Michael,
First off, somehow in your composing or editing the original of the post I quote above, you managed to delete a colon that should have been after the “:cloud9”, and another colon that should have been just before the “angel:”. I fixed them in this reply to you so they show as emoticons. You might want to edit your original post to get those emoticons to show properly.
Dear DavisBJ,
How are you doing? Good to hear from you again!! I noticed that colon problem before I read your post, and so I fixed it. But thanks for being so polite and kind.
But dealing with God spreading out the heavens, I will take you up on your claim that you “understand it well in the connotation it meant for those prior to us”. Let’s go back 1500 years, to some dim and damp crude room in central Europe where a small group of believers have gathered to hear the Bible read to them. The scribe opens the scroll to Isaiah and reads (in whatever European dialect was in use): “I stretched out the heavens …”
Bard, a local young farmer with no concept of cosmology beyond seeing the pinpoints of light in the sky at night, thinks about this and then asks the priest/scribe what that means. Tell us what you would tell to Bard if you were the reader. Remember, what you say has to be truthful, and the meaning important enough to the common man that it was included within the Bible text.
Well, I would tell that local farmer that God created the whole sky, Heaven, and the Sun, Moon, and stars in it.
A secondary comment – you say, speaking of God spreading out the heavens, “now it pertains to each of us, now that we are more advanced”. In fact, even in relatively advanced countries such as Europe and the US, most people have at best only a vague understanding of what expansion of the universe really is. You yourself had to ask for clarification. Even in the present day most of us are NOT “more advanced” enough to know if that Biblical passage has any relevance to scientific cosmology.
Zeus and Poseidon both send their love.
For now, I have to only know that God 'stretched' out the Heavens by His Own Power. I don't mention any expansion of the Universe. It could be expanding, or it could be just exactly as God made it. I have no proof that it is expanding, though perhaps it could be. I know it's what you believe and I've asked about it, but as far as I'm concerned, it could be either/or.
If you don't believe in God, why believe in pagan gods like Zeus and Poseidon? Just joking, Davis!! Scientists believe the Universe is expanding. How long have we had the telescope? I guess, since we had the telescope, Mars has moved, or the North Star has gotten further from us? Is that it? Is there truly truth that the expansion of the Universe is actually happening? Has it been proven? Noting that a star is in a position further away than it used to be? What, by some light chart? Or color chart? I don't know what I believe, but I'm on the road to find out!
Have A Wonderful Night, Dude!!
Michael
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