How exactly did you reach this conclusion? What are you basing this on? The verse in 2 Peter (which is really just piggybacking on scripture from Psalm 90:4) is not a literal declaration of how God experiences time, it is only an analogy. Nothing in that analogy ties back to the creation account in Genesis.
Well that is certainly an "interesting" take on creation. It's clear that you don't believe that the creation accounts are literal, and that's fine. But I honestly think that your interpretation requires a lot of "stretching" of the word in order to make it fit. Furthermore, there is no reason for me to believe that it was intended to have a "hidden" meaning. I don't believe that God wanted to hide his message in scripture. I think he meant for us to know what actually happened when he created the heavens and the earth.
Yes, I agree with that.
I see ZERO scriptural evidence to support this view. This 6000 years number simply does not exist in the bible because that's not what the expression "a day to the Lord is as a thousand years" means. That passage is an analogy, not an equation. Your reasoning does not follow. Beyond that, we know beyond the shadow of a doubt that the Earth and the Universe is much, much older than 6,000 years. Forget, evolutionary biology, geological strata, radiometric dating, astronomical measurements, and the plethora of other scientific evidence that proves how old the Earth actually is, the simple fact that we have archaeological evidence of numerous human civilizations that go back 20,000 years alone proves that the Earth is older than 6,000 years old.
Hi captainbryce,
In genesis 1, it says God created the World in 6 Days. If we take these statements literal 'day' as in 24 hours, then the Bible would be wrong according to scientific evidence.
For according to the Big Bang theory, this would not be the case. Since these different planets, stars, suns, moons were expending gradually.
If we say, this 'Day' or 'Night' are not 24 hours, but are periods, that would contradict with genesis, for in genesis it is written 1:5
"And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."
Meaning genesis is defining the term 'Day' in relationship with 'Light, and 'Night' in relationship with 'darkness'.
so, I think to be fair neither idea works.
But what I was talking about and I feel I need to expand on it, is that, the fact is Bible describes its accounts starting from the days of Adam, and not before Adam.
In this sense, the world that existed before Adam was considered Old World, in comparison to the World that started with Adam. For those who lived before Adam were very primitive, and this is a fact well established by scientific evidences.
Therefore Bible does not talk about the details of the old world, and simply states that: "In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth."
Therefore according to this terminology that the Days of Adam, represents start of a new world, which started after the End days of the older world, likewise, the World that started with the Days of Adam, would have an 'End'. The Scripture refers to this as 'the Last Days', or the End of World.
The Meaning is again, End of the World that had started with Adam, and start of a New World, that was to appear at the End times. Biblical prophecies has stated that, when the End time comes, He will make everything 'New":
"Behold, I am making all things new." Rev. 21:5
This is a Prophecy of the coming of a New World after the World that started with Adam was to End.
Having said all these, the fact is, starting from the end of 19th century, the World has indeed become a new world, in comparison with the world before it.
A new era started in terms of the ways of life, communications, travelling, technology, even languages that we speak that is like a totally new world.
The end of 19th century is 6000 years after days of Adam.
So, in this sense, each day of the six days as the Bible stated is 1000 years, corresponds to 6000 years. so, for example in Day 5 it refers to creation of the beasts. In many instances the Bible refers to people as beasts. So, in this sense the people of the past as a general in comparison with people of our new time, were as primitive as beasts. On the six day, 'human' is finally created, meaning that finally after 6000 years of successive revelations, that beast would start to be advanced and mature enough to be called human. This was done though guidance from God that trained mankind, and each Day of genesis symbolically represents guidance of God with terms such as 'light', 'water', 'tree with fruit'. None of these terms are any stretch, for you can find exact same words and terminologies in Bible with symbolic meanings that corresponds with the guidance and word of God.
So, Genesis 1, can be thought of as an overview of all the Revelations and historical accounts that are described in Hebrew Scriptures and new testament. Much like a Book that gives a Summary of all its chapters in the first chapter as an introduction.
And I can show at least 2 other ways from Bible to calculate that the time of the End corresponds to the end of 19th century.