So what does the bible say happened in, and around that second “day” of creation? Again I will be taking the “Ywm” or “yom” word used in the Hebrew as meaning “period”, not day for this discussion. 

Let’s look at what the writings say. . .

So let’s compare this to the current scientific theories of the formation of water on our Earth. The scientists say that the large amount of the water that is found on the Earth would have come from the original nebula that provided the material for the proto-planets that collided to form Earth.  

The hot mushy sloppy volcanic type Earth poured out gasses from its core, and an initial atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide (that is a pretty heavy gas) would have keep the water all over the Earths surface despite the temperatures being an estimated 230 C or thereabouts.

The scientists say this was happening about 4.4 billion years ago (give or take a fair bit, since their estimates vary depending on the year and who is doing the calculations).  Then adding to this, comets, asteroids, and water rich meteorites would have come smacking down onto the baby Earth releasing water vapor that would condense and form water.  Not a nice environment!

The water would have slowly absorbed some of that carbon dioxide and the water vapor would have formed dense clouds covering around our Earth and obscuring any Sun that might have been able to be seen through the remaining dust of the nebula.

Now, water related sediments have been found in about 3.8 billion year old sediments.[2] Nitrogen starts to become the main part of the “second” atmosphere. The Earth is still warm enough to have an ocean despite the much lesser solar radiation hitting it.

God points out that the first thing he does after establishing the Earth is to separate the waters from the waters, the ocean from the clouds, in the very different atmosphere sky.

3000 years ago God wrote this down! The bible is no fairy tale. It is a simple representation of facts for people to remember and re-tell. It has to be simple, how else could simple man have understood what I have just explained.

Also, lets be sure of this. . .science has still got some of it wrong!

Also please remember that the bible is there to show us God loves us, and not to explain how he did things before we were here. Nevertheless God has imbedded a simple tale of explanation for those of us interested to follow it.

A good deal of thanks needs to be given to James Cameron for putting this film together. The 3D effects are well done, but that is not what makes it a good movie. In summary terms, it’s good because it follows an age old theme of good triumphing against overwhelming evil by the intervention of a spiritual type force.

Yes, you know where I am going! I love these themes. But before I go there a quick summary of what the movie is about. A guy, Jake, who is in a wheelchair gets the chance to inhabit the body of a strange creature on another world in the attempt to infiltrate the home environments of these creatures.

In an Adam meeting Eve in the garden of Eden type of encounter, he meets a women Neytiri who gives him great knowledge of the world he is inhabiting. They connect in with a goddess called Eywa (who in Earth terms would be called mother Earth but who comes from their world).



There is a wonderful theme of being close and intimate with nature and the goddess.

Whether James Cameron understands this or not he has created a world that comes from the innermost emotions and social tensions of man.

The Garden they initially meet in, is like Eden(though maybe a bit more violent), there is initially only a male who is joined by a female (Adam and Eve story). Man is evil (aren’t we often that way). Evil destroys the idyllic life and they then have to struggle for existence! God sent Adam and Eve out the garden to work for a living. Lot's of parallels in the story and the truth!

Jake, Neytiri and the Na’vi need Eywa to survive. We need God to survive. Eywa does not often intervene in major ways the affairs of the Na’vi as God does not intervene in major ways in the affairs of man.

However when the Na’vi are about to get destroyed, Eywa intervenes. Similarly God intervenes in numerous times in our history. The flood, Babel, and most importantly, Jesus coming!

The intervention gives the Na’vi new hope for live and a renewed world connected to Eywa. Jesus gives us new hope for a new life connected to the living God.

It’s a good movie, but the reality we live in is so much better.

However the movie reminds us God wants us to look after the environment and live in a renewable way with it. It reminds us we are sustained and given true joy in life by Our Father, God. It reminds us God wants a loving relationship with us.

That’s why I like the movie Avatar! Let's keep our planet healthy and free of Evil!

Have a great day!

Statistics state that

When we add to this the reported figure that about 40 to 50% of couples in North America are divorced, it begs the question

In Canada where I live it appears as if the only non-Christian reason for getting married is to get the same last name and in so doing reduce the stress of naming your child and your child having to explain the complex non-married relationship.

So, it seems as if there is no real economical reason to get married, but there may be others. .
 

Marriage was not something that was provided by God for us so that we could make promises to each other that could be broken. A Christian marriage is a THREE way relationship. The husband and wife once joined are placing themselves under the authority and jurisdiction of God himself. That is the real reason to get married. Any other is non-biblical and you may just as well use a court or just live together.

You see, it’s not the law that can make a marriage work! It’s not even the wife, or the husband! It’s how much the wife and husband are willing to listen to what God says and do it! Rebellion against God is the first step in divorce, and adultery is a close second.

God says “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.”[2]

The bible is quite clear that adultery occurs when a MARRIED person has sex outside marriage. Jesus extended this for men (who are great at having mental images of sexual activities) as follows”

So from a Christian perspective once you get into that relationship with God and your spouse that is called marriage, you are expected to keep eyes and thoughts off the wrong sexual stuff. Quite the challenge?

What about those who don’t get married? Well if you aren’t a Christian, you only need to consider marriage once you become one. God has no guidelines for people who are not Christian, but I do believe that he honours non-Christians who ask to fall under his marriage agreement, even if they are not believers. So, it’s your call!

