What Are Your Thoughts on Apparent Age

It seems you are stuck in the flawed interpretation of ancient Hebrew theologians. Genesis 2:4-9 clearly shows that Lord God/Jesus formed Adam from the dust of the ground on the 3rd Day BEFORE plants, herbs, rain and Trees, which were made to go into the Garden where He placed the man. Your view is thus refuted (proven wrong) Scripturally. Try again?

 

It doesn't even come close to showing that and it is STUPID to think that it does. Perhaps you are just too ignorant to know any better.

 

Yeah none of this has to do with Genesis.

 

I hold closely with Ussher's dating method...
That the earth is roughly 6-7 thousand years old.

I don't really know if I agree or disagree.

I do, however, believe that most scientists today are in denial.
They hold the truth in unrighteousness ( Romans 1:18 ).

I'm also willing to concede that there may be an "apparent age" to the universe, but that it's much better to believe God's word than "what seems to be".

In my opinion, they always do and always will.

To me, "theistic evolution" is nothing more than a compromise between man's attempts to discover the age of Creation, and God's declarations as found in Genesis.

You won't get that same reaction from me.

But, I must ask..."what is apparent age, exactly?"
That things were designed by God to look old?

I'm more genuinely curious, than anything.

Take the amount of surface dust on the Moon...
Not much deeper than a boot tread, according to astronaut accounts.

If it were billions of years old, there would be a lot more meteoric dust having been accumulated.
That doesn't "look old" to me.

Then again, 6,000 years isn't exactly a short time, as far as humanity is concerned.
Lots of things can happen in that amount of time.
For example, scientists have only recently admitted that fossilization occurs rapidly and under tons of pressure...

Not over a terribly long period of time, as previously maintained.

 

Yes, you think it make so much more sense that out of nothing, the whole universe appeared in the size of less than a pea, and a split second later, the visible portion grew to 85 billion light years across. It was Ptolemy's secular science, not the Bible, that caused the persecution of Galileo.

 

I see nothing in God's word to make me doubt that He spoke everything into existence in 6 literal days.

If He says it was nothing at one time ( which it was ), and appeared, all laid out in an orderly fashion within the space of that time, then I believe it.

 

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It seems you are stuck in the flawed interpretation of ancient Hebrew theologians. Genesis 2:4-9 clearly shows that Lord God/Jesus formed Adam from the dust of the ground on the3rd Day BEFORE plants, herbs, rain and Trees, which were made to go into the Garden where He placed the man. Your view is thus refuted (proven wrong) Scripturally. Try again?

False, as the verses clearly show IF you actually read them:

Gen 2:4 ¶ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

The Earth was made on the 3rd Day according to Genesis 1:9-10 Plants, herbs and Trees GREW on the 3rd Day according to Genesis 1:12. The verse above is definitely speaking of the 3rd Day.


Gen 2:7 ¶ And the LORD God formed man (Hebrew-Adam) of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Conclusion: On the 3rd Day the SAME Day the LORD made Earth, but BEFORE the plants, herbs and Trees GREW, the LORD made Adam of the dust of the ground and gave him life. Do you believe it was any other Day than the 3rd? If so, show chapter and verse. In order to confirm this conclusion, read the next 2 verses:

Gen 2:8 ¶ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree (Genesis 1:12) that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

As even a fourth grader can see, Adam was made from the dust, on the 3rd Day. Can you refute these verses or will you continue to call me names because I can read them?

 

It confirms the prophecy of Genesis 1:28-31 which you cannot understand. God is STILL creating mankind (Adam) in His Image or Spiritually in Christ as Genesis 1:27 states UNLESS you can show us that God has rested from ALL of His work of creating in the past. Waiting.....

 

Yep

 

God made Adam and Eve (Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:21-25) on the 6th day (Genesis 1:26-31). A second grader can understand that.

 

False. God (Elohim-The Trinity) created Adam and Eve in His Image, which is a Spiritual creation.
Adam was "formed" physically on the 3rd Day by LORD God (YHWH). Genesis 2:4-9
Eve was made from Adam's rib on the 6th Day by LORD God. Genesis 2:22

BOTH Adam and Eve were created Spiritually, or born again in Christ, on the Day of Salvation, the present 6th Day/Age. Genesis 1:27 Genesis 5:1-2 John 14:16 God The Trinity, is an invisible Spirit, which NO man has ever seen. LORD God was seen by many people in both the Old and New Testaments. You have confused Adam's Spiritual birth with his Physical birth.

 

Un Scriptural since Adam's firmament, (1st Heaven) was made the 2nd Day. Genesis 1:8
The present 2nd Heaven was made on the 3rd Day. Genesis 2:4
The 3rd Heaven was also made on the 3rd Day. Genesis 2:4

The Stars were made on the 4th Day, Genesis 1:16 which was 180 million years, in man's time, AFTER the big bang of the present Universe. Scripture and Science AGREE if you have the correct interpretation.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com › news › 2018/02 › first-stars-univers...Feb 28, 2018

 

Except those verses ARE NOT PROPHECY.

 

This shows your basic lack of understanding to know what Chapter 2 is talking about. It's not a full recounting of the creation week. That is chapter 1.

 

You can believe nonsense if you want to.

I believe Genesis 1 to be literally true, but not as you do.

 

Then tell us when in the past that ALL living creatures were vegetarians. You cannot.

 

What you don't know is that the FIRST 34 verses of Genesis tell us the complete HISTORY of God's 7 Day Creation, including events which take place AFTER Jesus returns at the Rapture. The entirety of the rest of the Bible from Genesis 2:4 to the end of Revelation "adds details" to the outline of the 7 Days/Ages of the Creation. The creation story ends at Genesis 2:3 when God rests or ceases to create from ALL of His work. That is WHY no one can explain WHY God would rest BEFORE His creation has been brought to perfection. God's rest is FUTURE to 2019.

 

Then please explain WHY God made 1 Heaven on the 2nd Day. Genesis 1:8 AND LORD God made other HeavenS (plural) on the 3rd Day. Genesis 2:4 This also explains the reference to the 3rd Heaven which is shown in 2 Corinthians 12:2 and Revelation 21:1. God's Truth in Genesis is the Truth in every way including scientifically, but ONLY the people of the last days have the increased knowledge to understand Genesis. Daniel 12:4