It seems appropriate to placing fully intended boundaries upon a time frame shortly to be established, according to that very time frame.
To what end other than narrative purposes?
Not to mention appropriate to the understanding of beings whose only experience will be within those very time frames as well. Having being created after they were established by the word of God.
No sun required for a period of time defined solely ever based on the movement of the earth vis-a-vis the sun.
Right.
As far as the poles go, we do not even know if earths original land masses were at the poles
We know when the sun was created, though, don't we
Why would I want to square Peter away for a reference about God which is no doubt very true.
Except during the Creation, which
had to happen in solar days when there was no sun for the benefit of humans not yet created.
As we used to say in the Old Counytty, "Do what?"/
What is time to Him who has no beginning or end.
Except for Creation, when He had to to it in 6 solar days.
Time is relevant to us as created beings according to His own purposes, we most certainly are subject to it this side of heaven.
And the time it took to create the universe is very important because... reasons.
The statement was not made concerning the length of creation days, but rather future scoffers who would deny the global flood and coming future judgement.
I'm sorry, what? By giving the scoffers something else to scoff at? And thern you quote St Peter saying that God doesn't reckon time as we do yo demonstrate your belief and contention that God
must reckon time
precisely as we do!
Who are you to say that the above scriptures are all I need to know about Creation
Jipsah, Son of Haeja. And what is lacking in St John's account? He tells us that our Lord Christ Himself created all that exists, and is thus God Himself. Was thetre further information there you believe he should have imparted? Like an extra sun to make the Genesis account "work"?
, in direct contradiction to the word of God Himself which provides far more information about it?
I'm sorry, is John 1 not part of God's Word? Hmmmm...
Who do you think you are?
Jipsah, Son of... oh, we've been over that. So you believe that we desperately need to know how long it took God, in human terms (really?) to create the universe, even if your schedule requires, shall we say,
modification, (the addition of a pre-sun sun) for even your lot to accept it as true
God Himself said -
Exo 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying
Yep. based on the Genesis narrative, told in sybolic "days" that weren't human/solar "days" at all. No sun, no evenings, no mornings, and God is not, was not, nor ever will be, restricted by human reckoning of time at all, in whatever increments you choose.
Do you really think I am going to ignore the words of God above
No, you're just going to make them
say what youy reckon they should, and then rail at folks who look at God's actual Creation and notice that it sure does look a whole lot older than that. Wow, ya think?
, because you have suggested I do so because that is all I need to know?
WEll yeah, I reckon that it's Really Important for you to "know" that the universe is only 6000 years old because otherwise you might be mistaken for one of those folks who've dedicated their lives to studying the actual universe that God created and found that it's really, really unlikely that it's anything like that new, and that it sure looks like He spent a goof few millions years . Y'all know He got it done in less than a week from preliminary design to final release.
Now it helps a lot that you get to ignore Scripture's insistance that God isn't stuck in time as we are, and that in fact, rather than being bound in time - brace yourself now -
He created it. Oh, but a week is a week"! Really? What watch was God looking at? He is, and always has been, always will be.
No sun to reckon time by - He created it. No moon to calculate month'as by. He made them. No animals to be born, grow old,and die. He created them. No ga;axies to spin up and run down. He built them. No seasons. No aeons. Npne of the "stuf" we thkiink of as the universe; no universe. No space; no time.
Oh, but Creation of all that took 6 days, whatever that meant when only God existed.
Six literal, (oh yes, it must be
literal) "days:. And then God could knock off and go on to His next project.
And you want to tell
me to get a grip? You're flogging a religion where God is just this bloke who just created everything, Took Him a week, Pieve o' cake. None of this millions of years stuff; easy peasy.
And this is what
Christiians are supposed to believe,
literally? Please
Why should anyone else be limited in their understanding or sharing of the word of God
Yeah, all you have to do is reduce it to the level understood by preliterate hunter-gatherers and declare thet to be the eternal truth of God.
, by the limitations you have set upon yourself?
You much prefer placing absurd limits on God and His creation.
