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God.My question is who decided man has only been here for 6000 years?
Yes, they were.Were they the first people ?
Who cares if there were people living long before 6,000 BC? I did a Google search and the first item said "One of the earliest known humans is Homo habilis, or “handy man,” who lived about 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago in Eastern and Southern Africa." So..?There were people living long before 6,000 BC. The native Indians for one, and I believe the Chinese also. Google the first humans.
Then please share that information with us in the timeline after Satan was cast out of the garden of Eden to that of Adam being created. If Adam was the first man then why did God tell him to replenish the earth; emphasis on "replenish". What was Adam to replenish or the need to replenish.Hi for_his_glory
God.
God's word tells us exactly (within a couple hundred years or so) how long the creation has existed.
God bless,
Ted
I'm sorry if I'm not understanding your question, but I don't see anything in there about the existence of Satan and his days.My question is who decided man has only been here for 6000 years?
I'm sorry you do not see the dual reference to Satan in Isaiah and Ezekiel being placed in the Garden of Eden by God to oversee it until iniquity was found in him. Satan, for which man has given his name as there are many, existed before the foundation of the world as being one of God's most anointed angels He created, the one who worked through the serpent to cause the fall of Adam and Eve.I'm sorry if I'm not understanding your question, but I don't see anything in there about the existence of Satan and his days.
Sorry cooper but we do not follow the gospel according to Google.There were people living long before 6,000 BC. The native Indians for one, and I believe the Chinese also. Google the first humans.
GOD.My question is who decided man has only been here for 6000 years?
Satan wasn't a man.Satan, for which man has given his name as there are many, existed before the foundation of the world as being one of God's most anointed angels He created, the one who worked through the serpent to cause the fall of Adam and Eve.
The earth was without form and void. Nothing there.What about the prehistoric age and with it the ice age that destroyed men and the Dinosaurs that date back more than 6000 years before Adam and Eve were created. See, we have no idea of what took place before Adam and Eve.
Isaiah does not mention anything about Satan being in the garden. Ezekiel does mention Satan being in the garden, but doesn't go any further than that as to whether or not that was where Satan always existed. It just says that he was in the garden. Then it goes on to speak of how he was created perfect and beautiful until iniquity was found in him. I don't think anyone denies that Satan was in the garden. The Scriptures are pretty clear on that and I have never denied it either. But the angelic realm was created prior to, outside of, and apart from the realm of mankind. Satan went into the garden to tempt Eve after God created the realm of mankind.I'm sorry you do not see the dual reference to Satan in Isaiah and Ezekiel being placed in the Garden of Eden by God to oversee it until iniquity was found in him.
Depending on what translation you read, God probably never did say that to Adam and Eve. The NIV says that God said to Adam and Eve: God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” It may be a worthwhile study to look into why, of some 54 translations given in Biblestudytools.com, only 5 include the word 'replenish' as their translation of this passage. All the others merely say mulitiply and fill the earth and subdue it. Hmmmm?Why did God tell Adam and Eve to replenish the earth in Genesis 1:27-28?
To create the heavens and the earth from nothing took billions of years, and the Hebrew word for day can mean anything up to eternity. We are in the seventh day now, and an extremely long day it is.The earth was without form and void. Nothing there.
HI CooperThere were people living long before 6,000 BC. The native Indians for one, and I believe the Chinese also. Google the first humans.
One of the best posts that I have ever read.HI Cooper
If I may add to what andy pandy has written concerning the gospel of Google. There was a day, according to the Scriptures, and I believe it wholeheartedly, that God parted a sea. A very deep sea. He held that sea open and both the author of the book of the Exodus and Miriam explain that the water stood as a wall on both the right hand and the left hand of the Israelites as they passed through on dry ground.
Do you know that's impossible? We've had water with us from the beginning of this created realm and one of the laws of water that has withstood the test of time for all of those 6,000 years is that water seeks to level itself. It has to! There is not a human being alive that can command, make, devise water to stand unaided like a wall. It's also one of the reasons that we know that the flood had to be global. There's no possible way that water could have flooded some local region with enough water to cover every high ground within that region, and then remained flooding the region for 6 months. Why? Because water seeks to level itself. There is no place on the face of the earth built as a bowl that would have held that description of the water of the flood in some local region. There are always valleys and low lands that water will run through seeking level even in the most dense mountain ranges of the earth.
Tell me, if you can. What does your Google expert tell you as to how God did that?
Hopefully you can see my point. Man denies the power and majesty of God in all of his understanding of the things that God has done. Man can't explain to you how a virgin came to be pregnant. It's impossible! We know now, after several hundred years of scientific and medical study that the only way a female's egg becomes a viable fetus is that the sperm of a male must inseminate that egg. It's the only way that any human child has ever been born. But God did it!
Man has to deny that God caused the sun to stand still in the sky at one point in Israel's history. It's impossible and we all shudder to think what would happen if such an event really did occur. But God, according to the Scriptures, did it!
In one night, every firstborn child of every family in Egypt, and there were thousands of families at that time living in Egypt, died? How could that possibly be? What kind of natural disease would only affect the firstborn of a family? What kind of imagined catastrophe could have gone throughout a city/nation in one night and left behind, in just a few short hours, every firstborn of every family...dead?
What does Google give you as the answer for that catastrophe? You see, man's science is worthless when it comes to explaining things that God has done. Now man cannot fathom that something as vast and huge and awesome as the universe and all that is in it could be created just practically within moments. So we come up with what appear to be reasonable scientifically studied explanations for the work of God. However when one reads the description of so many of the miracles of God, and then tries to match it with what man's science tells us, it fails miserably.
For example, the Scriptures tell us that the earth was the first created heavenly body. Does man's science confirm even that small description of the event? So, and I know it's a strong and powerful delusion that so many of just want to believe, but when God works, there are no scientific explanations to tell us how He did things. God is all powerful. God is all wise. God can do, according to the Scriptures, what seems impossible to man. I think, when we discuss the creation and the many, many other miracles of God's handiwork within this created realm, that we are wise to remember that and know and understand that man just cannot answer such questions.
The other piece of Scriptures that is worth remembering in these considerations is that God has proclaimed to us that He will make foolish the wisdom of the wise.
God's testimony is that He created the heavens and the earth and all that is in them in six days. Jesus' testimony is that Adam was the first man. Are you a believer, or an unbeliever?
God bless,
Ted
I don't know where you get this idea from but there is no evidence for it. The bit that we do know took six days.To create the heavens and the earth from nothing took billions of years, and the Hebrew word for day can mean anything up to eternity. We are in the seventh day now, and an extremely long day it is.
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