The Bible says that a day can be a thousand years in the eyes of God, God does not have a since of time that is like ours. Is it possible that the seven days that God took to make creation may have taken thousands or maybe millions of years in Gods eyes?
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Sodo
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Sodo, GOOD questions! Yes, too both questions. For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9)
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2 Peter 3:8-9 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." What those verses are saying is that God understands time much differently from man. From mans viewpoint, Christ's coming seems like a long time away. From God's viewpoint, it will not be long. Those verses are speaking of the Second Coming of Christ and have nothing to do with the 6 days of creation. Saying that a 1000 years is as a day and a day as a thousand years, means that time is meaningless to God because He is outside of time and space. Psalm 90:4 " For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night."
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Ok lets say that that's possible. Then why couldn't god get the details right? Why is it he claims the earth never moves? Why is it he claims the world is a circle, when it's obviously a sphere? Why is the order of animal creation mixed up? Why when the flood happened did the Chinese not only survive but they didn't mention a flood at all? No too many reasons why not to buy this cock and bull story.
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This interpretation is just an example of saving the appearences, due to how utterly embarassing the literal seven-day interpretation is. If you do consider a day to be like a thousand years in the eyes of God, that would only mean that the Universe was created in 7,000 years, or if you totally stretch out your interpretation, maybe 70,000-700,000 years. Even then, the number is so exponentially small compared to scientific estimates, it's hardly worth any more consideration than the seven-day theory.
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My question is, does god really have eyes?
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Interesting observation! Of course, seeing as how no HUMANS were around during this time, whether or not it did, makes no difference at all--to us!!!
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One would think that if an infinitely powerful deity can get so many details necessary to life- right. He/She would also be able to transcript the proper day/year ratio as well.
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It's possible although it mentions that the evening and the morning occurred between each day. Even then, the Genesis is still inaccurate on many counts.
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Yes , please cover all our bases in case the secular world is correct! Get those vague answers at the ready! We can’t have another ‘The World is Flat’ debacle. And we don’t need to burn anymore witches! (I think we got them all the first time). And the Earth not being the center of the universe. Wait! That one’s still up for debate right? And, (insert favorite disproven rhetoric here), we’re still apologizing for that one.
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Who cares?
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No. The evening and the morning were the first day. He did it in 6 days and rested on the 7th.
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I agree with your interpretation. this way, creationism and evolution can occur simultaneously. See, on the fifth day, god created sea creatures. In biology text books, the first kinds of living organisms lived in the water. On the sixth day, god created land animals and man. Over the millions of years that was in-between the 5th and the 6th "day" evolution happened so that the animals and humans that we know of today can exist. that is how i understand it.
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this sounds suspiciously like the opening for one of those evolution and religion an both be right arguments. however, even if "day" was 65 million years long, still it says clearly god created man in his own image, not god created monkey and evolved him into man
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