Hebrew Voices #21 – A Physicist on the Nature of God (Rebroadcast)

In this episode of Hebrew VoicesA Physicist on the Nature of God, Nehemia Gordon explores the connection between science and the Bible with orthodox Jewish physicist Dr. Gerald Schroeder. According to Schroeder, there is no conflict between Torah and “teva” (nature), as the two complete one another. Schroeder explains the tradition that Moses was given only part of the Torah, the other part being hidden in nature, an idea introduced in the 12th century by Maimonides in “Guide to the Perplexed.”

We learn from Dr. Schroeder that some current scientists have accepted that the universe does appear to have a creator, but not one who cares. Schroeder and Gordon discuss how the flow of social history speaks to the necessity of a creator and that the Jews serve as a marker for a Creator who cares not just about them, but about all nations.  And we learn a coded phrase in the Tanakh revealing that God cares so much for his free-willed creatures that he has multiple plans for dealing with them.

And (but of course) Gordon and Schroeder discuss the name of God given in the Hebrew text and how centuries of translations have weakened the understanding of it, but how the nuances of ancient Hebrew reveal Yehovah to be an unlimited, dynamic God who cares, plans, reveals himself, and at times hides.

I look forward to reading your comments!

CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 03:47 Proof of God from NASA 06:21 Is God dynamic or static 25:26 Know God through science and nature 28:54 Conclusion Download Audio Transcript

Hebrew Voices #21 - A Physicist on the Nature of God

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Benjamin Netanyahu: Le ma’an Zion lo ekhesheh, u’l’ma’an Yerushalayim lo eshkot. (For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest. Isaiah 62:1)

Nehemia: Shalom, this is Nehemia Gordon. I am here in Jerusalem for the latest episode of Hebrew Voices with Dr. Gerald Schroeder. He has lived in Israel since 1971, emigrated, made aliya from the United States. He has a PhD, a doctorate that he got in 1965, a dual topic of nuclear physics and earth and planetary science.

He is a prominent author and teacher today on the topic of God and Science. In fact, one of his books here that I’m looking at right now is called The Science of God. He has another one called The Hidden Face of God. And this the one I hope we can spend the most time on. It’s called, God According to God, that’s really exiting.

His first book, though, was called Genesis and the Big Bang, and it was really revolutionary at the time. It was the first book on science and the Bible every published by a major, really secular publishing house, back in 1990, or something like that.

Gerald: Something like that, yeah. Around that time, yeah.

Nehemia: Wow. That’s really significant, because there were books like that, but they were always published by religious publishing houses, and this was published by a secular publishing house, a regular publishing house. And it’s still in print today, you told me.

Gerald: Yeah.

Nehemia: Which is unbelievable. I’m an author as well, and I know that for most publishing setups, the book is sold for 18 months, and then it becomes what they call a “back lister”, and it’s in the discount pile. Your book is still being sold and still being read by people, more importantly, after…

Gerald: 25 years.

Nehemia: …25 years, wow.

Gerald: It’s amazing.

Nehemia: That’s amazing.

Gerald: When I brought it to the publisher, they said the reason they’re buying it, because it was a big deal at that time, it was a gamble. He said, “If you come to me as Rabbi Schroeder, we wouldn’t have looked at the book.”

Nehemia: So, why did they do it?

Gerald: If you come to me as Professor Dr. Gerald Schroeder from MIT, we’re going to look at the book.

Nehemia: You got your PhD from MIT?

Gerald: Bachelors, Master’s and PhD.

Nehemia: Then when you moved to Israel, you worked at some really prestigious institutions. You worked at the Weitzman Institute, which has produced quite a number of Nobel Prize winners, a very prestigious institute. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which I maintain is the best university in the world – because that’s my alma mater. But definitely, in science and Biblical Studies, of course, what I learned. I studied there, it’s the best in the world. Today, you teach at Aish HaTorah, the College of Jewish Studies in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Gerald: Yeah.

Nehemia: What do you teach there?

Gerald: I teach there, I also give lectures in different places around the world. I teach there this integration. The Hebrew word is “shiluv”, the shiluv, the integration, the flowing together of science and Bible. In Hebrew it works nicely, Torah vateva. Torah being the Hebrew word for Bible, and teva being the word for nature.

Nehemia: People know the word “teva” because there’s a major pharmaceutical company that’s called in English “Teeva”, but it’s really “Teva”, which ironically means “nature”, even though they make pharmaceuticals. So, Torah and teva means “Torah, instruction”, which some people translate as “law”, and nature.

Gerald: The two come together.

Nehemia: Oh, nice – Torah and teva.

Gerald: It’s not a conflict. It’s not what does the Bible say versus what the science says. It’s what they both say. They’re two sources of information. They’re complimentary, they complete one another. Nehemia, it’s interesting, there’s a tradition that when the Bible was given to Moses on Sinai, he only got part of it. Part came down somehow - we have no idea how it was written, but it got imprinted in his brain, somehow - but the other part was hidden in nature. We’re not talking about the Oral Law. We’re not talking about this now.

Nehemia: Part of the Torah was hidden in nature? Wow.

Gerald: Yeah. That only when we understand the part of God that’s expressed in nature in the deepest sense in nature, can we understand the entire Bible. Maimonides says it straight out.

Nehemia: Really? I’ve never heard that. It’s very interesting. I want to start with the video you have. It’s a five-minute video, and we’re going to share a link to it. We’re going to post it on the website, nehemiaswall.com. It’s a video called, Proof of God in Five Minutes, or something like that. It’s had like three million views. I was looking at the video. It’s shared on all kinds of Christian websites, Jewish websites, and all kinds of websites that aren’t Orthodox Jewish people from the Old City. What is the Proof of God in Five Minutes? What is this proof of God? As we say in Hebrew, “Standing on one leg.”

Gerald: Yeah, standing on one... First of all, that’s three million, about a million are Jewish sites and two million are Christian sites. It’s really interesting, this interest… People are thirsty, I think, really thirsty. Proof of God in Five Minutes, is, I take data, totally, only and completely, data from the NASA website – NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Authority. They have a diagram of the flow of time of the universe from its creation through time. But I only deal with - because you’re talking about proof of God - the very great creation of the universe. I say in the video that the whole question of does science and Bible match is a non-starter because right in that diagram from NASA…

Nehemia: There’s proof of God.

Gerald: What it shows is that a force of nature creates the universe from absolute nothing. What’s interesting, if you take that in general terms, first of all, if a force of nature creates the universe from absolute nothing, that means this Force – now with a capital F – has to predate the universe, because it’s creating the universe from nothing.

