It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshalled their starry hosts.
Isaiah 45:12
Is this the Lord commenting on an element of creation that generates much debate? The current rate of the expansion of the universe is extrapolated backwards at a fixed rate to arrive at the point of the Big Bang. But if God chose to make the rate of expansion something varied, like blowing up a balloon which would slow down as it gets bigger, the calculations used by scientists would be inaccurate. (see 2 Pet.3:4).
Does the English translation in the NIV refer to galaxies too, an unknown feature in Isaiah’s day?
Daily Reading: Habakkuk 3
Bible in One Year: Matthew 20 17-34; Numbers 15-16; Ecclesiastes 9 13-10 20
