That a day in the creation is a thousand years? It is probably not doctrine, just something written by one of the 12 apostles in a book I read in the 80's or something.
2007-06-20 15:00:56 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Based on the scriptures as we know it, time did not begin until the fall of Adam and Eve. As you know, the Bible is clear when it says a day to God equals a thousand of our years.
Based on logical understanding then, each Creation day could have equaled a 1,000 years or more. Nothing definite has been pinned down on how long each segment took in its creation.
I simply do not believe that God, through His Son, snapped his fingers and each segment of the Creation materialized. God follows natural laws as we all must and He is a God of order. It stands to reason that God, in the Creation, followed natural laws and science as He gathered the materials together and formed them into tangible existence.
It is true that when God speaks, so shall it be, but is it immediate or is it performed in a proved and calculated time-frame? I believe the latter is correct.
2007-06-20 15:11:46 · answer #1 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible doesn't say "a day is a thousand years"; it says, "a day IS AS a thousand years" (God doesn't exist inside of time). This passage is talking about people that were wondering if God would keep his promises. And Paul tells them, yes, God does keep his promises.
Men will say, vs 4 "Where is the promise of his coming?" Paul says, "8But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
2007-06-22 12:37:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Mormons agree that the old testament word "Day" as used in the creation is "a period of time".
Someplace there's an obscure doctrine that suggest that 1 day to God is 1000 years to us, however that doesn't necessarily say that the creation was 7000 years.
2007-06-22 09:03:20 · answer #3 · answered by Ender 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a commonly held opinion. I dont know any Mormons who think it really took 7 days to make the universe. Day was just a comprehendible unit of time for the uneducated people around when Genesis was written. Most of those people would count to twenty, much less fathom millions of years. Its just an opinion or an interpretation on what that part of the Bible is trying to say.
2007-06-24 18:33:36 · answer #4 · answered by Encyclopedia Magandaca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't just us "mormons" that believe in this. There are other religions that say this too.
It makes more sense to me to think that it probably took longer then what we consider a day to make everything.
Time has changed many times throughout the years. In Christ's time, a day was from the beginning of first watch to the end of second. Third watch wasn't considered in the hours of day. So, our time now is different from even then.
Not only that but you know the saying that "With God, nothing is impossible". Doesn't that mean that He could make time whatever He wants it to be? Yes, He works withing the confines of natural law, so things were done by that, but His time doesn't have to be our time.
2007-06-20 23:29:46 · answer #5 · answered by odd duck 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes the Mormons do believe That a day in the creation is a thousand years but i don't know if its in the book of Mormon i believe so
2007-06-20 22:06:40 · answer #6 · answered by dre 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's from 2 Peter 3:8-9, so it's not exclusive to the Latter Day Saints church.
8But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
2007-06-20 22:09:20 · answer #7 · answered by Searcher 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I've heard of that...but I didn't think it was strictly a Mormon belief. I thought it was just random Christians who were trying to justify their beliefs when they realized the whole creation story sounds a little ridiculous.
2007-06-20 22:06:34 · answer #8 · answered by KS 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the particular Mormon belief is that Father God and his Wives live on a planet circling the star Kolob (or, on a planet Kolob), and the revolution period of that planet is a thousand years: "And the Lord said unto me, by the Urim and Thummim, that Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord’s time, according to the reckoning of Kolob" The Book of Abraham 3:4 (http://scriptures.lds.org/en/abr/3/3-4,9,16#3 )
2007-06-20 22:17:22 · answer #9 · answered by a 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Mormon. It's called the Millenium. It is a time period when all geneology will be fullfilled. All people will be resurected by the end of that period. It is not one day. It is a thousand years and it is true. Anyone dying in that period would be transformed in the blink of an eye.
2007-06-20 22:13:40 · answer #10 · answered by Nijg 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