RE: Is there objective Truth?
October 17, 2016 at 4:25 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2016 at 4:28 pm by Soldat Du Christ.)
(October 17, 2016 at 3:02 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(October 17, 2016 at 2:52 pm)Soldat Du Christ Wrote: I don't know exactly HOW the God created everything, just like you don't. It's all theory.
We know it would have to be simutaniously, the bible accounts for this...
In the beginning (time) God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter)
Some theories are better than others...like one's that use known science and have far greater predictive power + much less special pleading.
And nothing for nothing but....http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/6274502/God-is-not-the-Creator-claims-academic.html
Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation of the Hebrew.
She said she eventually concluded the Hebrew verb "bara", which is used in the first sentence of the book of Genesis, does not mean "to create" but to "spatially separate".
The first sentence should now read "in the beginning God separated the Heaven and the Earth"
Also the Hebrew word used for God in Gen 1:1 is "Elohim" and that is plural.
Also, are you at all familiar with the Ain Soph Aur and the Tzimtzum of the ancient Judiac creation story?
This all sounds very interesting, i'll have to dig into the details once i get off work, i've been a naughty boy texting on the clock.

But i can say right now none of this disproves the creation account in genesis. Also, elohiem is still accurate within the context of the trinity doctrine, you've probably heard of it. This inference at a triarchy is repeated throughout the bible, for example john1:1.
In the begining was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god.
The word is reference to Jesus

Also i would agree with you, the goal is to find the most probable answer isn't that correct? Well it certainly doesn't lie in favor of matter created mind/ order out of chaos theory.