Published by Okay, so God… is a massive being. I mean, huge. This guy made everything. He created everything from the universe, all the way down to the water that is in the drink that you’re drinking right now. And he did it all in seven days.
Or did he?
Let’s go back to the theory that God is massive. That’s one I believe. If my God can create pillars of flame, and giant floods that cover the earth, I’d have to say he’s pretty big. Now, seeing as how this being has been around since the beginning of time, I would have to say that this is something that does not respond to “days” as “twenty-four hours”. I don’t think he’s going “Happy sixteen-billion, five-hundred seventy-four million, three-hundred nineteen thousand, two-hundred fourteenth birthday to me!”
For the record, I don’t think he’s doing that at all.
But perhaps this God is one who is so massive, that he measures his days, not per twenty-four hours, but by billions of years. “What are you saying!?” Well, you evolutionist scientists, I must ask you a question myself. Why can’t evolution and creationism live peacefully as one? If we can all just accept that God has a mysterious way of doing things?
Before I continue, I want to tell you a story. A joke, if you will. There was a man who was enduring a flood by sitting on top of his roof. He sat and prayed, “God, God, please save me. I have faith in you, and I know that you will get me to safety.” About fifteen minutes later, a helicopter flies over him, and they let down a ladder. “Climb up, we’ll save you!” But the man rejects faithfully, “No thank you, God is going to save me!” The pilot shrugs his shoulders, and flies away.
Several minutes later, the water has reached the roof, and the man is now feet from the rising flood. A rescuer in a boat comes by and says, “Sir, I’m here to save you, get aboard the boat!” But the man continues to reject, stating, “No thank you, God is going to save me!” The rescuer then rows away, searching for more victims.
After a while, the water has reached the man’s throat, and he’s moments from drowning, and another boat comes by. The rescuer screams at him, “sir, you need to get aboard the boat, right now!” But once again, the man rejects, stating that he will be saved by God.
Needless to say, the man drowns. When he gets up to Heaven, God’s standing there, and the man asks him, “What’s the deal? I prayed and prayed and prayed, and you didn’t come save me!” God looked at the man, and scowled, “What do you want me to do? I sent you two boats and a helicopter, and you didn’t take them!”
I like God in this joke. He’s rather practical.
I heard that joke from my pastor. He followed it with, “Sometimes, we don’t realize that the help we ask for is already in front of us. We have to look closer at the situation and see God in other people.”
I’m following the story with this: God works subtly. He’s the ninja of the deities, not directly coming to one’s side when needed, but making sure the job gets done. God didn’t come down to Earth and say, “All right, Jews, it’s time to walk for forty years.” He was a pillar, and a burning bush.
With that said, back on topic. Just because God didn’t leave footprints on Earth doesn’t mean he had nothing to do with its creation. I believe that, in those billion-year “days”, he created by way of evolution. He said, “let there be fish of the sea, and birds of the air.” Evolution does its work, and however many years later, the two separated from the ocean, and became different species.
What does this have to do with you? It’s simple. If each “day” is however-many billions of years, what’s still happening? If you consider that, in the Bible, it never says, “then God quit resting after the seventh day, and began to punish people.” No, I don’t believe it says anything like that. On that seventh day, he observed creation. He watched what he made. He was you, playing Sims, watching that tiny person swim in the pool, except on a much more global scale.
So then, what happens after that? Is the seventh day going to just continue forever? Perhaps. But if you look at it realistically, we’re evolving everyday. Ten years ago, we didn’t have the same technology we have now, but we’ve adapted. Ten years ago, you couldn’t send a picture of yourself over a telephone line to someone else in mere seconds, let alone using a portable telephone. Laptops, satellite radio, hybrid cars, digital cable, mp3 players, none of this was this huge ten years ago.
This isn’t a physical evolution. It’s a technological evolution. Developing new items today that can help us tomorrow. And adapting so quickly. It’s unbelievable if you think about it. Be careful, don’t let your head explode.
Now, for the final part of this discussion. The seventh day has to end sometime. So what happens on the eighth day? Does God just go, “eh, I’m tired, I’m going to rest some more”? Or is he going to rise up and decide that this is now the time for his Son to return to Earth, and reign? Could the eighth day be the end of Man? Completely start the Apocalypse unlike any movie, television, book or website has predicted before? Does December 21, 2012 mark the beginning of the eighth day? Well, that’s another discussion for another day.
Let me end on this note. In the Bible, it says that we won’t know when the Son of God will come. It will be like a blinding light; surprising, yet fulfilling and magnificent. Prophecies stating the “exact date” of Revelation are bogus. Probably as bogus as the Eighth Day Theory. But it gives you something to think about. And more than four-and-a-half years to think about it.
Of course, Buddha could be laughing at me right now. Who knows?
I definitely like your approach, but then in the Bible, every thing that has a name on earth were named by man, according to his standards. The temple was remeasured by angels, but with man’s instrument of measurement. couldn’t it be possible that the days, the were measurements of man, not God, since man wrote the Bible? Then how do we divide months into weeks of seven days? The Bible explains that God was active during the creation, not just laid back and let evolution do the work. He molded man Himself, and breathed life into him. He waited while the man slept, and made a woman out of him….how long could Adam have had been asleep? Billions of years? I think he’d definitely rot by them…and nothing left of him.
However, there’s on thing I can’t seem to understand. If the earth is only a few thousand years old, as suggested by the Bible, then how come we see light from start millions of light years away, if the earth was created before the stars, according to Genesis. A million a light year would mean that it takes light a million years to reach us.
I’ve gotten this answer from Jason Lisle, and astrophysicist who uses the evidence of the universe to testify to the Word of God, the Bible. My question was answered, and maybe you might want to visit his webpage…answersingenesis.org.
The earth, although it’s apparent age might be billions of years, is only a few thousand years in reality. When God creates something in a miraculous way, it has a real age and an apparent age. God created the earth already mature, and Adam he made, after the first day would be one day old, but appeared to be much older. And the plants, although they are newborns, where already mature, bearing fruits of all kinds.
He did not just make the starts, but also the rays of light between us and them. Astronomical evidence suggests that the moon spirals away from the earth every year at a rate of 1 inch a year. Therefore, six thousand years ago, during the creation, it would have a a few hundred feet closer to the earth than it is now…and that seems nothing compared to the quarter million of a mile distance that the moon is from the earth. But just one billion years ago, the moon would’ve been so close to the earth that they would eventually touch. Imagine where the moon might have been 4-5 billions of years ago.
And consider the spiral galaxies. Their centers spin faster than the outer arms. So if they were billions of years old, then we would not see the spirals anymore, as the whole thing would have just turned formless, or just a round. And the comets that we see, when they get close to the sun, their icy stuff blasts away forming a tail. They can resist the suns emession of energy up to 400,000 yrs. But we’re still seeing them, aren’t we? So that means that they haven’t been here for that long.
Also the planets’ magnetic fields. Especially that of Jupiter’s is really strong. Because of the sun’s energy, those magnetic fields are wearing off at a rate that if our solar system were billions of years old, they would not have existed at all today, or they would have been really week.
God did create the universe in seven days, that much is true. And not God-days, but human days. That is because the instruments of measurements that man or angels use are man-made, according to man’s standards, not Gods. The only uses of measuring instrument that God has is to measure the heart of man, according to HIS standards, not ours.
So every unit of measurement mentioned in the Bible are that of man, not God.