Post by iris89 on Dec 4, 2009 9:03:18 GMT -5
Length of Creative Days.
The Bible does not specify the length of each of the creative periods. Yet all six of them have ended, it being said with respect to the sixth day (as in the case of each of the preceding five days): "And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day." (Ge 1:31) However, this statement is not made regarding the seventh day, on which God proceeded to rest, indicating that it continued. (Ge 2:1-3) Also, more than 4,000 years after the seventh day, or God's rest day, commenced, Paul indicated that it was still in progress. At Hebrews 4:1-11 he referred to the earlier words of David (Ps 95:7, 8, 11) and to Genesis 2:2 and urged: "Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest." By the apostle's time, the seventh day had been continuing for thousands of years and had not yet ended. The Thousand Year Reign of Jesus Christ, who is Scripturally identified as "Lord of the sabbath" (Mt 12:8), is evidently part of the great sabbath, God's rest day. (Re 20:1-6) This would indicate the passing of thousands of years from the commencement of God's rest day to its end. The week of days set forth at Genesis 1:3 to 2:3, the last of which is a sabbath, seems to parallel the week into which the Israelites divided their time, observing a sabbath on the seventh day thereof, in keeping with the divine will. (Ex 20:8-11) And, since the seventh day has been continuing for thousands of years, it may reasonably be concluded that each of the six creative periods, or days, was at least thousands of years in length.
That a day can be longer than 24 hours is indicated by Genesis 2:4, which speaks of all the creative periods as one "day." Also indicative of this is Peter's inspired observation that "one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day." (2Pe 3:8) Ascribing not just 24 hours but a longer period of time, thousands of years, to each of the creative days better harmonizes with the evidence found in the earth itself.
As for the dating of fossils, while many may try and claim otherwise about the accuracy of modern-day scientific dating methods. The reality is that humans have no reliable means to date any fossil sample back that far to the commonly tossed around assertions of "millions of years" or for that matter, even to 10 of thousands of years.
For the simple reason that in spite the sophistication of today's various age measuring instruments, the validity of their findings are based on certain assumptions about distant past earth conditions. And if these "assumptions" are inaccurate it makes the entire results awash.
For instance Radiocarbon dating which is said to be limited to a maximum of around 50,000 years past is difficult enough to determine at the typically extreme low levels of radioactive carbon contained in an ancient fossil, but more important it is based on the very speculative assumption that the rate of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere has been relatively constant down through the ages. But what if it hasn't been constant? For example the Bible describes the earth as enveloped by a great water canopy-like arrangement on the second creative day (Gen. 1:6-8). This would have supplied a sort of mild greenhouse effect to give the earth a relatively uniform worldwide temperature.
That is there were likely no frigid zones or polar regions at the time.
Therefore, assuming the Bible's account is true, the amount of carbon dioxide generation would have been less in the pre-flood past than it is today. This would then make the pre-historic fossils appear to be much older than they really are based on radiocarbon dating.
To learn more, check out the following:
[1] religioustruths.proboards59.com/ An Educational Referral Forum
[2] www.network54.com/Forum/403209 A Forum Devoted to Exposing The False Religion of Islam
[3] jude3.proboards92.com/ A Free-Speech Forum For All
[4] www.freewebs.com/iris_the_preacher My web site.
Your Friend in Christ Iris89
The Bible does not specify the length of each of the creative periods. Yet all six of them have ended, it being said with respect to the sixth day (as in the case of each of the preceding five days): "And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day." (Ge 1:31) However, this statement is not made regarding the seventh day, on which God proceeded to rest, indicating that it continued. (Ge 2:1-3) Also, more than 4,000 years after the seventh day, or God's rest day, commenced, Paul indicated that it was still in progress. At Hebrews 4:1-11 he referred to the earlier words of David (Ps 95:7, 8, 11) and to Genesis 2:2 and urged: "Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest." By the apostle's time, the seventh day had been continuing for thousands of years and had not yet ended. The Thousand Year Reign of Jesus Christ, who is Scripturally identified as "Lord of the sabbath" (Mt 12:8), is evidently part of the great sabbath, God's rest day. (Re 20:1-6) This would indicate the passing of thousands of years from the commencement of God's rest day to its end. The week of days set forth at Genesis 1:3 to 2:3, the last of which is a sabbath, seems to parallel the week into which the Israelites divided their time, observing a sabbath on the seventh day thereof, in keeping with the divine will. (Ex 20:8-11) And, since the seventh day has been continuing for thousands of years, it may reasonably be concluded that each of the six creative periods, or days, was at least thousands of years in length.
That a day can be longer than 24 hours is indicated by Genesis 2:4, which speaks of all the creative periods as one "day." Also indicative of this is Peter's inspired observation that "one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day." (2Pe 3:8) Ascribing not just 24 hours but a longer period of time, thousands of years, to each of the creative days better harmonizes with the evidence found in the earth itself.
As for the dating of fossils, while many may try and claim otherwise about the accuracy of modern-day scientific dating methods. The reality is that humans have no reliable means to date any fossil sample back that far to the commonly tossed around assertions of "millions of years" or for that matter, even to 10 of thousands of years.
For the simple reason that in spite the sophistication of today's various age measuring instruments, the validity of their findings are based on certain assumptions about distant past earth conditions. And if these "assumptions" are inaccurate it makes the entire results awash.
For instance Radiocarbon dating which is said to be limited to a maximum of around 50,000 years past is difficult enough to determine at the typically extreme low levels of radioactive carbon contained in an ancient fossil, but more important it is based on the very speculative assumption that the rate of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere has been relatively constant down through the ages. But what if it hasn't been constant? For example the Bible describes the earth as enveloped by a great water canopy-like arrangement on the second creative day (Gen. 1:6-8). This would have supplied a sort of mild greenhouse effect to give the earth a relatively uniform worldwide temperature.
That is there were likely no frigid zones or polar regions at the time.
Therefore, assuming the Bible's account is true, the amount of carbon dioxide generation would have been less in the pre-flood past than it is today. This would then make the pre-historic fossils appear to be much older than they really are based on radiocarbon dating.
To learn more, check out the following:
[1] religioustruths.proboards59.com/ An Educational Referral Forum
[2] www.network54.com/Forum/403209 A Forum Devoted to Exposing The False Religion of Islam
[3] jude3.proboards92.com/ A Free-Speech Forum For All
[4] www.freewebs.com/iris_the_preacher My web site.
Your Friend in Christ Iris89