I see you are Methodist. The UMC is rather liberal and no mainline Protestant Church teaches the earth is only 6,000 year old. Ask your own pastor, read, and do your own research.I have someone telling me that the earth is only 6,000 years old. Now I understand that a little bit but I wonder where the dinosaurs came from? I know there is a YEC who calls himself Dr Dino but I can not research why he uses this name because his videos have been removed.
Yes....but were those creatures Dinosaurs are we understand them?In the book of job there are mentions of behemoth and the great leviathan, so God did create the dinosaurs and giant sea creatures. But the book of Genesis makes it very clear that God created every living thing that has been on earth. People try to argue there was a time before Adam and Eve, but there is no biblical proof of it and they are using that theory to try to explain what happened to the dinosaurs and try to explain where demons came from. I personally believe we just hunted them away. Just like many of the animals that have become extinct, like wholly mammoths, dinosaur fell victim mankind.
As for the earth being 6000 years old, that is hard to say because there are estimates from people who have taken the ages and time-frames mention in the Bible and added them together to get an estimate of 6000 years. The bible does give good genealogical accounts of peoples ancestry and so that's how they came to their answer. The bible mentions the ancestry from Adam to Jesus in great detail, and then we just add the 2024 from there.
I Peter 3:5 "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heaven were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:"Jesus, and Moses, the Apostles Paul, Peter, James and John did not teach that the earth is billions of years old.
Mammals existed before man. "Generations come and go, yet the earth endures forever" (Ecclesiastes 1:3–5).
We read "God said" twice. So He created one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Even they were the same day they were seperate creations. Although we are mammals.So only for a very short time, as many was the last living being to be created
2 Peter 3:1-10I Peter 3:5 "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heaven were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:"
You might believe that 6 or 7 thousand years is old, but many don't see it the same way. I see this as Peter teaching the heaven and earth are very old -much older than 6 or 7 thousand years.
ἔκπαλαι is an ancient Greek adverb that means “long ago” or “in the distant past.” It’s a beautiful word that evokes a sense of timelessness and nostalgia. We see this word twice in what Peter is telling us. This is translated "long ago" and "old". Peter tells us a day is 1,000 years. Not a 24 hour day as some pre suppose. The age or era we live in began 13,000 years ago. The earth was covered with ice.2 Peter 3:1-10
This passage of Scripture references OT prophecy, as well as the Great Flood. Therefore, those times are the Heavens of old to which the Apostle Peter was writing about.
We read "God said" twice. So He created one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Even they were the same day they were seperate creations. Although we are mammals.
Moses himself tells us that a day is 1,000 years. Science tells us that the earth is billions of years old. I am amazed at how Awesome God is. A day is a 24 hour day. In the north pole a day can be 24 of light or 24 of darkness. A day can mean 1,000 years. An example of this is the kingdom age or the 1,000 year reign of Christ refered to as a day. A day can also be 8 billion years. Because the Bible says in the Beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. We know the uiniverse is 13.8 billion years old and the earth is 4.5 billion years old. That means day one is 9.2 billion years old.pJesus, and Moses, the Apostles Paul, Peter, James and John did not teach that the earth is billions of years old.
Every partical in creation, past present and future is connected in real time. This is called entanglement, Disney calls it the circle of life.land animals did not "evolve" into humans.
Moses himself tells us that a day is 1,000 years. Science tells us that the earth is billions of years old. I am amazed at how Awesome God is. A day is a 24 hour day. In the north pole a day can be 24 of light or 24 of darkness. A day can mean 1,000 years. An example of this is the kingdom age or the 1,000 year reign of Christ refered to as a day. A day can also be 8 billion years. Because the Bible says in the Beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. We know the uiniverse is 13.8 billion years old and the earth is 4.5 billion years old. That means day one is 9.2 billion years old.
We can go on all day about how amazing the universe is, how amazing God is. Even our brain is designed to marvel at the wonders of it all. If 9.2 billion years is a day to God, that is amazing. Of course we know God is outside of time. We know that the universe is expanding. If as you say the universe was created in an instant, something so huge and immence that is amazing also.
Either way this all brings praise, honor and glory to God. If you are an expert on day. Why don't you telll us what the day of the lord is.
I heard the magnetic field could reverse itself. Maybe someday north will be south and south will be north on the compass. They do say it is possible that the magnetic field has an effect on the atmosphere and oxygen levels. God has all of that under control. In fact the universe is very fine tuned.Since measuring began in 1845, the total energy stored in the earth’s magnetic field has been decaying at a rate of 5% per century
I heard the magnetic field could reverse itself. Maybe someday north will be south and south will be north on the compass. They do say it is possible that the magnetic field has an effect on the atmosphere and oxygen levels. God has all of that under control. In fact the universe is very fine tuned.
You are looking at the rate of erosion but how long did it take for those layers to be formed and why is there erosion now? Also, we see is red from oxygen. What took place before the great oxygen event when things did not turn red as there was no oxygen. Utah is dessert, When it rains is pours but it is rare or seldom it rains in that state. I lived there for three years. I loved to ski in the mountains. By the way, how long did it take for those mountains to form? Moses talks about a time before the mountain's.For example, with the rate of erosion, these structures would have long been destroyed and turned to dust.
The stars were made in the beginning on day one. Daniel 12 3 "Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever."Stars were made day 4.
They have no problem with an eternal future, just a past that goes back before the mountains.You might believe that 6 or 7 thousand years is old,
Mountains were formed during the flood event, when pangea broke up, so yes there was an earth before the mountains. There were only hills and smaller mountains in the pre flood world. The "ancient mountains" and everlasting hills are places like the Appalachians and the Ozarks in the US and comparable small mountains elsewhere.You are looking at the rate of erosion but how long did it take for those layers to be formed and why is there erosion now? Also, we see is red from oxygen. What took place before the great oxygen event when things did not turn red as there was no oxygen. Utah is dessert, When it rains is pours but it is rare or seldom it rains in that state. I lived there for three years. I loved to ski in the mountains. By the way, how long did it take for those mountains to form? Moses talks about a time before the mountain's.
Psalm 90 1 A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations. 2 Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
What does this mean before the mountains from everlasting to everlasting? In Genesis we read about ancient mountains and age-old hills. What do these words mean that Moses when Moses says: "ancient mountains'", "ever lasting hills"?
Genesis 49:26 Your father’s blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty of the ever lasting hills."
Deuteronomy 33 15 with the best of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills,
If Moses talks about God being eternal, ancient or everlasting, no problem there. But when Moses talks about the mountains being ancient and everlasting, all of a sudden we have problems.
Plate technotics was a theory 50 years ago. But it has been proven and established now.
Mountains form where two continental plates collide. Since both plates have a similar thickness and weight, neither one will sink under the other. Instead, they crumple and fold until the rocks are forced up to form a mountain range. As the plates continue to collide, mountains will get taller and taller.
When they say as old as the hills, they mean old. The hills, those stoic sentinels, bear witness to eons of time. You talk about the erosion rate and that is fine. But how long did it take for those mountains to be formed so that they could erode? Do you know that we find fossils of shells from the ocean on the top of mountains? They like talking about the shells on the top of mountains as evidence of a world wide flood.
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