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1 | How old is the earth? | Gen 1:1 | llaws | 158569 | ||
Hi The verses do not say nor imply that God "created the sun on day one nor on day four. Before those seven day periods began the verse verse says that God created the heavens (sun). Then the 7 cration day periods began. :-) |
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2 | How old is the earth? | Gen 1:1 | llaws | 158555 | ||
True the Bible doesn't specify the length of each of the creative periods. Yet all six of them have ended, it being said with respect to the sixth day (as in the case of each of the preceding five days): “And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day.” (Ge 1:31) However, this statement is not made regarding the seventh day, on which God proceeded to rest, indicating that it continued. (Ge 2:1-3) Also, more than 4,000 years after the seventh day, or God’s rest day, commenced, Paul indicated that it was still in progress. At Hebrews 4:1-11 he referred to the earlier words of David (Ps 95:7, 8, 11) and to Genesis 2:2 and urged: “Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest.” By the apostle’s time, the seventh day had been continuing for thousands of years and had not yet ended. The Thousand Year Reign of Jesus Christ, who is Scripturally identified as “Lord of the sabbath” (Mt 12:8), is evidently part of the great sabbath, God’s rest day. (Re 20:1-6) This would indicate the passing of thousands of years from the commencement of God’s rest day to its end. The week of days set forth at Genesis 1:3 to 2:3, the last of which is a sabbath, seems to parallel the week into which the Israelites divided their time, observing a sabbath on the seventh day thereof, in keeping with the divine will. (Ex 20:8-11) And, since the seventh day has been continuing for thousands of years, it may reasonably be concluded that each of the six creative periods, or days, was at least thousands of years in length. | ||||||
3 | How old is the earth? | Gen 1:1 | llaws | 158544 | ||
Genesis 2:4 speaks of the period of creation of the heavens and earth as ONE day. "These428 are the generations8435 of the heavens8064 and of the earth776 when they were created,1254 in the day3117 that the LORD3068 God430 made6213 the earth776 and the heavens,8064" Logically, we consider what the Bible itself tells us first and then if science agrees then I consider the understanding of the scripture as definitely accurate. Science agrees with the Bible's use of "a day" being a period of thousands of years. Science says that the light of distant stars show them to be millions of years old. The Bible says in both Ps. 90:4 and 2 Pet. 3:8 that "a day" is to God a thousand years. Along with all that you showed BradK the Bible uses "day" for more that just a 24-hour period. I will ask you; what verse in Genesis chapter 1 tells us when God created light? |
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4 | Does the Father have a God? | 1 Cor 12:3 | llaws | 151008 | ||
Hello Stevenhh, God or god? When translators place a capital "G" in the word God, he is translating a specific thought since the early Greek didn't distinguish lower or capital cases. Thus, the first English tranlation is very interesting. The site: http://www.richard-2782.com/tynjohn.htm provides William Tyndale's translation of John 1:1 as different from the King James, New American Standard Bible, and the NIV translations. In fact, it agrees with the Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation, and an old 1808 translation "The New Testament, in An Improved Version", Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome's New Translation: With Corrected Text, London and other translatons. |
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5 | suicides and the bible | Gen 18:25 | llaws | 148410 | ||
2nd part. For what purpose will God awaken this criminal? So that He mercilessly can hold his past sins against him? Hardly, for Romans 6:7, 23 says: “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin,” and “the wages sin pays is death.” Although his past sins will not be accounted to him, he will still need the ransom to lift him to perfection. Therefore, theologian Albert Barnes was wrong and misleading when he asserted: “Those who have done evil shall be raised up to be condemned, or damned. This shall be the object in raising them up; this the sole design.” How beneath a God of justice and love! Rather, a resurrection to life on a paradise earth will furnish this former criminal (and other unrighteous ones) a golden opportunity to be judged by what they do after their resurrection.—1 John 4:8-10. A Merciful Opportunity Stunned friends of a suicide victim may thus take comfort in knowing that “Jehovah has shown mercy to those fearing him. For he himself well knows the formation of us, remembering that we are dust.” (Psalm 103:10-14) Only God can fully understand the role of mental sickness, extreme stress, even genetic defects, in a “suicidal crisis,” which, the National Observer noted, “is not a lifetime characteristic [but] often a matter only of minutes or of hours.”—See Ecclesiastes 7:7. Granted, one who takes his own life deprives himself of the opportunity to repent of his self-murder. But who can say whether one driven to suicide might have had a change of heart had his fatal attempt failed? Some notorious murderers have, in fact, changed and earned God’s forgiveness during their lifetime.—2 Kings 21:16; 2 Chronicles 33:12, 13. Thus, Jehovah, having paid “a ransom in exchange for many,” is within his right to extend mercy, even to some self-murderers, by resurrecting them and giving them the precious opportunity to “repent and turn to God by doing works that befit repentance.”—Matthew 20:28; Acts 26:20. The Responsible, Scriptural View of Life Life is a gift from God, not something to be abused or to end at one’s own hand. (James 1:17) Hence, the Scriptures encourage us to see ourselves, not as immortal souls, but as valuable creations of the God who loves us, who treasures our being alive, and who looks forward with joy to the time of the resurrection.—Job 14:14, 15. Love strengthens our recognition that suicide—though evading one’s own burdens—only heaps more problems on loved ones left behind. As far as the one who rashly took his own life is concerned, we humans cannot judge as to whether he will get a resurrection or not. How reprehensible was he? God alone searches ‘all hearts and every inclination of the thoughts.’ (1 Chronicles 28:9) But we may be confident that ‘the Judge of all the earth is going to do what is loving, just, and right!’—Genesis 18:25. |
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