A busybody Pastor once accused us (that's me and the Holy spirit) of being Simon the Sorcerer. At the time we were offended and took it personally. Now we simply accept that we were recognized as having power.
Matty’s Magical Gospel Golf Spell
300 Foxes
It would take a lot of work to catch 300 foxes. How many could one catch on a good day? 3? 4? We should consider that assembling 300 foxes was months of work.
The Fountains were Sealed with Magma
Can we make the case that the phrase "When He strengthened the fountains of the deep," means "sealed shut with lava or magma?" We'll need to look at other passages where the word translated as strengthened occurs.
Mist or Steam?
The context of the mist that went up is important. It's part of the narrative of the week of creation when the fountains of the great deep had to be sealed after the deep had drained through them into the interior of the Earth.
A Mist Went Up
Contextually the mist that went up was a phenomenon which happened during the week of creation, specifically on the third day. However, in conservative Christian doctrine this condition persisted until the time of Noah.
The Donkey’s Jawbone
The universe is both young and ancient simultaneously due of a phenomenon called gravitational time dilation (GTD). 2 Peter 3:8 is a mathematically accurate equation for GTD. We call it the Donkey's Jawbone.
The Jawbone End Run
We're going to show you how the young Earth creation (YEC) stance, that nuclear decay rates haven't been constant, is accurate and how to neutralize the popular science (SciPop) math defense against it.
Strengthened: בַּ֝עֲז֗וֹז – baazoz
When we look at the Hebrew word translated as strengthened we find an example of the theologians of yesteryear fudging their data. The word has been assigned to the root עָזַז - azaz, no doubt because it makes sense.
Heaps upon Heaps
And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that wereupon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put …
March 8th
During the third day Earth's surface rose out of the ocean at Rosh, the beginning. The ocean drained into Earth's interior through the fountains of the deep, which were then sealed somehow.