So you’ve got a Force that creates the universe from nothing. The Force isn’t physical… the forces of nature - gravity may pull one rock towards another or keep us on our seat, but gravity itself is not physical.

You have a Force that predates the universe, which means it predates how we understand time, which means it’s outside of time. It’s not physical. It creates the universe from absolute nothing.

I’ll just say that in one sentence. A Force that is not physical, that’s outside of time, creates the universe from absolute nothing. If you haven’t noticed it, that’s the Bible’s definition of God.

Nehemia: So basically, on the NASA official diagram of how they understand the universe, they don’t say God, of course.

Gerald: God-forbid. [laughing]

Nehemia: But what they describe is what we call “God” in the Jewish tradition, and probably also in the Christian tradition.

Gerald: Absolutely. I’ve discussed this with so many multireligious groups. Yeah, it’s interesting. But I think most interesting is that I discussed this with “secular scientists”. They’ll say, “Okay, so it matches it. If you want to call that ‘God’ call it God.” Then they have another half of the sentence.

Nehemia: But…

Gerald: “But it wouldn’t be a God that would be interested in how the universe works after the creation. It would be a God, a deius God who creates the universe and then he goes off and has lunch, and watches the universe roll itself out.” Some people say, “That’s not enough.” Realize what it’s saying. That cup is half-full for the first time, the big-time secular, the names you know, the big-time secular scientists are willing to say, “The creation of the universe matches in general terms, the biblical creation of the universe.” Now the only question is the second half of the cup. But the cup is now half-full. It’s not half-empty, it’s half-full.

Nehemia: So the second half of the cup is, what is the nature of that God? But basically, there’s some kind of creative entity…

Gerald: Force.

Nehemia: A creative Force. It’s interesting, the way you’re describing it, because in my Jewish education we heard about how the philosophers, like from the story of the Kuzari, that the philosopher came before the King of the Khazars and he said, “Yeah, there’s a God but He doesn’t care. He’s done. He retired.”

The ancient Canaanites had a similar doctrine, as well. I don’t know if you know anything about that, we don’t have time to go into that. Basically, they had this doctorate that there was a creative being that created the universe, and then he went and retired on the mountain of the north and he left it to his son to rule the world, to Baal.

The Torah comes along and says, “No, the Creator of the universe cares about you individually, you the slave woman who’s hiding out in the desert, who’s praying to God. “Yishmael”, God hears. What you’re saying is they’re willing to stipulate part of it, but not for the other part, the actual nature of God. That we learn about from Scripture, right?

Gerald: Yeah.

Nehemia: Is that what you would say?

Gerald: I would say look around the world and see if it seems that it’s just random, or it looks like it’s a flow. Moses, in Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 7 says essentially, “If you want to figure out if there’s a God in this world or not, “Zechor yemot olam, bino shnot dor vador.” “Zechor yemot olam,” “remember the days of old.” That’s the creation, the six days of Genesis. “Remember the days of old.” “Bino shnot dor vador,” or “look at the flow of social history.”

So Moses gives two keys about God active in the world, not the creation now, we’ve got the creation, that’s satisfied. “Remember the six days.” Genesis chapter 1 describes the flow of the universe. Does that make sense?

Or if you don’t know enough science, then look at “bino shnot dor vador,” then look at the flow of social history. Does it look like, to you, that the flow of social history makes sense? As a Jew, I’ll use my own example right now.

Nehemia: Please, yeah.

Gerald: The position of this miniscule people, when you look at the population of China, there’s a population of… who knows, 10 billion, plus or minus 300 million. In that plus or minus you’ve got 10 times the amount than you’ve got Jews in the world. [laughing]

Nehemia: It’s actually, the population of the US - their margin of error.

Gerald: [laughing] Exactly, there margin of error. As a Jew, remember “chosen” or “holy” doesn’t mean special, it means visible. And the Jews, I think, are a marker in the world that God is… God cares about all nations. It’s very clear right from the beginning, there’s no question. We see that constantly.

Gerald: This idea that people have that, “Oh, the Bible really just says that the Jews think only of the Jews.” That’s completely not biblical. I’ll give you two examples. We come out of Egypt in the Exodus, and then being the nudniks sometimes that we are, God-forbid…

Nehemia: That’s a nag in English.

Gerald: Yeah, we built a golden calf. For 40 days, realize, it’s 40 days after all the miracles, we’re building golden calves already. God hits the roof and says to Moses, “I’m going to wipe them out.” But God says something interesting. He says to Moses, “Hanicha li,” “Leave Me alone so I can wipe them out.” Now, God has to ask Moses to leave Him alone? Obviously not. But then, Moses – and I hope this doesn’t sound like heresy – Moses reads to God the facts of life. Moses says the following thing to God:

“You know, God? You’re certainly powerful enough to wipe them out. But if you wipe them out, the Egyptians will say that You took them out of the desert just to kill them.” Well, that’s a rather strange argument. Who cares about the Egyptians? You know who cares about the Egyptians? God. God backs down. You take the text as it’s written, that’s according to what God has to say, God actually backs down and says, “You’re right. I’m going to destroy the people that prayed to the calf, the others not.”

The exact same thing, Nehemia, happens several months later, then it leads to the 40 years in the desert. The Israelites are about to go into the land. The 12 spies come back and 10 of them say, “It’s a great land, but they’re all giants. Let’s go back to Egypt.” Anyway, God says to Moses, “This time I’m going to wipe out the entire congregation. I’m going to build you another congregation that’s better.”

Nehemia: Better for Moshe, for Moses?

Gerald: Yes, for Moses. Moses again says the facts of life. “God, You have the power to do that, but it’s not in Your best interests, because if You wipe us out now, the nations of the world…” Get this, Nehemia. “The nations of the world will say, ‘You wiped them out because You weren’t strong enough to bring them into Canaan to defeat the Canaanites.’” God says, “You’re right.”

Nehemia: Is all this to say that God’s interaction in history with the people of Israel is for the world to see? Meaning, that’s the whole purpose of it, or a major purpose of it.

Gerald: For the world to see, because God is interested in the world knowing there’s a God. Why would God care about the nations saying… God takes the argument of Moses that nations will say, “You’re a wimp.” And God doesn’t want to be seen as a wimp. So, God says, “Okay, those that said to go back to Egypt, they’re going to be gone, but everybody else is going to come in.”

So consistently, the argument, the trump card as it were, that Moses pulls out of the deck each time to save the people is, “The nations of the world will say…” Who cares about the nations of the world? God cares a lot. The Jews may be markers, I think. I hope I’m not offending anyone…

Nehemia: What do you mean by “markers”? It’s a scientific term? What’s that in plain English?