Marriage is not to entered into lightly because it is meant to never be undone! Arguing that you didn’t marry a sick person so you don’t want to be married to them isn’t a valid Christian argument. We have this little promise to God of “until death us do part!” Money disagreements are easily sorted out if you follow God’s rules. I don’t hear too much marital argument when both in the marriage agrees the first money belongs to God, and when both pray about it and look for guidelines in the good book and try to stick to them. I hear stacks of issues where people don’t do that! And there is lots of money advice in the good book.
 

So, should we get married? For Christians, the answer is definitely yes! God loves us and wants the best for us. Listening to God (our parents who love us as well), and prayerfully developing the right loving relationship with someone is great! When it reaches that stage that we are thinking of lifelong commitment, try and get some solid pre-marital teaching (this has been shown to help marriages), and then check with your parents as to what they think of the person. Ask them for honesty and be prepared to be hurt. It may not be what you expect. They love you and will warn you if you are making a mistake. Ignore their advice and you are already moving into hot water that you are boiling yourself!

When you get married, think about the fact that it’s a three way relationship. Discuss with your future life partner how you will both respond to that relationship and if you are in agreement and understand how God wants you to submit to him then go for it!

I can say a Christian marriage is superb under these circumstances. Unfortunately too many people skip the steps chasing short term happiness only to find pain and long term disillusionment. Law cannot keep us together only God can!

Hey, let's go and have a great day and enjoy loving relationships with others. We can as Christians, because we keep sexual attraction at home, for our wives(or husbands).

So what does the bible say happened in and around that first “day” of creation? I will be taking the “Ywm” or “yom” word used in the Hebrew as meaning period, not day for this discussion and if you follow me for a little while you will see why!

Let’s look at what the writings say. . .

Today we take it as a given that there was a beginning, but for many years scientists didn’t agree, they believed the universe had always existed and was going through a cycle of changes. It is only recently with the Hubble telescope and others that we could look back through the light coming to us after it had traveled many millions of years through space and determine that there was a beginning.  God knew this all along! To make sure we knew, he knew this, he got ancient man to write it down about 3000 years ago! The scientists tell us our universe started about 13.7 billion years ago! Now that’s quite a while back!

So let’s look at the next verse.

I have described this previously, how the nebula or “dust” cloud differentiated as gravity clumped it together.  The Sun explodes into existence at the center of this dust, hydrogen, helium and other chemicals mix. The earth forms in the swirling dust from very large asteroids that hit into each other making planets. 

There had to be lots of water since our earth gets its water from this original nebula. The bible says God’s Spirit was there in this beginning!

The bible says. . .

So this Sun that lit up in the middle of this mess was the first light, and God wanted man to know this light by the term day. This is still that same term “ywm” or “yom” and we know this didn’t take twenty-four hours! The darkness around it was called night. Since we didn’t exist yet, I guess we need to take God’s words and accept them as he has the author rights to them!

Now this is interesting stuff because I think that this description fits what we know of the first part of the creation of the Earth and Universe pretty well! It is amazingly accurate knowing that it was written before science existed, when people though the Earth was flat, and that you could perhaps fall off the edges! This was written over 3000 years ago and it had to be remembered for years before it was even written down. How amazing is it that it is even close to accurate! What a miracle! Then we get some bigwigs in the science field who mock it! Where do they get off doing that! Science hasn’t even had it right for 100 years, never mind 3000years!

If you follow another religion I would really like you to investigate your creation story and compare it to the known scientific facts. I find many of these are not all close to the logically accepted reasoning of today! At least the biblical story is close! In fact it’s so close, it’s as if ancient man had known the creation progression himself, but we know he had no way of knowing. Only God could!

Have you ever asked yourself if God changed over time? Today I want to take a look at some of the historical events over human existence and investigate if God changed or whether he was just being a loving God, reacting to how we changed.

Let’s go back in time to before 10,000B.C., to the time Adam and Eve were around and the years after that but before 10,000BC. We find initially God and man walked and talked together. God just wanted a loving relationship with man! There was an ability for mankind to take eternal life, but we screwed up and chose evil. God protects us by making sure we can’t have an evil eternity by taking this hunter gatherer group and putting them outside the idealistic life where they just picked fruit from trees to stay alive.

Now man had to work! Work was hard! Farming started around 9,000 to 8,000 B.C. Archeological finds support this. However we also know that mankind had become evil. Cain had killed Abel and had been set away to wander the earth. God wanted to keep those who were obedient and loving towards him separated from those that rejected his love. God just wanted a loving relationship with man.

Unfortunately we find Cain wants to rebel further. See Genesis 4:17 for the biblical comment. Mankind moves into groups and sets up cities. This started in the stone or “Neolithic” age! Cities start to form and by 6000B.C. we have evidence of Jericho, a city in the Middle East. Most of the cities start around 300 to 2000B.C. Cities like Ur, Uruk, Mari, Ugarit, Nineveh, Babel and Akkad spring up. Writing starts in 3400B.C. (defines the start of History!) and the Bronze age starts in about 3200 to 1200B.C. Man in Cities is evil and defies God.

Ungodly worship starts to occur as people build “mountains of God” or Ziggurats.

These were man made mounds or pyramids upon which men went to worship idols or false gods. It is even suggested that since they have the exact same composition as the tower of Babel described in the bible that this tower may have been one of them.