rylan1
Active Member
Originally Posted by Clown Boy
Believing in Millions of Years
Does Not Fit with Romans
Many Christians claim to believe not only this verse from Romans but also something that
says exactly the opposite. They want to believe that the earth is very old and that the days of
the creation week were not really days but long periods of time. They say that during those
long periods of time--—way before God created Adam and Eve—animals, like dinosaurs
and others, roamed the earth. They want to believe both evolutionary scientists when they
say that the earth is billions of years old and the Bible when it indicates otherwise. That
desire gets them into theological trouble. If animals lived and died for millions of years
before Adam and Eve were created, then death came into the world long before mankind
even had a chance to sin. Death, therefore, could not be a result of Adam’s sin. However,
death before man cannot be because Romans says:
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." – Romans 5:12
The Bible makes it very clear that Adam and Eve’s sin caused death; it was not already a
part of the world when they were created.
Millions of Years of Death
"O death, where is thy sting? O grave,
where is thy victory? The sting of
death is sin; and the strength of sin is
the law. But thanks be to God, which
giveth us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ."
I Corinthians 15:55-57
This is something I struggle with a little bit as far as the age of the earth and that sort of thing. I however came to a new conlcusion that is kind of my own theory based on other theories that are out there. I can't prove it, but it kinda makes sense to me...
Take the theory of gravity and the theory of time & space. Gravity is essentially the force that holds things together and keeps our universe in balance... Time and space regulates gravity and is the counter force to gravity. I'm not a scientists and I only have a limited knowledge of the subject but time and space is manipulated by gravity and the mass of an object. Time and space is like a mattress for example that is flat, but can be bent(compressed) by placing a bowling ball on it. The amount of compression is caused by the mass of the object which is basically what gravity is... My theory is that since the Universe is now thought of by scientists to have started by the Big Bang... and once there was no gravity and that only God existed in space and time... that when the Universe was created it changed or created time... and time as we know it is skewd because as the Universe expands., it changes time from when the Universe was created.. time passed much more quickly than it does now... which is maybe why things such as fossils and the earth seem older than they actually are. So as the universe spreads out the mass of the universe affects time and space less than it did during the creation of the universe.
Does this make any sense ?
I know its not the best illustration...
Believing in Millions of Years
Does Not Fit with Romans
Many Christians claim to believe not only this verse from Romans but also something that
says exactly the opposite. They want to believe that the earth is very old and that the days of
the creation week were not really days but long periods of time. They say that during those
long periods of time--—way before God created Adam and Eve—animals, like dinosaurs
and others, roamed the earth. They want to believe both evolutionary scientists when they
say that the earth is billions of years old and the Bible when it indicates otherwise. That
desire gets them into theological trouble. If animals lived and died for millions of years
before Adam and Eve were created, then death came into the world long before mankind
even had a chance to sin. Death, therefore, could not be a result of Adam’s sin. However,
death before man cannot be because Romans says:
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." – Romans 5:12
The Bible makes it very clear that Adam and Eve’s sin caused death; it was not already a
part of the world when they were created.
Millions of Years of Death
"O death, where is thy sting? O grave,
where is thy victory? The sting of
death is sin; and the strength of sin is
the law. But thanks be to God, which
giveth us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ."
I Corinthians 15:55-57
This is something I struggle with a little bit as far as the age of the earth and that sort of thing. I however came to a new conlcusion that is kind of my own theory based on other theories that are out there. I can't prove it, but it kinda makes sense to me...
Take the theory of gravity and the theory of time & space. Gravity is essentially the force that holds things together and keeps our universe in balance... Time and space regulates gravity and is the counter force to gravity. I'm not a scientists and I only have a limited knowledge of the subject but time and space is manipulated by gravity and the mass of an object. Time and space is like a mattress for example that is flat, but can be bent(compressed) by placing a bowling ball on it. The amount of compression is caused by the mass of the object which is basically what gravity is... My theory is that since the Universe is now thought of by scientists to have started by the Big Bang... and once there was no gravity and that only God existed in space and time... that when the Universe was created it changed or created time... and time as we know it is skewd because as the Universe expands., it changes time from when the Universe was created.. time passed much more quickly than it does now... which is maybe why things such as fossils and the earth seem older than they actually are. So as the universe spreads out the mass of the universe affects time and space less than it did during the creation of the universe.
Does this make any sense ?
