After you aspire to a certain age one might began to appreciate how God utilizes the Science HE created in the first place to bring about HIS purposes.
For example: almost everyone knows that the flood at the time of Noah is not a complete story. If there was water over the tops of the mountains by 22 feet, there would still have to be 22 foot of water over those same mountains. There is absolutely no way of disposing of water.
If we study the 7th chapter of Genesis very carefully one might discover, to a somewhat confusing thought, that the earth was flooded before it began to rain.
In Gen 7: 4 God told Noah to go abord the ark with all his family, which he did immediately, but Noah said he went in, "Because of the waters of the flood." In the 7th chapter the 10th verse, it reads, "The waters of the flood were upon the earth." This was all before it began to rain. In verse 11 it reads, "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. By that we can say that it began to rain. But actually rain had nothing to do with it.
If you have studied science 302 in college you should have studied about the planet Venus and how because of its high eccentricity, it comes within 25000 miles of earth every 18000 years. It was the gravitational pull of venus that actually caused the flood because of tide and one other element which we have to go back to the time of the creation of the earth to even begin to understand.
On the 2nd day of creation God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters. So God created the firmament and divided the waters which were UNDER the firmament from the waters which were ABOVE the firmament."
The firmament is simply the atmosphere which surrounds the earth. If there was water over the top of the atmosphere or firmament, where the temperature could well reach minus 400 degrees, the water would naturally be ICE. The gravitational pull of Venus broke the canopy of ice that had hung over the earth for at least 1600 years. So the talest mountains were indeed covered with 22 foot of water in the form of ice, but at the same time covered the valleys with the same amount of ice since Ice does not seek a level as does water.
Venus also cause most of earth's mountain ranges to be created by what science calls "Orogeny" or by simply pulling the mountains out of the earth. In fact, there is a mountain in California, rightefully name "Mount Diablo" or Devil Mountain. It was pulled completely out of the ground somewhere near Mojave, CA and landed upside down near the town of Walnut Creek, CA some 400 miles from where it was pulled out. One can find the older rock formations on the top and the newer ones on the bottom. Completely the opposite of what it should be.
So yes, there was a flood which was caused by ice. The ice covered the tops of the mountains by 22 feet and began to melt. As the ice melted it filled up all the low places of the earth until some 450 years after the flood the earth was divided into separate continents.
There is much more to the lesson on science about the flood, but you can't blame anyone for not believing in the flood if they don't have enough information to know how God utilized science to create the flood. Now I would like to disect the 11 verse of the 7th chapter.
11: in the six hundredeth year of Noah's life, the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains (water or ice) of the great deep (space not ocean) were broken (actually broken) up and the windows of heaven were opened. Just visulize that if you had never seen the moon, the sun in all its glory, or the stars or the endless asure blue mystery of endlessness, what better way could Noah have expressed that grandeur that opened to his unbelieving eyes than to say, "the windows of heaven were opened."
The date of the flood is very important to us. When we are told, "There is a year, and month and a day, for those of you who understand, let him understand." Since that is the only year, month, and day given as a time of tribulation if our scriptures, I'm sure it will mean much to us in the future.
God is the greatest scientist that ever lived and I can assure you, in many such cases that God will utilize some science to bring about his purposes.
Love
gramps
For example: almost everyone knows that the flood at the time of Noah is not a complete story. If there was water over the tops of the mountains by 22 feet, there would still have to be 22 foot of water over those same mountains. There is absolutely no way of disposing of water.
If we study the 7th chapter of Genesis very carefully one might discover, to a somewhat confusing thought, that the earth was flooded before it began to rain.
In Gen 7: 4 God told Noah to go abord the ark with all his family, which he did immediately, but Noah said he went in, "Because of the waters of the flood." In the 7th chapter the 10th verse, it reads, "The waters of the flood were upon the earth." This was all before it began to rain. In verse 11 it reads, "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. By that we can say that it began to rain. But actually rain had nothing to do with it.
If you have studied science 302 in college you should have studied about the planet Venus and how because of its high eccentricity, it comes within 25000 miles of earth every 18000 years. It was the gravitational pull of venus that actually caused the flood because of tide and one other element which we have to go back to the time of the creation of the earth to even begin to understand.
On the 2nd day of creation God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters. So God created the firmament and divided the waters which were UNDER the firmament from the waters which were ABOVE the firmament."
The firmament is simply the atmosphere which surrounds the earth. If there was water over the top of the atmosphere or firmament, where the temperature could well reach minus 400 degrees, the water would naturally be ICE. The gravitational pull of Venus broke the canopy of ice that had hung over the earth for at least 1600 years. So the talest mountains were indeed covered with 22 foot of water in the form of ice, but at the same time covered the valleys with the same amount of ice since Ice does not seek a level as does water.
Venus also cause most of earth's mountain ranges to be created by what science calls "Orogeny" or by simply pulling the mountains out of the earth. In fact, there is a mountain in California, rightefully name "Mount Diablo" or Devil Mountain. It was pulled completely out of the ground somewhere near Mojave, CA and landed upside down near the town of Walnut Creek, CA some 400 miles from where it was pulled out. One can find the older rock formations on the top and the newer ones on the bottom. Completely the opposite of what it should be.
So yes, there was a flood which was caused by ice. The ice covered the tops of the mountains by 22 feet and began to melt. As the ice melted it filled up all the low places of the earth until some 450 years after the flood the earth was divided into separate continents.
There is much more to the lesson on science about the flood, but you can't blame anyone for not believing in the flood if they don't have enough information to know how God utilized science to create the flood. Now I would like to disect the 11 verse of the 7th chapter.
11: in the six hundredeth year of Noah's life, the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains (water or ice) of the great deep (space not ocean) were broken (actually broken) up and the windows of heaven were opened. Just visulize that if you had never seen the moon, the sun in all its glory, or the stars or the endless asure blue mystery of endlessness, what better way could Noah have expressed that grandeur that opened to his unbelieving eyes than to say, "the windows of heaven were opened."
The date of the flood is very important to us. When we are told, "There is a year, and month and a day, for those of you who understand, let him understand." Since that is the only year, month, and day given as a time of tribulation if our scriptures, I'm sure it will mean much to us in the future.
God is the greatest scientist that ever lived and I can assure you, in many such cases that God will utilize some science to bring about his purposes.
Love
gramps
