Revelation

From the book "Genesis and the Big Bang" by Gerald Schroeder.

"When the writers of the Cosmos series claimed that without the modern equipment available to those involved in cosmic research we would not suspect that the universe is expanding, that we would have no inkling that the universe probably expanded from a primordial state of high density, that is, we would not have discovered the phenomena of the Big Bang -- they were, of course, correct. Discovering the phenomena related to the original Big Bang required sophisticated radio waves and optical telescopes and all technology related to high-energy particle accelerators. These became available only in the last 50 years or so.

Now consider the writings of Nahmanide who lived from 1194 to 1270 C. E.

He writes, "At the briefest instant following creation all the matter of the universe was concentrated in a very small place, no larger than a grain of mustard. The matter at this time was so thin, so intangible, that it did not have real substance. It did have, however, a potential to gain substance and form and to become tangible matter. From the initial concentration of this intangible substance in its minute location, the substance expanded, expanding the universe as it did so. As the expansion progressed, a change in the substance occurred. This initially thin noncorporeal substance took on the tangible aspects of matter as we know it. From this initial act of creation, from this ethereally thin pseudosubstance, everything that has existed, or will ever exist, was, is, and will be formed."


So did God give him a revelation or was it just a really lucky guess?

A Originally posted by whodey

Originally posted by sonship
Gerald Shroeder's (an Orthodox Jew (?) ) talks are very interesting.
I have read his book [b]"The Science of God" .

He seems to survive quite well as a professor at MIT, the last I heard.[/b]

Originally posted by whodey
He is parte scientist and part theologian.

And yes, he is a Jew.

Originally posted by whodey
So did God give him a revelation or was it just a really lucky guess?

Originally posted by twhitehead
Well given that people didn't speak modern English back in the 1200's methinks there has been some translation - and likely manipulation.

"At the briefest instant following creation all the matter of the universe was concentrated in a very small place, no larger than a grain of mustard. The matter at this time was so thin, so intangible, that it did not have real substance. It did have, however, a potential to gain substance and form and to become tangible matter. From the initial concentration of this intangible substance in its minute location, the substance expanded, expanding the universe as it did so. As the expansion progressed, a change in the substance occurred. This initially thin noncorporeal substance took on the tangible aspects of matter as we know it. From this initial act of creation, from this ethereally thin pseudosubstance, everything that has existed, or will ever exist, was, is, and will be formed."

Giordano Bruno is another interesting fellow.

Giordano Bruno is another interesting fellow.

Giordano Bruno (Italian: [dʒorˈdano ˈbruno]; Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; 1548 – 17 February 1600), born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer.[3] He is celebrated for his cosmological theories, which went even further than the then-novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets and raised the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own (a philosophical position known as cosmic pluralism). He also insisted that the universe is in fact infinite and could have no celestial body at its "center".

Beginning in 1593, Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges including denial of several core Catholic doctrines

Bruno kept having these "visions" about an infinite universe. These visions so engulfed his thinking that he willingly died for them

Originally posted by whodey
From the book "Genesis and the Big Bang" by Gerald Schroeder.

"When the writers of the Cosmos series claimed that without the modern equipment available to those involved in cosmic research we would not suspect that the universe is expanding, that we would have no inkling that the universe probably expanded from a primordial state of high density, that is, ...[text shortened]... and will be formed."


So did God give him a revelation or was it just a really lucky guess?

Originally posted by sonship
Could you provide your evidence for what "methinks" about mistranslation or modification ?

Originally posted by sonhouse
Well, if god told him that stuff, it kind of refutes the 6 day creation Egyptian myth.

Originally posted by twhitehead
I said nothing that requires evidence nor do I have any. I merely said that there is no doubt whatsoever that it was translated and that leaves significant room for taking liberties with the translation

[b]I mean we could all just take your word for it.
No need for that, why don't you dig up the original? Or must we take your word for it that Gera ...[text shortened]... ation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahmanides#Views_on_death.2C_mourning_and_the_resurrection[/b]

Originally posted by twhitehead

Originally posted by whodey
What explains his fanaticism in regards to his visions?

What would cause a man to surrender his life like that?

Originally posted by RJHinds
Posessions by demons. 😏