DaddySatyr
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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance There is a scripture in I Peter (I think) that touches on time, in Reference to God. (Paraphrased from memory): ...a day is as to a thousand years to God, even as a thousand years is as a day to God... our sense of time is based on our mortal understanding. If there is a Creator, a being outside of that constrained understanding, it would likely experience "time" differently. Again, I'm uncomfortable debating religion. I don't know any one "truth" to be right or wrong. quote:
ORIGINAL: bounty44 that point there winsome, in terms of the "days" in the genesis account of creation, is something that the "young earth" people and the "old earth" people talk about quite a bit and the verse from peter is something that is discussed. the crux of the matter is going back to the original language itself, and how it was used in context, in order to understand the best rendering in English, while at the same time, taking into consideration other aspects of scripture (kinda like what you are hinting at). For my 2¢ (and no. I'm not attempting a debate; just adding understanding, I hope), a priest explained to me, when I was but a wee scad: If God is eternal, if He truly has no beginning or end, then He lives in a big, giant "now". He has no use for time." More directly, I think to your point, Winsome. Time would have to be a construct of man because God has no use for it. Add to that: Man would have no concept of more than one hundred years or so (depending upon how far back the writings go). But, then, I also believe that when man tries to explain the unexplainable, he usually fails, miserably. There's also a matter of the writer embellishing a bit, in order to show how miraculous the writer believes God to be. Peace, Michael
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