Do you think God made our frame of time, and our frame of time does not apply to him. In Genesis it says in the third day God made days, months, seasons, and years. If you think about it how could years go by in one day. The only way I can think about it is that God's frame of time is different to ours like thousands of years is a long time to us, but to God It's just one moment him of his time. Could the Bible be discribing what God was doing in his fram of time in Genesis.
2006-07-28 05:27:51 · 13 answers · asked by Dragonpack 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Right..The Bible says 1,000 years to us, is a DAY to him. Also, his creation days appears to probably be 7,000 years long, because He rested on the 7 th day, which is still continuing up to about approximately 6,000 years now, and has the 1,000 year reign of Christ to add to it which makes 7,000 years for the 7th creative day.
Hebrews 4:1-11, 2Peter 3:8.
2006-07-28 06:01:56 · answer #1 · answered by tina 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Actually, on the 3rd day, God made the sun and moon to MARK the seasons, days, months, etc. It ends by saying, "And the evening and the morning were the third day." Does "evening and morning" sound like something other than a 24-hour period?
And no, God is not relevant for today. God was simply primitive man's way of explaining what they could not understand. Now we do understand that everything in the world has a natural, explainable reason, from how a seed turns into a tree to how the galaxies form. The more we learn about nature and the universe, the less need there is to rely on invisible entities.
2006-07-28 05:39:35 · answer #2 · answered by Antique Silver Buttons 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think any gods made anything, so who knows what time frame any would have? If one knew he was immortal, he might lie in his bed forever doing nothing at all. The pair of creation myths that begin Genesis are primitive tales told by naive shepherds. Science has shown us that they are incorrect. Someone said we need religion, because science can never give us answers to everything. Well, religion doesn't either. It gives only pretenses of answers that hold back the advancement of knowledge. Admission of not knowing is better than believing you know when you don't. Lao Tzu said that the value of a cup is in its emptiness. Empty your mind of wrong ideas, and then, you can fill it with correct ones.
2006-07-28 05:42:55 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow this is a really insightful question. I suppose that, according to the bible, that could be true. It could also be that time did not exist the same way then as it does now (or God has a bad sense of time -- pick one!) so year may have indeed gone by in days - or what God percieved as days, etc. Great question...
2006-07-28 05:30:41 · answer #4 · answered by Phoenix's Mommy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"A day is like a thousand years to God!" Time does not really exist as we know and tell time so your question is irrelevant. A fiction time machine is the best way to explain it. Basically, everything is happening at once, God knows the beginning and the end. Man's mind can not really comprehend how time really operates.
2006-07-28 05:38:02 · answer #5 · answered by ruthie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is relevant, because everyone needs something to believe in, and there is very little in this world with all its corruption that we can believe in.
What isn't relevant is most of the Bible. Times change, people change, and there needs to be a more relevant teaching tool. There are so many parts of the Bible that are totally irrelevant to this day and time.
2006-07-28 05:33:04 · answer #6 · answered by Z Z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're talking about God's time vs. our time.
God is in eternity, where time and space to not exist. We live in the physical realm, where we are contrained by time and space. The stories in Genesis I think are a way of trying to help us understand that.
2006-07-28 05:33:10 · answer #7 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disagree...God (if there is one) is still relevant and will always be relevant because humanity will never progress to the point where it's Science can answer all questions. So the answers to the unanswerable questions will be attributed to God. PEACE!
2006-07-28 05:30:50 · answer #8 · answered by thebigm57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is an aspect of the universe, as proven by relativity. To say god has time is to imply the existence of the universe before he created it.
2006-07-28 05:32:03 · answer #9 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't regard the Creation story as having any basis in fact; therefore, it's not of interest to me what God's concept of a "day" is in relation to ours.
2006-07-28 05:31:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