Measurement
Another mathematical process that I propose has its origins in God is measurement. In the first place we see that God measured time, but he also measured space.
The first chapter of Genesis claims that time began through an act of God. He measured a span of time and gave it a name, a day. The day consisted of a period of time he called morning and a second period of time he called evening.
As we explore the first chapter of Genesis a little further, we see that God set the lights in the expanse of the sky to let them serve as signs to mark season and days and years. Despite all the troubles that different civilizations have had trying to interpret the movement of the Sun, Earth and the planets in space, there is amazing consistency in recognising the passing of the constellations of the stars in the night sky and their relationship to the seasons. There are many cultures who have observed the stars closely, recording the movements so that there is no doubt about the passing of a year and the moving from one season to another. So fixed are the constellations that our current calendars have to approximate with extra days and even shorter time periods in order to keep our calendar consistent with the appearance of the stars in the sky. I hate the idea of speculating about the future found in the daily horoscope, but the signs of the zodiac are a testimony to what I am saying here. Each of the star signs is a particular constellation that appears in the night sky at a particular spot and stays in that location for a set period of time. Everybody knows that their birthday is within one of these set times, and this “star sign” does not vary throughout the generations.
The first chapter of Genesis claims that time began through an act of God. He measured a span of time and gave it a name, a day. The day consisted of a period of time he called morning and a second period of time he called evening.
As we explore the first chapter of Genesis a little further, we see that God set the lights in the expanse of the sky to let them serve as signs to mark season and days and years. Despite all the troubles that different civilizations have had trying to interpret the movement of the Sun, Earth and the planets in space, there is amazing consistency in recognising the passing of the constellations of the stars in the night sky and their relationship to the seasons. There are many cultures who have observed the stars closely, recording the movements so that there is no doubt about the passing of a year and the moving from one season to another. So fixed are the constellations that our current calendars have to approximate with extra days and even shorter time periods in order to keep our calendar consistent with the appearance of the stars in the sky. I hate the idea of speculating about the future found in the daily horoscope, but the signs of the zodiac are a testimony to what I am saying here. Each of the star signs is a particular constellation that appears in the night sky at a particular spot and stays in that location for a set period of time. Everybody knows that their birthday is within one of these set times, and this “star sign” does not vary throughout the generations.