Amen.
I never cease to be amazed by His obvious presence.
He also sent the prophets, and his one and only son.
Why? Because it shouldn't be visible, not like that. That image should be a fog or completely black, nothing in between. To see that amount of detail, that amount of fine structure, those beautiful delicate rotating pinwheels, to see galaxies billions of light years away across almost an entire universe is absurd. That mind-blowing image is impossible without a super-finely tuned matter density gradient and alpha opacity function that is absolutely perfect. It is more mathematically improbable than hitting the Power Ball Jackpot lottery five times in a row.
The UDF is one of the many wildly improbable aspects of the physical Universe. It is unique in that it does not fall prey to a rebuttal based on the Anthropic Principle. (I believe that AP is the last, desperate, refuge of the cornered atheist.)
See the YouTube video The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D by Deep Astronomy. Watch this video carefully. (Or just look out your window.)
At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Mt 11:25
The time to engrave such a message in the sky would be at the moment of creation, Merali writes: “Think of it like drawing a smiley face in marker on a balloon straight out of the package. Blow up the balloon and the picture stretches with the rubber. In the same way, as the cosmos rapidly inflated, its creator’s message would shine out across the whole sky.” She says no one has found such a message thus far, thus disappointing those who believe in God.
There is no message hidden in DNA. The extreme complexity of DNA is the message. It’s far more complex than I am capable of understanding. It requires an extreme leap of faith to assume that this came about completely by millions of random events.
Idiots!!! Looking for a hidden message from God when creation is the message.
It isn’t an accident the ‘4th’ Commandment in His 10 Commandments has a ‘time’ factor-
Remember His Sabbath Day, to keep it holy.
Much like the 4th ‘dimension’ of ‘time’- (after the 3 space dimensions of length, width, height)
Psalm 19:1-4
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
Back as far as 600 B.C. the Greeks were trying to discover the one unifying principle and all they could come up with was water, air, fire and mathematics.
So was I. Maybe not traitorous, but certainly dead or imprisoned. Finally got my sh*t together (somewhat) in my late 20s largely because I finally turned to God for help.
Thank you, Father. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Holy Spirit.
If you think that π or e is a "real" thing or are designations of real things, you are on the way to asserting real things that are immaterial. You can't weigh a ratio.
If you think that no one should teach religion in school (or that everyone should, or some should,) it seems to me that this "shouldness" is an immaterial thing over which people are prepared to fight.
These massless, dimensionless things seem to extert something resembling an attractive force. The seeds on a sunflower head seem to tend toward a distribution conforming to e. People generally, imperfectly and with exceptions, tend to attempt to conform themselves toward their idea of "should" and discuss and even change their idea after observation and thought.
So these massless, dimensionless, unmeasurable things have something sort of like power. You can't weigh a ratio; you can't tell the volume of justice. Yet scientists assert that we SHOULD listen to them, while fatcat politicians approximate the ratio of circumference to diameter more closely the fatter they get.
Clearly the sort of cause or power that ratios and justice have is different from the sort demonstrated by a stick on the head of an antifa bozo. So it's reasonable to say that God causes the κτίσις, the creation, in a manner different from that in which a cat causes your glass of bourbon to slide off the table.
The intent to punish and drive away the antifa bozo is a sort of cause we might call "higher" than the relationship between blow on the head and lacerations and contusions (and for the bozo, perhaps a sudden clarity of thought?)
Similarly the way God causes the creation may be different from and higher than the sort of cause scientists measure.
So, until a scientist can tell me how much my moral obligation to pay attention to him weighs, I won't pay attention to his disdain for a Divine cause.
Thank you. I'm here all week.
This is completely beautiful. Thank you for posting this times a million. A sure keeper.
God is God.
Accept God on faith. Accept science on evidence.
“If God desired to send us a message, how would He do it?”
” .... a still small voice.”
God communicates with us in so many ways.
1 Kings 19:11-12 King James Version (KJV)
11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
This is a good read.
Look at your hand.Hold it up and flex your fingers.No one can tell me that it’s the product of evolution.