HI, thanks for the reply.
The creation week man only came onto the scene on the sixth day, meaning that God is talking about a God day, that the creation week took 7,000 years, the creationists believe they were 24 hour days, making the earth by the genologies of man, to be 6,000 years old. When you add 6,000 years to the 7,000 years you come to the beginning of the creation week when God causes the sun to be a light to be 13,000 years ago, etc...
OK, there seems to be a few problems with your counting that perhaps you could clarify for me.
I am quite happy to go with a day being a thousand years to God, I have no problem with that. But the sun was created on day 4, which would make it, by your calculations, 10,000 years, that being 4 ‘God Days’ of a thousand years plus the 6000 of the genealogies.
Also, if a day is like a thousand years to God then why isn’t a year like 365,000 years to God?
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say that the universe is the 7 creation days plus 6000 x 365 days which would total 2 190 000, plus the 7000 years of creation week = 2 197 000 years? (I haven’t bothered about leap years because I hate maths!)
I don’t see how you can have a day equalling a thousand years for one part of the Bible then suddenly taking a day to be 24 hours in the rest of the Bible, why the inconsistency?
Thanks.
Brian.