ElBob

Smellycat, you are a hoot! I love to read your posts.

I will input, but will probably get bowed up for it!

First, it was 6 days, God rested on the 7th.

The length of His days. That is a deep subject. God is eternal and timeless. “His days” are not measurable. The Psalmist and Peter try to get us to understand this by saying a thousand years are like one day to God, because He is eternal and timeless.

In reality, time is relative. On the earth a day is 24 hours. On Jupiter a day is 9 hours and 51 minutes (earth time). I’m not trying to confuse the subject. Just input that when science measures something it uses the earth time standard, and therefore is flawed.

The reason I believe God’s days during creation were literal days, is because the Bible says, “So the evening and the morning were the first day, second day…” “The” is a definite article meaning one or a particular. Not “a day” but “the evening and the morning of the first, second, third day.” The evolutionists can’t believe it was possible to do so much in such a small amount of time. But the issue is not time. God did not NEED 6 days, He wasn’t operating on a time line.

The real issue is did God create or did creation create itself. Personally, even when I was an unbeliever, it took less faith to believe God created rather than creation created itself. I prefer to believe in God the Creator, than the gods of time and chance (Chronos and Fortuna or Tykhe), as do the evolutionists.

I have a wrist watch that my mother gave me, not that expensive but I really like it. I also have a knack for mechanical things and love to tinker and see how things work. You take the back of a watch and see all the little gears, springs and other moving parts and think, WOW, someone had to be pretty intelligent to design and create something like this. It never occurs to a reasonable, thinking individual that the watch just accidentally came together over millions of years. Yet, the watch is just an inanimate object without life, but man is alive and comparing his inner workings to the watch, even more astonishing!

The new heaven and new earth. Again, the point is not time. God created earth perfect, but man’s sin has crippled it, just as it crippled mankind. The new earth, is symbolic of new life, like we receive in Christ. Not reformed, but transformed. At the first creation the earth was without form and void, and God gave it form. Man’s sin has reformed it. God will now transform it into a new earth.

I think God uses these examples to illustrate His work in us. He created man without sin, in a perfect state, but sin has crippled us. Programs, laws and will power can reform us, but only God can transform us into a new creation, holy and acceptable to Him.

As for life on other planets? Who knows the mind of the Lord what He has going on in other places. Eve is the mother of all living, which kind of indicates that what is here is all there is. When Satan fell it was to earth, it’s not like there was another option. But I can’t be dogmatic about that one.

Forgive me, brother, for rambling. The creation and God’s working in mankind really blesses my heart. He is so awesome. “Bless the Lord, all His works, In all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!”

Amen! Beam me up, too!