I'm reading a book called " The Top 100 Miracles of the Bible " .  I haven't gotten very far, only to page 17 and miracle number 5. The first miracles noted in this book are about creation in Genesis .   I'm intrigued because I hadn't thought of each line of the creation story as a separate miracle. I hadn't even thought of each day separate from each other day in the narrative. If you reread the story, one verse at a time, you will see an interesting picture.  Before the first day, God created the heavens and the earth.  Picture this, the heavens and the earth.  I picture the stars and a dark sky. But the earth is more difficult. Genesis says the earth was formless and empty, dark, covered with water.  This was BEFORE the first day.  How do we comprehend that?  How can we grasp the meaning of before time. Then - sometime later, when it became the first day, God created light.  He didn't dispel the dark though. He separated darkness from...

I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago called Jesus and the Holy Spirit .  Someone read it and made a comment that included a link to a 2-hour video called The Human Jesus .  I did watch the video over time. I couldn't devote 2 continuous hours of sitting at my computer to watch but I did watch it.  From the wording of the comment the commentator wanted to change my mind about the Trinity. The comment said "prayerfully it will aid you to reconsider 'The Trinity'". Well, it worked. I did reconsider and am reconsidering The Trinity. I can't say that my mind has been changed but it has been opened up. There are a lot of things that we take for granted as fact without actually looking into them ourselves. What the church teaches is full of those things that we take as fact. The Trinity is certainly one of those. Preachers preach about it from the pulpits. It is part of Bible study materials. The book 52 Words Every Christian Should Know is an example. We looke...

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding." How many times do we say we trust the Lord, we believe in His ways, we will follow? Yet oftentimes we will argue with another or demand our own way when it comes to what the Bible says. Each time we do this, we are in effect limiting (what we believe to be) God's power. I know this is a tired debate but I want to bring it up anyway. No where in the Bible does it say that there is no such thing as evolution. There is nothing in Genesis that says "on the first day that God did anything, he created xxx, then on the very next day that God did anything, he created xxxx." No, Genesis uses terms like (Yes, I know the terms are translations from the original text - which was also not the original because the original was not text at all but rather an oral history!) anyway, Genesis uses phrases like "the first day", "the second day", "the third day". ...