is when you, the victim, are forced to accept this bandit into your home and also pay him benefits. All these flirtations with multiculturalism and Islam will end with one people going to kill another people right inside their state, and the state simply stepping aside, unable to cope with anarchy. Jesus Christ spoke about this when he warned about the rebellion of one people against another. These are no longer wars, this will be true genocide - but this is exactly what has been done always and everywhere for thousands of years. And if humanity wants to avoid the literal physical extermination of all nations, then it must retreat in its war against God, allow Israel to build the Third Temple and allow the Jews to occupy the territory that the Lord God determined for them in the 47th chapter of the book of the prophet Ezekiel. Humans have no chance of winning the war against God. Therefore, now Israel can take up arms and destroy all the occupiers who have occupied its territory, which is defined by the Holy Scriptures, and if there are nations that go to war against Israel, then they will all die. Perhaps this is how it will work out: Israel will first kill all its enemies, in Gaza, in Judea, in Samaria, in Lebanon, in Syria - and then build the Third Temple and receive there the chosen ones from the four winds. But it is possible to avoid mass death of people - if you build the Temple at the very beginning, now, and then all other nations peacefully fulfill the will of the Lord God, freeing for the Jews those lands that are indicated for the tribes of Israel in the Bible.
Yes, we SHOULD take serious the warning of Jesus concerning one people against the next. Jesus brought a message of love and repeatedly demonstrated how we should treat out neighbors, foreigners, sexual offenders, the poor, nonbelievers. Matthew 6 - the Lord's Prayer https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 25:31-46&version=NIV The parable of Jesus - the sheep and the goats. He told this parable to his dedicated followers. It tells how the people of Jesus would be sorted by how they treat others. Those of the followers of Jesus who did not live up to his direction on how other are to be treated will be sent to hell, alongside Satan, according to Jesus. The message of Jesus is one of love and has no room for hate.
Moses never existed. The Pentatuech was written in the Babylonian exile to give Israel and extended history. It is made up of adapted earlier stories and the mythical story of Abraham through to Moses and a non-existent Exodus. Supposed Moses wrote nothing. The stories are written in a language not around in supposed Moses time. Not a shred of evidence for the characters or for the Exodus. They also contain so many errors it is obvious they were written much later than the background on which they are written. All your near deatth experiences are simply the brain working overtime.