A NEWER, MILLENNIAL TESTAMENT of the Continuing Creation since 100 CE." The Old Testament was from about 1500 BCE to 0. The New Testament was added and completed in 100 CE. Let's add a Newer (Millennial) Testament of the 1900-year-increase in knowledge, wisdom, and truth to the New Testament: newer science, poetry (Psalms), and literature. The universe is still awakening and we are called to be co-creators in the continuing creation. A Newer Testament , which updates the Bible's flat earth cosmology, would help in correcting the misinformation in the popular Creation Museum in Kentucky.

1. A NEWER, MILLENNIAL
TESTAMENT
Of the Continuing Creation
since 100 CE
Paul H. Carr,
Created from a star.
www.MirrorOfNature.org

2. Time makes ancient good uncouth.
They must upward still and onward
Who would keep abreast of truth.
James Russell Lowell
THE LIGHT OF TRUTH

3. A NEWER, MILLENIAL TESTAMENT
of the Continuing Creation since 100 CE.
Old Testament 1500 BCE to 0.
New Testament 0 to 100 CE. A total of
1600 yr.
1900 years since the Bible was
completed in 100 CE.
Let’s add a Newer , Millennial Testament
of the 1900-year-increase in knowledge,
wisdom, & truth to the
“New Testament.”

4. OUTLINE
1. Newer Science, Cosmology’s Century
2. Why we need a Newer Testament
- The Creation Museum misinterprets the
outdated science of our Bible
3. A Newer, Millennial Testament
- History and the Quest for the Kingdom of God
-New Poetry (Psalms)
-Hymns
-Literature & Theology
Meeting the needs of our globalizing civilization.

5. OLD TESTAMENT 2500-YEARS-AG0 FLAT EARTH
In the Beginning God Created.. (Genesis 1:1).
And God made the firmament and separated the waters which
were under the firmament from the waters which were above
the firmament. (Genesis 1:7)

6. Earthrise on the Moon
THE NEWER
TESTAMENT
WORLD
VIEW
Enabled us to
land an
astronaut on
the moon in
1969

7. In 1510, Copernicus made a controversial proposal:
The Sun not the Earth is the center of our
solar system.

8. Astronomer Harlow
Shapley discovered our
place in our Milky Way
Galaxy in 1920.
We are not the
center of our
Milky Way Galaxy,
100 billion stars.
OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY

9. Fr. Lemaitre, inspired by
1. Genesis 1,
2. Hubble’s discovery of the expanding
universe &
3. Einstein’s General Relativity theory,
published his
Hot Big Bang theory in 1927.
Albert Einstein. Fr. George Lemaitre

10. Hot to Cool Cosmology, From Hydrogen to Humans
The Whispering Cosmos
---------------------Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago------------------
Earth
10

11. THE WHISPERING COSMOS.
From cooler temperatures 0.3 M yrs after “the Beginning,”
to Galaxies, 2 B years later.
Hubble Telescope Optical Deep
Field Image of Galaxies
12 Billion Light Years away,
about 2 Billion years after “the
beginning.” (1996)
Image of the universe 0.3 Million
years after “the beginning.” This
image of temperature fluctuations
was measured by the Wilkinson
Microwave Anisotropy Probe. The
cooler regions “seeded” the stars
and the galaxies. 11

12. IGNITING CREATIVITY
by Brian Swimme (cosmologist) in
Order of the Sacred Earth (2018) (Matthew Fox)
The universe gives birth to itself by assembling
communities with the capacity to awaken the
creativity of their members.
When hydrogen atoms find themselves in an
interaction community called a star, they discovers
they have the power to transform themselves into
the elements that give birth to life.

13. The cooperative FUSION of hydrogen nuclei into helium in our sun’s community
releases large amounts of heat and light.

14. The onion-like layers of a massive,
evolved star just before core collapse.
(Not to scale.) Elements up to Iron (Fe)
are formed from hydrogen by fusion.
The Cats Eye Nebula formed by the death of a star
The heaviest elements in the periodic
table such as Uranium and Lead are
formed by fusion in the higher
temperatures of such super novae.
HOW WE CAME FROM THE STARS
FROM HYDROGEN TO HUMANS

15. WE ARE MADE OF STARDUST
Hubble Telescope of new stars being born from the gravitational attraction
of the dust from the death of a star that had exploded in a supernova.

