Where does is say one thousand years is one day to God? is this just another christian myth?

Answer 1

It's just one more way of interpreting the bible. The bible has been chopped up in so many ways the truth and usefullness gets lost.

It also says that we shouldn't eat shellfish. (Leviticus)

Answer 2

2 Peter 3:8, but it does not say a thousand years is one day for God, it says a thousand years is like one day to God. This is supposedly to show the supreme omnipitance (spelling?)of God. In a language of Christians, God's time is not our time.

Answer 3

Its in there in ...
Psalm 90 verse 4

"For you, a thousand years are like a passing day, as brief as a few night hours"

and also in
Peter 3 v 8
"A day is like a thousand years to the Lord and a thousand years like a day"

This is saying how God is not limited to the principles and confines of time, he is compleatly unrestricted by it.

Here is a cool illistration for your mind to conceive the eternal viewpoint that God has...

Imagine a painting...A painting is limited by the canvas it is painted on. Right,, but the painter is not limited to the two dimensional restrictions of the canvas, because he is not on the canvas at all!, although we can agree that he is present to all parts of the painting simultaneously, from the begginnig to the end, he sees it all as one big picture!

God is eternal, and time is no boundary to him at all. 50 years to us oor a whole lifetime when your born to when you die, is like a passing "vapour", a "mist" to God,

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Answer 4

This shows us that God is not bound by time as we are, because God is a spirit, therefore time has no meaning. God has always been and has no beginning or end. On the other hand, we are bound by time and do have a beginning and an end, thus we cannot understand the concept of a world without time.

Answer 5

A copy from hindu texts Manu Smruti or Manu samhita where a detailed time calculation is given for that of man and god ,but not taken in full from the original.

Answer 6

Psalm 90. 4 “For a thousand years in thy [God's] sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night

2 Peter 3. 8 “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

1000 human years, once they have passed, correspond to one day in God's time, AND vice versa, i.e. each single human day of that period corresponds to 1000 years in God's time. That means, God's experience of time is the opposite of man's: a long time (1000 years) is a short time (one day), and a short time (one day) is a long time (1000 years). Isaiah 55. 8: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.” The days of Creation in Genesis 1 are God's days, because no human being existed at that time. That means each day of Creation lasted 1000 human years. Furthermore, God experienced each and every day of each 1000 year-period as 1000 human years and did 1000 years-worth of creative work in it. In the original Biblical calendar there were 360 days in a year. So each of the 360 days in each year of the 1000 years, lasted 1000 years. The total number of years in one Creation day was therefore 360 × 1000 × 1000 = 360,000,000 years. This period is the time it takes for the outer edge of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, to complete one full revolution. God's Creation day is equivalent to a Galactic day.

Answer 7

I think it means that since God is eternal (He has always existed and will always exist)and since He is so patient, that a thousand years seem like just a day to him. I mean He's been around trillions of years, so I thousand years seem just like a day for Him.

Answer 8

it's in the Bible... 2 Peter 3:8

Answer 9

It's just another way to skip around what Genesis actually says regarding the creation of the earth, or the return of Jesus. If you don't fall for the specifics, maybe you'll fall for the vaguaries.

Answer 10

Jesus himself said it. Read your Bible, stupid. Or read someone's. You probably don't own one.