I would like to be educated by Christians how they figure the math out on the following?

Question

1000 human years are 1 day or 1 year for God! how does this get calculated? I have seen this now an number of times!

I know that 1 Human year is 7 Dog or Cat years(I have a really old kitty) but how did the biblical calculations come in place???

thank you in Advance!

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Marvin ,they just keep popping up on this forum

Answer 1

Wrong wrong wrong...I am an atheist and believe gods were created by pre educated people.

Imagine a 2000yr old roman seeing Tv or spacecraft..we would be godlike although not gods.

Being s beyond us would appear godlike to us etc common sense tells us that

BUT

People who find solace in religion need not be attacked it is there want blind as it is.

Belief is choice...why should there be antagonism

An atheist

Answer 2

no what the Bible says is that "... with the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." 2Peter 3:8. That is more along the lines of explaining the concept of eternity (and God's patience with us) than it is a mathmatical calculation.

Eternity is well, forever. It goes on and on and on ad infinitum.
Therefore the concept of time in eternity is not as it is on earth. Bascially meaning a day (24 hours) could pass and seem as though it were a Millenia (1000 years), and a thousand years could pass and seem like it was only a day.

Haven't you ever sat at the stinking computer answering Q's on Answers, and literally get so wrapped up in what you are doing that an hour goes by and it seems like you have only been on for a few minutes? OR, let's say, you're at work and you are so busy the 'time' literally drags on and you've only been there an hour but it seems like you've already been there for Five? It is similar to that, with the exception being, that God is Eternal, and infinite, not finite as we are. We are born, live and die and our life-span may be only 80-90 years. Think how things have existed for billions of years. So what is 80-90 years compared to eternity? It is nothing more than a breath, it would seem like, only a day. So, this verse is not attempting a mathmatical equation, but rather trying to stress the grand scheme of eternity..... forever and ever and ever, and that, to God who is Eternal..... what is a thousand years to him? He is not bound to the restrictions of time as we are. Kingdoms rise and fall and civilisation grows and surpasses the last generation with ever century, people are born and live and die; but to God, who remains constant and does not change, and is eternal...... 1000 years is nothing. ♥

Answer 3

Good question: the 1000 years to one day is poetic metaphor; it means God's time is not our time. For example, the Greek word for God's time is transliterated "kairos" but the linear time you and I know is called 'chronos' (where we get the word chronological).

Kairos is what allows God to know past, present, and future all at once because God is IN all those times at once. It doesn't mean God is flipping over a calendar counting 997, 998...

Furthermore, people probably use this to explain why they believe in the creation account but don't believe in 6 literal days of creation. But the word in Genesis 1 for day is "yom" which can mean any period of time with a clear ending and a clear beginning--it could mean day, part of a day, a week, or an eon. "And the evening and morning were the first day" shows a distinct beginning and a distinct ending.

If you are referring to people trying to compute the end of the world from apocalyptic writings, can't help you there; I'm not into that at all.

Answer 4

That expression comes from Second Peter 2:8-13. It's only a figure of speech describing God's patience towards humans.

Answer 5

Actually time is an anthropic concept. To an all-transcendent creator, one who supercedes even the universe, time does not exist. Time is only a property of the universe, and does not have applicability beyond it.

In that sense, God does not have "days."

"Nor do you in time, precede time, or you would not precede all times. But you precede all things past, by the sublimity of an ever-present eternity; and you surpass all future because they are future, and when they come, they shall be past; but you are the same, and your years do not end. Your years neither come nor go; whereas ours both come and go, that they all may come. Your years stand together, because they do stand; nor are departing thrust out by coming years, for they do not pass away; but ours shall all be, when they shall no more be. Your years are one day; and your day is not daily, but today, seeing your today does not give way to tomorrow, nor does it replace yesterday. Your today, is Eternity; therefore did you beget the coeternal, to whom you said, "This day have I begotten Thee." You have made all things; and before all time, you are; neither in any time was there not time." (St. Augustine, Confessions)

Answer 6

It was something that was just competely made up because they know that the claim that God "created" everything in the universe in seven days sounds completely ridiculous, so they started saying that "God" days aren't the same as human days. (That "God" days could be 1000 years...)

Answer 7

there is a scripture that says that 1000 years for humans is like a day for god.
2 Peter 3:8) 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.

Answer 8

I'm Christian, but I don't focus and the weird stuff like that. The idea is that I'm improving myself everyday, and that I wouldn't be able to do that without Jesus as a role model of perfection.

One year, one minute, it's all BS. If that was true that means God will die eventually. I'm more comfortable thinking God would never die.

Answer 9

See Psalm 90

Answer 10

Its figurative language, just like "I've told you a million times"
The purpose is to address the infinity of God, the fact that He has been and always will be.
Rod