17. New Testament Revelations 21: NIV.
Then I saw a new heaven and new
earth, for the first heaven and the
first earth had passed away.
Written about 100 CE
Since 1995, astronomers have
discovered over 4000 “new earth”
exoplanets circling their stars.

18. The Roman Catholic process theologian John Haught at
Georgetown University wrote:
The New Cosmic Story: Inside our Awakening
Universe,(2017)
The outer scientific story tells us that the universe is still
awakening to rightness. The universe on which we are
utterly dependent nevertheless created us. We are made of
stardust.
We find our greatest inner fulfillment and joy as we
contribute something new and indispensable towards
increased goodness, beauty, and truth.
The universe is still awakening, and we are called to
participate as co-creators in the continuing creation.

19. 1920s Fr. George Lemaitre’s
Big Bang Theory based on
Einstein’s General Relativity
P J E Peebles, 2020 Nobel Laureate

20. OUTLINE
1. Newer Science, Cosmology’s Century
2. Why we need a Newer Testament
- The Creation Museum misinterprets the
outdated science of our Bible
3. A Newer, Millennial Testament
-New Poetry (Psalms)
-Hymns
-Literature & Theology
Meeting the needs of our globalizing civilization.

21. The new popular Creation Museum in northern Kentucky shows why
God´s infallible Biblical Word, rather than man´s faulty assumptions, is
the place to begin if we want to make sense of our world.
2. WHY WE NEED A NEWER TESTAMENT

22. The 75,000-square-foot Creation Museum allows families
to experience Earth history as God has revealed it in the
Bible.
Nearly 150 exhibits feature fearsome animatronic
dinosaurs living at the same time as heroes of the faith,
and professional displays that honor God´s Word in the
Bible
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We need the Newer Millennial Testament:
There are no dinosaurs in the Bible.
The dinosaurs died off 65 Million years
ago before humans emerged.

23. OUTLINE
1. Newer Science, Cosmology’s Century
2. Why we need a Newer Testament
- The Creation Museum misinterprets the
outdated science of our Bible
3. A Newer, Millennial Testament
- History and the Quest for the Kingdom of God
-New Poetry (Psalms)
-Hymns
-Literature & Theology
Meeting the needs of our globalizing civilization.

24. 3. The following Newer, Millennial Testament
poetry could supplement the biblical Psalms:
The old order changes
Yielding place to new.
God fulfills Himself in many ways
Lest one good custom should corrupt the
world.
A.L. Tennyson. Idyls of the King (1850)
3.

25. Christian Vision, Working of Holy Spirit
Kingdom of God within History
The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in My name, He will
teach you all things, and bring to your
remembrance all things that I said to
you. (John 14:26 NKJB).
The Lord’s Prayer: “Thy Kingdom come, Thy
will be done, on earth as it is in heaven…”

26. KINGDOM OF GOD
WORKING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
For Apostle Paul, & Book of Revelations
In the New Testament:
• The immanent return of Jesus
• End the oppressive Roman Empire
• Jesus would rule with justice & light
• “God’s mysterious plan that the
Good News is for Jews and Gentiles”
Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians 6

27. 312 CE, before the Battle of the
Milvian Bridge, Constantine,
about the time of the midday sun,
saw up in the sky and resting over
the sun, a cross-shaped trophy
formed from light, and a text
attached to it which said,
"By this sign conquer."
After his victory Constantine
became the Roman Emperor.
In 313 Constantine’s Edict of Milan
stated ”It was proper that the
Christians and all others should
have liberty to follow that mode of
religion which to each of them
appeared best.”
325 Convened bishops to
formulate the Nicene Creed
CONVERSION OF EMPEROR CONSTANTINE TO CHRISTIANITY 312 CE
Constantine’s mother was already a Christian

28. KINGDOM OF GOD within HISTORY
WORKING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
- Augustine 354-450. City of God
- Benedict 480-547
- Francis 1181-1126
All creatures of our God and King
Lift up your voice and with us sing,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thou burning sun with golden beam,
Thou silver moon with softer gleam!
- Dominic 1170-1226
- Thomas Aquinas 1225 -1274, Dominican
Theologian, synthesized Christianity & Aristotle
- Ignatius 1491-1556, co-founded Jesuits

