I'm just saying - since carbon dating has proven things to be much older than what a man's limited understanding (i.e. inability to understand beyond a literal translation) of things to be.....
....why would it be so much of a stretch to think that the proverbial 7 days were actualy millions upon millions of years?
And in that same regard - how would it be so much of a stretch to think that the time left (which isn't specifically defined in the Bible, to the best of my knowledge) might actually be 10 million years, or more?
After all, we're talking God Time here. And I don't profess to understand it fully, by any means.
And I ddn't mean it to be an attack persay on your beliefs. You just seemed a little pretentious about it.
God Time is, after all, more distant from our reference than cubits.
Because the grass created on the the 3rd day would die without sunshine for a long period.But notice that the sun was created on the 4th day, thus sustaining the plant life.
11Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so. 12And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13So the evening and the morning were the third day.
14Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so. 16Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.He made the stars also. 17God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19So the evening and the morning were the fourth day
I recently read this view and it made sense to me.
"pretentious"
How on earth did you get that impression from what I said ..??
And .. the Bible does say, "a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day".
Psa 90:4 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
2 Peter 3:8 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
So .. that's why I can't buy your theory of the earth having another 10 mil years. But .. it's your choice - you can believe what you want. But .. remember this .. GOD Almighty - THE CREATOR of all things - is way smarter than "man's limited understanding".