User:Shemseger

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About me
I'm a University employee with an interest in the secular history of scripture. My academic studies are in anthropology, geography, and theology, all of which I have contributed to my personal studies of unexplained phenomena in scripture. When I say scripture I mean all books of cannon from every religion, but mainly I study from the King James version of the Bible, and the Book of Mormon. When I say phenomena, I mean anything and everything that isn't currently explained by modern science. I study theology from an LDS perspective, as it is the only Christian perspective that can explain Gods origin and power.

I believe that God is bound by the laws of nature, and that he has a perfect knowledge of all things, and therefore can manipulate the Universe according to his will because of that perfect understanding. I believe every scientific discovery made by man a reverse engineering of Gods work. Science cannot disprove God, science explains how he preforms his miracles.

My goal is to examine the scriptures and discover the means by which certain aspects of the scriptures might be plausible.

I do not take every word in the scriptures literally, I instead recognize that all scripture is written or translated by men according to the interpretation of men. God did not author the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Tanakh, or any other book. Men wrote those books according to the directions which they were given by God for spiritual direction. When the King James version of the Bible says the world was created in seven days I don't just assume that the world was created in a calender week. Instead I look at the original Hebrew text and see that the Hebrew word, "יוֹם" which was translated by the King's scholars into "day" is actually defined as "age". I therefore reason that the said age must have been at least a little bit longer than a calendar day in order for seven of them to account for 4.6 Billion years of globular construction. It is likely that when God - an immortal and eternal being - related to Moses - a mortal and temporal being - that he had created the world in seven "ages", Moses having a reckoning only of the mortal realm would have interpreted those ages as days. Or, sometime during it's many translations, a secular scholar made that interpretation.