2007-08-22 04:41:54 · 13 answers · asked by mexipinoy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. I'm so glad you're asking much needed questions:
James 1: 12 - 15
Happy is the man that keeps on enduring trial, because on becoming approved he will receive the crown of life, which Jehovah promised to those who continue loving him. When under trial, let no one say: “I am being tried by God.” For with evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone. But each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire. Then the desire, when it has become fertile, gives birth to sin; in turn, sin, when it has been accomplished, brings forth death.
2 Peter 3: 8 - 10
"However, let this one fact not be escaping YOUR notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance. Yet Jehovah’s day will come as a thief..."
2007-08-22 04:45:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
It is Psalm 90:4, I advises you to start reading Psalm and start with Matthew until you have finish, I like questions, I'm older now and it takes me a little longer to find scripture if you don't have a bible, get one and also a study bible, it explain things very simple , but first you have to pray and ask God in Jesus name for Wisdom and knowledge, you can find your own answer by going to the back, the concord, or dictionary for words and just look up the key words, like I did, thousand
2007-08-22 12:06:34 · answer #2 · answered by Queenetta 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not really. A LOT of people take the passage, "...a day is a thousand years, a thousand years is a day."
For whatever reason, somebody decided that this was some kind of secret code telling us how to predict future events.
But honestly when I read this, I see it to mean that for God, time is completely irrelevant. That in heaven, all is said and done without the restrictions or boundaries of time.
2007-08-22 11:49:33 · answer #3 · answered by Linda J 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why would a "God" who is supposed to be timeless, in a timeless universe, need to think in terms of days, months, years, or millennia? Humans fashioned themselves a system of time periods to help them better organize the pattern of their lives, and co-ordinate their activities in relation to other people and events. We're also often told that God is "omnipresent" - not only everywhere at the same time, but past, present and future at the same time LOL. Neat trick, but evidently we are expected to believe that "God" knows no boundaries of time or space, so the term "years" or any other word relating to what we call "time" would have no significance whatever.
2007-08-22 11:55:43 · answer #4 · answered by sharmel 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Psalm 90:4
2007-08-22 11:47:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's in Peter:
2Pe 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.
2007-08-22 11:45:40 · answer #6 · answered by Meow 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure that the verse in Peter is "claiming" anything. That verse reads like simile. I'm convinced it should not be read as literal.
2007-08-22 11:49:28 · answer #7 · answered by Green is my Favorite Color 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
2 Peter chapter 3 (forget the verse)
Peter is actually quoting from the OT
2007-08-22 11:45:04 · answer #8 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
is as 1000 tears to us. God is not in our time.
2007-08-22 14:01:31 · answer #9 · answered by Mim 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To us, a day is as a thousand years,a thousand years is as a day.
2007-08-22 11:56:37 · answer #10 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