Msg #2334 In the Beginning God, Day 2

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

God's Monday of creation does not invoke a lot of excitement in many people. In his Sunday account God used seven Hebrew words to tell how he made three-dimensional time, space, and matter out of nothing. Now on Monday all he does is insert a firmament between two layers of water! Monday is the only day of creation with no “It was good” exclamation. This so depressed Scofield and Larkin that they force-fit a gargantuan gap of geological fiction to account for their imagined age of rocks! In the Holy Bible God means what he says, and says what he means. On Monday there are no rocks, … only water. And now there is a “firmament” between the water above and the water below. “Firmament” is an interesting matter, and “Matter”is an interesting thing. Daniel Webster's 1828 describes firmament well, and high school chemistry describes matter well. A dome or region of expanse, is used 17 times in the Hebrew and King-James Bible; five times on God's Monday! It behooves a Bible student to research them all.

The building block for all Matter is the hydrogen atom. Picture a volleyball smashed tight into a soccer ball with a single #8 shotgun BB swirling around them like an angry honey bee. That's a hydrogen atom; a Neutron, a Proton, and an angry Electron. With a massive energy surge smash eight of these atoms into one atom, that's Oxygen. It would have eight angry BBs buzzing around it, but they are happiest in a group of 10, so it bonds with two hydrogen atoms and, voila, we have an H2O water molecule. For those of us who loved high school chemistry, God's Monday is a very big deal containing nothing but water and firmament, and light left over from Sunday.

An Essay for week #34 - Aug 20, 2023

Msg in audio at www.GSBaptistChurch.com/audio/gs230820.mp3

See www.gsbaptistchurch.com/seminary/dissertation/6day_creation_dissertation.pdf

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