29. MARTIN LUTHER’S PROTESTANT REFORMATION 1517
Luther was to Christianity
what Copernicus in 1510 was to astronomy
On 2 July 1505, while Luther was returning to
his university on horseback, a lightning bolt
struck near him during a thunderstorm.
Terrified, he cried out,
"Help! Saint Anna, I will become a monk!"
July. 17, 1505, He left the university, sold his books, and
entered St. Augustine's Monastery in Erfurt Germany
1516, the Roman Catholic church sent Johann
Tetzel, a Dominican Friar, to Germany.
He was selling indulgences to raise money for
rebuilding St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
"As soon as the coin in the coffer rings,
the soul from purgatory into heaven springs."

30. 1517, One of Luther’s Ninety-five Theses asked:
"Why does the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the
wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with
the money of poor believers, rather than with his own money?”
Luther’s Ninety-five Theses were published all over Europe
with the newly invented printing press,
starting the Protestant Reformation.
LUTHER’S PROTESTANT BELIEFS:
• The priesthood of all believers.
- He translated the Bible from Latin into German
• Salvation through faith in God’s grace
rather than by works.
A Newer Millennial Testament should include Martin Luther’s reformation hymn
A Mighty Fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing
Our helper He, among the flood,
Of mortal ills prevailing.

32. 1738 London. As John Wesley heard a reading from Luther's Preface to the
Epistle to the Romans, Wesley felt his "heart strangely warmed."
Wesley wrote in his journal, ”While the reader was describing the change which
God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation;
and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine,
and saved me from the law of sin and death."

33. John Wesley, (1703-1791) founder of the Methodist
movement, was far from being concerned with literally only
our Bible.
He read widely and required his ministers to read many
other books.
Wesley scolded his ministers who claimed to read only the
Bible as exhibiting “rank enthusiasm.”
That’s like calling someone today a raving religious lunatic!
Do all the good you can,
by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can,
in all the places you can,
at all the times you can,
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can.”

34. John Wesley’s brother
Charles wrote:
A charge to keep I have,
A God to glorify
A never dying soul to save
And fit it for the sky.

35. 35
IV. LIFE AND THE SPIRIT
Paul Tillich’s (1886-1965) Systematic Theology, Vol. III
Spiritual Presence, The power within us but not of us.
The problem of life is ambiguity. Every process of life has its
contrast within itself ( positive and negative), thus driving us to the
quest for unambiguous life or life under the impact of
Spiritual Presence.
The Spiritual Presence conquers the negatives of religion,
culture, and morality, and the symbols anticipating Eternal Life
present answers to the problems of life.
The church is the result of the impact of the Spiritual Presence on
a community. It is through the power of Spiritual Community that
the fight against the ambiguities of the churches is waged.
KINGDOM OF GOD as the END (GOAL) OF HISTORY or ETERNAL LIFE
Eternity is a transcendent dimension above space & time.

36. 36
MARTIN BUBER
Excerpts from Tillich’s address at a memorial meeting held on July
13, 1965 at the Park Avenue Synagogue under the auspices of the
American Friends of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where
Buber served as Professor of Social Philosophy.
• “I shall start with my image of him as a partner in a dialogue which
lasted with many interruptions for forty years. It was a dialogue on
the basis of our own religious encounters, and it included
philosophical as well as theological questions.”
•“In these dialogues something happened which transcended for me
in importance of the dialogue itself. It was the experience of the
divine presence. He was, as one could say “God-possessed.” God
could never become an “object” in Martn Buber’s presence. (I-It vs
I-Thou.) The certainty of God always preceded to certainty of
himself and his world. God for him, was not an object of doubt.”

37. Time makes ancient good uncouth.
Let’s be upward still and onward
To keep abreast of truth.
James Russell Lowell
THE LIGHT OF TRUTH

38. A NEWER, MILLENNIAL TESTAMENT
of the 1900-Yr Continuing Creation
As created co-creators, let’s add a Newer
Testament of the 1900-year-increase in knowledge,
wisdom, & truth to the “New Testament.”
What are your suggestions for publishing:
-New Science, Cosmology
-Poetry (Psalms)
-Hymns
-Literature & Theology
E-mail me at paulcarr@alum.mit.edu
Google my name “Paul H. Carr” to find my
email.