I am cool with everything about creationism except young earth. I don’t believe that creationism must be young earth. Creationism = young earth? Is it mutually exclusive? I don’t think so.
I have not yet been convinced that the millions and billions of years scenarios are much more than arbitrary leaps of faith based on arbitrary assumptions. The biblical texts, when taken literally, do not attempt to pinpoint the age of the earth, but explicitly depict a Creator beyond space and time, which means the creation may demonstrate features we are inclined to err in assessing in regard to the same.
The written text (Genesis) has generational gaps, to be sure. If Adam were alive today, his experience would stretch back to the Middle Ages as we have come to learn about them. In accepting the biblical texts literally and as authoritative my inclination is to comprehend creation and history as roughly 10,000 years. Actually, that figure addends nicely as a whole history time frame in view of other instances where tens and thousands have significant semantic/theological import. But “no one knows the day or the hour.”
what’s a year to god compared to a year to us?
Here’s what I don’t get about Christians (I’m one of a small bunch).
Many times throughout the Bible the concept of “A Thousand years is like a day and a day is like a thousand years” to God. How is it we as Christians are forced into believing the beginning of time is fixed with statements such as this.
If the Heavens and Earth were created in 6 days, yet the Bible clearly states that time is relative...how are we so stuck on this point? Wouldn’t the most correct answer seem to be that God created the Heavens and earth in a time period in which time didn’t yet exist as we know it?
Everything else seems to fall in place with this in mind, right?
its 3 am...my toddler woke me up... Hopefully my thinking isn’t too fragmented.