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Posted on 01/16/2005 4:00:48 PM PST by ReasonedThought
The poster on the link says that since the fossil record and carbon-dating says the earth is millions of years old but the biblical record shows an earth roughly 6000 years old. The proof for that is here http://home1.gte.net/bridavis/timeline.htm. Anyway the question is, how can Christians like myself reconcile this? Has science discredited a literal interpretation of the Bible of our Lord?
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Carbon dating isn't good for any dates beyond 40,000 to 50,000 years. In other words, the whole "carbon dating shows the Earth is millions of years old" is crap on the face of it. Please, buy a clue.
>>How long is a "day" in the eye of God?
A couple of billion years I always estimated. For those of us who make it to Heaven, never again will we have to say "there's just not enough hours in the day!"
Game, set, match! Nuff said. How can he worm out of that one?
Indeed - We fight enough about the creation/evolution issue on our own without "assistance" from outsiders. :-D Get thee gone, troll.
Why is it so hard for some Christians to consider the possibility Genesis interpretation that God "created the heavens and the earth" during which He eventually created life, (animals, fish, dinosaurs, birds, etc) which evolved to THE point in time in which he created Mankind.
In one part of the Bible you will find that a day is as a hundred years to the Lord but in Genesis it clearly speaks of a 24 hour day. You have to read it in context.
On the seventh day He rested, was to establish the Sabbath. The Sabbath is for man not God.
LinnieBeth; ReasonedThought; Hajman
First you faith shouldn't depend on what 'men say'. That aside- read a translation of the Bible, not a paraphrase or modern english one- The opening will accurately say- "In the beginning the earth BECAME void. and next, in the command to Adam and Eve the Lord told the to 'go and REplenish the earth'. In my book, you can't REplenish or REfill what has not be previously filled.
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Don't know, and I wouldn't base my faith on this or make doctrine out it, but it is interesting and perhaps explains lots of things.??
28 posted on 01/16/2005 5:12:58 PM MST by LinnieBeth
- The opening will accurately say- "In the beginning the earth BECAME void.
Not in the NASB, KJV, NKJ, NIV, NJB, RSV, Tanach nor in LXX;
Nor the Hebrew nor Greek.
What are you reading from?
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chuck
>>According to the creation account in the scriptures, a day is a 24 hour time period.
>>Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
When you say day and night, evening and morning, in the context of the above, there was no Earth in existence to have day and night, evening or morning. That's not to say I think you're wrong either. The only thing I know about God for sure is that God could be many things that I am incapable of comprehending, so I tend to not put concrete boundaries upon anything related to God.
Look on the Internet for creationism. First of all, to put it simply, the bible is correct and a day is a day is a day. The first men lived several hundred years because it is believed that God placed a barrier of water around the earth and made it sort of a giant greenhouse. The earth was the perfect place for all of God's creatures to thrive and multiply.
This barrier prevented the radiation from the sun from forming carbon-14. It also prevented cosmic rays and ultraviolet light from damaging the chromosomes.
The fossil record is incomplete and no matter what you here them say, it never will be. There are no transitionary fossils that show the evolution from ape to man because there are none. It is really easy to be an evolution scientist because all you have to do is gather a few tiny bone fragments and make up whatever you like to fill in the blanks.
A good, deep study that absolutely destroys the evolutionists arguments is that of "irreduceable complexity" (go ahead and google it). To put it in it's simplest form, take the eye: for an eye to function you need cells to sense the light AND a nervous system to interpret the light. Since evolutionists tell us that survivability and chance and genetic luck determine the next generation, it is inconceivable that both the cells to sense the light and the nervous system to interpret it both just "happened" to evolve at the same time.
God did not need millions of years to make the Earth, just like He did not need days to prepare a ready to eat meal of bread and fish for 5,000 men (besides women and children)when only supplied with five loaves and two fishes. He didn't add kool aid mix when he turned water into wine. He transformed dead flesh into live flesh. Walked on water?
Which of the above is harder to do? He either did it just like the Bible says (I say yes), or He did none of them!
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