Comments on: Seashells On The Mountain http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/seashells-at-the-top-of-mount-everest/ Sharing stories of inspiration and faith. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:45:07 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ross http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/seashells-at-the-top-of-mount-everest/#comment-1095 Ross Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:50:39 +0000 http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/?p=480#comment-1095 Dear Fred, Thank you for your comments. The Scripture was written for man's thinking. It has been interpreted (and misinterpreted) for four thousand years, beginning with the law of Moses. This story is simply an example of how something grand was created thru adversity. It is intended to demonstrate how, when we as Chrisitans face adversity, that God may be doing something fantastic in our lives, yet our wisdom is to short-sighted to understand the way that God works in our lives. Thank you for your comment! Ross Dear Fred,

Thank you for your comments. The Scripture was written for man’s thinking. It has been interpreted (and misinterpreted) for four thousand years, beginning with the law of Moses.

This story is simply an example of how something grand was created thru adversity. It is intended to demonstrate how, when we as Chrisitans face adversity, that God may be doing something fantastic in our lives, yet our wisdom is to short-sighted to understand the way that God works in our lives.

Thank you for your comment!

Ross

]]> By: Fred Inglis http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/seashells-at-the-top-of-mount-everest/#comment-1094 Fred Inglis Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:01:06 +0000 http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/?p=480#comment-1094 Dear Ross. Millions if the pagan athiestic evolutionary view or origins is a prooven fact, which it is not. Interpreting scripture with man's thinking is desasterist to the truth of scripture, let alone blasphemise! Fred Dear Ross.
Millions if the pagan athiestic evolutionary view or origins is a prooven fact, which it is not. Interpreting scripture with man’s thinking is desasterist to the truth of scripture, let alone blasphemise!
Fred

]]> By: Ross http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/seashells-at-the-top-of-mount-everest/#comment-913 Ross Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:09:10 +0000 http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/?p=480#comment-913 You have valid questions. While the geological story of the mountain is true, the point of the story is that God creates great things and sometimes great things are created thru trials we experience on earth. Asking God to Ignore our requests is asking God to recognize we don't experience His wisdom and that sometimes we don't realize that when we ask for something, it may be contrary to what God's best is for us. Thank you for writing. You have valid questions. While the geological story of the mountain is true, the point of the story is that God creates great things and sometimes great things are created thru trials we experience on earth.

Asking God to Ignore our requests is asking God to recognize we don’t experience His wisdom and that sometimes we don’t realize that when we ask for something, it may be contrary to what God’s best is for us.

Thank you for writing.

]]> By: Alan http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/seashells-at-the-top-of-mount-everest/#comment-911 Alan Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:29:29 +0000 http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/?p=480#comment-911 Two questions: Isn't 60 million years pretty far outside the Biblical timeline (I've read numerous calculations using references from the Bible; some simply adding the ages of each of the patriarchs, through Terah, to the various spans given for events while others seem to be a more accurate accounting [that is, Adam's sons weren't born the moment Adam died, therefore you can't just add their respective ages together] that account more for specific events) and so impossible? I won't presume to understand His Creation or the manner in which He brought it about, but He tells us that He didn't just poke bits of the ocean floor for millions of years; He wants a mountain, then there is a mountain. Secondly, why does your prayer ask Him to ignore you? It's a bit of a logical fallacy, isn't it? Asking Him to ignore you, so to ignore you He must answer your prayer or He does not ignore you and so ignores your prayer to ignore you. God makes is clear to me that He will always listen to -and- answer our prayers. He may not always answer Yes, but he always answer. If you are praying for strength, He in His wisdom will see to it. It may be that He will add to your burdens, but is it not the man who works harder, strives harder, and stays with God who becomes stronger than the man who does little and shirks from the duties God places upon him? Hmm, I think I asked more than a couple questions. Oops! Two questions:

Isn’t 60 million years pretty far outside the Biblical timeline (I’ve read numerous calculations using references from the Bible; some simply adding the ages of each of the patriarchs, through Terah, to the various spans given for events while others seem to be a more accurate accounting [that is, Adam's sons weren't born the moment Adam died, therefore you can't just add their respective ages together] that account more for specific events) and so impossible? I won’t presume to understand His Creation or the manner in which He brought it about, but He tells us that He didn’t just poke bits of the ocean floor for millions of years; He wants a mountain, then there is a mountain.

