Joanne C.:
Steven,
I agree wholeheartedly. From the things I’ve read so far, I get the feeling “young earth creationist” Christians need/want to believe in something new. Something the Catholic Church and most established Protestant denominations don’t teach in order to set themselves apart. Though they love the sacred scriptures very deeply, they refuse to acknowledge from whence they came. My family has been to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, so we have seen first hand how long it took(and continues to take) God’s beautiful creation to take shape. Thanks for your insights.
Pray without ceasing…
Joanne
Hello Joanne,
As you can see from my post I also believe that the universe was created six or ten thousand years ago. I simply understand that God is outside of time. God looks at the whole of physical time, which He created, like we would look at a three inch piece of yarn. The creation of infinite past and infinite future time flows out into existance from God’s focus point of Adam because free willed Adam is the reason for creation. Before six or ten thousand or sixty thousand years ago there was nothing. After God created now there came into existance billions of years of past and billions of years of future physical time.
So I cannot fault fundimentalists for also believing in creation thousands of years ago. It is rediculous for the fundimentalists to think that God would not also create an infinite past allong with an infinite future, six thousand years ago.
One must remember that advancing science has taken it’s toll on the Catholic Church also. The Church had Galileo arrested. Many of Galileo’s day used his scientific advances to disclaim Genisis, and therefore holy scriptures, and Church teaching as wrong.
The point I am getting at is that the Catholic Church has not always said, “Sure the world is billions of years old.” Nor has the Church always said “of course the world is not flat!” Or “of course the earth revolves around the sun!” There were tremendous growing pains between the Catholic Church and science also. Foes of the Church also attacked scriptures and the Church with scientific data that the world was not flat, revolved around the sun and the world was older than Genisis seems to present it.
The problem is really on the side of science in its failure to understand the tremendous creating power of our God who exists outside of physcial time. Science looks at a million year old rock and they falsely assume that creation must have taken place before a million years ago for this million year old rock to exist. Science says that their can be no such thing as future prophecy from our, omni-present to the whole of physical time, God in scriptures because this is physically impossible. Scriptural prophecies of Jesus have been proven correct.
God is outside of time. Thousands of years ago, God created a universe with infinite past and infinite future.