Gerald: We stand out. We stand out. I hate to say it, maybe I shouldn’t even say it, so I won’t. But there are some phenomenally wonderful people that happen to be Jewish, like Einstein, Michaelson, Morley, Salk, and Sabin, and all those things, and Nobel Prize winners. There are also some cruddy ones, also. But they all stand out.

Nehemia: We won’t name those. [laughing]

Gerald: I don’t want to name them. [laughing] I could name them, but I don’t want to name them.

Nehemia: We won’t do that, go on.

Gerald: I’m just saying, because that’s the statement. In Deuteronomy 32:7, “Remember the days of old…” Social history is one of the markers. You don’t have to know science to see the full story.

Nehemia: And by social history, in this case, you mean the history of the Jewish people and God’s interaction with the people of Israel in history, is that what you’re saying?

Gerald: Yes. For a Christian they might see…

Nehemia: For anybody who’s listening… We’re two Jews sitting here. From our perspective… I would say this. I don’t know if you’re saying this. People ask, “Why do you believe in God?” One of the reasons for me is, I look at the history of my people and I read about it in Deuteronomy and the blessing and the curse, and in the Prophets, how we can be a light to the nations, or we can be a “mashal ushininah”, a proverb and a byword. If we’re bad, then we’re going to be punished, and the whole world will look at us, and it’ll be an example of God’s judgement.

Both have been seen in history, even in modern history. For me, I think that’s what you’re saying – or at least that’s what I take from it is– what you’re calling “social history” – as opposed to scientific history, I guess, or natural history – the history of the people of Israel is proof of God’s existence in the world, according to Moses even, you’re saying in Deuteronomy 32? Is that fair to say?

Gerald: Yeah.

Nehemia: You talk about this more in the book, God According to God. We’ll have a link for this on the website, nehemiaswall.com. The subtitle is, A Scientist Discovers We’ve Been Wrong About God All Along.

Gerald: We changed it to another subtitle. [laughing]

Nehemia: You changed the subtitle. You added a second subtitle. What the Bible Really Tells Us About God. [laughing] We’ve been wrong about God all along. That’s controversial, but it’s probably true.

You made a statement to me about that book, which I have to quote. You said, “I don’t want to learn what my rabbis or theologians say about God.” I hope everybody listening to that agrees at least about the theologian part. “I want to know what the Bible says about God.” I have this Christian friend who hears something like this and he’ll always say, “Amen!”

Gerald: Amen.

Nehemia: I’m going to say, “Amen ve’Amen.”

I see on your wall here it says, “Toll in the Asian tsunami continues to swell.” You brought the tsunami in 2004 as an example of how when you look at what the Bible really says about God, it matches what we see in the world, such as accidents and tsunamis. Tell us about that. What is that?

Gerald: First of all, we see this famous crucial statement in Exodus chapter 3 verse 14, “Eheyeh asher eheyeh. When Moses asks God’s name, God says, “I will be that which I will be.” Not, “I am that I am.” Compare the sentences in the Bible.

Nehemia: In the English Bibles it usually says, “I am that which I am.” In the Hebrew it says, “Eheyeh asher eheyeh.” And you were telling me about an experience you had at a Papal…

Gerald: Conference.

Nehemia: A Papal conference. Tell us about that. It’s amazing. [laughing]

Gerald: The Pope was not present. It was about six or seven years ago.

Nehemia: But he sponsored it, or something.

Gerald: Yeah. It was in Rome, and a scholar from an English-speaking country – I don’t like to even degrade the country. Okay, it wasn’t the United States. [laughing] He’s from one of the major universities, and he says the key statement. He’s the representative of this. The key statement about God and the entire Bible is Exodus chapter 3 verse 14. My mind is grinding, grinding. I don’t remember what it was. Then he says, “I am that I am.” I almost fell off my chair when he said that, because…

In any event, the irony of this is, the Hebrew, as Nehemia just said, “Eheyeh asher eheyeh,” the question is, is it “I am that I am” or “I will be that which I will be”? Because the Bible says, “I will be that I which I will be.” Now, the “I am that I am” comes from the Septuagint, 2,200 years ago. The Septuagint comes from the Hebrew into the Greek, then the Greek went into the Latin, Augustine, and then the Latin went into the English, 1611, the King James. You’ve got like a telephone here, things that you…

Nehemia: So this guy’s speaking in English, he’s basing it on the Septuagint translated from Hebrew into Greek. Then Jerome translating the Septuagint from Greek into Latin, the Vulgate, and now the Vulgate is translated into English. So he ends up with, “I am that which I am” instead of “Eheyeh asher eheyeh,” which is a pretty important statement. You’re saying it means, “I will be that which I will be.”

Gerald: The irony is, that’s Exodus chapter 3 verse 12. In Exodus chapter 3…

Nehemia: That’s 14. You were saying in 12 it says…?

Gerald: I beg your pardon, Exodus chapter 3 verse 14. Go back two sentences. We just did this in class a few hours ago. Even if you don’t know Hebrew, if you get a Hebrew text you can look at the shapes of the letters. Even if you don’t know the letters, you will notice that the same word “Eheyeh” appears in Exodus chapter 3 verse 12 two sentences earlier. “I will be with you.” Nehemia, you were quoting this phrase is…

Nehemia: It’s actually a theme throughout the entire Bible, “Eheyeh imach,” or “Eheyeh imachem, I will be with you.”

Gerald: And what is it always? “I will be.”

Nehemia: I will be, right.

Gerald: Always the future, “I will be, Eheyeh.” And so two sentences earlier of the “I am that I am,” the identical I am is translated as, “I will be,” because that’s what it means. The text says, “I will be that which I will be.”

Nehemia: What’s the difference between “I am” and “I will be?”

Gerald: I am is a picture of a whole God. It’s fixed. We don’t like that kind of…

Nehemia: He’s a static God. I am that which I am.

Gerald: Yeah, it’s static. We don’t want it…

Nehemia: Then what’s “Eheyeh asher eheyeh?”

Gerald: It’s a dynamic God. God sometimes hides God’s face. God can pull back.

Nehemia: What does it mean, for those who don’t know, “God hides His face?”

Gerald: God is always present. But God’s manifestation sometimes is hidden. So we can say, “How could God let that happen?”

Nehemia: If somebody says, “Where was God in the tsunami?” the answer is, “God hid His face”? What’s the answer?

Gerald: That accidents happen in this world, and God lets them happen, and things sometimes step in, one way or the other. I think it was one of these major talk programs, Dennis Prager or one of the talk programs. What we concluded was that although God can cause floods, not all floods are caused by God.

Nehemia: Okay.

