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This post is mostly scripture and it's lovely and wonderful to read and enjoy.Right, so according to your sequence Genesis 1:1, the creation of the heavens and the earth, did not take place on the first day of creation. That directly contradicts Exodus 20:11. I mean feel free to disregard that fact all you want but I’m going to believe that Exodus 20:11 is written correctly, the way God actually created the universe because with that interpretation everything coincides perfectly with no contradictions.
I'll try not to say much myself at all.
As you already agree I bet -- to understand many verses, we must read them in full total context, else our preconceived ideas can overwhelm our perception and create a new meaning for a verse than it has.
This happens constantly as you will already agree.
Is the Earth flat? If a person is convinced it is (their idea) then they will try to see it in the bible --
Psalm 93:1: “Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm …”
Isaiah 40:22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
But what happens to the Flat Earth reading of verses when we have full context? --
Psalm 93:
1 The Lord reigns, he is robed in majesty;
the Lord is robed in majesty and armed with strength;
indeed, the world is established, firm and secure.
2 Your throne was established long ago;
you are from all eternity.
3 The seas have lifted up, Lord,
the seas have lifted up their voice;
the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.
4 Mightier than the thunder of the great waters,
mightier than the breakers of the sea—
the Lord on high is mighty.
5 Your statutes, Lord, stand firm;
holiness adorns your house
for endless days.
Now we get verse 1 --> Earth is firm/reliable -- Earth won't turn into quicksand everywhere or tilt over or fall towards the sun or break in many pieces everywhere....
We can depend on it, and live on it 100 years or more...securely.
The "foundations of the Earth are immovable and firm..."!
Hallelujah.
Isaiah 40 --
1 Comfort, comfort my people,
says your God.
2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and proclaim to her
that her hard service has been completed,
that her sin has been paid for,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.
3 A voice of one calling:
“In the wilderness prepare
the way for the Lord[a];
make straight in the desert
a highway for our God.[b]
4 Every valley shall be raised up,
every mountain and hill made low;
the rough ground shall become level,
the rugged places a plain.
5 And the glory of the Lord will be revealed,
and all people will see it together.
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
6 A voice says, “Cry out.”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
“All people are like grass,
and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
7 The grass withers and the flowers fall,
because the breath of the Lord blows on them.
Surely the people are grass.
8 The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God endures forever.”
9 You who bring good news to Zion,
go up on a high mountain.
You who bring good news to Jerusalem,[c]
lift up your voice with a shout,
lift it up, do not be afraid;
say to the towns of Judah,
“Here is your God!”
10 See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power,
and he rules with a mighty arm.
See, his reward is with him,
and his recompense accompanies him.
11 He tends his flock like a shepherd:
He gathers the lambs in his arms
and carries them close to his heart;
he gently leads those that have young.
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?
Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,
or weighed the mountains on the scales
and the hills in a balance?
13 Who can fathom the Spirit[d] of the Lord,
or instruct the Lord as his counselor?
14 Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him,
and who taught him the right way?
Who was it that taught him knowledge,
or showed him the path of understanding?
15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
they are regarded as dust on the scales;
he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.
16 Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires,
nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.
17 Before him all the nations are as nothing;
they are regarded by him as worthless
and less than nothing.
18 With whom, then, will you compare God?
To what image will you liken him?
19 As for an idol, a metalworker casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
and fashions silver chains for it.
20 A person too poor to present such an offering
selects wood that will not rot;
they look for a skilled worker
to set up an idol that will not topple.
21 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
23 He brings princes to naught
and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
24 No sooner are they planted,
no sooner are they sown,
no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
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Verse 22 -- God is above us -- He is all-seeing, all-able, knowing all wisdom and all truth....all these things we fail at and cannot do, He can do.
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Reading Scripture:
Only those humble can enter heaven:
"God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble" (many instances throughout the bible)
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18 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. ..."
(Matthew 18)
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We are to be humble (and in fact, without humbleness like a child, a person cannot enter heaven, not even with faith!).
When a person is humble, then they listen totally...to all the words, not just some....
Because the humble person expects to be taught all the time by the Word. Right now. All the time.
So, therefore the humble person will listen by reading fully through while being silent in their own minds, silencing their own ideas/doctrines/viewpoints, to just purely listen.
"My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me."
So, we want to hear all He said, not only some pieces.
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