Man, I’m loosing it. Makes me wonder what else I’m forgetting. I’m getting old.

Uh, pay closer attention next time ;)

However, the question, “Does it ever hurt your head to think that the same person who created planets is willing to listen to you whine about your lost car keys?” seems to show how little we do understand about the nature of God. We stand in awe of His power, but is that only because of our ignorance? All of His power would have no significance if He could not share it with His creations/children. I suppose. I mean, what would be the point? And why would “sharing” be fulfilling to an omniscient God?

Oh, man! Now my head is hurting!

Each sabbath day is a recreation of the original conpletion of the creation by God, reminding us that God is sovereign over all the earth and over all mankind. Each Sunday that we take the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, we are commemorating a single past event, the redemption of mankind from the Fall of Adam and the resurrection of Christ, as well as a future event, the resurrection of all mankind. Each Easter is the original resurrection renewed, just as each Passover is a renewal of the original event of the salvation of Israel by God, along with a looking forward to the fulfillment of Malachi’s promise of the return of Elijah. Yet the Passover itself involved the symbolic sacrifice of the paschal lamb and the application of its saving blood to each household of the faithful, pointing forward in time. Each time we perform the ordinance of the Endowment in the temples, we are recapitulating the creation, fall, and salvation of mankind. The clock by which we worship God is not a simple 24 hour clock. Why then is God constrained by such a clock?

When the Sabbath is so heavily freighted with symbolism, and timelessness, why is it an obsession with many that the original event it commemorates can have no element of symbolism and is only a naked event in ordinary time? When the events depicted in each stage of creation are miraculous, with no explicit ties to ordinary constraints of distance and volume, of mass and energy, of visible cause and effect, why do they insist that such an unusual process, that has so little to do with our day-to-day world of experience, HAD to be constrained by an ordinary 24 hour clock?

I note that some who claim to adhere to a “literal” reading of Genesis 1 will concede that a “day” could mean “1,000 years” based on a statement in one of Peter’s epistles. Those who accept this equivalence are willing to insert a ratio of 365,000 to 1 into the meaning of the word “day” to make it more flexible. If we add one more ratio of that size, we are in the range of 365 million years per “day”, totaling 2.55 billion years among seven days of creation, the order of magnitude of the current estimate of the age of the earth (4.5 billion years). If one factor is acceptable, why not two? Since God has created our galaxy, and it takes 100,000 years for light to cross from one edge of it to the other, why should we insist that God’s time scale is so constrained compared to the space scale on which he works?

Theory has it that in the early primordial universe, there was a minutely momentary period of – according to our – time, when it was a hot plasma gas consisting of melted components of protons (quarks and gluons), there were no available particle interactions to produce light (i.e. electron transition, matter-antimatter annihilations, etc). Then when this cauldron of hot plasma cooled down sufficiently from a trillion degrees, the quarks emitted gamma rays – the flash of light that signaled the creation of protons. – Sticky Stuff by Robert Kunzig, Extreme Universe, Discover Magazine, Winter 2010

What I also find interesting is that in the progression of creation, Genesis scales the days logarithmically to explain each cosmic time period as God brought disorder (evening) to order (morning). – Gerald L. Schroeder, The Science of God.

NB = note well

I’m looking at this in a KJV of the bible. It doesn’t seem to have seven words unless you are looking at a specific 7 words to group into sentence form. Or are you referring to the amount of Hebrew words before translation? Or am I just being a little dense or uninformed? It could be that I haven’t read one of these before and I don’t know what “NB” stands for! :)