Gerald: Nature is also active in the world. Even the ancient commentaries, like 1,800 years ago, the Talmud, this commentary on the Bible, talks about “accidents happening”. And God just doesn’t always micromanage the universe. I know there are persons that hold by that, but that’s not the biblical God. I’m sorry, you can see it very clearly. 10 generations from Adam to Noah, people are living to 900 years.

Please, anyone listening, don’t get hung up. Could it be 900? Just let it all be a metaphor, but it’s in there to teach. People were living to 900 years, at which point in Chapter 6 verse 7 of Exodus, right before Noah, God says in Yiddish, “Oy, vey.”

Nehemia: [laughing] No, He doesn’t say, “Oy, vey”! What does He say?

Gerald: He says, “nachamti”, “I regret.” Now, nachamti has three English…

Nehemia: That’s the source of my name, Nehemia. Okay, go on. I’m regretful, but… [laughing]

Gerald: Regret, repent, or reconsider. That’s not the average child’s picture of God. But God says, “nachamti,” “I regret or I reconsider. I see this situation differently now. 900-year-old people were a bad idea.” And God brings on the flood. Again, let it be a metaphor. We don’t have time to get into it, I don’t think it is.

Nehemia: So you believe it’s literally 900-whatever years, 969 years?

Gerald: Yeah, for sure.

Nehemia: I do, too.

Gerald: Otherwise, the calendar wouldn’t work. Anthropology, which shows the Bronze Age predates the flood, and you can add up those years, those 900 years, and it matches these. Tubulcain, one of Cain’s progeny, invents these sophisticated casting of metals, it says it point blank. And it matches, when you add up the years by looking at parallel ages, it matches the Bronze Age that the archeologists… They don’t call them archaeologists, what do they call them? People that dig up…

Nehemia: Anthropologists.

Gerald: Anthropologists, right.

Nehemia: Anthropologists dig up bones of pre-humans, what they call “pre-humans”. It’s what they call “pre-humans”.

Gerald: Okay, well this is way before…

Nehemia: Archaeologists dig up human remains.

Gerald: Forget it, it’s nothing. In any event, the Bronze Age matches Tubulcain, when you look at this. That’s pre-flood.

Nehemia: So God says, “nichamti”, which by the way, also can me, “I comfort”, but not in this context.

Gerald: Yeah, how do we know? Because nichamti is also used in the first Book of Samuel. God chooses Saul to be king. Saul is the first king of Israel. Saul messes up and God says “nachamti”. “I regret having chosen…”

Nehemia: So does it mean God changed His mind? What does it mean?

Gerald: I think what it means is – and there are a few key words in the Bible that point to this, and one of them is, “Vayehi acharei hadevarim haeilu,” “and it came to pass after these things.” What things? It’s like a code word, a code phrase, that God has set up several possible choices, and we humans choose which of those choices. So God has Plan A – 900-year-old people, it wouldn’t be bad to live 900 years.

Nehemia: We’ll try that. [laughing]

Gerald: Yeah, we tried that one. Okay, that plan didn’t work, so now God goes to Plan B, 90 or 100-year-old people. God presses the reset button, so go to Plan B.

Nehemia: What does “nichamti” mean in this context? What do you think?

Gerald: Nachamti means in this context – which I hope the speakers don’t explode at this point – “nachamti” means, “I am a dynamic God. I pulled back. I let the system run. We tried to see how it would work. It didn’t work. I regret having this system. I will reconsider having this 900-year-old system.”

Then the flood comes. The conditions around the world change. There was the debate whether it was diet, whether it was climate, whatever – conditions around the world change. Look at the data. In my books, I plot the data. My son, Joshie, plotted them for me.

Nehemia: Which book is this in?

Gerald: In The Science of God.

Nehemia: The Science of God, by Gerald Schroeder.

Gerald: It shows gradually that the age spans drop, not bingo, but they drop.

Nehemia: So this is God saying, “We tried plan A.” Nichamti means, “Now I’m a dynamic God. Now, I’m going to try Plan B.”

Gerald: Yeah, look this is it. This is 10 generations from Noah to Abraham, 10 generations. This is Noah’s lifespan.

Nehemia: This is on page 16 of the book, The Science of God, this graph.

Gerald: In this print, whatever print, whatever print that you have.

Nehemia: Oh, these are different printings.

Gerald: But notice gradually, the lifespan has dropped from a very large number down to numbers we know today. So what? So it isn’t like God changed God’s mind, if you want to put it that way. It’s that there are several plans set up. We choose the road and then God says, “Okay, Plan B, if that’s the plan you want okay, we’ll take that plan. You don’t like that, we’ll try Plan A. If that doesn’t work, who knows?” God-forbid, maybe there’s a Plan C up the road, we don’t know what about yet. But with disagreements, with politics going on, there may be a Plan C.

Nehemia: So basically, you’re saying this idea of nichamti in Genesis is God as a dynamic God, as opposed to the Greek idea. The reason that’s interesting to me is that when I studied Jewish philosophy, really it was the idea of God as static. And because God’s static, He can’t really experience love the way we experience love. He can’t experience anger, because that would mean a second before He wasn’t angry, and therefore He was incomplete.

Greek philosophy really does describe God in the static way. I used to ascribe to that, but I’ve come to the conclusion of exactly what you say, without reading it. Now, I need to go read your book, because God is a dynamic God. And I think that’s the God we see in the Tanakh, and what we try to do, what my tradition tries to do, is to try to force God into this Greek philosophical paradigm which comes across in the Septuagint as, “I am that which I am. This is what I am. There’s nothing more to it.”

In the Hebrew it’s “Eheyeh asher Eheyeh, I will be that which I will be.” My background is in Biblical studies, and one of the things I learned is that in Biblical Hebrew you don’t have past, present and future the way you do in modern Hebrew. For any verb you have what’s called “perfect and imperfect”, and Eheyeh is the imperfect, which is what they call a “continual verb”. So the better translation, maybe more accurate translation of “Eheyeh” is “I am now and I will continue to be in the future”, which is difficult to translate into English and modern Hebrew.

But boy, does that express that God is a dynamic God. So I really love that you shared that. I do want to point out, the verse that you were talking about was Genesis 5:6 through 8, and there it says twice, once it says, “vayinachem Hashem ki asa et ha’aadam,” “and God, the Lord, regretted that He made man,” or this word “nichem”, which as I mentioned, is related to my name. And it could mean, “He was comforted.” But you’re saying it means “regret” or…

Gerald: Right, before the flood.

Nehemia: That’s right. Then it says again in verse…

Gerald: Chapter 6 verse 7.

Nehemia: Yeah, in verse 7.

Gerald: Chapter 6 verse 7.

Nehemia: Oh, I’m sorry, 6:5 through 8, so this is verse 7. It says, “ki nichamti, ki asitim, for I regret,” or maybe, “I am comforted.”

