Ukranianlys,
Other question that I never can seem to find an answer too...i hope god helps me find the answer or if you guys can help me: What if there is multiple gods? How would I show them that there is only one? I greatly appreciate the extreme list, as it suits my needs when re-enforcing someone's faith, thank you very much, but my dear friend is unconvinced, perhaps a more scientific way of finding out the answer?
Usually, when there are many gods we read about them fitting each other (Babylonian Enuma Elish) or having different agendas. In religions like Hinduism there are those that think all of the gods are one, that they are many, that all is god, that god lives in created objects, etc. Hinduism also has a universe that reincarnates every 4.32 billion years. This all would lead to confusion when comes to science, but it can be tested.
The Biblical God created everything to work together for a common goal. He created laws to govern the universe (Jeremiah 33:25-26). He created life using the same types of materials (Gen. 2:7, 19). He gave us a clear order of major events in creation. The Bible does not give an age for the universe or the earth, but gives us earth's initial conditions (Gen. 1:2, Job 38:8-9) and tells us that the universe is expanding. The stretching of the heavens is the expanding fabric of space. This is exactly what astronomy has discovered.
http://www.reasons.org/cosmic-design/bi ... t-it-first
In the above article it is shown that the Bible speaks of God as having stretched the heavens in the past and continually stretching them in the present, but could that have implied a universe that is growing larger and larger to the original audience?
The heavens (universe) are often likened to a tent and/or curtains which make up a tent (Ex. 26:1-13, 36:13-16; Is. 40:22; Psalm 104:2). The Hebrew verb
natah (stretch) was used for the initial stretching out (setting up) of a tent (Gen. 12:8, 26:25; Jere. 10:20), but it was also used in reference to a tent being made larger (Is. 54:2-3). So, indeed
natah would have suggested, what astronomers now know to be true, that space was initially stretched out (at the Big bang) and the Qal active participle form of
natah would suggest its continued expansion.
Science
The universe is orderly. It is run by a set of laws which work together to build and govern the universe.
Life contains the same building materials and uses the same basic blueprint (DNA).
The major events listed in Genesis one, are seen in the same order by scientists.
Science also points to a universe with a single beginning, 13.7 billion years ago and that it is expanding. The earth (4.56 billion yrs. old) is older than a Hindu universe.
This is a short list, but the evidence supports the ONE GOD of the Bible.
