IN THE BEGINNING

Time began, two million, two hundred sixteen thousand, five hundred twenty-two years, seven months, three days, four hours, thirteen minutes, and forty-two seconds ago. How sure am I about that? It is as absolute as anyone who believes, that the Bible makes the claim of between ten to twenty thousand years, and that it happened to have begun in literally seven days.

Now before you Christian friends of mine start rolling your eyes, just remember, we live in a free country and our Congressional leaders have not ripped speech out of our souls…yet. So read on, and you may be surprised.

And So I continue; make sure you also take note, about the “literal seven days,” and that “they” think the Bible makes that claim, and that I believe it does not. Therefore, the Bible’s integrity remains fully intact. Additionally, the two million years I suggest as a starting point, is about time and not about the formation of oxygen and minerals

that make up most of the rock and liquid that is the earth. Maybe it was twenty million, but do you and I really need to have that right? Good luck with that!

Well, there you have it, now it’s plain to see, I believe in the “old world” theory, that is set up by a premise that suggests the Earth’s age matters little on the measurement or beginning of time as we relate to it; that the earth’s surface may have, as many as four times, been nearly or completely covered by ice during which the “big bang” may have not yet completed its work of aliening the units, including our star, (the sun) of finding their places within the galaxy.

One might consider, as I have, that God was not even ready for the “seven days,” let alone humanity; and that the completion of His work was a detailed, drawn out process. It might best be analogized by a young child being released on that last triumphant push by a proud father teaching the skill of bicycling; being watched by a bystander who hadn’t seen the other hundred attempts.

The analogy builds for Creation, the idea that the final outcome, humans and life, was preceded by thousands of years of work. An evolutionary process, not beginning with some catastrophic event of chance, but by an unknown and undefined power. An intellect, centered in natural science, invented and nurtured by this higher power that we call God, (which is synonymous with nature here) far beyond our galaxy, and even farther beyond that. This evolution is easily exemplified, by the most recent freezing of the earth that began some 70,000 years ago, and likely covered at least half of the United States; scouring out the basins of the Great Lakes.

Because so much of the earth’s water was trapped in ice, parts of the ocean floor were exposed, and sea level was as much as 390 ft. below what it is today.

About 11,500 years ago, this latest advance of ice ended, and life as we know it began; not that life began, but that it did as we know and have documented it. Also, that it might well be one catastrophic event, that of a small meteor that eliminated the dinosaurs, (a segment of the food chain higher than ourselves) that initiated God’s “six day work week” and ended with a big sigh of relief on the “seventh.”

So if you will, as I do, enter Moses.

Moses was about eighty years old at the time of the Exodus from Egypt. For much of his first thirty years, he was well educated in science; namely Alchemy, which was widely practiced in Ancient Egypt.

Alchemy, at that time, refers to the investigation of the natural, early philosophical, and spiritual disciplines. Combining elements of Chemistry, Metallurgy, Physics, Medicine, Astrology, Semiotics, Mysticism, and Spiritualism; as part of one greater force connecting the human soul to the Devine.

More specifically, and a great example of this, is Sacred Geometry. A sample of which can be found in the Great Pyramid. Which shows the insight of the Egyptians into life’s mysteries, including electromagnetic energies, and the laws of the universe. Moses was subjected to all of this, and the education was easily transferable and incorporated into the Hebrew concept of God.

The Egyptians were the first to use a 365 day calendar. They were also able to determine a north and south pole, defining the Earth as a globe; only able to do so, as the correct star alignment occurred around 2467 BC. Allowing the Egyptians the knowledge to construct the Great Pyramid at Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. (Nearly a thousand years before Moses’ birth in about 1527 BC. )

During that first third of Moses’ life, his education was centered by observation, in the palace of the Egyptian King, on how to govern a nation. The second third of his life, was learning wilderness survival from his father-in-law Jethro. The last third of his life, was the application of his knowledge as he led the Israelites through the Sinai Wilderness; at the beginning, and formation, of a great nation. It was during their forty-year wandering, (which began around 1462 BC) that Moses wrote the book of Genesis.

You can find hundreds of liberal “religionist” writers, offering their insipid religious convictions. Or their atheistic counterparts, who so eloquently, at length, attempt to dismiss the Bible as a fraud. Both, displaying their lack of appreciation and understanding of the deliverance, (what I believe to be, human inspiration, of God’s will in our lives.)

Liberal Bible seminaries, who question if Moses even existed, and who, approvingly teach the “documentary hypothesis,” or “JEDP hypothesis,” (that assigns authorship to various anonymous writers,) gathered myths and legends from many nations and added them to the “camp fire stories” of the Hebrew Nation. Then there are the “deniers”, and none more aggressive and articulate than Darrell W. Conder or Christopher Hitchens.

I personally, do not belong to either camp; though most conservatives question my sincerity due to my lack of interest in salvation, but that is a topic for another day. The words of Christ bring me to my understanding of The Law; and nowhere else can they be so explicit, than those from the Sermon on the Mount. The radically different message of not just acting righteously, but thinking righteously as well.

The only way to understand how, is by a set of commands. Written into that set of commands, is creation. Done so, by a man named Moses, “the nation builder,” who had a direct connection; a line from Abraham, right through himself, and directly to Christ.

Jesus spoke to us, on this down-to-earth, personal level. He taught us as individuals to love each other, to “do unto others,” based on the ten commandments that were not at odds with “the sermon”, as with the sixth, “Thou Shalt Not Kill”. It allows a nation or person, to defend, and as a last resort to kill, but not to murder. To find creation in the commandments, you need only look at the forth:

The Good Book is tied together with an author at the very beginning, explaining what is an easy endeavor in logic, and lies with the discernment of time, and ultimately, the truth about God.

When you extend the equations of general relativity to include space and time, the result shows, that time has a beginning. (ie The Big Bang.)

See: Stephen Hawking’s “The Beginning of Time“ (Below) and essays by Rodger Penrose, and George Ellis. One of which is here: https://inference-review.com/article/physics-on-edge )

Overcome by infinity, we can only observe our universe and its 15-billion-year age. For a while be amazed, then latch on to what is understood. Ultimately, you will find comfort in truth, found directly inside your heart and mind, the combination of which, is a soul.

You see, the isolation from God, by doubt and disbelief and dismissing the infallibility of the law, descends the disbeliever into idolatry and captivity in both the spiritual and physical realm. The undoing of which, can only be accomplished by returning again and again after failure and seeking truth. Having a script laid down by the ancients, who described the way to lead our natural lives, is that truth. It is that truth, which God wrote down through Moses, and continues to pass on to each of us in the form of freedom and relief from sin. It is a testament that only need be attached to the last ten thousand years.

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