The Age of the Earth

Ok, now, do I have to convince you that a DAY equals a DAY? Because I know the first thing people (even Bible-believing Christians) say is that:

"Well, a 'day' maybe wasn't an actual 'day' as we know it."

Why not?

Why? Because six days is not enough time for God to have created the world? How long should it have taken? A billion trillion years? Is that enough time for this marvel of our earth to have been created?

Let me tell you, if it took that long, we'd be up to our eye-balls in debris from all the dead stuff. Where is the evidence of that? Billions of years of dinosaurs.

Now, maybe, in order to even allow yourself to conceive of such a thing as the earth being created in only six days by the voice of God, you may have to shut down your brain. You may have to try to disregard what secular schools have force-fed you throughout your education.

In order to open yourself up to new "ideas" (or what I call "facts"), you may have to unthink. Because, WHAT IF what they taught you was WRONG? What if that? Can you even imagine that to be a possibility?

If you can't, don't bother reading on. What I'm about to tell you will be way out in left field and totally impossible to accept. What I'm about to tell you is from the Bible. It's God's explanation of what happened on "DAY ONE".

Ok, again, you may ask, "How can you say that God wrote the book of Genesis?"

Moses wrote it! If you know anything about Moses, you know that God spoke to him face to face. That's where the Ten Commandments came from. (Maybe you saw the movie?) God wrote the commandments with his finger in the slabs of stone.

So, if we start with the premise that God spoke to Moses and told him what happened in the beginning, then let's go from there to Genesis chapter one, verse one.

Now, you may think that the logical thing for God to do first was to create the sun. He didn't. He created light first. HA! I told you you'd have to shut off your brain for this one!

Genesis 1

1 In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.

That covers everything in our universe then, doesn't it? I guess God knows that that's all we need to know, as far as how, when and "what went before?"

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

God SPOKE and it was DONE.

What was there before this happened?  Emptiness. Darkness. And apparently water.

You sort of get the picture of God coming over to this dark, empty ball that's sitting in water, just waiting. It's interesting that we know now that, in order for a planet to be capable of life, it must have water.

Water is an amazing thing.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. (He called the light what? Day? So that means a day IS a day?) And the evening and the morning were the first day. (The first what? Day? So, does it mean that it's possible God meant "day" when He said "day" and that He meant six days when He said, "six days"?

What God didn't say was, "And the evening and the morning were the sixth aeon." God didn't say, "And billions upon billions of evenings and billions upon billions of mornings were the sixth day.")