Gerald: It’s a direct statement. It’s not a parenthetical statement. It’s God speaking.

Nehemia: God’s speaking. When He says “nichmati”, what does He mean? Of course, this is a bigger topic that we can possibly get into. But people, for their homework, should go look at Numbers 23 verse 19, where it says about God that He is a not a man that He should lie, and not the son of man that He should “itnacham”, that He should change His mind. And the context there is that when God says He’s going to do something, He’s going to do it. I guess, here the issue is, He didn’t say He was going to do it. He said, “I’m going to try this.” When it didn’t work He says, “I’m going to try something else.”

Gerald: It’s a totally dynamic…

Nehemia: Yeah. But you would agree, if God says something, He says, “This is forever,” then it’s really going to be forever.

Gerald: Yes. “Ze shmi le’olam,” “this is My name forever.” But remember, “le’olam” has three meanings, and that’s, I bring…

Nehemia: Is that in the book? Which book is that in?

Gerald: I don’t remember, I haven’t read my books in a while.

Nehemia: There’s a book called The Hidden Face of God.

Gerald: It might be in there.

Nehemia: The Science of God. Another book called God According to God, which I’ve got to read, and Genesis and the Big Bang.

Gerald:Zeh shemi le’olam,” “This is shmi, My name, le’olam, forever.” Olam has three meanings – forever. Le’olam…

Nehemia: In the universe.

Gerald: The universe.

Nehemia: And hidden.

Gerald: And hidden. “This is My name forever, hidden in the universe,” in one word. “This is My name forever.” It says that sentence, it says, “This is My name forever hidden, in other words held within the universe, and if you want to know Me, find out how the universe works.”

Nehemia: So you’re actually saying it’s a Torah imperative to study science in order to understand the nature of God, is that what you’re saying?

Gerald: Maimonides, the introduction to the Guide for the Perplexed, you remember people burned his books.

Nehemia: Let me stop you there. This was a rabbi who wrote a book in 1190, and other Jews burned his books because they were so controversial.

Gerald: They were controversial because they didn’t have this pigeonhole idea of God. But they misunderstood. When Maimonides said, “The only way you can know God is to know science,” he makes a point-blank statement. But he didn’t say, “To be a good human being you have to know God.” To be a good human being, just do what the Torah says, “Don’t do this, do that. Don’t do this, do that.”

Nehemia: But you might not know God.

Gerald: Yeah, but you still could be a good human being. But if you want to know God, that was the mistake. That was your mistake. He thought to be a good human being, you had to know about God. Because Moshes Maimonides was a physician and a philosopher. He was the physician to the head of Egypt, to the king of Egypt at the time, which was a dangerous position to have, because if the king gets sick and you’re his doctor, you’ve got a problem…

Nehemia: You kill the doctor. [laughing]

Gerald: Yeah. In any event, he says, “We all want to understand God, but to do that you have to know ‘madah Elokut,’ the science of God.”

Nehemia: The science of divinity, really, or knowledge of divinity.

Gerald: If you want to know madah Elokut, the first thing you have to do is to know madah teva, those were his words, madah teva, the science of nature.

Nehemia: So you’re saying in Exodus 3:15, the very next verse, when it says, “This is My name le’olam,” it means, “This is My name forever hidden in the universe,” and basically that’s a Torah commandment, in a sense, or a statement, that if you really want to know God and the essence of His name, you have to study science. Wow.

Gerald: Absolutely. Look at the...

Nehemia: I don’t know that I agree with it, but it’s profound. [laughing]

Gerald: It’s right here on my shelf, there are a couple of cups. I actually got that from some series I did with a Christian group in Texas, they have a group called The Bottom of the Cup. It’s worth looking into. On these coffee mugs here, it’s a quote from Werner Heisenberg, Nobel Laureate, 1932, quantum physics, the first of the major…

Nehemia: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

Gerald: Yeah. Your iPhone works because of Heisenberg and Schrodinger, Planck and Einstein. Otherwise, you don’t have an iPhone.

Nehemia: I have a Samsung Galaxy.

Gerald: That’s what I have, also. Nehemia: Does that work without it?

Gerald: No, that doesn’t work without it either. It’s all of high tech. Heisenberg writes the following: “The first swallow from the cup of the natural sciences makes atheists. But at the bottom of the cup, God is waiting.”

Nehemia: [laughing] Wow! That’s awesome. I think on that note we’re going to end this part. People will not forgive me if we don’t come back and talk in the second part, we have to talk about The Six Days of Creation, which was your first book.

But, wow, this has been an amazing discussion. I’m really thankful. Thank you, Dr. Schroeder. How can people… if they’re in Jerusalem is there any way they can come and hear you teach? Is that a possibility?

Gerald: Classes are wide open for my sessions. All you’d have to do is to ask for Aish HaTorah, it means “the Fire of Torah”. Jews, Christians, Muslims…

Nehemia: So, aish.com they can go to and find out about your classes?

Gerald: Yeah, right.

Nehemia: Or they can call Aish? Jews, Christians and Muslims can come? You don’t have to be an Orthodox Jew, wearing a kippa?

Gerald: No.

Nehemia: Anybody can come?

Gerald: Come dressed however you are. You ask for where the Essentials program is.

Nehemia: The Essentials program.

Gerald: The Essentials program, and they’ll let you come in.

Nehemia: Wow, that’s awesome.

Gerald: While you’re there, you want to go up and see it from the roof of the building. It’s got the best view of Jerusalem.

Nehemia: Also, come to nehemiaswall.com. I’m going to have links to his numerous books and to his video, The Five-Minute Proof of God, or whatever it’s called. Guys, we’re going to be back and we’re going to do another episode. Then we’re going to talk about in the next episode, [laughing] what I wanted to talk about from the very beginning, which is the six days of creation and how that fits with science. Until then, shalom from Jerusalem with Hebrew Voices.

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Show Notes:

Dr. Gerald Schroeder earned his PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in two fields: Earth Sciences and Physics. Schroeder served for five years on the staff of the MIT Department of Physics. In 1971, he moved to Israel where he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Volcani Research Institute, while also having a laboratory at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to his current work in radiation control, he teaches at Aish HaTorah College of Jewish Studies, is the author of five bestselling books, and he lectures on the extraordinary confluence of modern science and ancient Biblical commentary.

Dr. Gerald Schroeder's Books: Genesis and the Big Bang God according to God The Hidden Face of God The Science of God Genesis One Verses Mentioned: Deuteronomy 32:7 Genesis 1 Exodus 32:7-14 Exodus 3:14-15 Exodus 3:12 Genesis 5:27 Genesis 4:22 1 Samuel 15:11 Genesis 6:5-8 Numbers 23:19
  • Bill Avery says:

    The next step is to prove who God is and that he is very active in the lives of men. And that science is found in men according to Shaul(Paul) the Apostle, in the book of Romans. Divine design is always the answer.

