Why are Christians suddenly deciding that words like 'day' and 'image' have new meanings after 400 years of

Question

traditional interpretation?

"God the Universe in 7 days." But now we find that a day (or yom) is not necessarily 24 hours or there abouts.

"God man in his image" but here 'image' doesn't mean 'image', it means he man sort of kind of like himself.

Answer 1

Can you give examples?

I guess some are trying to fit evolution into creation to find common ground but I for one don't buy it. Having read the Bible thoroughly I would say that either God can do the things He claimed in the allocated time frame and specification or we should give the Bible away. Why should He be constricted to the laws of science if He made them? I have never had a problem with the miraculous, my big hang up was always the suffering issue and although I am a Christian it still bugs me. I am not that interested in finding common ground by appeasing anyone, I just want the truth and those two words to me mean exactly what they say.

Answer 2

It's a GOD day. It could literally be 6 Earth days.

In Star Trek the Genesis device created the whole matrix in less than a hour. Makes God look slow.

It takes about six days on the pad to launch a rocket. Scientists are slow and methodical.

Since God was around a long time before Man and Earth, he had considerable time to mull creation.

If you stop to think about it, 6 days doesn't make one sound terribly GOD like. Isn't a God supposed to do it all with a snap of their fingers.

I'm not being sacreligious, I'm making a point of logic. Taking 6 days to create something is not fantastic. Some authors have stated they wrote an entire book in a single day and it became a best seller.

A one hour TV show is made in six days.

Then again, it could be GOD days which could be millions of years.

We don't KNOW for sure.

As for image. I never took it to be figurative. The Bible says GOD walked with ADAM. It's quite specific. It didn't say GOD FLOATED next to Adam.

An Angel with a sword of fire guards the tree of life. Obviously that Angel has a hand and an arm to hold that sword.

God is both coprorial to a degree and spirt. God, obviously, can transmute or manipulate matter and energy, probably at will.

God may have sexual organs and may now or at one time reproduced the same as we do.

God has children, apparently. The Bible speaks of the "Sons of God."

These sons took the daughters of man as wives and obviously begotted with them.

So the "Sons of God" can begot.

God can also Begot, as Jesus is his only Begotten son on Earth.

God can begot with an Earth woman. A human.

So, God, in some manifestation at least, may have arms, hands, legs, a head, mouth, ears, eyes. Hence we are created in God's image, even including the Belly Button.

Answer 3

Well said, as it is said god made man in his own image so really when you look into a mirror you are not seeing your true self.
As regards to the day I would say it took more than 7 days of our time, remember time has no place in the other world.

Answer 4

CARE OR CARELESS WITH BIBLE AS WORD OF GOD TO MAN IN SIN

God has his day. 2Pet.3:3-9,13;

Seasons for man has a 24 hour day, times is from sabbath to sabbath and from new moon to new moon. Isa.45:18; 65:17; 66:1,22,23.

If Adam and only Adam on the earth that began the world as made in our image and after our likeness. God's day is 1000 years, God, Jesus and angels have eternal life Luke 20:34-36; and Adam did as well, if he did not touch the tree in the middle of the garden. Gen.3:22 for Adam, Rev.22:14 for us.
John 17:3,5,24 [ Jesus ]; Col.1:15-17 [ Jesus in image of God Rev.3:14 ];
Job 38:4-7;
Angels see earth prepared ages before man. Gen.1:1,2 [ All exist ]; Gen.1:3-25 [ the earth is prepared ];
Gen.1:26 [ Adam and LOST 6,073 years ago from Eden, Satan has 6,130 to Rev.6:1-6,12,13; No Satan for 1000 years Gen.2:2,4; no creating and the life sustaining eaarth is lost, angels can and do sin as Satan Job 2:1,2; Isa.14:12-14; Eze.28:13-15; 2Cor.4:3,4; Satan is the god of this world that will end.
Matt.24:3 [ end of the world ], 7, [ major wars involving soil never organized in world history, 1611 to 1620 to 1776 to 1914 to 1918 WW1 ends, WW2 1938 to 1945 ];
14 [ as to Word of God, Jesus is in and Satan is out Rev.12:1-12 Satan is cast down to Rev.20:1-6,12,13 no Satan ]; 15 [ the prophecy of Daniel as Michael of Dan.12:1-13 and Jude 9; is in Rev.12:1-13 AND HOLY ANGELS CAST SATAN AND UNHOLY ANGELS DOWN ], 34-36 [ Only God knows day and hour Satan ends, Jesus begans ];
Acts 2:27-35; and Matt.22:42-44; enemies to be on footstool earth.
Heb.1:1-13; and Rom.16:20 Enemies are Satan and unholy angels to be under apostles feet.
Jesus ascended until the enemies as Satan and unholy angels are cast down
John 6:39,40,44 and John 14:3 [ A PLACE PREPARED ];
With Satan and unholy angels down, a place is prepared for raised up at last day,
Mark 13:27; and Michael of end time days is there to the last 1Thes.4:15-17;
JESUS HAS HAD A REASON FOR IT BEING 2007 YEARS AGO, AND FOR ALL THE YEARS BEFORE THAT.
TIME:
Ages past Eph.3:4,5; Col.1:26,27; Psm.77:5; Matt.1:1-17[ 606 years Babylon to Rome ];
Ages to come:
Eph.2:7; 3:21; Rev.20:1-6,12,13; John 3:16;

Answer 5

Hello.. :)

Do you mean scripture from the Bible..

Ps. 90

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

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2 Peter

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.

In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With Love..In Christ.. :)

Answer 6

DAY is not new. There is coming a DAY, and that DAY is CHRIST. And being created in Gods IMAGE is also in the Word of GOD, BUT it does NOT MEAN that we look like God, we have His attributes, love, compassion, caring, feelings, etc...

Answer 7

I'm pretty darn SURE that you'll NEED to elaborate on that one !!!!!

It may be to find common ground, like the first respondent said .
I don't need proof of science although science itself IS proof .

The other thing I'd like to mention is that God CLEARLY said 'knowledge will be increased' and 'things will be revealed' at the appropriate time of God's choosing .

Answer 8

Because we're smarter now and see that the literal translations of these words don't make sense as they are used. Not to mention other churches around the main christian churches were already explaining these concepts, making them look even more stupid......oops did I write that.

Answer 9

A lot has changed since we began to move away from THE KINGS.There IS life [of sorts] after death,but it is trully ignorant to fight about it.

Answer 10

Changing the meaning of the word is the only way you can keep that concept alive, in today's world.