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No. He stopped the sun. The thought that "technically the rotation of the earth" was stopped is not in line with any Scripture at all, and has been proven un-neccessary also. fwiw, it might still be available online - the 'proof' related by Einstein and other of the world's best mathematicians/scientist which most believers and most unbelievers will never agree with. (the truth is never popular) (in the world).God didn't stop time, he stopped the sun (technically the rotation of the earth). If he did, then Joshua and all the men in war would have froze in time too.
No. He stopped the sun. The thought that "technically the rotation of the earth" was stopped is not in line with any Scripture at all, and has been proven un-neccessary also. fwiw, it might still be available online - the 'proof' related by Einstein and other of the world's best mathematicians/scientist which most believers and most unbelievers will never agree with. (the truth is never popular) (in the world).
I saw it online a few years ago.Let me know if you find this online...
2 Kings 20: 9-10 "Isaiah answered, this is the Lord's sign to you that the Lord will do what he promised: shall the shadow for forward 10 steps, or shall it go back 10? It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward 10 steps, said Hezekiah. Rather, have it go back 10.
Sorry, who is Apollos?
God has the power to do anything.
God bless.
God cannot do the impossible. Omnipotence is the ability to do everything that is possible
Is creating something out of nothing impossible? Rom 4:17
Depends on how you define "nothing". Utter nothingness is called non-existence. This means literally nothing exists - no space, no energy, no darkness, no vacuum, etc. It is impossible to even imagine it.
Since non-existence does not exist, I'm not sure how God could create something "out of" it. Do you believe God is omnipresent? If so, that means his presence is everywhere (with no exceptions). Non-existence and existence (of any kind) cannot co-exist.
In this sense of the word "nothing". No, God cannot create something out if nothing. God is always creating WITHIN existence.
As for the passage you quote. God can create things that have never "been". This does not mean that the substance of those things wasn't already in existence. The form and arrangement of the substance is in mind.
A potter creates a pot that never existed before, but the clay was there already.
Understand your take on this but don't agree...
I believe that He dwells outside of time and space.
This is beyond the created dimension.
From there He does indeed create something from what was nothing at all in the created dimension. The belief that He can do this is fundamental to faith. We are a new creation, not a rearrangement or revamping of the old.
Likewise the resurrection of Jesus is a bodily resurrection but in the process is transformed into a totally new state of being and not just a perfection of the old.
OK God dwells in eternity which has no time or space.
I define nothing as with respect to only the created order.
Before His Word created anything nothing was created.
His first creative command began both chronology and matter.
God's ability to do this - to be creative, to indeed cause new matter to appear or indeed time to change is fundamental to faith.
In this He has also put a time and space barrier inside of each person and caused eternity to dwell there (Ecc3:11)
So He is not bound by or limited by in any way to the created order.
Before He spoke there was nothing there. Defining nothing we are talking about a space occupied with no matter. God is spirit whether He was there is a different issue.
The matter of most importance which is central to faith is that He can create something out of nothing, a matter that you seem to strugge with.
Can God make it like something never happened (an accident, an abusive situation, a natural disaster, an illness, a death, etc.)?
Here is an off-the-wall example, would God ever choose to wipe the memory of a negative event from all those involved so as to heal them of all signs of the trauma (physical, mental, spiritual) and make it like that negative never occurred (even though it did)?
What do you think? I mean, technically God can do anything, but does He ever choose to reverse time or wipe out the memory of a negative event so He doesn't even need to reverse time?
Quoting scripture is not a rebuttal. Christians disagree on the interpretation of many passages. As such, you will need to clarify.
Please explain how bringing something into existence requires it to be out of nothing? Does not a potter bring a vase into existence from a lump of clay?
The clear reading in most translations is that God creates out of nothing.
A corpse in a tomb with no life has no future unless the very breath of God brings life. This is not some rearrangement of dead cells.
The fact that He does this is fundamental to faith.
Everything (even nothing) is created by Him.
The life He creates comes from "nowhere" because He is the only author of real Life, and He creates the space for nowhere to exist.
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