[DieHard the Hunter]

> The problem with that idea is that God doesn’t say He used 6 epochs, He says He used 6 days.

Elsewhere He says that a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like a day — or words to that effect.

God is not time-bound like we are. He is eternal, moving at will thru time. Our world and existence comprises the dimensions of height, width, and depth, and is bound by time. His is not: he can move freely between any of these dimensions (and possibly more besides). And now, so can Jesus.

That is how God was able to turn back the sun, and that is how prophecy works. Time does not matter at all to God. That is how He knows the end from the beginning: he can move thru time as easily as we can walk up-and-down a sidewalk. Does He want to know what happens in a thousand years’ time? He merely goes and has a look.

Genesis 1 is a parable, written so that we can understand WHY things happened. Evolution tells us How.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Genesis 1 is a parable, written so that we can understand WHY things happened.

You are obviously a Christian, so I'm not going to argue over this issue, although I do disagree.

And if you want to say "a day is a thousand years", and take 6 days, make it 6 thousand years, then turn those days each into a thousand years, you get about 2.1 billion years I think

But I think you do Genesis 1 a real disservice to say it's just a "parable about the why", and I think if you read it through a few times meditatively, you would see that

There is also a lot more information that supports creation and discredits evolution than you probably think. I often reccommend creation TV as a starting point: http://www.thestreamtv1.com/welcome_016.htm

[Marie2]

OK, the 4th commandment according to DieHard:

“Remember the Sabbath epoch, to keep it holy. Six epochs you shall labor and do all your work; but the seventh epoch is a sabbath to the LORD your God. For in six epochs the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them; and He rested the seventh epoch. Therefore the LORD blessed the seventh epoch and hallowed it.”

When God says epoch, He means epoch. When he says day, He means day. He is not playing word games with us.

Absolutely, He is not bound by time the way we are. That doesn’t mean He can’t communicate the concept of a day to us.