Kanzo Uchimura; "Gods creates the world"
Kanzo Uchimura, a notable author and Christian, was born in 1861 and died in 1930 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchimura_Kanzo).
In one of his writings, he introduced a poem of Wordsworth:
"Evening Ode
Wings on my shoulder seem to play:
But, rooted here, I stand and gaze,
On those bright steps that heavenward raise
Their practicable way."
Uchimura wrote that this poem proved that there is Heaven, place to go after death.
In the same book, he described how his mentor, Julius Hawley Seelye, in Amherst College recalled his deceased wife:
"The old professor pointed at a picture on the wall and said, so gently as if he had been a boy, that it was his wife who had died two years before and was now waiting for him in Heaven."
Uchimura wrote that this episode proved that there is Heaven, place to go after death.
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Kanzo Uchimura also wrote about how to read and interpret description on scientific matters in the Bible.
Such description of the Bible should be read and understood with faith but not with scientific mind, according to him.
If the God said that He created the world in six days in a specific sequence, you should take it as such with faith.
But, of course, God is almighty. It is possible for Him to say that He created the world in six days in a specific sequence, while science told us that the universe emerged 14 billion years ago and the earth has been evolving for five billion years.
What's more, it is the Christian Civilization that has developed the modern science to this stage, owing to mercy of God.
It is not so easy but possible to find a glimpse of omnipotence of God in that the God said that He created the world in six days in a specific sequence, while science told us that the universe emerged 14 billion years ago and the earth has been evolving for five billion years.
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God first created a concept of a day for Himself; He then created every creature in "His six days."
But, He also created laws of the nature which follows logic He also created according to the level of existence of His creatures, including mankind.
Then, He allowed mankind to have their own concept of a day, as an analogy of "His day," and have ability to scientifically trace His work as history of the universe, the earth, and evolution.
In this way, while the God created the world in "His holy six days," mankind is tracing His feat through science with understanding that the universe emerged 14 billion years ago and the earth has been evolving for five billion years based on a concept of a day of mankind.
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Even though you are remarkably brilliant to find any value in EEE-Report, there are many Americans who do not think that any concept has two levels or versions of its meaning, namely, the holy version and the human version.
Even His "momentary" creation of Adam and Even can be only traced by mankind through biological evolution, over 3.8 billion years, from a single-cell creature in the ocean to the present-day mankind on the land following a theory of biological evolution.
So we can praise our God, saying that how glorious God is because "His holy moment" is our 3.8 billion years and "His holy six days" are our 14 billion years or 3.8 billion years.
How wonderful it is that we are allowed to use the concept of a day, though of a human version of the concept.
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Kanzo Uchimura wrote that the precise description in the Bible is originally that "Gods (Elohim) creates the world" but not "God (El) creates the world."
Why "Gods?" It is wrong in terms of grammar.
I can sense an influence of the Sumerian Civilization in it.
Anyway, as God is almighty, he can be a God and Gods at the same time beyond understanding of mankind who has existed only for a few million years on the earth, but sometimes thinks arrogantly his logic and intelligence is as advanced as God's omnipotence.
Every "His holy moment" of the Creation can be all together displayed on His computer screen; then on the screen, there are as many Gods as the number of "His holy moments" of the Creation.
The past, the present, and the future must be all presented on His computer screen. He can see Himself in each moment in the past, the present, and the future.
He probably kindly hints to mankind His omnipotence by allowing for the expression "Gods creates the world" as He so wishes.
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Certain Americans once taught some Japanese Christianity as in the case of Kanzo Uchimura.
Anyway, God is almighty. If He chose somebody, we have to just accept him or her, since God is almighty and the chosen one was truly chosen by the God who is the Almighty.
(Do you believe that the God chose a place for you to live in, if you are now living in New York or Los Angeles? As for me, I do believe partly due to convenience of taking pictures such as those presented on EEE-Reporter. God is truly great and the God is the only god for us.)
"LET THE WHEAT AND THE WEEDS GROW UNTIL THE HARVEST"