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NASB | Genesis 1:14 ¶ Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:14 ¶ Then God said, "Let there be light-bearers (sun, moon, stars) in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be useful for signs (tokens) [of God's provident care], and for marking seasons, days, and years; [Gen 8:22] |
Subject: Plants were created, and then stars? |
Bible Note: Parable, I've read your post with relish -- call it what you will, a treatise or a testimony perhaps. Especially do I like the last paragraph, and particularly the fragment that reads: "...nothing in science...can ever condradict the Word of God." Of the fruits I've plucked from my 53 years of being a Christian and studying the Bible is the deep conviction of the reality of absolutes. There is, I believe, such an entity as absolute truth, or to re-cast the idea, truth is truth, absolutely, and really needs no qualifying adjectives. I have heard truth described in all sorts of ways. One says there are many kinds of truth. Another says truth is relative. Another says truth is truth for A but not truth for B, and so on. I heard a speaker say one time that there are scientific truths and there are biblical truths, and they conflict with one another. But this can't be. Truth may conflict with error or falsehood, but it can't conflict with itself. Two plus two have always been four, in every era, in every location. And so I believe that God's truth is simply that. God's truth. No less true now than it was when the earth was formed. No less true on earth as it is in heaven. --Hank |