WITH THE BEGINNING

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WITH THE BEGINNING
In the Beginning Elohim created the heavens and
the earth Genesis 11
With the Beginning Elohim created the heavens
and the earth Genesis 11
With the Torah Elohim created the heavens and
the earth Genesis 11, John 11
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Beginning In / On / With / By
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YHWH possessed me - the Beginning of His
way Proverbs 822
"I am . . . the Beginning and the
End. Revelation 2213
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7000 YEARS IN 7 DAYS
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THE ALEF AND THE TAV
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But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,
that one day is with ADONAI as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day. 2 Peter 38,
cf. Psalm 904
In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his
chuppah. Psalm 194-5, Cf. Malachi 42
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"I am the Alef and the Tav. Revelation 2213
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AND THERE WAS EVENING AND THERE WAS MORNING
DAY EVENT
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Light was enabled, Light and Darkness Separated
DAY ONE
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God separated the waters from the waters
SECOND DAY
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The waters gather, the land appears, vegetation
begins
THIRD DAY
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Sun, moon and stars are created
FOURTH DAY
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The waters bring forth living creatures
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FIFTH DAY
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The earth brings forth animals, Man created in
the Image of God
SIXTH DAY
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YEHI OHR VYEHI OHR
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I form the light, and create darkness Isaiah
457
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Yatzar
Bara
Something from Something To Form, to mold, to
shape
Something from Nothing To Create ex nihlo
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WHO CREATED GOD? Or what was God doing
100 million years before Creation?
The question is inherently flawed, as it
presupposes that time existed.
. . . the known laws of physics break down in a
gravitational singularity of infinite density at
the time zero of the Big Bang, so that according
to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity
there were no times prior to that
point. Wikipedia, Big Bang
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SCIENCE DISCOVERS THE BEGINNING
1959 A survey was taken of leading American
scientists, asking, "What is your concept of the
age of the universe?" The response was recently
republished in Scientific American. Two-thirds of
the scientists gave the same answer "Beginning?
There was no beginning. Aristotle and Plato
taught us 2400 years ago that the universe is
eternal. There was no beginning."
1965 Penzias and Wilson discovered the echo of
the Big Bang, and the world paradigm changed from
a universe that was eternal to a universe that
had a beginning. Understand the impact. Science
said that our universe had a beginning, that the
first word of the Bible is correct. I can't
overestimate the import of that scientific
"discovery." Evolution, cave men, these are all
trivial problems compared to the fact that we now
understand that we had a beginning. Gerald
Schroeder, The Age of the Universe
Robert Wilson Arno Penzias
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OLD EARTH VS. YOUNG EARTH
TRADITIONAL VIEW YOUNG EARTH
6 THOUSAND YEARS OLD FROM CREATION
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AGE IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
TORAH VIEW
6 THOUSAND YEARS FROM ADAM
6 LITERAL 24 HR DAYS
Adams Perspective
Gods Perspective
Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became
the father of a son . . . and named him
Shet. Genesis 53
God saw that it was good. Genesis 118
"Why does Moses break the calendar into two parts
- 'The days of old, and the years of the many
generations?' Because, 'Consider the days of old'
is the Six Days of Genesis. 'The years of the
many generations' is all the time from Adam
forward." Nachmanides, cited in Age of the
Universe, Gerald Schroeder
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TWO CLOCKS
We have a clock that begins with Adam, and the
six days are separate from this clock. The Bible
has two clocks. That might seem like a modern
rationalization, if it were not for the fact that
Talmudic commentaries 1500 years ago . . .(where)
all the Sages agree that Rosh Hashana
commemorates the soul of Adam, and that the Six
Days of Genesis are separate. Once you come from
Adam, the flow of time is totally in human terms.
Adam and Eve live 130 years before having
children! Seth lives 105 years before having
children, etc. From Adam forward, the flow of
time is totally human in concept. Gerald
Schroeder, The Age of the Universe http//www.gera
ldschroeder.com/age.html
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COSMIC MUSTARD SEED
In 1931, Lemaître suggested that the evident
expansion in forward time required that the
universe contracted backwards in time, and would
continue to do so until it could contract no
further, bringing all the mass of the universe
into a single point, a "primeval atom", at a
point in time before which time and space did not
exist. As such, at this point, the fabric of time
and space had not yet come into existence.
