Could this be a possible interpretation of the first creation story?

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How do you know it was not what God told the human author to write?

Is the story merely an allegory? Could be…is it true, but perhaps somewhat distorted over the ages? Could be…

By me happening to be “alright” with the fact that God is able to do exactly what he said does not detract in any way my belief in the Church or God…I think it brings glory to God which is always a good thing.

I do know that God is the author of not only our planet and universe but space, time and of our whole reality…that is an undeniable fact…
 
It is what God wanted said through the human author. However, Genesis 1 seems to be written from God’s perspective and maybe He wrote it with His finger and that clay tablet was handed down to Moses.
 
I wonder why the Holy Spirit was sleeping all this time and just recently woke up to set the record straight.
 
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Since we don’t know whether God dictated the words to the author, why even go there and create an extra level of complication and controversy that is irrelevant to your point?
 
My whole point was that why is it so hard to believe? And what harm does it do to believe it?

If God is who He says He is then ALL things are possible through Him…we only have scripture to go by, and so He gave us a description…I am merely suggesting that it is not beyond the scope of God to not only create it as He said but to also preserve the account of it…I mean if He created our very existence preserving a chapter or two of a book would seem like kids play compared to ex nihilo…

Please do not think I am trying to argue or am being deliberately obtuse…I have had many Catholic friends walk away shaking their heads at me over this very subject…
 
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I am not saying that science should be taken over scripture. But we should not be relying solely on scripture.

We know scripture is true because it is the word of God and since God does not lie then scripture is true.
But we also know that science is true because it can be Proven.

If both science and scripture are true then why do we look at them seperately? Many people say that you can either believe in science or religion but this is not true.

If God created the world as we know he did then did he not create the atoms that make it up? Or everything else in this world.

Before there was scripture God spoke the world into existence. Therefore every time we make a scientific discovery we learn more about the world God created and therefore learn about God.

Science and scripture should not be looked at separate but together as they have both come from God.

Look at the document that I had posted. I did not change scripture or manipulate it. I just compared it to a scientific discovery and saw that they were the same. Surely it could not all be a coincidence?
 
Most science is not empirical and cannot be proven, that is observable, repeatable and predictable.
 
I see exactly where you are coming from and have no problem with your view…😎

Science is more than just a gift from God for sure. I think are natural world is the fingerprint of God and science is the skein that holds it together.

I contend that God lives (or for lack of a better term, exists) outside our time, our reality and our physics that we know as our world.
He is not subject to linear time the same way he is not subject to gravity outside of our “dimension”.

The science we use to define our universe is a creation of God, he is not bound to that creation unless He chooses to be.

Some are using our limited understanding of science to try and prove their faith just as some are relying on scripture alone to prove to theirs. Both are in danger of the same pitfalls.

The Church comes in handy with this sticky wicket for me…lots of folks with brain pans much bigger than mine have went before and done a lot of the heavy lifting.
I think God choses His words carefully for preservation…“I Am Who I Am”

We know less about our deepest parts of the oceans than we do near outer space.
We use mathematics to quantify our world but we also do not understand how our own brains work.
We constantly redefine physics…quantum, string…we build big colliders to try and recreate the big bang…we theorize and hypothesize and all the time we are basically doing so with half our brain tied behind our back.
The truth is we just don’t know what we don’t know and what we do know sometimes only leads to more questions showing us how much we don’t know.

As far as coincidence?

I dunno…the older I get the less I believe it.

The strings of reality we exist on were weaved outside our time and understanding.
In my own life I have experienced way too many things that could not be explained in any other way to really believe in it. Things beyond statistical probabilities or coincidence.
Personally, I take great solace in this…because it makes me love God all that much more.
He is truly omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient…that alone makes me dizzy when I meditate upon it…

Thanks for the back and forth, this is iron sharpening iron I think…and I also think in the end we are both probably going to be correct in some fashion…

Michael
 
I like to think of God trying to explain the Big Bang, astrophysics, evolution and all that to Moses, and God saying ISNT THAT AWESOME?!? and Moses being like “can you repeat the stuff you said about the…things?” And God letting out a big sigh and saying, “ok fine, how about this…” and then dictating Genesis 1 to Moses, then Moses is all like “Ohhhh ok I get it now, thanks!”
 
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I would also think Moses might have said…“hold on, Im gonna need a whole lot more tablets”
 
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