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Are there any Young Earth Creationists on here?
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Yup.
Here be I
So, how old is the earth and how old is the universe?
What are you basing those figures on?
Ah, I've been waiting for you. Seen all your post, and lurked I jumped in hereSo let's get down to brass tack shall we.
How old is the universe? Don't know, don't care.
How old is the Earth? According to the Scriptures (God's Holy Word) about 12,000 years give or take sometime. Gen 1 and 2 Pet 3:8
If you like, but there is nothing about the age of the universe in the Bible. The first chapters of God's Word are about the Earth onlyYay?
Gen 1:1 says, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Day 1
Gen 1:10 says, "And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good." Day 3
Can I assume it the universe is 2 days younger than the earth then?
If you like, but there is nothing about the age of the universe in the Bible. The first chapters of God's Word are about the Earth only
It doesn't say when He made the stars it includes them in the verse. In fact it only calls the division of Day/Night the fourth day. They could have been there but covered up on Earth. The firmament does not have to be space but it could be the sky
No, just that He made them. Let's gander at the sentence:
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also
Yes God made them but it just doesn't say when, it does say He had the greater light ruled the day and the lesser rule the night. Now many Creations may disagree with me as an FYI but that it how I see itI'll be back in the morning
We'll just have to disagree.![]()
Yes. Just because you wrote you weeded in the same sentence does not necessarily mean you did. Now since your here to tell us you did, then of course you did. One thing is to remember the Bible was not written in English with English punctuation. There was none in the original autographs, so it can be interpreted a number of ways.
That's why there are so many opinions on what one verse or a set of verses says because we have to try and interpret what was said in the first place
Not really. It's your perception that it would, not reality. That is really what this is all about our perceptions, you perceive things one way so you want to disprove God. You percieve that if something is in order it must be that way, but again it's only perception. To really understand you would have to understand the original language which they even wrote differently.
Who's to say that they wrote it to be chronologically like you understand it. Ancient cultures did iterate a point in their writing and the point is that God created all. God as He said did within six days since I have the gift of faith from God I know this is what happened.