  • Daniel Adams says:

    Thank you Nehemiah that was awesome I would like to see the correlation between YeHoVah and Exodus 314 I shall become who I am becoming. Very very cool interview! Back when I was in my 20s I used to have a rock ‘n’ roll band where we would preach in prisons and parks and so on and I would always say that the history of Israel is proof that there is a living God. Nothing like back up. Thank you

  • Peter Appleton says:

    Thank you for your thoughts
    Quote ‘if you want to know God, study science’
    I have no problem with this as I am a mathematical physicist
    But I have believers in my church fellowship who have come up to Messiah thru’ a torn life of drugs and alcohol
    Two of these great children of God and of the Bride of Christ can hardly read
    They cannot study science they have no ability to take in Heisenberg Einstein etc
    Instead they came by revelation thru God’s Spirit
    Jesus said ‘Thou hast hid these thing from the wise and prudent (clever scientists) and revealed them unto baby children’
    Still true God does not need our intellect but He can do without our ignorance!
    Love you guys
    Peter Appleton

  • Stephanie J. says:

    Nehemiah, you’ve hit another home run. Great interview. I watched the video – great. I also pondered on Numbers 13:31. I never thought about it the way your guest presented it. Thank you for the new perspective!!

  • Paulette Gray says:

    God does not mislead us – we can misunderstand and God talks to us in our language when He wants us to understand and by asking us to look at nature He expects us to be able to understand.

  • Catherine says:

    This was profound!!! Thank you for this interview!!!

  • Walter Schwenk says:

    Thanks again Nehemia, for posting this interview again. Soon after, I ordered all four of Dr Schroeder’s books, used, from abebooks. Total cost less the 19$, first one came today, “god according to god”. Going to go read some of it soon!

    • Walter Schwenk says:

      Double thanks! Schroeder’s material is the best thing (after Yah’s mercies) ever happened to this ex-atheist. Reading his books day and night!

  • Krys says:

    Thank you Nehemia, for having Dr. Schroeder on your program. I’ve been reading his books for years, way before I knew about you or the Messianic movement. He is awesome, and so are you for presenting his work. As always, Shalom Brother!

  • Sarah says:

    I loved this interview! Cannot wait to dive into his books!

  • Judith says:

    Wow!! I see that Yehovah has knitted together Torah and Nature. Separate them and you open the door for Evolutionists who deny the 10 words to have science creation as a false god who is worldwide worshiped. But Yehovah is the mighty thin voice of action faithfully releasing to expose the evolution fantasy to all who have a heart to seek him. Oh that Yehovah may open the eyes of the children so that they may find the love of Abba Father which can never be found without our Spirit Creator.
    Emet!!!!!!! We are so blessed in this time of great knowledge of our Yehovah Elohim. Thankyou Nehemiah and Dr Schroeder for your faithfulness to Yehovah!!!!!
    Judith

  • jb smith says:

    The Young Earth believers are strictly literal when it comes to the first six days of creation. Each of the first six days is a literal 24-hour earth day, they say. Thus they believe that the heavens and the earth and all that are in them were created in the first six revolutions of the earth itself.

    To Old Earth believers the term “day” is not literal but figurative, like in the “day of the dinosaur”. So six figurative days could equate to the literal billions of years that science tells us have elapsed since creation began.

    My own belief is that the creation story is written from God’s point of view, so the first six days are six of His days, six heavenly days. Each heavenly day begins in darkness and chaos and ends in light and order. Each heavenly day goes from something not existing to something existing in the universe for the first time.

    None of the first heavenly days was observed by man, only by God. God, being external to our earthly realm, is not constrained by the length of our “days”.

    • Yeshayah says:

      Given the context, history and language, six literal erev vevokerim are just that. Any person that tries to mix evolutionary long time periods with the Tanakh has to betray one side or the other. Evolutionary theists would be hard pressed to actually define their “six periods of time” with something tangible, and can only offer a vague and unconvincing explination to fit their premise. As far as the dinosaurs are concerned, and other larger scale examples of currently existing animals ie. giant dragonflies, they were covered during the flood which covered the earth for over a year. The earth was one land mass, with a relatively flat terrain (which was easier to flood). Most of the water came from underneath the ground which had the effect of seperating continents and creating enormous mountains, all of which bear fossilized remains of marine life to this day. Certain effects of the flood included the layers we see today along with massive canyons in which water drained quickly. This did not take millions of years, and a recent example of these processes in action occurred during the Mt. St. Helens eruption. Radiometric dating of Uranium, Thorium, Potassium, and Argon include several assumptions and presume long ages, a closed system free from contaminants, and a fabricated knowledge of the beginning amount of unstable isotopes. And were a person to use Carbon dating on organic material, such as dinosaur bones, they will constantly and repeatably obtain results that declare thousands, not milluons of years. When dinosuar bones are dissolved, they reveal intact cells and nuclei, and are just as elastic as something that died recently. Not to mention thousands of years of firsthand written accounts of these creatures and sculptures, mosaics, carvings, and drawings. And the irreconcilable kicker: the clear statement of the sun, moon and stars being created 4 days after the earth. So…what science are you referring to and more importantly, what bible?

      • daniel says:

        Ditto, and well said! Might I add that on the sixth day YHVH saw that everything he made was ‘very good’, as Death had not yet entered Creation. So, if I’m to believe a thousand years equals a creation-day, there were thousand-year-old birds and fish all over the place before Adam was created? No, my God is powerful enough to do it all just the way it’s recorded.

    • Peter Appleton says:

      The word יום. YOM in the Tanach is always a 24 hour period never more or less

      All space/time continuum is dependent on the basic physical constant- the speed of light
      If the speed were significantly higher at creation all physical processes would happen so much more quickly and a ‘ day’ could accomplish much creation work
      See internet for
      ׳c – decay’
      Peter Appleton

  • Josef Lindholm says:

    All of this is not based on anything, sad to say.

    • Walter Schwenk says:

      if you look at Schroeder’s web material or books, you will find that his allegations are not merely well founded, but exhaustively so.

  • Margo Moore says:

    Fantastic interview. My math teacher niece and my chemistry teacher niece really need this info. B & N, here I come!

