Originally Posted by
alanmolstad
“Every good thing ( and it might be said that the story of Genesis and the tool the Lord used to create life (Evolution) could be placed into this verse for they truly are "good" things the Lord has made)
given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or (The "whom" here is clearly only God, for God is unchanged with "no variation" and not effected by time, for God is not bound by time).”
shifting shadow ( while it is true that God is unchanged, this is now compared to the world of nature and its ever-changing state. The idea ever-changing "shifting shadows"is talking about how Nature is not to be compared to the Lord steadfastness...This builds on the verse at James 1:11 were we just read about how all of nature changes and what it today blooming with soon fade and is "destroyed"...)