branchofthevine
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I am no scientist, so I cannot provide any details in that regard, but there is a text in Exodus echoed elsewhere which says "the Lord, the Lord God [...] keeping mercy for thousands.... (Exodus 34:7). I should say that this something I learned from one of my professors who is fluent in Hebrew and wrote his doctorate in Hebrew but no one was smart enough in North America to mark it, so it was sent to Israel, anyways he was saying in our Pentateuch class that the phrase "for thousands" is to be understood as thousands of generations, being in contrast to the "third and fourth generations" in the same verse.
This passage is also God's self revelation, basically God is saying this about Himself. He says He keeps mercy for thousands of generations which would be at least 30,000 years.
So for me personally I won't believe that the earth is any less than 30,000 thousand years old.
This passage is also God's self revelation, basically God is saying this about Himself. He says He keeps mercy for thousands of generations which would be at least 30,000 years.
So for me personally I won't believe that the earth is any less than 30,000 thousand years old.
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