Secondly, why does your prayer ask Him to ignore you? It’s a bit of a logical fallacy, isn’t it? Asking Him to ignore you, so to ignore you He must answer your prayer or He does not ignore you and so ignores your prayer to ignore you. God makes is clear to me that He will always listen to -and- answer our prayers. He may not always answer Yes, but he always answer. If you are praying for strength, He in His wisdom will see to it. It may be that He will add to your burdens, but is it not the man who works harder, strives harder, and stays with God who becomes stronger than the man who does little and shirks from the duties God places upon him?

Hmm, I think I asked more than a couple questions. Oops!

]]> By: Ross http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/seashells-at-the-top-of-mount-everest/#comment-184 Ross Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:57:34 +0000 http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/?p=480#comment-184 I understand what you are saying -- God created the heavens and the earth and then He rested. You are absolutely right about that. I also believe God is constantly molding and shaping His creation. There are seas where there were once no seas. There is dry land where once were seas. God continues to mold me in amazing ways and through amazing circumstances, which I would have never thought possible. I understand what you are saying — God created the heavens and the earth and then He rested. You are absolutely right about that. I also believe God is constantly molding and shaping His creation. There are seas where there were once no seas. There is dry land where once were seas. God continues to mold me in amazing ways and through amazing circumstances, which I would have never thought possible.

]]> By: Claudia http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/seashells-at-the-top-of-mount-everest/#comment-183 Claudia Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:13:52 +0000 http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/?p=480#comment-183 "One day, pressure began to build underneath the sea floor..." Was that day one, two, three or...? Likely, it was when: "all the springs of the great deep burst forth." Gen. 8:11 If we trust God's wisdom, then it's good to trust what he says in his Word to us. After all, he went out of his way to make it perfectly clear: "And there was evening, and there was morning - the first day" until "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning - the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in their vast array." Scientific findings and conclusions change from year to year, God's Word doesn't. Yes, we can trust it. “One day, pressure began to build underneath the sea floor…” Was that day one, two, three or…? Likely, it was when: “all the springs of the great deep burst forth.” Gen. 8:11 If we trust God’s wisdom, then it’s good to trust what he says in his Word to us. After all, he went out of his way to make it perfectly clear:
“And there was evening, and there was morning – the first day” until “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning – the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in their vast array.” Scientific findings and conclusions change from year to year, God’s Word doesn’t. Yes, we can trust it.

]]> By: Tam Southern http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/seashells-at-the-top-of-mount-everest/#comment-154 Tam Southern Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:43:34 +0000 http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/?p=480#comment-154 You are right Ross. We don't understand God's ways but we trust his wisdom. You are right Ross. We don’t understand God’s ways but we trust his wisdom.

]]> By: Ross http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/seashells-at-the-top-of-mount-everest/#comment-150 Ross Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:18:41 +0000 http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/?p=480#comment-150 I'm not a geologist but as a Christian, I like to think about how adversity which God used to form mountains is not unlike the adversity we face each day -- and how God can use adversity to mold us into stronger people and more faithful Christians. We grow stonger by overcoming adversity in our lives and in the end, we will have learned patience and wisdom. I’m not a geologist but as a Christian, I like to think about how adversity which God used to form mountains is not unlike the adversity we face each day — and how God can use adversity to mold us into stronger people and more faithful Christians. We grow stonger by overcoming adversity in our lives and in the end, we will have learned patience and wisdom.

]]> By: Passing it along http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/seashells-at-the-top-of-mount-everest/#comment-144 Passing it along Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:50:18 +0000 http://rosswillingham.wordpress.com/?p=480#comment-144 seashells on mountains tell me about the flood and I didnt no mountains came up from underground. Why do you think god made a mountain that big. seashells on mountains tell me about the flood and I didnt no mountains came up from underground. Why do you think god made a mountain that big.

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