Biblical Age of Earth

[Thomas (With out a doubt)]

You walked around your own conclusion with your answer but I will look through to your insistent approach and read it as an expression of Loyalty to God. You are right to say that God is The Author of our Faith. The real question is how can we get Him to write?

Dear Hopefulson,
You ask, "How can we get God to write" ?
I do not know that answer, but in St. Thomas' Gospel, he has a constant refrain "They that have ears to hear, let them hear"
I urge you to pray that you are one of those who are blessed to have ears that hear.
Remember those who fought with Gideon against the Midionites (Judges 7)............God only chose 300.

 

[Spazz]

In Genesis chapter 1, God made the earth and the animals and then made people. How did the people know what and when God had done things in the previous 5 days ?
In Genesis chapter 2 God did it again, but this time he took some soil from the ground, made man, breathed life into him, and then decided to plant the Garden of Eden.
I'm not going to say "So who's lying". I'm going to say "These former things have passed away". What maters today, and for the past couple of thousand years, is that we believe in Jesus.
It is Faith that will get us to Heaven, not candles, bells and conjecture as to when God made the Earth.

Sure, Conjecture won’t get us closer to heaven, but it doesn’t hurt to be curious.
I like to believe that in the time between God creating the animals and people, some animals went extinct, like certain dinosaurs. This was because the changing of the earth and the heavens may have caused something epic to go down. We have definitive proof that dinosaurs exist, but when and where do they fit in the creation story? I’d like to think that my theory sort of fits.
And to answer your question of how did people know, I would think that Adam and Eve didn’t know exactly. I mean, they had just been created, and Adams only job was to name the animals and both had to maintain their relationship with God. Or maybe they did know and it didn’t matter to them. But we know that Moses obviously knew what happened in those 7 days because, well, he wrote it. So it’s all a matter, now, of translation, speculation, and interpretation.

 

[hopefulson]

When you use that little word "I", What did you mean when you wrote ".............I believe accurate........" ?
When you say "I" see, actually you mean, "I" see with my eye.
"I" think with my brain,
"I" believe with all my heart.
"I" taste with my tongue.
"I" feel with my fingers.
"I" kick with my foot.
"I" was born on ??/??/?????
"I" was conceived on..........
"I" died on.........
"I" will be remembered by.

Time does not seem to constrict "I" or restrict it to any one part of our bodies.

Now, if we turn to Luke 16 V9.
In many of Jesus parables, he talks of "A sower went forth to sow", "The mustard seed" or "The wheat and tares", but in this story, He speaks of actual people. People about whom, in those parts, that they knew or had heard of; the beggar Lazarus, who died at Dives gate.
And yet, as Jesus tells us, after death in the near Hereafter, some element of Dives and Lazarus still exists.
Dives says "I" beg you..........."I" have five brothers........
Lazarus, we are told, is by Abraham's side, while Dives, separated by a great chasm, pleads for just one drop of water on his tongue.
The separation is not the point here, but that some element has passed from this life, to the next.
The "I" was there at conception; it felt and tasted; and yet after death the "I"could beg.
I may well be wrong, but I put it to you, that this "I", is a soul, entrusted to us, and it is our moral duty to do the best that we can for it throughout our mortal life.

 

[hopefulson]

I cannot disagree with a word you said but it doesn't either answer or expound on the point of the question I asked. We cannot manufacture in any way at all Faith only God can. Just how do we get Him to do that? What does the Scripture say?

 

[Spazz]

I cannot disagree with a word you said but it doesn't either answer or expound on the point of the question I asked. We cannot manufacture in any way at all Faith only God can. Just how do we get Him to do that? What does the Scripture say?

what? What are you talking about?

 

[Sue D.]

FAith comes from hearing the Word of God.

 

[Ivan Chamurliev]

Going to the topic that this thread started with I think that God is so powerful that He can create something for only a day that another person would for 1000, million or more years. He is out of this dimension called time. He is not bound by it. He doesn't look at time as we do. The word says it: "But beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." 2 Peter 3:8. So He can do much more things in a day than anyone else could, obviously if he had the same ability. I'm saying that for Him a day can be much longer and for us is only a day or vice versa. He is so Great that our mind cannot comprehend, cannot take it. This is God.

 

[Sue D.]

Yes, one of the several attributes of God is His omnipotence. Being all-powerful. He alone Can and Did speak this world into existence as well as create everything just like Genesis says He did. He 'created' the 6-day, 24-hr week for Us. He created the 7th days of rest for Us, not for Himself. He's Not the old, grey-haired man sitting in the rocking chair who got tired out by creating this world and then just 'let it be'.

The day/age concept is usually accepted by those who want to go with 'theistic evolution'. IF a day was 1,000 years -- then evolution would have time to occur. Other-wise God would Have to be One , very powerful Entity. Which He, in fact, Is. He is God Almighty.

 

[hopefulson]

He is beyond the reason. He is the reason.