To: Red Badger
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.This is hyperbole. It was never meant as a conversion formula.
34 posted on
10/23/2007 3:41:45 PM PDT by
P8riot
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To: P8riot
Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
36 posted on
10/23/2007 3:43:51 PM PDT by
Red Badger
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To: P8riot
“This is hyperbole. It was never meant as a conversion formula.”
I don’t see it as hyperbole at all. I’d say it means that God, as the Creator of time is out side of it. WE are in it. the 1/1000-1000/1 cancel one another out equaling zero time.
To: P8riot
“This is hyperbole. It was never meant as a conversion formula.”
Of course it’s not a conversion formula, but it does convey the theological truth that God is outside of and not bound by time.
152 posted on
10/23/2007 9:08:14 PM PDT by
dsc
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To: P8riot
I agree that it is not a literal measurement of time. My take is that it tells us to not even bother trying to measure time in God’s realm.
155 posted on
10/23/2007 9:12:46 PM PDT by
Ghengis
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