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A literal Genius Creation.
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Ben1445
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Do you mean like the ones who don’t believe the sun and moon were made on the fourth day like Genesis says?
I think I know someone who believes that some stars were destroyed before they were created because it takes that long for the light of a supernova to reach us.
But I couldn’t be sure of what everyone believes. I can’t keep everyone’s ideas straight.
David Lamb
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I find it a false argument to say that because light from stars, novae, etc. takes so long to reach earth, therefore the earth must be at least as old as the time light would take to reach us from the farthest stars we can see. God's stated purpose for creating sun, moon and stars is stated in Genesis 1:Do you mean like the ones who don’t believe the sun and moon were made on the fourth day like Genesis says?
I think I know someone who believes that some stars were destroyed before they were created because it takes that long for the light of a supernova to reach us.
But I couldn’t be sure of what everyone believes. I can’t keep everyone’s ideas straight.
(Gen 1:14 NKJV) Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;
(Gen 1:15) and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.
He didn't add, "But not yet. It will take X million years for the light from some of the stars to reach earth."
I believe that God created the stars with their light already reaching earth.
I believe in a literal 24 hrs a day, in literal six days of creation basing what verses below state.
God created the "winged bird and its kind" in the fifth day and inform them what their food on the sixth day.
If the interpretation is other than the 24hrs a day, or a period of time or etc, the question would be, when will be the next meal of every winged bird and its kind?
Gen 1:21 God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
Gen 1:23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
Gen 1:29 Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
Gen 1:30 and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.
Gen 1:31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.