    Nehemiah, could you provide a translation of something in your musical lead-in? A man with a lovely fruity baritone voice says something like this:
    “Mann Tsion Leute schoen. Ouleh maneh ou Shalayim leuscht gut.” Sounds like Yiddish because it resembles German, which I have studied a little. I know Tsion is Zion, Leute is people, gut is good. Can’t recall what Shallayim is, and the rest I just don’t know. And the man—all men should have such a voice!
    I hope you can bring some clarity. Thanks!

  • Walter Schwenk says:

    Great mind and revelation. Invaluable to a recovering atheist.

  • Christine says:

    I would love to hear more about The Book of Enoch.

  • About the garden, only the tree of knowledge was forbidden, soooo, if that would have been obeyed the tree of life was available, the 900 year life span is a day gone by…
    Shalom

  • Glad you met up with Gerald Schroeder. I often refer people, both young earth creationists and atheists, to read his books. Genesis is in harmony with current science.

    I notice in part 1 of the interview you guys spend quite some time discussing God being regretful. I see it like this: God knew beforehand, before He created the universe, that man would become violent, requiring a flood to change course. But once it came to fruition, once He saw it actually happening, and could feel it, He became regretful, well sad. But the show must go on, it was a necessary change in direction. It’s like a parent who knows one day they’ll have to discipline their children. In their mind they have it all worked out. But when the day comes to discipline them the emotional weight of what’s happening hits home but they know it’s for their children’s own good. The passage show to me that God is also emotional, He feels pain, hurt, sadness, joy and happiness.

    But here’s something interesting:

    Day 1 of creation is God exists and the separation of light from darkness, the Big Bang. In the first millennium starting at Adam, mankind meets God and learns of the difference between good and evil. The first assembly (convocation, festival) is Passover, which is the sacrificial lamb, the separation between good and evil through atonement. The first item in the Temple layout is the Altar of Sacrifice, but one must first realise this is the way to God before performing the sacrifice. The first step spiritually in an individual’s walk with God is to recognise God exists, that without Him there is nothing, then one sees the difference between good and evil.

    Day 2 of creation is a separation of the waters, scientifically speaking the coalescing of matter (Solar Nebula) to form the Solar System. The second millennium of man began with the flood, man separated by water. The second convocation is Unleavened Bread, the separation of sin from our lives. The second item in the Temple is the Bronze Laver filled with water to wash hands and feet. The second step in one’s spiritual walk is to be washed by the Word of God. The Christian would say to be born again by the Spirit of God.

    I will stop here but I hope you notice the pattern of 6+1 and that the creation days can be correlated to each millennium (starting at Adam), to each convocation, the temple, and to each step in one’s spiritual walk with God. The pattern of 6+1 is mentioned throughout the Torah, from creation, Sabbath Rest, Law of the Hebrew Servant, debts cancelled and rest for the land every seventh year, Menorah Lamp, Seven Convocations (Festivals), etc. God is obviously telling us something, His timetable of 6000 years plus 1000 years, that we must be watchful of the times, that a day is as a thousand years. Genesis 1, and the Torah, is a lot deeper than any of us ever imagined.

    • David says:

      Considering the Torah was given in such a way to be understood by children Im not so sure its as ‘deep’ as some might think. When I read it I find wisdom, a guide to life for the here and now. Searching the scripture to learn how our Creator expects us to behave is one thing. To search for something that isnt there or reading between the lines for a deeper meaning in my opinion only leads to the creation of more divisive religions.

  • David says:

    Big Bang, Quantum Foam, Dark Matter to me all mind boggling theories pertaining to the universe. But wait there’s more! Like Niels Bohr’s and Werner Heisenberg’s mind bender the Copenhagen Interpretation. Which in a nut shell I think says life is bit a dream containing an infinite number of possibilities. Makes me wonder though, if its all a dream then what is reality but what we perceive? What is our perception, if not our creation? Relax, its just a theory. Have fun.

  • I really enjoy “sci-fi” type discussions as we know and comprehend that there is NO conflict at all between that which is seen and that which is not as mentioned in TORAH and as Paul sumed up in Rom 1:20. Having said that, I would like to point out that it seems all too easy to conclude concepts if we think we have gotten to the bottom of an issue when in fact, we have not. This, in my humble opinion is the case here concerning the dynamic nature of YHVH. Brother Gordon mentions a scripture that is quite conclusive concernimg Almighty God not being as a man in flux. I believe, if youall will bare with me, that our Great God is up to something long term and when He is appearing “dynamic”, in this period where we are dwelling with the “time aspect” which we are informed will be done away, He is actually demonstrating RELATIONSHIP. Now, I believe that this very thing is what Yahovah is and has been up to all along to the extant that He even allowed a war in Heaven soas to cause a juxtaposition in which to relate. Think about it. What self respecting Angel would aspire to war against Almighty God as man would and does do, and why!? So now we can bounce ideas around between light and darkness to gain a comprehension of just who this One is and to the extent of how he loves us so! So how do we avoid “faulty conclusions and deduction”? Especially when we delve into foundational issues? Simple, we get down to the foundations ie, to the nity gritty, so to speak. To do that in this area of discussion we must ask and find out, the answer to three questions. Here they are; 1) Where did we come from and when? 2) Where are we and “when” are we presently? and 3) Where are we going and what is the “when” associated with that existence? There ARE an answer to all three and again, in my humble opinion to avoid errant conclusions such as in this case discussion concerning an aspect or personality trait of Almignty God relating to His being “dynamic” or not,, WE MUST have the answer to at least two of the quests I’ve posed if not all three. THEN proper deduction can be rendered and NOT Before. All else is simply interesting discussion which I do enjoy by the way. Blessings to all as consideration is made, me

    Ps; the general answer IS,,,, Almighty God does NOT do trial runs for His learning to see how things will procede, however, He may do them for US and our learning. I sincerely doubt that He does trial runs period!

  • Nehemia is very good in making fascinating interviews. Loved this a lot b/c God
    and science always fascinates inspires me. Maimonides didn’t get it first but the idea about Torah & Teva was common within the first century Jews as well such as Shaul (Paul) wrotes in Romans 1 and Colossians. He was a disciple of rabbi Gamliel and later rabbi Yeshua HaNotzri.

    Biblical Astronomer Robert Scott Wadsworth has done impressive work for decades regarding “Torah & Teva” in the stars and how the ancient God-given Hebrew star names (Psalm 147:4, Isaiah 30:26-28) and constellations revealed Yehovah Creator’s redemption plan even before the written revelation of the Bible. Here’s excellent video-seminary about the idea which proves the Sun, the moon and the Stars (constellations) are Yehovah’s Signs (Bereshit 1:14-17), not man’s:

    https://youtu.be/M4vhsjJeWrA

    I’ve learned both Torah and the Star names are in total sync with each other and it has nothing to do with astrology! There’s very strong scientific and historical evidence that God’s promise in the Torah, Bereshit 3:15, about the Seed of the Woman crushing serpent’s head is originally revealed in His ancient Hebrew star names and constellations or Mazzaroth in Hebrew.

