steve wrote:Robby,
I know your question was addressed to me as well as to Matt, but I was having dinner while Matt was giving you answers very much like the ones I would have given.
No worries, Brother. I hope you enjoyed your meal.
steve wrote: think rocks are functional for many purposes—for use as foundations and building materials probably foremost among them. The Bible usually mentions rocks as refuges from severe weather. Whether there would or would not have been severe weather without the fall, I cannot say, but the rocks were there beforehand, waiting for man to discover uses for them.
Ok, thanks for clearing up what you mean by functionality. My line of thinking was more geared to rocks, and all material matter, is a product produced by time. Steve, do you reject any indication of a "Time Stamp" during Gods creative work? Sticking with the rock example, we know how rocks are formed, by time and pressure. My understanding is that a geologist can measure this process. By God speaking these things into being, which obviously included time and pressure, amongst other things, wouldn't it have excelerated the process - leaving the time stamp?
If not, then how would you explain The Light from distance galaxies many light years away being seen in an INSTANT on the day of creation? Again, this can be measured. If a scientist on "The Day" the stars were created could have measured this, he/she would ascertain them to be millions of light years away, they would have been baffled, not able to answer the impossible. Because time and age would have coincided with His creative work.
Lastly, and I really do appreciate your time Bro. I gave examples of Yeshua's creative work by multiplying the fish and bread. Of course, bread takes time to make. That bread was instantly produced and baked, on par with the same amount of time it took to make the original loaf, let's say 1 hour. Well, that hour was produced instantaneously, and the time stamp with its process was evident as well. For example, the browning of the cooked bread.
God Bless.