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‘But 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. The 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.
Originally posted by thesmokingman
reply to post by EnochWasRight
Actually it goes like this:
‘But 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. The 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.
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(Psalm 90:4) . . .For a thousand years are in your eyes but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch during the night.
Originally posted by thesmokingman
reply to post by EnochWasRight
Actually it goes like this:
‘But 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. The 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.
creation.com...
Originally posted by Sparky63
Originally posted by thesmokingman
reply to post by EnochWasRight
Actually it goes like this:
‘But 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. The 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.
creation.com...
Another interesting scripture regarding God's time scale is:
(Psalm 90:4) . . .For a thousand years are in your eyes but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch during the night.
A watch in the night is 4 hours. So 1000 years is likened to just a few hours in God's eyes. Time therefore is indeed relative.
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Originally posted by Sparky63
Originally posted by thesmokingman
reply to post by EnochWasRight
Actually it goes like this:
‘But 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. The 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.
creation.com...
Another interesting scripture regarding God's time scale is:
(Psalm 90:4) . . .For a thousand years are in your eyes but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch during the night.
A watch in the night is 4 hours. So 1000 years is likened to just a few hours in God's eyes. Time therefore is indeed relative.
Don't forget the Epistle of Barnabas:
Epistle of Barnabas 15:3
"Of the Sabbath He speaketh in the beginning of the creation; And God made the works of His hands in six days, and He ended on the seventh day, and rested on it, and He hallowed it.
Epistle of Barnabas 15:4
Give heed, children, what this meaneth; He ended in six days. He meaneth this, that in six thousand years the Lord shall bring all things to an end; for the day with Him signifyeth a thousand years; and this He himself beareth me witness, saying; Behold, the day of the Lord shall be as a thousand years. Therefore, children, in six days, that is in six thousand years, everything shall come to an end."
To see this clearly, let’s put the information into context with the entire story of the Bible:
-Adam to Abraham 2000 Years of Age 1 (FATHER)
-Abraham to Jesus 2000 Years of Age 2 (SON)
-Jesus to Today 2000 Years of Age 3 (HOLY SPIRIT)
-Day of Rest (Day of the Lord) 1000 years (SALVATION)
Originally posted by Planet teleX
A truly faithful person doesn't require science for validation.
Or organised religion.
Originally posted by jjkenobi
The video is interesting, however I am more inclined to believe a different theory. Ask yourself this, did God create Adam as a baby? If scientists saw Adam the day after he was created they would say he was (pick a number) 25 years old. But since he was created the previous day he would really only be one day old. I believe the same with the Earth. What if God didn't create the Earth as a "baby". Maybe the Earth was created as a fully formed aged world, just like Adam was. So scientists can test a rock and say it's a hundred million years old but it just appears that way because it was created as a "mature" rock. It's fun to speculate on these possibilities.
Originally posted by thesmokingman
reply to post by EnochWasRight
Actually it goes like this:
‘But 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. The 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.
creation.com...
The first thing to note that the context has nothing to do with the days of creation. Also, it is not defining a day because it doesn’t say ‘a day is a thousand years’. The correct understanding is derived from the context—the Apostle Peter’s readers should not lose heart because God seems slow at fulfilling His promises because He is patient, and also because He is not bound by time as we are.
The text says ‘one day is like [or as] a thousand years’—the word ‘like’ (or ‘as’) shows that it is a figure of speech, called a simile, to teach that God is outside of time (because He is the Creator of time itself). In fact, the figure of speech is so effective in its intended aim precisely because the day is literal and contrasts so vividly with 1000 years—to the eternal Creator of time, a short period of time and a long period of time may as well be the same.