    Shabbat Shalom from Finland and keep looking up as father Abraham did too because you will Yehovah and His redemption plan from the Torah and the Stars!

  • Ezracha Bat Ephrayim says:

    I totally relate to Dr. Schroeder. I have always been amazed by “nature” since I can remember, and I can remember to 9 mos. old.

    Today as a Torah guardian, making a serious effort to do Torah, I read Scripture always, and I can understand now why nature has always fascinated me. There are many verses in Scripture where Abba Yah uses nature to describe His personal nature. I love the shadow picture of Abba as a mother hen. Mother hens will and do die protecting their young. As the hen walks along, chicks following single file, she struts her stuff and expects all of nature to move aside for her most precious cargo. Whatever is unfortunate enough to get in her path gets attacked full force. Here even a 1,100 pound donkey moves aside for momma hen.

    On my wall is a plaque I made, with this verse, ” But now ask the beasts and they shall show you, and the birds of the heavens; and they shall declare it to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of YHWH has done this, in whose hand is the life of all that live, and the breath of all mankind.’

    And the plaque next to that has:

    Jer 8:7. “Even a stork knows her appointed times. The turtle dove, a swallow, and a thrush observe the time of their migration, but My people do not know the right-ruling of YHWH.’

    Above all the things that Yah put on this earth, I find the most amazing thigs reside in the heavens. We learn that The Father has given each and every star a name. And isn’t it the most Yahsome thing ever, that by the name of the stars, we can actually read the heaven like a scroll.

    When I explain this concept to atheists, they can for the first time in their lives, see physical proof that YHWH is Elohim. Those “messengers” have been there forever. Adam saw the same stars we do today.

    Nimrod most certainly understood the message written in the heavens. I am certain he was one of the few people left on earth who actually had this understanding, because he sure duped the whole earth into thinking he was a mighty one. X-mass and Ea_xer proves that sun worship still exist today as much of a snare as they were in the time of Nimrod.

    I imagine that when Yah spoke to our father Abraham, Yah asked Abram if he understood the message written in the heavens, as a scroll, when He asked, “Tell me if you can give an account? So shall your seed be.’

    Thankfully, Abba will never allow Babylon to be completed.

    Shalom.

    • Again I want to say these Nehemia’s interviews are very inspirational. Many times I listen to these I feel I cannot get my fingers off the keyboard b/c of deep desire to share thoughts with others 🙂 HalleluYah bless you my Jewish brother there in my future home-land in Israel!

      And thank you Ezracha Bat Ephrayim too for your interesting and inspirational insights as well. Interestingly in the original Hebrew text of Bereshit 15:5 that “seed” of Abram whom Abba Yah is talking about in the stars is not plural seed (zareikem) but one singular seed (zareka). Why to command Abram to count the number of the stars then if the original Hebrew text is speaking about one singular seed? If it would have been about numbering the stars Abram’s job would have been very easy! Counting one single star ha ha! 🙂

      Is this zareka of Bereshit 15:5 the same promised singular seed of the woman in Bereshit 3:15 which uses EXACTLY the same word for seed? This Zareka-seed seems to be all over Genesis / Bereshit…and the stars. Is this Zareka the Redeemer / Messiah through Abraham -> Isaac -> Virgin Nation of Bethulah Israel? Yes, I believe so b/c of the massive historical, biblical and astronomical support for the idea…in the Torah and Teva (in this case in the few hundred stars in the common constellations which are known for thousands of years having names, God-given names? -> Psalm 147:4, Isaiah 40:26-28!

      If someone is interested to hear more please check out the link to our Hebrew astronomical study behind my nick name and Shavuah Tovah from Finland!

      • Nehemia, it came to my mind later could the word zareka mean the same as English “seed” for many seeds? I mean the English word “seed” could mean both: many seeds or one single seed. I am not expert in Hebrew so I wanted to double check the meaning of zareka and make corrections to my comment and my website if I am wrong. Thanks!

        Anyways the idea of Yah’s redemption plan in the Stars in addition to Torah does not stand only on one linguistic ground of Bereshit 15:5 but it is scientifically and biblically credible on many other grounds. Thanks!

  • Steve says:

    Just wondering, if God is outside time, why does His name mean “I will be who I will be”?

    Would it not make better sense for it to mean “I am who I am”? – that He already exists as all that He is, rather than He is becoming something that He isn’t yet?

  • Lisa says:

    Very interesting show, would love to hear more! Just bought a couple of his books to read. Thanks for doing this!

  • Paul Onovoh says:

    Thanks much children of Yehovah! I am so thrilled about the interpretation of Ex: 3:14 and of course verse 12 also through verse 15! “This is my Name forever hidden in the universe!” That’s from Dr. Schroeder. Then Nehemiah says, “I am now and will continue to be in the future!” Great!
    I read somewhere that Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh is a Yidishization of Ahayah Asher Ahayah! Is this true? What’s the proper translation of Ahayah Asher Ahayah!
    Thanks so much for your work and service. May Yehovah whom you serve keep you in His blessing always!

  • John Dexter says:

    I’ve read several of Dr. Schroeder’s books and appreciate his integration of science, philosophy and religion. Does the recent detection of gravity waves change the concept of gravity and nothing from which creation originates?

  • David says:

    I really enjoyed hear Dr. Schroeder speak, I love these subjects. Though my level of knowledge of the universe is far below that of a physicist and graduate of M.I.T. From what I have seen and read about it has only lead me to better understand how awesome and powerful a force God truely is. If I ever visited Israel I would forgo the tourist traps and historical sites and head straight to the Dr.’s class room and camp out.

    Thank you both,

  • Mina says:

    This is now one of my favorite of your podcasts. This is one of those rare speakers that I could probably enjoy listening to for hours. Looking forward to part two very much. Toda.

  • Cleaburne Belcher says:

    Thank you for a great interview. This is the first time I have heard a “big bang” theory that makes sense. Yehovah created something from nothing. Then He set it in motion. Then He created the life we see on earth. It was interesting also to hear about plans A,B &C. If mankind had continued honoring his Father, maybe we would be living 900 years according to plan A.

  • chris carson says:

    This was very interesting. I hope you have Dr.Shroeder on again.

  • Janet says:

    What an interesting interview. I now need to buy a book or two.

  • Norn says:

    Norm not Norn…Sorry

  • Norn says:

    My son is attending M I T in his second year there started in course 22 (nuclear).

  • Rocky Jackson says:

    I have been waiting for this one…..
    A very Brilliant man….