15 billion years or 6 days?

[wingrider]

The billions of years that the cosmologists say have followed the big bang and those events of the first six days of Genesis are in fact one and the same. They are identical realities that have been described in vastly different terms.
God's day wasn't made up of 24 hours. The Bible never once says that a day consisted of 24 hours. In fact the sun and the moon, which would have been required to make up a 24 hour day, were not completely formed and visible from the earth until the 4th day of creation. So God looked upon each day as a work day, and that his work day would only be finished when a certain task or job was completed. So each of God's days consisted of an epoch, a flow from disorder towards increasing order in the creation of the universe. In Genesis, at the end of each day God says there is an evening and a morning. In Hebrew the definitions for evening and morning are:

• EVENING MEANS DISORDER
• MORNING MEANS ORDER

"And there was evening and there was morning" is telling us that in each "daily" episode, at a specific location within the universe, order was imposed by God on the disorder that existed there.



http://robertwells.tripod.com/creation.html

fascinating study, I found it informative and a really cool concept... quite long but well worth the read

[JohnAdams]

The billions of years that the cosmologists say have followed the big bang and those events of the first six days of Genesis are in fact one and the same. They are identical realities that have been described in vastly different terms.
God's day wasn't made up of 24 hours. The Bible never once says that a day consisted of 24 hours. In fact the sun and the moon, which would have been required to make up a 24 hour day, were not completely formed and visible from the earth until the 4th day of creation. So God looked upon each day as a work day, and that his work day would only be finished when a certain task or job was completed. So each of God's days consisted of an epoch, a flow from disorder towards increasing order in the creation of the universe. In Genesis, at the end of each day God says there is an evening and a morning. In Hebrew the definitions for evening and morning are:

• EVENING MEANS DISORDER
• MORNING MEANS ORDER

"And there was evening and there was morning" is telling us that in each "daily" episode, at a specific location within the universe, order was imposed by God on the disorder that existed there.



http://robertwells.tripod.com/creation.html

fascinating study, I found it informative and a really cool concept... quite long but well worth the read

Um I guess all one can really say is AMEN!

We are whether liberales like it or not, created beings. Endowed by our Creator with certain rights. Which stem from that Creator, not government. Oh and no that creator was not E.T. either but rather our God.

Thanks for posting this. Wing in a day and age wherein such a belief in a creator is constantly under attack it is quite refreshing to see the truth being put forward so boldly.

Fwiw as a person who does believe science can further mankinds knowledge of the Universe around him. I have long said there was a big bang. And God moved upon the darkness and said, "let there be light" and bang, there was light, and God saw the light and that it was good".

[Calypso Jones]

well. that's possible but I also think that 'in the beginning God created heaven and earth....when was the beginning...15 million or more years ago...and it sat and it sat until He decided to get on with it.

[Chris]

Except Big Bang was not the beginning of the universe.

[wingrider]

well. that's possible but I also think that 'in the beginning God created heaven and earth....when was the beginning...15 million or more years ago...and it sat and it sat until He decided to get on with it.

I suggest you read the link.. it really is an impressive analogy.

[Calypso Jones]

I did. It is. Especially the image/likeness part.

[JohnAdams]

well. that's possible but I also think that 'in the beginning God created heaven and earth....when was the beginning...15 million or more years ago...and it sat and it sat until He decided to get on with it.

No about fourteen to fifteen billion years back was the "beginning"

[JohnAdams]

Except Big Bang was not the beginning of the universe.

Yes it was, before that there was only darkness, until God began what we as human beings reside in and know as the universe.

"1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."

[JohnAdams]

Oh There are however parts of the heavens which did exist outside of, and beyond, what we would call the "universe". But I wont go into that, as that gets into quantum physics and the multiverse, and "brane" theory as what we know as the universe sits on a membrane every now and then colliding with another "membrane" which most laypeople I find can't grasp.

[Trinnity]

I do. I watch the science shows...love 'em.

I don't worry about these things. I figure God created everything and so physics is just part of his "tool box".

And I do recall something in the Bible about "a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day".