If E = mc2 then we can divide and conclude that...
Mass (m) = Energy (E/c2)
And there are three varieties...
Natural E/c2 - All mass is basically cooled plasma
Mental E/c2 - Our brains output is a result of E/c2
Spiritual E/c2 - E (motivation, love) / c2 (faith, hope, charity, joy)
The bible calls God the Father, "The Father of Lights." I can imagine that God can dissociate mass into plasma and re-associate it to mass to his liking. And it is about ready to happen again...
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. - 2 Peter 3:10
I am thinking that billions of years took place between the place where God said, "Let there be light!" Disassociating the formless mass into plasma, and to the place where God divided the light and the darkness by putting the earth in orbit around the sun.
I am thinking that billions of years took place between the place where God said, "Let there be light!"
I am Trusting ~
Gen.1
[1] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
The WHO, is revealed; God
The WHAT, is revealed; His creations
The HOW, is revealed; His Spirit which is POWER; His speaking which is His WORD.
The WHEN is revealed; The Beginning of His creations
Gen 1
[2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
[3] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Gen.2
[1] Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
[2] And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Heb.4
[12] For the word of God is quick...
I find NOTHING in Scripture that remotely implies "billions of years".