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My thoughts:

• God is a aspect of the universe, incorporeal and unbounded by space and time.
***That is because God CREATED the universe. He exists outside of it.

• The creation story is not literal (”seven days”) but is meant to relate a vision of the universe to a simple people.
***It is as literal as God chose to be, given the timegap of language that would take place for 3500 years before mankind could even comprehend the vastness of what is out there.

• The Big Bang is part of an unimaginably long cycle; explosion, dispersal, regathering,
***There is very little evidence of this “cycle”. In fact, we are continuing to expand at an accelerating rate.

explosion.

• Humankind is not equipped to understand the Being of God, but may perceive His nature.
***Standard “we know more than we used to” pablum.

• God’s presence is as near as your willingness to perceive it.
*** Luke 14:15 When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”