Is it possible that a day to God is not 1000 years, but 10,000?

Question

If you look up the Human Genome Project, which, through human DNA is looking for "Adam", they found him, but he came into the world about 60-70,000 years ago.

I thought maybe the math was off by a value.

here's a cute link.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/nov/27inter.htm

Answer 1

Do Buddhists believe in a creator god?

No, we do not. There are several logical reasons for this. The Buddha, like modern scientists, sociologists and psychologists, believed that religious ideas and especially the god idea have their origins in fear. The Buddha says:

"Gripped by fear men go to sacred mountains, sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines." *Dhammpada 188

Primitive man found himself in a dangerous and hostile world, the fear of wild animals, of not being able to find enough food, of injury or disease, and of natural phenomena like thunder, lightning and volcanoes was constantly with him. Finding no security, he created the idea of god in order to give him comfort in good times, courage in times of danger and consolation when things went wrong. To this day, you will notice that people become more religious at times of crises, you will hear them say that the belief in a god gives them the strength they need to deal with life. You will hear them explain that they believe in god because they prayed in time of need and their prayer was answered. All this seems to support the Buddha’s teaching that the god-idea is a response to fear and frustration. The Buddha taught us to try to understand our fears, to lessen our desires and to calmly and courageously accept the things we cannot change. He replaced fear, not with irrational belief but with rational understanding.

The second reason the Buddha did not believe in a creator god is because there does not seem to be any evidence to support this idea. There are numerous religions, all claiming that they alone have god’s words preserved in their holy book, that they alone understand god’s nature, that their god exists and that the gods of other religions do not. Some claim that god is masculine, some that she is feminine and others that it is neuter. They are all satisfied that there is ample evidence to prove the existence of their god but they laugh in disbelief at the evidence other religions use to prove the existence of another god. It is not surprising that with so many different religions spending so many centuries trying to prove the existence of their gods that still no real, concrete, substantial or irrefutable evidence has been found. Buddhists suspend judgement until such evidence is forthcoming.

The third reason the Buddha did not believe in a creator god is that the belief is not necessary. Some claim that the belief in a god is necessary in order to explain the origin of the universe. But this is not so. Science has very convincingly explained how the universe came into being without having to introduce the god-idea. Some claim that belief in god is necessary to have a happy, meaningful life. Again we can see that this is not so. There are millions of Atheists, free-thinkers and Buddhists, who live useful, happy and meaningful lives without belief in a creator god. Some claim that belief in god’s power is necessary because humans, being weak, do not have the strength to help themselves. Once again, the evidence indicates the opposite. One often hears of people who have overcome great disabilities and handicaps, enormous odds and difficulties through their own inner resources, through their own efforts and without belief in a god. Some claim that god is necessary in order to give man salvation. But this argument only holds good if you accept the theological concept of salvation and Buddhists do not accept such a concept. Based on his own experience, the Buddha saw that each human being had the capacity to purify the mind, develop infinite love and compassion and perfect understanding. He shifted attention from the heavens to the heart and encouraged us to find solutions to our problems through self-understanding.

But if there is no creator god how did the universe get here?

All religions have myths and stories which attempt to answer this question. In ancient times, when man simply did not know, such myths were adequate, but in the 20th century, in the age of physics, astronomy and geology, such myths have been superseded by scientific fact. Science has explained the origin of the universe without recourse to the god-idea.

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Answer 2

Actually we can see 14 BILLION light years away. The Genesis account is commonly misinterpreted, especially by New Earth Evangelical Fundamentalists. The Hebrew word for day, Yom, can mean a 24 hour earth day, or a space of time, or era. The Bible also teaches that with God a day is as a 1000 years and a 1000 years is as a day, meaning God is timeless. 14 Billion years can seem like a blink of the eye to God. Part of the creation occured before the day and night earth day. It only makes sense then that God created all things in "God days" or in 6 Eras which easily could have been 14 or so billion years. Fundies say "Well yeah but God could have created the light photons as well as the stars so that we could see all the stars" etc. which makes no sense. Most of the stars cannot be seen with the naked eye and why would God create things like that or dinosaur bones just to place a stumbling block before us? There are even galaxies that have crashed into each other and the speed and direction proves beyond any doubt that this occured way way over the 10,000 year New Earth theories. I believe in the Creation, but not in false theories and misinterpretations of the Bible.

Answer 3

Time and space are relative... I don't know where the specific idea of 1000 years for a day is something definative...saying as in Peter 2:8 But 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.
IS LIKE doesn't mean absolutely 1000 years.. I don't know if they would have had a clear idea of time frames as we do today...1000 for them would have signified a long, long time..
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
Both of these are not given as GOD has said a day is 1000 years.
I know some like to translate literally, but don't get carried overboard please.

Answer 4

You can say and or suggest anything you want but it won't change the fact that gods are man-made critters for the reason of controlling the masses.

Seneca: Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

TheScammers made gods in their image.
There are many obvious tell tale signs; the best one being, to my mind, is the Amateur job he did on Creation … timeline wise.
6 Days and then to have a lie down for all of the seventh; sounds more like a bloke I know, than a god.

Let's face it, any god worth his salt coulda whipped up the universe and everything in it in about POINT 006 seconds and then taken the missus out on the town cos no god worth his salt needs a rest.

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Answer 5

The whole point of this ,a day equals a thousand years and a thousand years as a day is to say with God there isn`t a time as we would count it He was ,Is and will Always Be.

Answer 6

We live in a time oriented world with the earth spinning around the sun, with day and night but God is eternal and lives in a timeless realm, where there is no clock or calendar. So when he said in His book "a day is as a thousand years", He meant that our time centered world is very unlike his timeless one. But He tried to put it in terms we could understand. How long is eternity? Where does infinity end? We do not have answers to these questions because our mind is too finite.

Answer 7

A day is approximately 24 hours, the time it takes the Earth to complete 1 rotation on its axis. The time span has nothing to do with the Sun or the heavens.

Twenty-four hours (give or take a few seconds). It's non-negotiable.

Hope this helps :)

Answer 8

No.

2 Peter 3: 8

..."a thousand years is but one day to God and one day is 1,000 years"...

Um, don't say things other than the truth because it could negatively penetrate the minds of the weak and unknowledgable. Only state facts, truth. All else is blasphemy.

Answer 9

The Bible says 1000.

Answer 10

haha what the heck is this? I don't think time exists to God. One minute to Him can be like a million years.

The conversation between the man and God.

Man: Is it true that one million years is like one second to you?
God: Yes.
Man: And is it true that one million dollars is like a penny to you?
God: Yes.
Man: Can I have a million dollars?
God: Sure, give me a second.