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Hello folks. What is your favorite Psalm? Mine is Psalm 111:2, which talks about analyzing God's creation, and his works. Psalms are beautiful, and sound pretty in the KJV, even though I prefer more modern translations such as NKJV, NIV, NRSV-CE and ESV for other books of the Bible.
Psalm 111:2 (ESV & NRSV-CE): Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.
Psalm 111:2 (NKJV): The works of the Lord are great, Studied by all who have pleasure in them.
Psalm 111:2 expresses wonder at God's great works or deeds, which are studied by all who delight in them. Scientists engage with these works through their research and discovery. Faith and science complement each other, as both acknowledge God's presence and power in the natural world. Scientific inquiry is driven by a belief in a deeper meaning to the universe and a recognition of God's involvement. The verse affirms that studying God's works deepens our appreciation for and connection to the LORD.
Georges Lemâitre, a Belgian Catholic priest and scientist, is considered the father of the Big Bang theory, along with Hubble and Alexander Friedmann*. In the 1920s, along with Edwin Hubble and Friedmann, he proposed that the universe began as a singularity – an infinitesimally small and dense point of pure energy – that expanded and gave birth to the universe as we know it. Lemaitre's theory was influenced by his religious beliefs and his understanding of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
*Friedmann was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church as an infant, and lived much of his life in Saint Petersburg.
There are rare instances where bread at Catholic churches turn into physical flesh and blood, known as a Eucharistic miracle. But for most times, the bread does not turn into physical flesh or blood from our perspective, but instead transforms into flesh and blood invisibly, known as transubstantiation. I did not believe in transubstantiation, until learning about Eucharistic miracles in late 2021 or early 2022. Eucharistic miracles have been studied by scientists, and in all of the confirmed miracles, the blood was type AB. In other Eucharistic miracles, the Catholic church has dismissed some, as red fungus sometimes grows on old bread. So, rigorous scientific testing is used to confirm these miracles.
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Psalm 111:2 (ESV & NRSV-CE): Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.
Psalm 111:2 (NKJV): The works of the Lord are great, Studied by all who have pleasure in them.
Psalm 111:2 expresses wonder at God's great works or deeds, which are studied by all who delight in them. Scientists engage with these works through their research and discovery. Faith and science complement each other, as both acknowledge God's presence and power in the natural world. Scientific inquiry is driven by a belief in a deeper meaning to the universe and a recognition of God's involvement. The verse affirms that studying God's works deepens our appreciation for and connection to the LORD.
Georges Lemâitre, a Belgian Catholic priest and scientist, is considered the father of the Big Bang theory, along with Hubble and Alexander Friedmann*. In the 1920s, along with Edwin Hubble and Friedmann, he proposed that the universe began as a singularity – an infinitesimally small and dense point of pure energy – that expanded and gave birth to the universe as we know it. Lemaitre's theory was influenced by his religious beliefs and his understanding of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
*Friedmann was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church as an infant, and lived much of his life in Saint Petersburg.
There are rare instances where bread at Catholic churches turn into physical flesh and blood, known as a Eucharistic miracle. But for most times, the bread does not turn into physical flesh or blood from our perspective, but instead transforms into flesh and blood invisibly, known as transubstantiation. I did not believe in transubstantiation, until learning about Eucharistic miracles in late 2021 or early 2022. Eucharistic miracles have been studied by scientists, and in all of the confirmed miracles, the blood was type AB. In other Eucharistic miracles, the Catholic church has dismissed some, as red fungus sometimes grows on old bread. So, rigorous scientific testing is used to confirm these miracles.
