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    You Need to Believe In the Hand of God to Really Understand Christianity
    You Need to Believe In the Hand of God to Really Understand Christianity
    You Need to Believe In the Hand of God to Really Understand Christianity
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    You Need to Believe In the Hand of God to Really Understand Christianity

    By Ken Kapreilian

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    Newly revised for 2019. There have been many questions regarding the Creation narrative. The first is trying to understand how God did what He did? I feel that this is the wrong question to ask because we will never be able to fully comprehend how He did it because the Bible says He spoke things into existence. This type of ability is far beyond anything that any person can ever understand. This is because we have a finite mind and we are attempting to understand an infinite God. That is why we need to believe in the hand of God to really understand Christianity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJul 22, 2019
    ISBN9780359816965
    You Need to Believe In the Hand of God to Really Understand Christianity

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      You Need to Believe In the Hand of God to Really Understand Christianity - Ken Kapreilian

      You Need to Believe In the Hand of God to Really Understand Christianity

      You Need to Believe In the Hand of God to Really Understand Christianity

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      Ken Kapreilian

      Copyright © 2019 by Kapreilian Publishing. All rights reserved. No portion of this book can be reproduced without prior written permission from the author.

      ISBN: 978-0-359-81696-5

      Preface

      Regarding the image on the cover of this book, these are the appropriate scripture verses.

      1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. 3 They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. 4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. 5 It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.6 It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth. (Psalm 19:1-6)

      In the Beginning

      Now then, to believe or think that we are able to understand the creation narrative on a purely human level is missing the point of the narrative.  There have been many questions regarding the creation narrative. The first is trying to understand how God did what He did? I feel that this is the wrong question to ask because we will never be able to fully comprehend how He did it because the Bible says He spoke things into existence.  This type of ability is far beyond anything that any human being can ever imagine.  The second question dealing with the creation narrative is the issue of the definition of a day.  Is the day a twenty four hour day or is it an unspecified period of time?

      One of the translations for the Hebrew word day is Yom.  Within this translation Yom can mean either a 24 hour day (such as the holiday of Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement) or Yom can mean an age of unspecified duration.  Some tried to argue that it is one or the other. This argument misses the whole idea of the creation narrative.  You don't try to quantify how God did what He did, just accept that He did it.  Now why would I say that?  You have to understand that there are limitations regarding the abilities of human beings.  Human beings have a finite mind and language is finite and yet we are trying to use both of those things to understand an infinite God.  We just can't get there from here.

      8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

      neither are your ways my ways,"

      declares the 

      Lord

      .

      9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth,

      so are my ways higher than your ways

      and my thoughts than your thoughts.

      (Isaiah 55:8-9, NIV)

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