{"id":7207,"date":"2025-02-15T20:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T02:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2025-03-04T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T19:21:42","slug":"did-god-really-say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=7207","title":{"rendered":"DID GOD REALLY SAY ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If I put that title in quotation marks, who should I credit with the statement, the question ?<br>Think I&#8217;ll save that for a bit, for anyone who doesn&#8217;t already have the answer (the author).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked up at the stars a few minutes ago, as I do on every clear night.<br>Did God really say, &#8220;Let there be light&#8221; ?<br>One of the most fascinating phrases in the Bible, when God made the lights, is included almost as an afterthought, a minor detail&#8212;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MINOR ABOUT IT&#8212;&#8220;Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.&#8221;<br>&#8220;He also made the stars.&#8221;<br>&#8220;HE ALSO MADE THE STARS.&#8221;<br><strong>&#8220;HE ALSO MADE THE STARS.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We (mankind) always knew there were a lot of stars, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a whole lot of stars !<\/span><br>But only now, after 6,000 years of seeing them by every person who ever lived&#8212;only now have we learned just how many stars there are.<br>Correction&#8212;we only know how many we don&#8217;t know are out there, besides the ones we know.<br>It keeps getting harder to count them.<br>It keeps getting harder to comprehend God.<br>It keeps getting more ridiculous to think there is no God behind everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it interesting how all the scientific discoveries of the millennia, and everything we&#8217;ve uncovered in the tiniest particles of the universe, and the most massive stuff out there, and in the earth&#8212;how it all, ALL, fits perfectly in what the Bible tells us from the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see bridges in massive highway interchanges, and I thank God for placing that potential in man and the materials to do it with&#8212;all of that built-in during the one week of creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I DO BELIEVE GOD IS GREAT ! ! !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did God really say, &#8220;Let there be light&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did God really say, &#8220;Let there be . . . everything else in all the world, in all the universe ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did God really say, &#8220;In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did God really say, &#8220;Let Us make man in Our image.&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did God really say, &#8220;In the image of God He created man&#8212;male and female He created them.&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did God really say, &#8220;In the beginning was the Word&#8212;and the Word was with God&#8212;and the Word was God.  And the Word became flesh and lived among us.&#8221; ?<br>That would be Jesus&#8212;check it out in the first chapter of John in your Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did God really say ?<br>You better believe it !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are you going to do about it ?<br>READ YOUR BIBLE&#8212;IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE&#8212;GUARANTEED !<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>And now, if anyone has any doubts about what God really said&#8212;<br>Who raised the question, &#8220;Did God really say ?&#8221; ?<br>The devil said it, and tricked people into sin ever since the Garden of Eden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I put that title in quotation marks, who should I credit with the statement, the question ?Think I&#8217;ll save that for a bit, for anyone who doesn&#8217;t already have the answer (the author). 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