The Seven Days Of Creation

[kafka]

commentary on [url="http://sevendaysofcreation.blogspot.com/2011/03/genesis-112.html"]Genesis 1:12[/url]

[kafka]

commentary [url="http://sevendaysofcreation.blogspot.com/2011/04/genesis-113.html"]Genesis 1:13[/url]

Edited April 2, 2011 by kafka

[kafka]

here is a good quote I ran into today from the theologian Ludwig Ott:

"The Church gives no positive decisions in regard to purely scientific questions, but limits itself to rejecting errors which endanger faith. Further, in these scientific matters [b]there is no virtue in a consensus of the Fathers since they are not here acting as witnesses of the Faith, but merely as private scientists... [/b]Since the findings of reason and the supernatural knowledge of Faith go back to the same source, namely to God, there can never be a real contradiction between the certain discoveries of the profane sciences and the Word of God properly understood."

The Fathers didnt have the scientific knowledge we have today, that is why they struggled to interpret Genesis. I have basic summaries of the greatest store of scientific knowledge ever assembled, and I am struggling, but always hoping for help from God.

[kafka]

commentary on [url="http://sevendaysofcreation.blogspot.com/2011/04/genesis-114.html"]Genesis 1:14[/url]

I also revised Gen 1:13. I was having some problems with the beginning point of day four and I was getting fixated on my own speculative timeline which is really suppose to be a sort of loose reference for myself and for the reader. I decided on a solution and simplified.

Edited April 3, 2011 by kafka

[kafka]

{1:4} And God saw the light, that it was good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses.

basically I think this verse sums up the formation and consolidation of the galaxies (and all that makes up the galaxies such as the stars)

God is absolutely simple, yet the Simplicity that is God has no limit, begining or end. This is how God's simple action of dividing light from the darknesses is able to take on a hundreds of billions of forms in the galaxies over billions of years. And this is what is summed up in verse four.

[kafka]

[url="http://sevendaysofcreation.blogspot.com/2011/04/genesis-115.html"]Genesis 1:15[/url]

[kafka]

The birds on day five got me thinking:

The Birds From the Water Animals

Why did God not just instantaneously create the birds? Why did the birds spring forth from the dinosaurs? Why do things spring forth from things over eons? Why does God let things unfold? I suggest the reason is that the One Divine Nature is Eternal and Processional. The Son is eternally proceeding from the Father; the Spirit is eternally proceeding from the Father and from the Son. The natural processes of creation imitate the Eternal Processions in some very limited way. God makes things just as He is. And God is subsuming all things just as He is. Creation as a whole has two distinct phases just as there are two processions in God.

And God has no limit so He also makes things suddenly and miraculously. . .

Edited April 11, 2011 by kafka

[kafka]

amesome homily given by Pope Benedict at the Easter Vigil. All about creation. Obviously, I was very happy to see it and learn from it. Very high and refined:

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20110423_veglia-pasquale_en.html

quote:

Now, one might ask: is it really important to speak also of creation during the Easter Vigil? Could we not begin with the events in which God calls man, forms a people for himself and creates his history with men upon the earth? The answer has to be: no. To omit the creation would be to misunderstand the very history of God with men, to diminish it, to lose sight of its true order of greatness. The sweep of history established by God reaches back to the origins, back to creation. Our profession of faith begins with the words: “We believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth”. If we omit the beginning of the Credo, the whole history of salvation becomes too limited and too small. The Church is not some kind of association that concerns itself with man’s religious needs but is limited to that objective. No, she brings man into contact with God and thus with the source of all things. Therefore we relate to God as Creator, and so we have a responsibility for creation.

[kafka]

I think I'm going to destroy the commentary within a few weeks. I lost my momentum and I can already foresee that I'm not going to finish it, so its better left for nothing.

[Laudate_Dominum]

a bit off-topic perhaps but I like your avatar!

[kafka]

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a bit off-topic perhaps but I like your avatar!
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yes! Thanks. I cant believe I found it lurking somewhere in google images !