How do you guys deal with the scores of bible verses (I won't list them...) that conflict with scientific
It's valuable to know that the *actual* text is *not* like some of the popular assertions about the text!
Example -- In Genesis chapter 1, there is no statement of any kind, nor any information at all about how much time passes as God creates the Universe. Just look and see with your own eyes:
New International Version
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
New Living Translation
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
English Standard Version
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
New American Standard Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
King James Bible
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
International Standard Version
In the beginning, God created the universe.
NET Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
New Heart English Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
GOD'S WORD® Translation
In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
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See? No information about how much time. That is because the amount of time is *not* the point of Genesis chapter 1, but instead the amazing wonder of all that is, God's creation, and the march of life on Earth, our special planet He intended for us.
While I think about 9 billion years passed during verse 1, I consider it unimportant except only as a valuable point to make for those whose faith is shaken because they have been told wrongly that it's an absolute truth that all of creation was not only during 6 24 hour days but
more -- that these days were
consecutive and with
zero time gaps in between them, which are
presumptions that are
not in the text!
Instead, in this wonderful vision given about creation, I surmise (my view about what isn't in the text) that long periods of time, unspecified, likely passed between the various days. But that is
not actually important, and one could even think (as some do) God created in days with no time gaps between them, but created an appearance to the finest detail of the Earth being very old (over 4.5 billion years), as an intentional appearance (the view of some people, not me). See? There are
many diverse theories, but none matter!
What matters is that God is behind all things, and is the Alpha and the Omega, and we will all face Christ on the Day of accounting to come, and we can be redeemed even from all the wrongs we have done! Praise God.