So why is the earth said to be billions of years old then?
According to you guys, God is a deceiver, making it look old, but it's really not. Is God a liar now?
Hi alvis,
Why would the only conclusion you can come up with be that God is a liar because man cannot understand how He created the earth. Man says the earth is old based on sedimentary data. Why is it not possible that God created the earth with many of the sediment layers as a part of how the earth was created? Man, seeing all these sedimentary layers, however, determines that it couldn't have been made that way but must necessarily have 'evolved' that structure over the many ages of time.
Man says that the earth and the universe must be old because we can see stars today that are millions of light years away. Why is it not possible that when God created all of the stars of the universe that He didn't also cause their light to be immediately visible across the universe? As I understand the moment that God created all the stars of the heavens, the light from each one was also made, as a part of His creative work, to be visible across the expanse of the universe. I mean, He does say that they were to be signs for us of times and seasons. How would that be if it would be millions of years until we could see them?
You see, my friend, God is the God of miracles. He can stop the earth in its tracks. He apparently did something like that twice in the history of the earth that the Scriptures tell us. Man says that's impossible. Why? If God wants the earth to stop or turn back He is God and He can do that. Consider that for the knowledge of man it is impossible that Mary could have been pregnant. Yet, if you are a believer, you know that she was. She had never had sperm introduced into her womb which is the only way, certainly in those days, that a woman could become pregnant, yet there she was...pregnant. Consider that in one night in an entire nation of Egypt every first born of every family and cattle died in one night. Absolutely impossible! Yet it happened. God caused the entire earth to be flooded and by all accounts the knowledge of man says that that is impossible. However, the Scriptures clearly describe that it was and that the result was that all living creatures upon the land died. Every man woman and child living in that day, except for Noah and his immediate family, died. Impossible! Says man's knowledge.
So, when you look at the evidences of the earth and say that it must be old based on such evidences, if the Scriptures are true, then it is not God that is a liar, but man. And he doesn't mean to be. He really thinks he knows the truth because of his great knowledge. So, it isn't that he thinks to himself that he is lying, but to teach and speak something that isn't true is still a lie. So, while man believes himself to have great knowledge of the natural things, the truth is that he has no knowledge of the power, glory and greatness and purpose of God. He doesn't understand, nor can he comprehend, what it really means for God to work a miracle. But that is the very definition of a miracle. Something that happens that is unexplainable by natural processes.
Man, has learned to redefine 'miracle'. He now defines it as something that has a high degree of improbability. Here's a story:
A soldier during the civil war was shot through the scrotum by a musketball from an enemy firearm. The musketball passed through his scrotum easily and continued on downrange and finally lodging itself in the womb of a woman in a house just beyond his position. The woman became pregnant. Is that a miracle?
No, not at all. When the ball passed through the man's scrotum it picked up a few microscopic sperm and then when it milliseconds later lodged itself in the woman's womb at least one of the sperm found its way to a fertile egg within the woman's womb. Now, as any first year biology book will attest, if a living sperm meets a living egg there is actually a very high degree of probability that the woman carrying that egg will become pregnant. Certainly the way in which the woman received the sperm is highly irregular, but the final outcome was nearly given.
When God performs a miracle it is not some event that is highly improbable, but rather it is an event that is impossible except for the power and glory and wisdom of God.
I believe that God gave a very clear explanation of how He created this realm. He says that He merely spoke and things were created. He says that He created this realm in six days and defines each day as consisting of a morning and an evening. He then gives an account of the genealogies that proceeded from the first created man. All of this evidence confirms six days about 6,000 years ago. However, man cannot accept that because it would have to be a miracle and science doesn't have answers for miracles. Science cannot tell you how Mary became pregnant. Science cannot tell you how the shadow of the sun backed up 10 steps. Science cannot tell you how the sun could have possibly stood still in the midday sky over Israel. Science cannot tell you how a man, dead, came back to life. Ask any scientist to prove to you, or explain to you, how Lazarus, laying dead in a tomb for three days, got up and walked out of that tomb? Get back to me when you have a satisfactory answer for that one question. Ask them to explain to you how it was that Jesus, also three days dead in a tomb, got up and lived?
Now, we, as believers, accept these two miracles without question, yet nearly every other miracle described in the Scriptures, certainly the old covenant, are denied and explained, and because these explanations appeal to our 'knowledge' of the natural, we want to accept them over what God has said. My question to a believer is, Why?
Why is that we can accept that a woman 2,000 years ago became pregnant without the aid of human sperm? Why is that we can accept that Lazarus got right up out of his tomb after being dead for three days? Why is that we can accept that Jesus also walked out of his tomb after three days? Yet, we cannot accept that God created this realm just by speaking it fairly instantaneously into existence. Why can we not accept that according to the genealogies that this event happened about 6,000 years ago and that it was just as much a miracle of God's handiwork as the account of Mary, Lazarus and Jesus?
Me, I understand that this realm was created by God. It was created by God who had a purpose in creating it all and that purpose will be achieved when time on this earth has reached the last two chapters of the book of the Revelation. God is going to take what He created and separate the wicked from the righteous and there will then forever be a fixed chasm between the two and the righteous will live eternally with God. That was His purpose on day one of His creating this realm. It is all the work and miraculous handiwork of God, but man has another reasonably plausible explanation and in the end that will turn out to be the '666' that the Scriptures speak of. Did you or I or any one of us individually believe and trust God over '666'? '666' being the 'truth' of man. So, as I understand what God is doing in this realm, He is waiting patiently to see who of us will place our faith in His truth or man's 'truth'.
The question for you is which side of that fence will you be on when the time comes to give an account before God.
Yes, I also fully understand that there are plenty of those who call themselves 'christians' that will tell you that I'm wrong. But, consider there are also plenty of those same people who will tell you that God counts infant baptism and plenty of those same people who will tell you that God will save this one or that one based on their own knowledge. So, I would caution you that while it sure makes one feel accepted to be on the side of the knowledge of man, it may not be what God is asking of His children.
God bless you.
In Christ, Ted
