You said: "
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God created the natural order - including the climate - as a dynamic interdepedent set of systems. Whatever happens in one part affects every other part."
So you are saying, GOD is like a
"Computer Programmer" a "Systems Analyst" like me. I don't think HE uses The "
If Than ELSE"
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No sir "
set of systems" "
that Dog won't hunt"
I tried that approach over 40 years ago. I do have a degree in "Computer Science" and was taught in 3 Computer Languages.
That is one of the reason my "Biblical Stance" is so "Systematic" and it help me to understand "Theology Proper" and Systematic Theology.
So let us not even go there.
Next: "you said":
"In Genesis, God commanded
humans to rule and
steward his earth. So we ought to take responsibility for how we care for his creation."
Yes, HE did, Then ADAM gave up that right, when He "Fell" the very day he ate from that Tree he DIED! "GOD does not lie!" We might not understand "
BUT" GOD does not lie! After ADAM ate, he could not pat The LION in The Jungle, He could NOT touch the "BEHEMOTH" that roam the land, He could not swim with the "LEVIATHAN" WHO'S home is of the Oceans floors. Adam and Eve could no longer run with the "Leopards" nor ride The Backs of The Yellow, Black Stripped :"TIGERS", The very ones in whom he name, as GOD brought each one to him and Adam gave them names. He lost that right, and that right fell to another creature who GOD had made and HIs Name is
"The Adversary" For ADAM had DIED to all rights, and became a
"SLAVE" into The "BONDAGE of SIN". Instead of Ruling the World He Became a "Prey"
The Whole world became his enemy. the Sun, the wind, the birds, the weather, the oceans, the bees, The Locus, The Mosquitoes, The Wolf, even the "Night"
"BUT" GOD still had mercy
and Left one Thing
he can "RULE" over. "And your Husband shall
"RULE" over you" and you are not going to like it!
One must 1st. Understand, after He has been
"Born From ABOVE" He must start
from The Beginning and that Beginning is called
"Genesis" and
ask GOD to give you understand. And Help you understand
The FALL! "The Original SIN" ADAM DIED ! You must begin in Genesis from The Beginning and Track through the "Wilderness" until You get to The Promise LAND and That Promise Land is Not
The Land of "CANAAN". And If, you decide to take the "Short cut" by climbing through a window or some other way, you only hurts your own self and those who follow you
I did not take a short cut, I started and began with "ALPHA" and going on with The Omega"
I did not start with a preacher or minster teaching me anything, but told me Read MY BIBLE. I did not have a Sunday teacher who did not know the difference between "Sanctification" and "Holiness". and that what is "pure' and that what is "impure". a person who have not Read the BOOK.
New King James Version
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it
you shall surely die.”
New American Standard Bible
but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it
you will certainly die.”
NASB 1995
but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it
you will surely die.”
Many christians claims that they are "believers".
But they
do not believe GOD's WORD. "BUT"
they do their bust to explain it away.
English Standard Version
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
[Trust in THE WORD of GOD with all your heart, and do no lean on your own understanding] HIS WORD is "The SOLID ROCK" "Rightly divided".
PS.
New King James Version
Now is the judgment of this world;
now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
New American Standard Bible
Now judgment is
upon this world;
now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
2 Corinthians 4:4
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
New International Version
We know that we are children of God, and that t
he whole world is under the control of the evil one. [everybody do not know this] but "We know"
(LUKE 4)BSB
"Then the devil led Him up to a high place and
showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.
“I will give You authority over all these kingdoms and all their glory,” he said. “For it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish. 7So if You worship me, it will all be Yours.”
Satan did not lie.
And here is a "Nugget". The bible says: The Sun stood still.
The Day the Sun Stood Still (Joshua 10:13)BSB
"On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”
GOD did not make the SUN stand still
GOD made The EARTH STOP TURNING on IT"S AXIS. And we all know that The EARTH turns at the speed of over 1,000 mph. And GOD stop it. In mid day and made it stand still, for The SUN never moves. Now what kind of "SYSTEMS" is that?
Do you know what will happen if the EARTH Stops turning! Total CHAOS!
IF the earth stop spinning at once. it would be enormously catastrophic for much of the planet’s surface. Though we don’t feel it, we’re all moving along with the planet as it rotates; at the equator, this works out to around
1,000 miles per hour. Stop the planet suddenly, and everything sitting on top of it would go flying eastward. Imagine people, houses, trees, boulders and more being launched sideways at hundreds of miles an hour. In the aftermath, high speed winds, still rotating nearly as fast as the planet, would
scour the surface clean.
No God Has not let the earth to a "
dynamic interdependent set of systems." HE is not a man He is "
THE TETRAGRAMMATON" And HIS ways are pass finding out. The finite cannot "comprehend the Incomprehensible".
