Lol

Mind blowing for sure!

Does anyone believe that the Milky Way is growing by at least one solar system each year?

I have no idea, you have a good source? That type of stuff is interesting to me.

Don't remember but I look for it, don't think I dreamed it, lol.

I wrote that belief theory on page 1 of our chat here.

Hope I was confirming it then, lol. I look to see. I was addressing the 6000 yr thing. I was over whelmed when I saw this thread, my speed reading ain't what she used to be, lol.
I took off on the Celtic heritage thing. I always thought they had a lot of the tribe of Dan in them. Since many of those are now Catholic, I just wonder when judgment day how that will play out. The tribe of Dan won't be present for the tribulation because of their idolatry.

Growing Galaxy

My wife said I seen it on TV and that they said there was thousands of of solar systems being added to other galaxies and that our own was slow and only adding about 1 per year.

This site says that and that while some are sucked in from other galaxies that some are made by sucking in gas.

Isaiah 42:5 “Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:”
The word stretched to me implies something not ridgid or fixed.

How long was Eden around? A day , a thousand years, 10,000 years? The bible doesn't specify such.

Very Good Foxpaw^^^

Isaiah 42:5

My guess would be it was inundated with the flood, whatever date that would be. But like the Ark of the Covenant which was a copy of the one in Heaven, there will a type of Eden where I can get back to the Tree of Life. Jesus paid my way when he was on the Tree. There is some scripture about the tree that produces fresh fruit each month, Revelation 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. I don't really have enough revelation or knowledge to comment on it.

Foxpaw I should have said how long was man in Eden. I believe humanity as we know it didn't begin until the fall of man.

We used the ages given when so-and-so beget so-and-so starting with Adam and moving forward... Then by adding up known historical events on top of that.

It sounds complicated but just involves a good deal of addition and subtraction.

Mike

Well its all semantics without the power of the Blood of Christ shed for us.

Genesis states that Seth was born after removal from the garden... And that Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born.

So less than 130 years is about the best one could guess.

Mike

Can't remember who it was but I heard a theory that the land and mountains rose out of the floor waters. That is why ocean type fossils are found in mountains and and could have created the deep canyons in a short amount of time. I don't claim to have the answers but it sounded plausible to me.

Yea 330 that's a good verse for discussing the heavens.

Another comment on the flood from above where , I think Danny was saying there wouldn't be enough water to cover the earth. I have studied that the earth was pretty smooth before the flood and thus would not take as much water to cover it. Now in Gen 7:20 it says the water covered the mountains, which may have been an after the fact statement and if that is true. Then the flood water after a few days of soaking and erosion churning up the earth, that water was so heavy it actually put enough pressure on the earth surface to heave up the mountains. An explanation that before the waters receded sea life made deposits on the mountains. It sorta makes sense that if internal pressure had been in the interior of the earth there would have maybe been volcanoes instead of heaving up mountain ranges. So I can kinda go with that . Except that if the geologists know what they are talking about our mountain ranges on the east side are wore off more than the Rockies on the west. They say 200,000 years older than the west. So unless there was more than 1 flood, I don't know what to think.

Another thing is they say that big Ark they have built in Kentucky has dinosaur on it. Some from church wanted me to go and see it, I said no that ruined it for me.

Riveratdm We must be thinking alike, you posted while I was pecking and didn't see yours til I hit enter, lol.

I dont believe the Dinos were around with man. Cataclysmic event of earths forming put them out of the scene.

Humankind (finite) has attempted to explain with certainty the infinite since time for humankind began.
Thankfully the infinite One has a plan which actually allows the finite to debate and choose what he or she places faith in.
Most choose "me."

At the start of my first seminary course, one of our professors, himself about 80 years old and worn weary of generations of humanistic enlightened theological "debate," kept dropping his pen and dropping his pen and dropping his pen....

Dr. _______ then looked at us in his class and without smiling said,"For those of you who know all the answers already, and are here to confirm what you already know and have now intention of changing, please know that I have decided after 50 years of worldwide theological debate with wonderful faithful and non-faithful Christians alike... I believe God created gravity (pen falling) in a split second while He was on break from doing the really serious stuff, like making a million galaxies. My point - as soon as one of you can create gravity, let's talk about how ingenious and all knowing our brains are. Until then, please know that we all live in an age where; we see, we take, and we say what is good. Believe me folks, we're not that good, any of us. None of us. If we could make gravity, or sunlight, or smile at a neighbor we hate with sincerity, in spite of... then I would place my trust in what we say with 100% security. Until that day, I'll rest in the mystery of the infinite Creator who has given us revelation about how we are here. Why we are here. What's our purpose. And while we may not know the Creator exhaustively, we know the Creator satisfactorily enough to say 'yep' or 'nope.' " I say yep. Welcome to class. Let's begin.

Gravity is a given that don't change. Airplanes don't fly by defying gravity, they fly by using another law, the law of lift. And usually people like me are safe when we say water flows downhill, unless of course you get in the argument that the earth is bigger around at the equator therefore the Mississippi flows uphill after mixing in centrifugal force and some other measurements. I had to quit working on that one, my tape measure ain't that long, lol.