It is imperative that you allow the Word of God to speak for itself.
You will be tempted to insert your own picture of how the world began. You will be tempted to think in terms of planets, outer space, and all that modern science tells us.
But we need to hear what God is saying to Israel – and indeed, what God is saying to us.
If any “science” should influence us, it should be the science that Moses knew in his day.
Too often the church has assumed that Moses is teaching the science of our day. Just think of the arrogance!
The early church claimed that Moses taught the science of their day: for over 1500 years commentators assured their readers that there were in fact four elements: earth, water, air, and fire – and if you have any doubt, just look at the first three days of creation!
We sometimes laugh at those “silly” people who said that the earth was the center of the universe, but for millennia that was the received science that everyone believed – and that both scripture and observation supported!
We need to be careful to let scripture speak on its own terms. We must not force the Word of God into our scientific language.
I, for one, do not have enough confidence that modern science has everything figured out!
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