2 Peter 3:8 say “a day is like a thousand …

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2 Peter 3:8 say “a day is like a thousand years”

There are many other references regarding how God perceives time and how it differes from ours. He was before time.

Maybe just maybe the story of creation as we know it is a dumbed down version of what actually happened so our feably little brains could understand it.

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BobRyan: The text chopped in half – would promote your view – but the text as it reads would not.

Anyone that took the time and exercised the computer mouse to the point of actually hovering over the text you quote – saw that it “really said” this

#1. A 7 thousand year period where all complex life on earth from grass to humans suddenly appears is the same thing to an evolutionist as a literal 7 day week. It solves nothing!

#2. The text actually statest the equation frontwards AND backwards – showing that this is not a rule for interpreting historic “accounts” nor even for interpreting prophetic timelines.

hint: Christ is not ‘still in the grave’ waiting for his “3 days and 3 nights to expire’.

Trying to bend 2Peter 3 into a solution for marrying the Bible evolutionism is only grasping at straws and cannot be taken seriously.

in Christ,

Bob

1. My point was not to imply that the specific text explained the begining of time but to explain that God views time differently than you or I.

2. How do you explain the things you can’t explain, and no one here has been able to yet or even tried to…. dinosaurs.

3. I’m sure your faith is the strongest of all of us. And in the eyes of you and the people like you I am a total “bad-ventist” despite growing up in the church and going to grade school, high school, college, and graduate school in the SDA system. I question everything. I want answers to all the questions I have. Does it make me less of a believer in God and his awesome power?

Let’s just say hypothetically every “day” in creation in 100,000 years. And during that time God manipulates things to the way he wants them. And allows things to grow and grow in the wild. Do you think that changes how he loves you or that he sent his son to save you. Will accepting his grace not count as much? Will heaven be any less spectacular.

Does it change anything?


My Goal for La Sierra University
Science and Faith

The faith and belief that God created the world in six “literal” days is the fundamental teaching of the SDA church. Science has time and again put this belief under considerable pressure. This debate has raged on for centuries and will not be settled on this site nor at LSU.

Personally I believe that the goal of our education system should be to promote SDA values and beliefs. However, we should teach ALL theories of the origins of life not just ones that make us comfortable. To be ignorant about the fossil record, the theory of evolution, or any other scientific data is absurd.

I personally have many unanswered questions about the origins of life. Such as; why are there no human fossils with the dinosaurs? Where did the dinosaurs come from? If God created them then why were there none on the ark with Noah. (that would have been a huge ark to carry two brontosaurus.). These and several other questions will likely go unanswered until we get to heaven. Until then I will continue to eat my “Big Franks” and wonder about dinosaurs.