God? Faith?

[OnyxCougar]

Originally Posted by lookout123

OC - i'm not saying that it definitely wasn't 6 literal, 24 hour days as we have them now. i am saying that it may have been otherwise. God's time frame, may not be ours. it has only been within recent centuries that we've even had a 12 month calendar. time was marked differently then. for instance - someone in the old testament lived 800 years. 800 years in a 10 month system vs a 12 month system is pretty significant, somewhere around 133 years in our current system of counting.

But God DID give us a timeframe:

"And the evening and the morning were the first DAY."

This says nothing about the months, I'm just talking about days...creation days. He gave us a reference then used that reference to tell us how he did it.


edit: If he did take millions of years, why wouldn't he just tell us he took millions of years?? Or say the word "age" or "period of time"? No, he told us how long a day was, and then told us how many days it took and what he created on which day. I have to believe he's not lying to us.

anyway - i'm not going to argue this, you are free to believe what you want. if it matters to you then by all means, go ahead. it isn't a sticking point for me. i don't are if it was one 24 hour day or one 24000 hour day. i'm thinking that if God can create something from nothing, then time isn't really that big of an issue for Him.

No, I don't think it's big issue for him...and it's not an issue for me, but the whole argument is an issue for me, for the reasons I've stated.

nowhere in the Bible have i seen a verse that says "and God created all the birds and the fish, etc within 2 rotations of the hands on his timex"

see above....

i guess what i was trying to get at is that you can't convince someone to have faith - you can only display yours and let them question and decide for themselves. i think too often we get wrapped up in trying to prove things that... anyway - do what works for you.

I agree. I can't give my faith to anyone. All I can do is say something or argue a point and hope that maybe it will cause them to think about that for a second, and maybe look a little deeper into it for themselves. Most of the time that doesn't happen, but what if, just one time, it did?