The firmament accounts for our empirical observations of the cosmos, it’s the “missing” 90% of the mass of the universe. We propose a mechanism for how the inner surface was blackened at the beginning of the fourth day.
April 2nd
March 31st
God gave us free will so that believing in Him is a choice. If proof of God was in plain sight then there's no free will. God covered the proof of his presence, the firmament, as part of the plan of redemption.
Where Light Dwells
Night was the darkness that resulted from the creation of light. Now God has gathered up all the darkness into a ball at the center of a spherical creation so night, technically, is inside the earth at this point.
February 26th
Faith is believing in something that you can't see. Math requires believing in concepts that you can't see, and relating them to each other in ways that can't be seen. Math is inductive, reductive, circular faith.
Everlasting Light
We're told that the new heaven and new Earth, where we'll life for eternity, is a place of perpetual light. We're making the case that this permanent physical separation of light from darkness is the purpose of creation.
February 17th
SciPop (the atheist human origins narrative) is an inductive rationalization of the premise that the universe doesn't require a divine origin. All evidence of the supernatural has to be rationalized as something else.
February 16th
The Apostle Paul refers to the third heaven in which case, logically, there must also be a first and second heaven. If you believe that Earth orbits a sun which is adrift in an infinite universe, you don't have a third heaven.
February 15th
Accepting the firmament as a sphere of rigid crystal on the edge of space solves scriptural and physical problems. The King James Bible is the only one from which an accurate cosmological model may be deduced.
February 14th
Life has an orientation. Earth is down and the sky is up. Hell is below, heaven is above. Whatever happened on the second day has to allow for the formation of heaven and hell.
February 12th
In the broad narrative of scripture the separation of light and darkness isn't a cycle from day to night. It's the prevailing theme of the Bible but this separation has to be physical and permanent.