Featured Old earth or young earth?

And yet, there was Harold Camping who held to the verses that say "to the Lord, a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as a day"; and came to the conclusion that each day of creation was a thousand years long, and preached such for decades.

He's dead now; but how would you answer his followers if they asked you on a street corner?

 

However you forget the next simile (see above).

Similes do mean something. IOW when it comes to the passage of time with the Lord time measurement may very well come in unequal literal equivalences.

HankD

 

Would say that the Bible supports ,ore of a younger earth model, but no date, as that 6000 yrs came from Ussher!

And this is no issue to have one proved to be saved or not by, as it is not an issue to divide over!

 

I myself struggle with the question of whether the earth is young or old.

For me the most sound argument for new Believers like myself for a young earth is to say the world has apparent age. That God made the universe to seem old, but that we had to take it on faith that His Word is true.

If not, think of it, we prove the Bible true to all other theologies with simple instrument measurements. That is an enemy of faith, and thus I see why God would give us apparent age in such a way to disprove other religions, which are imaginary theologies and gods.

 

Are you sure? Wasn't Peter quoting David from Psalm 90?

 

Man, I skimmed right over that phrase.

Shame on you, John. You know that's not true. What they don't like is placing equal--or more--emphasis on other books.

 

You just do not get it event though it is right in front of you. No one is against reading books, in fact we all most likely have a long reading list. The problem is not that we do not like reading books but we take issue with how you use them. You sincerely seem ignorant of the proper role of books, when to use them to support your claim, and how to use them to do the same. It seems like I remember you have some formal training but something went amiss in your training. No legitimate professor of any legitimate and accredited school teaches their students to wield books the way you do. Now you have either been taught wrong or you have been slow on the uptake with regards to how you have been taught. Considering how you have misrepresented what some have said to you I lean towards the latter. Young man you need some discipleship and training. As things are you continue to show your ignorance.

 

This is a problem I have with apologetics. By using science to prove a point, even if you are right, you have answered fools according to their folly! (Proverbs 26:4-5) In this case rationalism. Of course, he will retreat to his scientific counterexamples and think himself wiser than you.

 

I said it to you and I was absolutely correct. I did not say the Earth was or was not young. I said you would lose them at the point you dogmatically insisted The Earth was young. Just bluntly speaking, the reason YOU would lose them at that point is because YOU can't defend it. All you can do is talk about books and links.