Thanks for your reply g__day,
I had trouble finding the reference because I was guided by the word 'creation' contained within "" in your earlier post. (I'm not pedantic, its my search tool
) It now emerges that rather than the whole creation, it was just a reference to the kingdoms of the world, and equally important; their glory or splendor. Not quite the same thing since these kingdoms would not have included loose tribal communities which covered most of the world's land surface in those days and were yet to be brought under the aegis of civilization. That is at least if one takes a literal view, however if one considered for discussion's sake, the nature of who Jesus is supposed to be, and the nature of who satan is supposed to be, we are forced to see this as a symbolic event where the vantage point would be such that all kingdoms in all ages then and future, would have been showcased.
Not wanting to play Dentist, just seeking facts and truth.
ta,
Doug
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Originally Posted by g__day
Matthew 4:8, the Devil takes Jesus up to the highest mountain, from which he can see "all the world's kingdoms"
Lads there are about 480 well analysed scientific impossibilities in the Bible (just google biblical scientific inconsistencies) - not just the mountain, nor the worldwide flood, but how about God stopping space and time - God held the moon and stars fixed in the sky whilst..... Joshua 10:12, the Sun and Moon "stood still" in the sky at God's command for an entire day, so that the Israelites could complete their bloody vengeance upon the Amorites."
So don't go pulling out teeth becuase ancient texts got colourful.
Realise the way faith and science reconcile and interact is evolving and continues on an interesting path forward is all I say. Be tolerant, but questioning. My main question was its still an interesting ask - why do we need nore than 1, or 10 or 1 million stars if we were divinely created? Why do we instead need 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 do make it all work?
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