The Biblical Timeline Backbone - 37 Events from Creation to New Jerusalem

[Free]

And we are off topic because of what? The topic is the timeline event of the creation to the new Jerusalem. How are we going to know where to start if we don't answer this question. If the creation existed trillions of years ago, where do we start the timeline?

Look, I'm sorry. And I know you believe what you're saying. You are sincere. But I'd ask you to ask these questions to test what you believe. That's what the Scriptures advise us to do. Test everything to see if it is true. And there's a clear problem with the earth having existed for billions of years before mankind was ever put on it, and for God to say that in six days He did all that He claimed to do. For me, that's a serious and legitimate question to be asked.

I've looked deeply into this stuff for a long time. This isn't something I just came up with, and there are a number of scholars and theologians over many centuries that believe it as well. My main point was to urge caution because certain assumptions are being made. People should really stop being so certain about what they believe when it comes to the age of the earth, prophecy regarding end times, and how the end will unfold. It's far more complicated than what it appears at first glance.

 

[miamited]

The whole point in this is that there is a lot more going on in the text of Gen. 1 than most seem to even care to know about (there are numerous books on this chapter alone.)

Aren't we glad that those men got here to write the books to correct us all. Yes, I'm aware that there are books and books and multiple books written with various viewpoints about God and Jesus. But the only book that I know that I know to be true is the collection of the Hebrew Scriptures. What has been referred to as the words of God for millennia. But here's what I also know about the truth that God has revealed to us. Only one account is the truth about it.

Take the day. Some say, well the 'day' was an age of several billions or trillions of years. And God's testimony defines each day for us as consisting of an evening and a morning. God is wiser than we could even think to imagine and He knows the end from the beginning. God knew that a day would come when men would not put up with sound doctrine. He actually made Paul write that down for us. So He wrote facts about each event whereby we can test our understandings. We don't need other books, and we don't need people with liturgical PHD's to interpret the Scriptures for us. That's not who God's audience is. His audience is more widespread than some elite and erudite Ivy League crew. So, while I'm open to read different understandings, they have to pass the fact test with me. God wrote in the law that He created the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them in 6 days. His creation account runs through 6 days. That we stumble over one point that rips apart the truth of what God has said, is a problem. And I'm just questioning your understanding to see if maybe you have found the answer to the dilemma of God's saying 6 days, but somehow some erudite university studied professor says they aren't really six days.

 

[miamited]

It's far more complicated than what it appears at first glance.

Right! Well, like I said, it's good of us that God sent us all those wise and learned scholars to straighten us out. Sort of what He created Scribes for.

 

[Jarhead4Jesus]

But, that would be forcing Daniel 12:6-7 onto Hosea 6:2 and making a connection where there isn't one.


For sure, but there are also a number of assumptions that are made, such as the earth being about 6,000 years old and that one day is a thousand years. Those greatly affect how prophecy and timelines are interpreted, which in turn affects several doctri

If there is an assumption, it is that the Bible is in fact the preserved word of God and that it is reliable and true.

Indeed, all of those posted articles, charts, diagrams and timelines are based squarely on that 'assumption'.

Or, truth, as I believe it to be.

 

[Jarhead4Jesus]

This discussion goes back centuries and centuries, but isn't really the topic of this thread. There are several legitimate understandings of Gen. 1 that do not rely on six literal 24-hr days. But, that is all I'm going to say.

I wouldn't qualify those 'several understandings of Gen. 1 that do not rely on six literal 24-hr days' as legitimate.
Only truth is legitimate, therefore, those several other 'understandings' cannot all be truth.

Genesis 1 clearly indicates the 24-hour day in the Hebrew of Genesis 1:5.

But, as you said, it isn't really the topic of this thread. LOL

 

[Jarhead4Jesus]

New Jerusalem came 2000 yrs ago! Gal 4:26 holy mother church!

The New Jerusalem referenced here is from Revelation 21.