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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Wow, that is some gospel. Basically Job wanted a satisfactory answer and God said he doesn't have the standing to understand! Sweet.
Unfortunately for this interpretation, it is false. We have learned quite a bit about how the Earth was formed. We have also learned quite a bit about the "foundation" of the Earth.
1. Our foundation is completely related to having a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. As a result we have a magnetic field that shields us from deadly solar radiation. And yes, we are well able to peer into the core of the earth using seismic waves and established physical principles.
2. Our foundation is also completely tied into our moon, which is unlike any other moon in this solar system. Our moon is the result of a collision with a planet that was similar in size to Mars. As a result we do not wobble on our axis of rotation. If we did, like the other planets do, climate change would be so extreme that we would constantly have major extinctions on this planet.
3. Our foundation is also completely tied into the fact that the core of the Earth is generating tremendous heat from radioactive decay. As a result we have plate tectonics, without which we would not have life on this planet as we now know it, Perhaps the only thing that would be able to survive would be bacteria.
I also object to the idea that we cannot understand the fabric of the universe.
The NT says "be imitators of God". God is a creator. Imitating the creator helps us learn about and then use the creation. Computers, telecommunications, space ships and satellites, electricity, etc. These are all examples of how imitating God can open our understanding.
We also learn, as we understand how the universe and our world works, how to live in it without being subject to natural catastrophes like earthquakes, volcanoes and hurricanes.
So I find your interpretation to be completely untrue.
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What kind of answer is this? Some kind of spiritual philosophy?
Who ever called Job the "gospel"?
You think that because we know more about the universe than they did in Job's time that we should be able to demand an answer from God? You would find that the answer is still the same. You (and the rest of us) are clueless. We may be able to claim great understanding of what now is. But we have no understanding of what was in God's mind as he put it in place. As he made the laws that we "understand" work the way they do. Our knowledge is limited to grasping at a weak understanding of what was made to be so — and at the exclusion of alternate ways it could have been put together.
And any claim that we now have such a great understanding of the universe, coupled with these kinds of fanciful skips through the Bible on the link of a few common words makes me fear that you are talking about a God that you can figure out. A God that we can become (even if not in deity). Not a God that declares that we do not have his strength or authority. Or that created everything we see without so much as a single consult of us.
This kind of talk undermines the very fabric of a forum like this. It is packaged in a way that cannot simply be ignored. But it is busy ignoring the very real things that God has said in a rush to make it all about us. All about us becoming the One New Man. Or some other overarching construct that is used to reinterpret virtually every scripture.
And, once again, this is very Lee-esque. You don't have to like the comparison. But it is real.