As far as the age of the earth. I don't really have any issue with believing it could be 6-7 thousand years old.Originally Posted by mperry
Look at it this way. When God created Adam for example, he was a man not a newborn. If somehow you could have seen Adam on day two he would have appeared as a grown man. Any scientist would say he has to have lived at least 25-30 years and all "evidence" would reflect that.
Well everything else IMO would be the same. There were full grown trees that were created, that IMO if cut down would have had rings for how old God chose them to be when he made them, just as Adam was a grown man. Similarly I believe that the mountains would have shown evidence of being what age God chose them to be.
However there is one verse that allows for the earth to be older, but yet not man.
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; Genesis 1:14
We see here that was when our days night and years were established. Prior to that we can't know for sure whatperiod of time a day was. In 2 Peter 3:8 we learn that one day to the Lord is like a thousand years.
But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 2 Peter-3:8
Some things we just can't know for certain. I don't really have an issue trusting that God created may have everything in six literal days and when formed everything would appear as whatever age God intended them to be. Or everything created prior to day four when God gave us our time could have been much older.
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