It took God 13 Billion years to create Adam. Ephesians 1:4 "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight" You can do a study of the scriptures that talk about how we were with God from the beginning.
In dispensationalism a day is 1,000 years. The modern age or era began 13,000 years ago, There was a extinction at the time and animals like saber tooth tigers and wholly mammoth's died off. We are very close to the 1,000 year reign of Christ. Then at the end of 14,000 years there will be a new heaven and a new earth.
Mammoths look like elephants but they had long fur to keep them warm. Just like the saber tooth looked like a tiger today. Do we trust science that puts days, weeks, month, years and even a whole life into their study. Or do we trust the people who come up with an opinion in about five seconds. Science calls this a hypothesis and we have to do research to offer something in the way of evidence that supports our hypothesis.
If you go to a doctor, if you buy a car do you want unsubstantiated opinions or established facts? Would you go to a doctor that put five minutes of thought into being a doctor or someone with a medical degree? Lots of people attend a church with a pastor that only has a two year associate degree. I want to go to a main line denomination where the pastor has a lot more effort to be a college graduate and go to seminary so he as least has a master degree level of education.
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I don't need to do a study on how we were with God from the beginning. We were not. We are not eternal. Every one of us is made and fashioned by God in the womb.
Job 10:8 ‘Your hands fashioned and made me altogether,
And would You destroy me?
9 ‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
And would You turn me into dust again?
10 ‘Did You not pour me out like milk
And curdle me like cheese;
11 Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews?
12 ‘You have granted me life and lovingkindness;
And Your care has preserved my spirit.
Psalm 139:13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.
I would suggest a serious study of the Ephesian text. God chose us from the beginning because He foreknew (knew what He wanted to do) and predestined us (set His plan in motion) to accomplish His will for His good pleasure. Each one of us is here for God's purpose at the right time and place, to enact God's will.
I can't even begin to calculate how you arrived at 13,000 years even using a "day is like a 1,000 years". If this were true, then shouldn't Genesis state that it took God 13 days to create Adam?
As for unsubstantiated opinions or established facts, I learned a long time ago that the only thing that is an established fact is the Word of God. It is the Pearl of Great Price. Everything else is suspect and should be treated as such. We are to conform the world around us to the Scriptures. We do not conform the Scriptures to what the world tells us. I don't need a scientist to tell me there are 77 different sexes when the Scriptures tell me there are only two. And I know what "scientists" would tell me about a virgin birth. But I trust them when I have to drive over a bridge that they got their math straight.
Does this mean the Bible has the answers to wooly manmoths or dinosaurs? No. All I know is that whatever one wants to conjure up about them is just nothing more than pure speculation. No one knows and there isn't any way to prove anything one way or the other.
Finding a good church these days is difficult. I would suggest listening to John MacArthur's sermons at
www.gty.org or Alistair Begg at
www.truthforlife.org. They are free and you can get them on YouTube. Both are very learned men and have a lot on the ball. I don't always agree with everything, but they are a great resource.
