All,


{another thread that really belongs to Talk.Origins,
but due the ongoing content moderation...well, I just
have to make due.. I wish to express my gratitude to
SAP moderator for allowing me to post from SAP as me
knew home group, at least until the T.O content
moderation ban is lifted}

That being, said let continue we read:

All,


{another thread that really belongs to Talk.Origins,
but due the ongoing content moderation...well, I just
have to make due.. I wish to express my gratitude to
SAP moderator for allowing me to post from SAP as me
knew home group, at least until the T.O content
moderation ban is lifted}

That being, said let continue we read:

"'Let an expanse come to be in between the waters and
let a dividing occur between the waters and the
waters.' Then God proceeded to make the expanse and to
make a division between the waters that should be
beneath the expanse and the waters that should be
above the expanse. And it came to be so. And God began
to call the expanse Heaven."-Genesis 1:6-8.

Some translations use the word "firmament" instead of
"expanse." From this the argument is made that the
Genesis account borrowed from creation myths that
represent this "firmament" as a metal dome. But even
the King James Version Bible, which uses "firmament,"
says in the margin, "expansion." This is because the
Hebrew word ra·qi´a', translated "expanse," means to
stretch out or spread out or expand.

The Genesis account says that God did it, but it does
not say how. In whatever way the described separation
occurred, it would look as though the 'waters above'
had been pushed up from the earth. And birds could
later be said to fly in "the expanse of the heavens,"
as stated at Genesis 1:20.*

Now then, for the global flood it took 40 days of
constant rain. So seperating the expanse, is much more
than rainfall n'est pas?

It not an assumption of limiting God power to
acomplsih things, but if he created our universe, with
it unmutable physical laws, more likely he will abide
by them, which make an observer wonder, why we can not
see a supra natural event or have evidence of such for
determining creation by an intelligent being yet
creation by luck and chance as stipulated in the
theory of evolution, is accepted not based on evidence
but faith :-)


*ref upon req.


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All,

{another thread that really belongs to Talk.Origins,
but due the ongoing content moderation...well, I just
have to make due.. I wish to express my gratitude to
SAP moderator for allowing me to post from SAP as me
knew home group, at least until the T.O content
moderation ban is lifted}

That being, said let continue we read:

“‘Let an expanse come to be in between the waters and
let a dividing occur between the waters and the
waters.’ Then God proceeded to make the expanse and to
make a division between the waters that should be
beneath the expanse and the waters that should be
above the expanse. And it came to be so. And God began
to call the expanse Heaven.”—Genesis 1:6-8.

Some translations use the word “firmament” instead of
“expanse.” From this the argument is made that the
Genesis account borrowed from creation myths that
represent this “firmament” as a metal dome. But even
the King James Version Bible, which uses “firmament,”
says in the margin, “expansion.” This is because the
Hebrew word ra·qi´a', translated “expanse,” means to
stretch out or spread out or expand.