Posted on 10/23/2007 3:07:36 PM PDT by balch3
How old is the world?
Most people would say: "Nobody knows."
But the author of the book frequently described as the greatest history book ever written, said the world was created Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. – making it exactly 6,010 today.
In the 1650s, an Anglican bishop named James Ussher published his "Annals of the World," subtitled, "The Origin of Time, and Continued to the Beginning of the Emperor Vespasian's Reign and the Total Destruction and Abolition of the Temple and Commonwealth of the Jews." First published in Latin, it consisted of more than 1,600 pages.
The book, now published in English for the first time, is a favorite of homeschoolers and those who take ancient history seriously. It's the history of the world from the Garden of Eden to the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70.
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Of course, there will be those who disagree with Ussher's calculations of time – especially evolutionists who need billions of years to explain their theory of
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I agree that God is not bound by time, but I do not think we can hold God to 1000 yrs=1day. It’s true as you say, to God time is meaningless. I will still hold that they are not a literal 1000 yrs, while I do hold the precepts, doctrine , and history of the Bible as being literally true, I believe that those that wrote it under God’s direction utilized common literary devices, such as hyperbole and metaphors to illustrate their points.
Hundreds of Billions of years. ~ Grunthor
Quite a trick, considering the universe is only 13 billion or so years old...
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You’re exactly right. The entire universe IS a parable. We can learn a lot about God, and about ourselves from it. We deal with the consequences of our actions every time we bury someone we love. Someone once said that the only man made things in Heaven are Jesus’ scars.
Time also slows to a singularity. An Earth day at the speed of light can seem like eternity.
1000 yrs to 1 day would only be 70,000 years - which of course, is way to young for the 4.6 billion year old planet.
It was every bit as relevant an answer as if I’d said 6,000 years.
Exodus 19:3-5
3And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
4Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
And Isaiah 40:31
31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Taken literally the first passage suggested that God has eagles wings, and the second suggests that if we wait on God we will. The first actually illustrates God bringing us to himself, the second illustrates that God will give strength to those that put their trust in him.
Unless the planet is not 4.6 billion years old, as we have been led to believe.
what I’m saying is that when the universe was pushed into our universe, and according to the Bible, once upon a time, our “universe” consisted of the earth only. And at first it was covered in liquid water on day one which would have meant that the temperature was quite pleasant. I would bet my life that in the reference frame God was using to measure time, the creation event, the unfolding of space and the setting up of the universe (which reminds me of when we unzip a piece of software, or when a single cell divides into what it was programmed to become (and after all Jesus is called the “author” of life), I would bet my life that His stopwatch measure 7 24-hour periods. That much is certain. God exists outside of space and time. Good luck trying to have a conversation with Him about time.
Jesus told the jews that Abraham loved Him. And so the jews said, sure, you’re not yet 50 years old, and Abraham had been dead for hundreds of years. Sure, you met him, they sneered. So Jesus said, before Abraham was, I am. SO He literally meant that He, Jesus, was standing speakign to those jews, but He was also standing hundreds of years before in a different time period. There is only one being that can exist in multiple time frames, and that is God, which is why the jews picked up stones to kill Him. Leviticus teaches that if a man claimed to be God, you had to stone Him. They understood about relativity in those days, to an extent.
I didn’t get it until I read your later posts...
I am sorry to hear that. Even though I do not understand why some things are the way they are, I still will never put my faith on the cornerstone of men’s knowledge.
If all distances shrink to zero, then why does it take different, measureable amounts of time for light from the Sun to reach each planet in our Solar System?
I forgot to add this part. When taken in context that verse means nothing what intelligent design people want it to. Simply put, Peter is calling for patience. We humans have no patience and our timetables and desires are not the same as Gods. Please read:
2 Peter 3
The Day of the Lord
1Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. 2I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
3First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
8But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
What I don’t understand is professing Christians who still hold to evolution, and an old earth, when the Bible clearly states that there was no death before Adam sinned. They pick and choose the parts of scripture they wish to believe, and just so they won’t have to defend their faith (if they have any at all), or to be accepted by their worldly friends, they compromise with a lie that denies the Word of God.
Have you been to other planets? Have you measured the time it takes light to go from the sun to those planets?
... crickets ...
I didn't think so.
As far as we can tell, the stars are moving away from each other at top speed. If they were chained together, they aren’t anymore.
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