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I dont think thats necessarily true. In certain seasons in Alaska, for instance, the nights can last only a few seconds.
Also, there are different periods of time in Earths history, the tropical era, the ice age, the molten era... it would take more in depth research to figure out how that would all work though and I dont have that kind of expertise. But, all the same, God could have created the world in a much different way than we might have thought, and we cant really know what he did. He could have done it any way he wanted, he has control over time and space and physics.
I believe Adam was a literal person. He was the first fully evolved modern man.
I dont understand the reference to Armageddon though.
Like I stated, I dont know how it happened exactly, but I dont think a day and night cycle requires an equal amount of night as day. There are extremely long days in Alaska during the summer. It depends on how the earth was tilted. Maybe it was rotating in such a way that Pangaea was in the north (the land mass was one so the other side of earth wouldnt need light) and experiencing nights that only lasted a couple hours and days that lasted billions of years. Its too complex to know really.So you believe ALL the animals would be able to survive along with the plant life for thousands of years? Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
Also, there was no "man" before Adam. Adam was the first man. For God had formed him out of the dust of the ground.
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." (Genesis 2:7).
In other words, if God wanted to keep mankind on the Earth, surely he could have kept one man or person alive or have a baby start the new generation without having to form Adam out of the dust of the ground.
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Like I stated, I dont know how it happened exactly, but I dont think a day and night cycle requires an equal amount of night as day. There are extremely long days in Alaska during the summer. It depends on how the earth was tilted. Maybe it was rotating in such a way that Pangaea was in the north (the land mass was one so the other side of earth wouldnt need light) and experiencing nights that only lasted a couple hours and days that lasted billions of years. Its too complex to know really.
If I took some tin and made a can, thats a tin can, right? Now assume I smash the can andmake it into a necklace. Ask me what its made of and I will say I made it out of tin. The fact that I first turned it into a can doesnt change the fact that it made out of tin, and if God took some dust and made animals out of it which evolved into humans, they are still made of clay.
Days are based on revolutions around the sun. Without the sun the word is completely relative. Why on earth do you think a day must mean 24 hours when on other planets a day can mean 58 days of earth time?No. It is mumbo jumbo. The text says, "And the evening and the morning were the first day." (Genesis 1:5). That is the context. The evening and the morning were literal days. These are DAY cycles of morning and evening as we are aware of it because night time was not introduced until day 4 with the creation of the sun, the stars, and the moon. Light would have been everywhere up until that point. But after that point, you cannot have long cycles of night on Day 4 having an evening and morning lasting thousands of years (because it would be a cause of trouble for all life). Nowhere in Scripture is an evening and morning used as reference for a long period of time when talking about a day. Evening and morning is the CONTEXT of the word day.
The Bible says love not the world. This is talking about the world system. Macro Evolution (Not Micro-Evolution) is a theory (not fact) taught by the world. Macro Evolution is the theory used to try and disprove a belief in God and belief in the Bible. The Bible and Macro-Evolution are not in agreement with each other.
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Days are based on revolutions around the sun. Without the sun the word is completely relative. Why on earth do you think a day must mean 24 hours when on other planets a day can mean 58 days of earth time?
If evolution is one of the strongest explanatory theories in any academic field, I mean, the evidence is simply overwhelming, how do Christians reconcile this?
Days are based on revolutions around the sun. Without the sun the word is completely relative. Why on earth do you think a day must mean 24 hours when on other planets a day can mean 58 days of earth time?
In Gods word all the way. Like I stated, it is based on Genesis that I started believing in Evolution. When I first started believing in an old earth-and Ive seen those videos by Eric Hovind, btw, I used to be totally for the young earth interpretation of creation-it was when I sat down and decided to write an article against Evolution. I started with Genesis, of course, but my search ended there because I noticed something funny about Genesis.Also, it is bad theology when you try to fit man's way of thinking with God's Word. Never try to cram outside ideas into the Bible. It just never works. True Science is something you can observe, test, and repeat. You cannot prove Maco-Evolution because the it is simply a theory that requires lots of time (that we cannot observe) in order to make it work.
So where is your faith? In worldly scientists who propose theories or is it in God's Word as it is plainly written?
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God defines days in verse 5 as light and darkness night. If the sun wasnt created until day 4 what did he mean when he said light and day and morning?Because the scriptures were written to us, not to someone on Mercury
or Jupiter. Don't you think the one who created time knows exactly how
much passed at any given point?
That doesnt say anything about evolution at all. Thats talking about how we will die and be ressurrected in a spiritual body. All bodies are different, but that doesnt mean they didnt proceed from the same origin. Now if a celestial or spiritual body is different than a terrestial body, and yet a celestial body proceeds from a terrestial body when it dies, why cant the flesh of man proceed from the flesh of animals?The following verses (below) is a very clear indication the bible is in direct opposition to the false lie of evolution.
(1 Corinthians 15:38-41 (KJV))
"But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory."
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God defines days in verse 5 as light and darkness night. If the sun wasnt created until day 4 what did he mean when he said light and day and morning?
It WAS a literal day based on light and dark cycles, but they lasted longer than they do today because our orbit around the sun wasnt established yet.
That doesnt say anything about evolution at all. Thats talking about how we will die and be ressurrected in a spiritual body. All bodies are different, but that doesnt mean they didnt proceed from the same origin. Now if a celestial or spiritual body is different than a terrestial body, and yet a celestial body proceeds from a terrestial body when it dies, why cant the flesh of man proceed from the flesh of animals?
The chart is based on their interpretation of what they think Genesis means. But more detailed accounts of Creation as outlined in the Book of Enoch are in total agreement with the theory of Evolution, and thats amazing considering it is supposedly the oldest book ever written. The account in Genesis is simplistic, but Enoch goes into more detail, yet still is compatible with Genesis. Enoch states God used an "aeon" to create the universe-a super dense being a lot like the singularity in the theory of Evolution. God told it to, and it exploded and created the foundation for the universe, a lot like the big bang theory of today.Also, check out this chart within the link below. It shows how Creation and Evolution are not compatible.
http://clearviewbaptist.us/faith/CreationVsEvolutionChart.htm
(Please take note: This does not mean I endorse or believe everything this website teaches; I am merely in agreement with their chart).
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Thats their explanation of it, but they probably didnt take into account the possibility that God may have actually taken several planets in his hands and rolled them into a single ball like a potter uses lumps of clay to form a larger piece of pottery. That probably wasnt considered.We might as well be accurate about what science is telling us. According to the science, the earth came about through accumulation of numerous smaller bodies that were circling about an already established central body, our sun. So the earth never existed except at times that its orbit was established around the sun.
Years are based on revolutions around the sun. Days are based on rotations of the earth. The earth rotates once per day. It revolves around the sun once per year.Days are based on revolutions around the sun. Without the sun the word is completely relative. Why on earth do you think a day must mean 24 hours when on other planets a day can mean 58 days of earth time?
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