Fezzilla and NobleMouse,
Your response to my use of Psalm 90:4 is flippant and cannot be taken seriously.
The first four verses of Psalm 90 deal with the creation of the world. They could be called a recapitulation of the creation story, or perhaps a shorter version of it. I did not lift the Scripture that "a thousand years are a day" out of one context and apply it to another. Psalm 90 itself applies the "thousand years are a day" concept to the creation of the earth by God. Instead of giving a sensible response, we see the "Fourth Commandment" dragged in, although it has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
NobleMouse correctly points out that the "thousand years are a day" idea also appears in 2 Peter 3:8.
The notion that the "day" of the Six Days of Creation are not literal but refer to a longer time period is not a human idea. It is in the Bible, it is mentioned in Psalm 90:4 and that Psalm specifically connects this idea to God's creative power and the creation story.
Both passages listed,
Bible Gateway passage: Psalm 90:1-5 - Modern English Version
Bible Gateway passage: 2 Peter 3:1-9 - Modern English Version
...share the same context and interpreted the same way. It does not say that God is slow acting, but rather that from God's Eternal standpoint that time is relative. So with God a thousand years is like a day and a day is like a thousand years.
In Psalm 90:4, the word translated "day" in the NIV is Strong's H865 אֶתְמוֹל ʼethmôwl which means yesterday. These two passages do not define Strong's H3117 יוֹם yôwm, which is used in both Genesis 1 -- days of creation -- and the 4th Commandment. Those two passages also share the same context with the 4th Commandment defining yom in earth standard time. So even if you wanted to claim that each day of creation was a 1000 years you still only get 6000 years of creation week and not millions of years. But as I mentioned before, the Jews worked for 6 days and rested from their labors on the 7th day. Here we are obviously talking about 7 literal days. God's power and promise is not slack/slow. Jesus calmed the storm by His Command. The storm immediately ceased afterword and it did not take days or thousands of years for the storm to respond to His Command. Jesus rose from the dead in three days just as He said He would and as prophesy declared He would rise:
"After two days He will revive us.
On the third day He will raise us up,
that we may live before Him."
~ Hosea 6:2
Here again we are dealing with Strong's H3117 יוֹם yôwm which was meant to mean 3 literal days and not 3,000 years. For if we accept the OEC interpretation then Christ is still dead and has not been raised yet because OEC sees God as slow acting.
So back to our two main passages of discussion:
Bible Gateway passage: Psalm 90:1-5 - Modern English Version
Bible Gateway passage: 2 Peter 3:1-9 - Modern English Version
Many the OEC side go further and claim 2 Peter 3:1-9 includes some mythical Lucifer's flood which has zero support. But they use this in their 3 earth age theory which itself is well refuted in Revelation 21:1,
"Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth.” For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no more sea."
We our obviously living in the first earth age. Therefore the Flood mentioned in Psalm 90:5 and 2 Peter 3:5-6 are clear references to Noah's Flood which accounts for "long ago" (2 Peter 3:5) being in connection to "by which the world that then existed" (2 Peter 3:6)..."was flooded with water and perished."
Yet that same world survived with Noah's ark and thus continued the 1st earth age with a history all the ancients would divide by the Flood.
I know all about OEC interpretations of the Bible and just see them as a 20th century compromise with evolution. I see no validity in Scripture for such teachings. I've been YEC for 16 years and have no problem harmonizing Scripture with knowable science. I also do not fears evolution theory nor am I intimidated by the pseudo-intellectuals who so smugly force it on people. I trust God over corrupt minds. I do not even consider atheists intelligent people because they do not behave nor speak intelligently. Even God Himself spoke through the Psalmist and twice called atheists stupid:
Psalm 14:1, "THE fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."
Psalm 53:1, "THE foolish body hath said in his heart, There is no God."
The Apostle Paul further prophesies about atheists in the final days in Romans 1:18-32 and their relativism which comes through accepting evolution. Their foolish is so extreme that they stir up the wrath of God.
People often misinterpret the Antichrist as being super-technological, super-smart, super-advanced -- when in reality the Antichrist will be super-dumb, lacking all knowledge, wisdom and common sense. The Antichrist will merely have power over people as the civilized world fades into a sort of Mad Max type world where lawlessness rules.
Atheists demand that we worship them. I will not worship them as the gods. There are no gods. There is just God. So I refuse to bow and worship foolish men who's words & actions take us backwards instead of forwards. Best evidence against evolution theory is the current state of Europe. Enough said. If evolution were true then evolution run Europe would not ever have fallen to brutal and barbaric Islamic jihad fighters. Buts jihadists have taken Europe without a struggle because atheists gave Europe to the muslims as an apology for Europe's great success when they were still Christian nations.
Furthermore, God spoke through David and once again mentions atheism:
Psalm 100:3,
"Know that the Lord, He is God;
it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture."
Atheists believe they are the gods who socially engineer creation through political paradigms that force atheism. Atheism is entirely a man-made religion that goes back to the sun-cults and god-kings, where mere mortal men of corrupt mind desired worship as atheists demand today.
So when you have seen enough lies and mental incompetents from atheists who cannot understand the most elementary Bible verses, who live with no morals and who force theirs lawlessness on to others through one scam after the other, you learn that they are of corrupt minds and there is no truth found in their theory which for them is merely a means of enslaving all humanity with the repeated stupidity of Socialism which, of course, elevates less than 1% of the human race as gods among beggars.
The more you study the ancient world through ancient texts, the more you see the modern world has fallen for the mysticism of the ancient god-kings which today we find in modern evolution theory. There is nothing new under the sun.