I watched a couple of videos lately which spoke pretty much on this exact topic. I thought it interesting.
He told how our "time" seems to be governed by the expansion of the universe. Time flows at the same rate that the universe is expanding. Now, God is Omniscient and omnipresent and all like that.
Omnipresent means more than everywhere at once. It means everywhere at once AND at every time. Since God is outside of the time realm He is not subject to it, therefore is everywhere and at every moment to us. He is in the beginning at creation right now and at the same time, here with me & you...and in the future. God is outside of our time domain and can see the beginning from the end. The same way a helicopter can see the entire parade from beginning to end if positioned right. And here we are down on the ground watching the parade as a linear event. Where am I going with this? Glad you asked.
The point he was trying to make is that (as the theory goes), that, evolution and creationism may both be right and we just didn't get it until now. You see for us, we are at the ending area of the timeline and we are looking backwards in time. But from God's perspective in the beginning, he is at the beginning of time itself and looking forward. In Gods not being subject to time and Him self looking forward, that to Him It took Him 6 days (24 hour earth days) to create it all but to Him it only took 6 days, but to us looking backwards it took 13 or 14 billion years.
So maybe from our perspective, there might have been what is perceived as a gap inbetween Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Through my glass darkly this all sounded potentially credible to me. He pretty much did a word study on the first few chapters of Genesis.
Like for instance, a poster is quoted saying that it says God created, and so forth but this is important cuz if you don't word study it you wont get the correct conclusion.
In Genesis 1:1, it says God, created. Which if you study it out means created from nothing. He spoke and it happened.
In 1:11 it says Let the earth bring forth grass, (The land was in place and already had all of the necessary components to make vegetation, All the earth needed was for Jesus to tell the earth what to do!)
Genesis 1:16
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.../
Okay so it says God made the sun & the Moon But made is not the same as created (as, from nothing)...it's more like He either just fashioned them from already created materials, or to set them in place where they are appointed or both. And if God only created the sun & moon that day, then what was Genesis 1:2 all about? (Let there be light). The universe with all of it's planets & stars were already existing after 1:2, So He set the sun & moon in place in v16.
That opened my eyes right there some. In Genesis 1:20 it says God said let the waters bring forth fish. Then in 1:21 it says God created the big whales and all of the animals again. So it really does take diligent word study to piece all this together like that, You have to pay attention to every word and don't necessarily assume what it probably means.
I *think* that it feasibly possible that perhaps evolution and creation may be both true and mankind just has not been able to understand how the truth of both meshes together as a whole. I guess we'll all find out for sure after Jesus comes.
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