Creationists: How do you interpret this passage?

Question

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.
2 Peter 3:8

Answer 1

In context that passage is talking about the Lord's return (verse 4 and onward) and that while it may seem to be awhile for us to see that day (thousands of years even) to God it is a relatively short time (a day). People often mistakenly try to use this verse to prove that there is a time span that allows for millions or billions of years of time for their evolutionary views to take place for creation . A clear reading of that passage applied literally would only allow someone to milk that time frame in relation to Genesis 1 to only 7 thousand years: one thousand years for each 6 days of creation plus 1 thousand for the day of rest, the 7th day. Note that the creation days in Genesis are ALWAYS in context of day and night or evening and morning which ALWAYS means a literal day. See also Exodus 20:8-11 and John 11:9-10 (note night and day mentioned).

Answer 2

This passage refers to the fact that for God time is irrelevent. There is a creation theory that the seven days (6 + 1 day of rest) are not literal days. From this the days mentioned in Genesis 1 could last much longer than one twenty four hour period or there may have been time in between the days. I believe that the seven days are literal in that God created the world in seven consecutive twenty four hour periods of time. Given that he is all powerfull and beyond time, He can do things that should take a much longer time in a short period of time.

Answer 3

Please. Creationists use faith/believing for their justification about the time table in the beginning.

Telling them that God created the heavens and the earth instantaneously will not make them believe something else.

Telling them that the word create is used only three time will not change their beliefs.

Telling them that the scientific method does not support their belief will not alter their position.

So why do you think quoting 2 Peter 3:8 would change anything.

God reveals and man observe.

Move on to another question; I have.

Answer 4

God exists outside of time, and so to Him a day is like a thousand years or athousand years like a single day. However this cannot be applied to the Creation story in Genesis because the word used for day in the Hebrew is yom, which is one period of time from the setting of the sun to the setting of the sun.

Answer 5

That shows that God transcends time: everything for him occurs at the same time, there is no difference between a day and a thousand years

Why would God say day in genesis if he meant a thousand years?

Why is the word 'day' not questioned on its meaning in any other place in the Bible?

Answer 6

In my Bible it says "the international is firmly everyday; it may't be shaken." additionally the reason people say its greater poetic is by using the fact its a Psalm of David. It greater then probably does recommend the earth can't be moved. You ever think of roughly it in those words although? have you ever truthfully study the commencing up of that financial ruin to its end for that rely? The earth can't be moved from its orbit. The earth can't be moved via any residing creature. it is not asserting that the would not pass itself yet that it may't be moved via the might or will of others. You ever learn the Bible and apologetics sufficient to comprehend the version between being poetic and whilst it fairly is making an attempt to be literal? Edit: (@ not something however the actual fact) Yeah, the area of th international does shake from earthquakes, yet did a human reason that earthquake? Did any residing creature reason it to fall out of orbit or a minimum of shake stressful sufficient to get it out of it particularly is alignment? No, the respond is not any. Did you study the 1st area of what I reported? I reported that the that verse would not say that the international would not pass itself yet that no-one has the might or will which could make it pass. you recognize, no one as in people? it would look your attempting to be meticulous with the wording to objective and meet Your purpose to make the Bible sound the way you like it to to be study. There are some factors of the Bible to take actually, some that are metaphors or perhaps others that are in simple terms poetic consisting of psalms. Edit: and yet which incorporate your contemporary remark you tutor your willingness if not forcefulness to be ignorant on your examining the scripture. you particularly desire that the Bible be unquestionably literal in all that it says. I additionally first reported that it grew to become right into a psalm from king David as he praises the Lord. subsequently he grew to become into additionally being poetic. it particularly is like whilst people nevertheless say the sunlight rises and sunlight gadgets. all of us comprehend the sunlight isn't the single moving everywhere and that's do to us moving that the sunlight seems to be going up and down, yet people on the instant nevertheless say that it rises in the east and gadgets in the west. might desire to we evaluate anybody who says that are fools or ignorant? No we'd desire to continuously not.

Answer 7

That God's been around so long that time doesn't matter to him and when they say he created everything in "7 days" not to take him literally because it could have been millions/billions of years before the earth was ready for humans.

Answer 8

That God does not treat time as we do. His 7 days could be 7 minutes or 7 billion years. The HOW or WHEN is not as important as the WHO or the WHY.

Answer 9

Well, ever since Christ has been crucified, we've been living in the day of our Lord, and that was about 2000 years ago.

Answer 10

That particular verse happens to be talking about Christ's second coming, not creation as told in Genesis. Here's another: "Nothing is impossible with God."