Wikipedia, Big Bang
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Science has shown that there's only one
"substance-less substance" that can change into
matter. And that's energy. Einstein's famous
equation, EMC2, tells us that energy can change
into matter. This moment of time before the clock
begins for the Bible, lasted about 1/100,000 of a
second. A miniscule time. But in that time, the
universe expanded from a tiny speck, to about the
size of the Solar System. From that moment on we
have matter, and time flows forward. The clock
begins here.
Gerald Schroeder, The Age of the
Universe http//www.geraldschroeder.com/age.html
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15 BILLION YEARS SIX DAYS?
(Science has) now have quantified the data to
know the relationship of the "view of time" from
the beginning, relative to the "view of time"
today. The general relationship between time near
the beginning and time today is a million
million1. So when someone viewing from the
beginning looking forward says "I'm sending you a
pulse every second," would we see it every
second? No. We'd see it every million million
seconds. Because that's the stretching effect of
the expansion of the universe. The Torah doesn't
say every second, does it? It says Six Days. How
would we see those six days? If the Torah says
we're sending information for six days, would we
receive that information as six days? No. We
would receive that information as six million
million days. . . Six million million days is a
very interesting number. What would that be in
years? Divide by 365 and it comes out to be 16
billion years. Essentially the estimate of the
age of the universe. Not a bad guess for 3000
years ago.
Gerald Schroeder, The Age of the
Universe http//www.geraldschroeder.com/age.html
1. The Principles of Physical Cosmology
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THE BIG BANG
Today, we look at time going backward. We see 15
billion years. Looking forward from when the
universe is very small - billions of times
smaller - the Torah says six days
Gerald Schroeder, The Age of the
Universe http//www.geraldschroeder.com/age.html
15 BILLION YEARS MANS PERSPECTIVE
SIX 24 HR DAYS GODS PERSPECTIVE
1,000,000,000,000 EXPANSION RATE
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THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE
The way these two figures match up is
extraordinary. Now we can go one step further.
Let's look at the development of time,
day-by-day, based on the expansion factor. Every
time the universe doubles, the perception of time
is cut in half. Now when the universe was small,
it was doubling very rapidly. But as the universe
gets bigger, the doubling time gets exponentially
longer. When you add up the Six Days, you get the
age of the universe at 15 and 3/4 billion years.
The same as modern cosmology. Is it by chance?
But there's more. The Bible goes out on a limb
and tells you what happened on each of those
days. Now you can take cosmology, paleontology,
archaeology, and look at the history of the
world, and see whether or not they match up
day-by-day. And I'll give you a hint. They match
up close enough to send chills up your spine.
Gerald Schroeder, The Age of the
Universe http//www.geraldschroeder.com/age.html
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WORD MEANINGS CHOSHEKH MAYIM
When the word "choshech" appears in Genesis 12,
the Talmud explains that it means black fire,
black energy, a kind of energy that is so
powerful you can't even see it. Two verses later,
in Genesis 14, the Talmud explains that the same
word - "choshech" - means darkness, i.e. the
absence of light. Other words as well are not to
be understood by their common definitions. For
example, "mayim" typically means water. But
Maimonides says that in the original statements
of creation, the word "mayim" may also mean the
building blocks of the universe. Another example
is Genesis 15, which says, "There is evening and
morning, Day One." That is the first time that a
day is quantified evening and morning.
Nachmanides discusses the meaning of evening and
morning. Does it mean sunset and sunrise? It
would certainly seem to. . . .
Gerald Schroeder, The Age of the
Universe http//www.geraldschroeder.com/age.html
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WORD MEANINGS EREV AND BOKER
Nachmanides says the text uses the words "Vayehi
Erev" - but it doesn't mean "there was evening."
He explains that the Hebrew letters Ayin, Resh,
Bet - the root of "erev" - is chaos. Mixture,
disorder. That's why evening is called "erev",
because when the sun goes down, vision becomes
blurry. The literal meaning is "there was
disorder." The Torah's word for "morning" -
"boker" - is the absolute opposite. When the sun
rises, the world becomes "bikoret", orderly, able
to be discerned. . . erev to boker is a flow from
disorder to order, from chaos to cosmos.
Gerald Schroeder, The Age of the
Universe http//www.geraldschroeder.com/age.html
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FROM CHAOS TO ORDER
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TORAH BRINGS ORDER
If YHWH used the Torah to create the universe, If
YHWH used its words to bring order out of
chaos, What an AMAZING thing that YHWH has given
us His Torah!
The Living Torah, Yeshua, will bring order to our
lives that are riddled with chaos, disorder
restoring sight to the blind, and making
everything clear to us.
We need YHWH to speak into our lives to make
this happen, that the Torah might say of us,
And God saw that it was very good.