And she’s right... there is no way the earth is 6000 years old, but what that has to do with God is beyond me.
That’s your opinion - which has no place in this particular conversation. Take it to a CREVO debate thread.
Actually, the Earth could be 1 day old. Any reasonably omnipotent God could have created everything yesterday and given us all memories (and fossils and stuff) to make the place seem to be 4 billion years old. I'm just sayin'
Time is relative in regard to the person's perspective. It is an old joke, but I thinks it applies when we get too smart and try to figure out the time perspective regarding the earth versus The Bible:
Steven: God, how much is a million dollars to you?
God: About a penny...
Steven: How much is a million years to you?
God: About a second...
Steven: God, may I borrow a penny?
God: Sure Steven, just a second... :-)
Seriously, young_conservative, I pray that you can get the situation resolved so that your wife can get past this and will realize that she is paying interest on a problem that she really doesn't need to worry about. I will add both of you to my prayer list...
Regards,
Raven6
“And she’s right... there is no way the earth is 6000 years old, but what that has to do with God is beyond me.”
I agree. Certain parts of the Bible cannot be taken too literally. For example, Moses was divinely inspired to write the account of creation, but he was not there. It was explained the best he could considering the inspiration God gave him, and limited communication: neither the writer nor the reader could really understand fully. The best he could do was to describe it in terms readers could learn and understand.
But there are also those who depart greatly from sound interpretation of scripture by going overboard in the opposite direction of literalism, such as Paul was a homosexual, or Jesus was married.
A couple of references that I like:
Acts 17:24-28
Hebrews 11:3 (note how consistent this verse is with the big bang theory, hundreds of years before Galileo realized that the earth revolved around the sun, and the universe did not revolve around earth)
The Bible says that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters and points to the fact that the earth was a watery void when the Lord began the process. This was before he created all living things. The earth was already here for some perion unknown when life was placed on it. This creation is about 6000 years old. The family of man going back to Adam is about 6000 years old.
No kidding. The earth is way older than 6000 years - but what does that have to do with God?
Good post. There is no incompatibility between science and religion as long as religion doesn’t usurp the role of science and your science doesn’t become a religion.
God’s not trying to trick you.