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timescales are therefore Godly which means mysterious to us (2 Peter 3:8) with
days often representing many years or even longer (Luke 13:32, 2 Peter 3:8).
When God is the actor or the subject of the story, as in the Creation account, then
the default is that we are dealing with God’s time. The fact that a ‘day’ can even
be non-time is shown by the fact that the Son is begotten in a specific ‘day’
(Psalms 2:7, Acts 13:33, Heb 1:5, 5:5) but the Son has always existed, which is a
mystery (Rev 22:13).

The Word is manifested in creation, particularly by the night sky, known and
understood (Psalms 19:1-4, Micah 6:8-9, Romans 1:18-20, 10:18, Col 1:6),
sufficient for salvation if accepted i.e. believed (Job 12:7-10, Micah 6:8-9, Romans
1:20, 10:18, Col 1:6, Titus 2:11), by all creations from the moment of their creation
( Romans 1:20, 4:17). The fact of being part of Creation is sufficient
communication from God for Salvation (Psalms 19:2-4). There is a distinction
between understanding God (or the Word or the Holy Ghost) sufficient for
salvation and for obedience to God, and understanding the Word in its infinite
totality. The latter is impossible except for God (Romans 11: 33-36, 1 Cor 2:11,
14-16). Christians have access to the mind of Christ which is the knowledge of
God sufficient for their Godly purposes (1 Cor 2:16). The flesh mind does not have
this understanding despite being surrounded by the evidence (Rom 1:21, 1 Cor
1:21, 2:7) and the overall mind may not either be consciously aware of it (Acts
17:23), but the mind of the spirit is fully aware of these things even in unbelievers
(Rom 1:21, Eph 4:23). To be any one of the infinite powers of God, such as
omniscience (John 21:17), is to be them all and to be God (John 1:3). Just as to be
or try to be a God is to be or try to be the one God of All (Ezek 28:2). The status of
the righteousness of God, which we have (Rom 3:22), means that we have access
to all the power of God (Mat 21:22, Mark 11:24, John 14:13, Rom 8:32-39, Col
2:9-10) but that does not make us God (Num 23:19, 1 Cor 12:11). We have the
righteousness of God (Rom 3:22, 2 Cor 5:21, Col 2:9-10, 2 Pet 1:3) but are not that
righteousness. God is His own power and His righteousness is His power (Mark
5:30, Luke 6:19, 8:46, 2 Pet 1:3). We have the power of God (Rom 1:16, 8:32, 39,
1 Cor 1:18)

The New Testament begins during the Last Supper, not with the birth of Jesus
(Matthew 26:28, Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20, 1 Cor 11:23, 25). Specifically this
occurs at the drinking of the cup (Mat 26:28).

The Word-in-the-material and exposure to it is basic to the Christian life as it
directly interfaces with the conscious mind of a Christian via the objective material
text that exists in the natural as a fixed and discrete body of words; the text itself