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if you see over 2000 years as shortly, then your perception of time is warped

sort of reminds me of a frank an earnest cartoon. the two are talking to god:

frank: "is it true that a second to you is like a million years?"
god: "yes"
earnest: "is it true that to you a penny is like a million dollars?"
god: "yes again"
frank: "can you give us a penny?"
god: "of course. just a second"

if you believe that the bible is the divine word of god, you must realize that the wisdom inside is from god, and that statemets are often times from his perspective.

Hi again, mlocher.
I hope things are well with you.
For the purpose of discussion, I'll quote you:
"if you believe that the bible is the divine word of god, you must realize that the wisdom inside is from god, and that statements are often times from his perspective."
I believe you are pretty well on target concerning perspectives. Here's why I agree.
There once was a cosmologist who argued that God could not have possibly created light before creating the stars and heavenly bodies, but if the perspective is taken from the earth's POV, this is exactly as early earth would have viewed creation. Light would have been "created" or emmitted from heavenly bodies ages before being "created" (or seen) as would be understood from an earth's viewpoint. After all, only the point of view is relevant.
Also, the term day as used in scriptures define a period of time or an age, not just a twenty-four hour period. In Genesis Ch2 V4 "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,...", the use of both "generations" and "day" is clear proof of this fact, as well as is God's pronouncement of the consequences of sin prior to Adam taking of the forbidden fruit (God told Adam that in the day that man ate of the fruit, he would surely die - but we know death was not immediate, so a span of time must be implied by the reference to day as it is used in God's statement).
Man has always claimed to unravel the mysteries of the Bible without applying the faith in believing God is exactly who He claims to be - the Supreme Creator. Some claim that man could not have come from single cells, but the scriptures say God formed man from the "dust of the earth". I'm not sure, but in the Patriarch Moses' "day", they had no understanding nor differentiation of single cells and "dust of the earth".
So, as the saying goes: "Perception is everything." How we percieve scriptural accounts have to be measured with a conscious view of the writer's lifetime and knowledge....
Just my 2 cents...
Az
Take care, God bless...