1 year is 1000 years?

Question

I understand the thinking behind this. I understand it says this type of thing in the Bible.(though I am not sure where) I also understand that this 1=1000 is used to explain Genesis and why the Earth is millions of years old and the Bible only goes back 10,000 years at the most. The 6 days it took to creat the earth and it inhabitants, according to Christians, cant be taken as literal "days". Then explain this to me.
Genesis 1:3 Then God said, "Let there be light" and there was light
Gensis 1:4 Andd God sawe that it was good. Then he seperated the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5 God called the light "day" and the darkness "night" Together these made up one day.
That explains the concept of one day. Not 1000 years. But I will continue with more.
Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Gen 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.

Gen 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

This sets specific times for day and night and years and seasons. Very specific.
How do you get 1000 years is one day?

When it gets brightouside and then dark again, that is one day. It says it very plainly. How can you interpret this any differently?

Opps I forgot Gen 1:18, here it is
Gen 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.

Where does it say this though, is what I am asking. Where does it say that the "days" of genesis were 1000 years long? This says, basically, whenits light and then gets dark, thats one day. How can you interpret that when there is nothing that says "OH btw, these days arent actual days"

That verse from Peter is taken out of context. That says being with God for 1 day is like 1000 years and being with the lord for 1000 years is like 1 day

Isoled: It is also known that the term 40 days means an unspecified period of time. So does that mean that it rained for 40,000 years? Does that mean that Jesus walked in the desert for 40,000 years?

Answer 1

One DAY is as a thousand years. The days in Genesis were unspecified periods of time that are called 'days'.

Answer 2

The verse you cited says, "One day with the Lord is AS a thousand years".( 2 Peter 3:8) "As a thousand years" or like a thousand years, meaning the Lord can do more in a day than people can do in a thousand years!

You one day IS a thousand years" This is not what this verse said.

Now, the days of creation.

Genesus says an evening and morning was a "day". The Hebrew word translated as "day" always means a day when used in conjunction with a number in non-prophetic scripture, as in Genesis 1.
It is clear in Exodous 20 that God meant days when he said remember the Sabbath day that the world was created in 6 days and on the 7th He rested. They understood the sabbath came once every 7 days.
If this was millions of years, then consider this, God made the plants on day 3. He placed the sun and moon on day 4. How did these plants survive millions of years without the sun.
Also, some plants require inscets or other animals to carry on reproduction. Inscets and animals were not created until days 5 and 6. How did these plants survive millions of years without these animals?

Also Genesis 1:14 talks about "days", "seasons", and "years". If a day was millions of years, then what was a season or a year? What was an "evening and morning"?
I believe God is strong enough to do it exactly the way (time period) His word says it happened.

Answer 3

Relax...
The 2 Peter text says a 1000 years AS a day, not IS a day.
Yes, darkness followed by light is one day. (Use this same concept at Christ death, and it works; even if one realizes that Christ was dead only about 39 hours (assuming sunrise 6:00 AM, sunset 6:00 PM).
One may also noticed light existed before creation of the sun and stars on the 4th day. Simple answer; Jesus was the light of the world. Jesus existed during creation, John 1.

Answer 4

My sunday school teacher (who was very wise, I might add, he's awesome) addressed the verse "one day is as to the lord 1000 years" by saying something to the effect of this:

Time is God's invention, so He can see all of it at once if that makes sense. Although Christ was crucified 2000 years ago, it's as if he was crucified 2 days ago...that's how fresh it is in God's "mind"....or something like that. I can't explain it as well as he did, but it makes sense.

1 day x 6 days x 1000 years per day = 6000 years...still nowhere near 13.6 billion years or whatever the number it is that they go by. It just doesn't make sense to me why God would decide to use a different time scale for this part of the Bible than he did in a different part of the Bible, know what I mean? I believe in a literal 6-day creation, because that's what makes sense to me.

Answer 5

For a complete decoding of all of those data and formula, check the Torah Code listed below. According to the latest Torah Code, which I wholehearttedly agree with, Moses chronicled the first books according to the male siblings. Since the Torah covered the Stellar mythos, the lunar mythos and the Solar Mythos, the only conceivable yardstick for computing all those differernt time periods is by generations of years by clans. www.trafford.com/04-2126.
The world's largest bookstore even affords you an opportunity to peek online.
I must say that the early Muslim translations of the Bible were able to arrive at similar conclusions. Unfortunately, they are so hard to get these days. If you can get a Fuegel edition of the Holy Koran their mathematics are similar.

Boaz.

Answer 6

The Earth could have been created in 6 days if you allow for the Gap theory of Genisis. It states that there is a time gap between Genisis 1:1 and Genisis 1:2. The length of time between those two verses can not be determined and allows for an old earth but shapes the earth as we know it in 6 days.

Answer 7

The creation of light, and day and night was most likely created by the removal of deep gasses in the atmosphere, which was a gradual project. and when it was finished, the final product, was a night and day cycle from the sun and moon (day and night). It's not that complicated.

And one day doesn't necessarily have to be a thousand years. it could be a any given amount of time. it's only figurative.
2 peter shows how one day could mean a larger amount of time to god than to us, and how the figurative days in Genesis could refer to anything. for their are many other examples in the bible of how figurative periods of time are actually longer, given by bible chronology and prophesies.

Answer 8

The same light (the Sun) rules day and night. At night, the light we see is sunlight being reflected off of the Moon. The Moon creates no light on its own.

Answer 9

It's a grasping concept used by fundamentalist to gently bend the Bible to fit any disprepencies that may arise. It's the same with the intelligent design nonsense.

Answer 10

The point of the verse is that God's time scale is vastly different from ours.

Actually, as time is a creation of God, God is beyond time and thus views it as a constant rather than a vector.