“...a day is to the Lord as 1,000 years...”
Six earth days, or 6,000 earth years doesn’t make much difference to me. Time is for us, not for God. God is in an eternity that confounds our natural minds, though we give lip service to “eternity”.
The reason it does make a difference, to me, is that some don't believe in God because they see contradictions or things they don't understand so they consider them lies, myths, etc. about God's Word. If it could be explained to them, shown to be truth then perhaps they would reconsider. Other than that, I agree in that it makes no difference.
I believe there was a creation before Adam, before the present creation that we are a part of - I think that this earlier creation was wiped out when Lucifer was thrown out of heaven, destroyed by a flood, perhaps eons before the present creation.....Unexplainable fossil evidence can be explained if we accept that there was an earlier creation. Lucifer, before his fall, was given dominion over the earth. For him to have dominion, I believe there had to be a creation that was subject to Lucifer - he was not given dominion over a sphere floating in space with nothing here.
I agree. The Bible tells us that there was a creation before our present age and Lucifer did have dominion over the earth. He fell and God overthrew that earth age - water covered the earth (this was not Noah's flood). Our present age began when, "....And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters"(Gen.1:2)
The problem is that our churches don't teach this so most simply don't understand and when faced with science showing fossils, etc. that prove the earth is older than what they believe the Bible says is the age of the earth, they dismiss all of it. That said, I must also say, I do not believe in evolution. Man is as God made him.