[Conservative til I die]

Of course, even that thousand years can be considered largely symbolic, much like when Christ talked about forgiving your friend seven times seventy times (of course, he is not saying we must forgive our friend exactly 490 times), in that numbers like 7, 12, 70, 1000 signify certain things.

See also my post #38.

[Quila]

Of course, even that thousand years can be considered largely symbolic, much

Unfortunately, we're often dealing with Biblical inerrantists and literalists who say if the Bible says seven days, then it meant seven 24-hour days just as we experience them now. Take Kent Hovind for example. There can be no reconciling with these people because the world is young and it got wiped out in a flood (and somebody forgot to tell the Chinese and Egyptians about it).