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1 | How old is the earth scripturally? | Gen 1:1 | Daninjapan | 4559 | ||
The question we are working on, at least from my point of view, is not whether God did what He said - of course He did, praise His Name! The question is what did He actually say - not just the surface value of the words in Genesis 1 and 2, but what is He actually communicating to us with these words? My thought, from reading the text carefully, is that God was deliberately silent about the nature/length of the six days. The account is written using words that have multiple meanings. "Day" also means "era", "evening" also means "the end of some time period", "morning" also means "a new beginning". etc. It is specualtion, but I think God chose to do it this way in order to make the account intelligible and easily understandable to the maximum number of people. People of all ages, all education levels, all different cultures, and living in different times can grasp the essential message of God's systematic work in creating the world from nothing. The account is extremely short and simple - this makes it easy for even a child to grasp. If the account detailed long ages then it would not be comprensible to a child. Yet, the account has many unusual features that show that the One who gave us the account is not simple - He is amazing and beyond our understanding. The account can be (and is)interpreted differently by different people. For me, the age-as-a-day reading of the account makes the most sense. It is not a matter of believing or disbelieving the account - it is a matter of understanding the account. God bless you! DaninJapan |
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2 | How old is the earth scripturally? | Gen 1:1 | koinekid | 4618 | ||
There is an old quote that says, "When the common sense of Scripture makes perfect sense, seek no other sense." That is the sense in which we should take the events of the first eleven chapters of Genesis. The Bible presents these chapters in narrative form. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...And there was evening and there was morning one day." The Bible says that God created the world in six days. In Hebrew, the word day is yom. Except when accompanied with a qualifying word, yom always refers to one literal 24-hour day. For instance, Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, not the Age of Atonement. Two verses are often used to suggest that a day equals an age of approximately one thousand years: Psalm 90:4; 2 Peter 3:8. However, these verses do not suggest the Day Age theory. They are only used to support. The proper context does not refer to lenght of creation. In Psalms it illustrates the fact that God has never abandoned Israel, and has always been faithful to them. In 2 Peter it illustrates the fact that God works on a different time-table than us. He fulfills his promised at the best possible time,even thought we may not recognize this. Theories which attempt to say that a "day" is equivalent to an "age" are attempting to reconcile so-called scientific evidence with Scriptures. This is a dangerous practice. Scripture must always be held in the highest esteem, far above the esteem we grant to science or history. What it comes down to is, will you believe main-stream science or the Word of God. A sidenote, there is no real evidence for macroevolution (change from one species to another). All the evidence we have interpreted properly and without bias indicates a young earth that was created not evolved. In Christ, Koinekid "Upholding Scriptural Integrity, Accuracy, and Immutability" |
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