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1 | How old is the earth scripturally? | Gen 1:1 | thomas ladbroke | 173288 | ||
It must be noted that God exists outside time (see Is 43:13). So one day is like a thousand years (see 2 Pet 3:8) or even a million for that matter. In creating the world he was creating time also. | ||||||
2 | How old is the earth scripturally? | Gen 1:1 | kalos | 173290 | ||
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 2 Peter 3:8 (ESV) To God a day is *AS* a thousand years; but a day *IS* evening and morning -- 24 hours. A day is the time of light between one night and the next; the period of rotation of a planet (as earth) or a moon on its axis; the mean solar day of 24 hours beginning at mean midnight. Psalm 90:4 (ESV) For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. Genesis 1:5 (ESV) God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. The concept of one day as a thousand years has been misused to justify all kinds of questionable teaching regarding creation, prophecy, and other subjects in which time is a factor. "The apostle Peter says in 2 Pet. 3:8; that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. But Peter was simply saying that what man regards as a long time is like a mere day in God's reckoning of time. He was speaking in the terms of relative perspectives. It's equivalent to saying: To a very rich man a thousand dollars is like one dollar, whereas, one dollar is like a thousand to a very poor man." (www.biblicist.org/bible/light.shtml) |
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