So was Jesus lying in Matthew 18:20?
No. The spirtual still comes to our world, not as visible fellow beings, however. Not in this nature.
So we don't live in a physical only universe now. If God ever takes part in our affairs, it adds an element of spiritual to the physical. God is omnipresent, so the spiritual is always here. If our universe was physical only, then God would never take stock in anything. That fact that people still pray shows that the spiritual is still here.
Our state is temporal. The spiritual is still here, it is separate from nature. Spirits do not for example, walk and talk to us, they visit as invisible agents.
You said the Garden of Eden wasn't physical.
No, it was in a universe state that was still spiritual as well as physical.
Does it really matter? Your dodwell's curve presumably used the same information from different historical sources and you don't question it. You wanted me to provide you with evidence and I did. So far you have shown zero evidence in support of your idea.
The Dodwell data relied not on same state radioactive decay, if I recall. One reason it points in the right direction, right on target.
God could have simply created the light already in place. The speed could be the exact same speed as it is now. Of course, why would God create galaxies and stars over 6,000 light years away if the earth is only around 6,000 years old?
Except that the light carries info from the star, showing it started there, I was told. It is unsound to assume God created light with false data inside it.
It depends on how you interpret it. Some people believe that Noah took 120 years to build the ark, others interpret it as God capping the maximum age of humans.
I know. I used to think it meant there was 120 years till the flood also. But I now feel it was till something far far greater..the split. Greater in it's impact on our universe. Not greater in the history of man.
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." Genesis 6:4
The passage of the Nephilim comes after the passage limiting our days to "120 years". Genesis 6:4 implies that the Nephilim have inhabited the earth in at least two different time periods—in antediluvian times "and afterward." If the Nephilim were supernatural beings themselves, or at least the progeny of supernatural beings, it is possible that the "giants of Canaan" in Numbers 13:33 were the direct descendants of the antediluvian Nephilim, or were fathered by the same supernatural parents.
I also used to think that. But if the 120 year period was a warning period that kills that. I think it was.
So you don't question the old records he studied yet you question the old record I presented. He used the same methods as the people who study the age of the Rig Veda. Nice double standard.
You never presented evidence, if I recall, you mentioned it as if it were fact. Show us the basis for the dating!
If the past can be understood by the present, it is good enough for me. Until we find evidence that cannot be explained by our "present state" then the "same state" works.
Anything can be explained by the tooth fairy, or the same state. If that is all you use to try to explain it! Meaningless. Prove a same state, or lose it.
In all honesty, I will admit there is no actual way to falsify your idea. Much like the same way I can't disprove the invisible pink unicorn or the flying spaghetti monster.
Very well, let us see you falsify a same state past, then, if it is better!!!!?
Gotcha..
All I have is the evidence that can easily be explained by the laws of physics that we know now. If the evidence of the past can be reliably explained and predicted by the science of today, that is enough evidence to show to me that this state always existed on earth.
Nonsense. It is only explained that way, because science is limited that way. It looks only for in box solutions. The garden of Eden and creation cannot be explained easily by physics. by the way!
However, your ramblings do little to influence any lurker on this site. So far I have provided more than enough evidence to sway all but the most rabid fundamental YEC. You have done nothing but puff smoke; all you have provided is chaff to be blown away by the wind.
If you believe that fine. let them decide. I have actually seen nothing at all from you. No idea how you imagine you presented some sort of case.
I provided links to three different methods used to date volcanic ash. Those three methods correlate with great accuracy. I can't help you ignored them. Maybe the lurkers you keep telling to pay attention actually did pay attention.
Same state methods are only as good as your proof there was a same state. That means worthless! Tell us the methods, and basis in your own words, if you doubt it. Why run off, and pretend you had a case??
Unless several different dating methods show the same age.
No, only if something other than inbred, in box, inept, imagining a present state in the past is used. All you do is wave with a different hand, or a hand holding a same state handkerchief.
I guess correlating dendrochronology and C14 dating back to 12,000 years ago is all bunk too right?
Yes. trees that grow in a week or two mean a ring need not mean a year, obviously! And carbon is a same state so called dating method. There was no 12,000 years ago.
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Presumably right before or after the flood. In earlier posts you claim the split happened in the days of Peleg. Now you claim it happened right before the flood. [/quote] Nope. You misunderstand. over a century after the flood.
What I don't get is you claim we cannot use present science to study the past before 2000BC. So if we find something and date it to 1999BC that is perfectly acceptable but it we date it to 2001BC all of a sudden we can't assume because the past was a different state? That makes about as much sense as a tuna going scuba diving.
The grey zone is not marked by a year. It depends on the assumptions of the method used. But it does fade to meaningless oblivion, yes.