Dont get me wrong, I am a believer.
I believe that G-d created all things. I also believe that some parts of the scriptures are symbolic. Days per example.
Our perception of space time lays within this universe of 3d space and unidirectional time.
Time is movement of space, the universe's expansion!
Our universe has been expanding for over 11 billion years.
Time as we know it is interpreted by this simple equation: t=1/f
I have seen those sites that claim the universe and the earth is very young, I do not believe these claims.
Dilation of time only occurs around very massive objects, like black holes. The reason is that such massive objects curves the space time continuum in such a way time slows down around the object.
There was NO dilation of time around the earth, if there would have been, there would be no life, the earth would be to massive.
Why are you trying to help G-d? He does not need your help. He reings already!
2006-10-16 06:47:42 · 7 answers · asked by Yahoo! 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To John Winston and to the Question man
I ommit the o and use - not to take his name in vain.
2006-10-16 07:44:32 · update #1
To Historybu...
There was one night and there was one morning does not mean a 24h period.
It has to do with aknowleging that there was darkness before light.
In the hebrew tradition the new day starts at sundown.
2006-10-16 07:49:20 · update #2
This question is confusing, sorry
2006-10-16 06:50:28 · answer #1 · answered by momie_2bee 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When we read the Bible, we are to take it literally and figuratively. There is not one flaw in the Bible,the flaw is our interpretation sometimes.
In Genesis 1, it is pretty clear that term day means 24 hour period, for example, "and there was evening, and there was morning, the first day." The word day as a 24 hour period is not contested anywhere else in the Bible! Have you ever considered that the march around Jericho took 7000 years? No, no one would make that assumption. So why do you contest the word day in Genesis 1? Because you are trying to fit evolution into God's Word, which doesn't work.
With all the evenings and mornings in Genesis 1, one would have to be reading pretty fast to miss the connotation of Day as day. Day as 24 hour period.
Evolution wasn't thought up until the middle 1800's. No one contested Genesis 1 until after he came up with natural selection.
Romans 12:2 " Do not be conformed to the patterns of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind"
2006-10-16 07:13:09 · answer #2 · answered by historybuff2009 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know how old the universe is, but I agree that 6 literal days seems silly, for the reason that it says elsewhere in the Bible that a day is as a thousand years to God.
2006-10-16 06:52:04 · answer #3 · answered by Iamnotarobot (former believer) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, when God created the universe by simply speaking it into existence, you don't belive God is capable of creating things already spread out, and already showing signs of age in order to confound the foolish?
By the way, leaving the 'o' out of God is foolish, since you can't pronounce it without that 'o' anyway.
2006-10-16 06:56:03 · answer #4 · answered by The Question Man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all Sister..Your line of reasoning is flawed.The "days" that you are referring to are in one verse and it is in no way talking about creation.And I feel that this is a trick question because you didn't fully spell God...God bless.
2006-10-16 06:51:46 · answer #5 · answered by John G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are we trying to help G-d or are we trying to find him in this vastness of eternity.
2006-10-16 06:51:08 · answer #6 · answered by kickinupfunf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thanks for the question have you looked at the answeres in Genesis web site have a good look there rather than me prattle on
regrds
2006-10-16 06:51:26 · answer #7 · answered by proscunio 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