Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Time According to Who?



We all have our theories as to how this world was created, whether it be the scientific theory that it happened when two huge masses seemingly crashed into each other, or the notion that God, in all his divine glory created it with his own magnificence. Either way, Earth exists, we are here, and life is a huge webs of splendor and problems all at once.
“In the beginnings, God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1.

Yes, this is truly marked up to one’s beliefs, but disregarding that fact, everyone should at least have a bit of knowledge about the Bible, either in agreement or not.

Genesis basically means the beginning, which clearly captures the true meaning of the first book of the Bible. This is when earth, in all its true form, was made by God:

In the time span of only seven days, God managed to divide the heavens and the earth, the light and the darkness, divide the sea into one entity, created sea and land animals, and man himself.

Seven days. The time-span in which He could amount to all of these things astounds me, and yet it makes me wonder.

We all know dinosaurs existed. No, this is not completely random, and yes, I do have a point.

Anyhow, the Bible says that in seven days God made animals, everything else, and man. So what about the dinosaurs? They obviously existed before humans, as it is known, but if it was in the time span of seven days, does that mean man and dinosaurs once co-existed?

And if yes, then man should have been extinct when the dinosaurs themselves were exterminated, and what, God created them again?

I think not.


The bible never talks about dinosaurs (and why would it?) so it would seem as if from the beginning of the world’s creation man existed, and so, what about the dinosaurs?

This may sound utterly unstable and it sounds pathetic even to my own ears, but still, my argument is of some value. I swear.

What I’m thinking is, what if it wasn’t really seven days? Seven days for us, I mean. We, humans, tend to view a day as a period of twenty-four hours consisting of night and day.

But for God, in His immortal, long-lasting existence, He might have a different understanding towards the phrase “seven days.” To Him, for all we know, one day could be five hundred years or such, I don’t know.

So God said, "Let there be animals," on the sixth day. On a sixth day to him. So let's say the sixth day happened, and then another five-thousand years happened (in this case, five-thousand makes up the 'God' 'year') and then man (Adam) was made.

Ever thought about that?



So what might have started as a stupid-sounding question about dinosaurs not being in the Bible, might have ended with a very deep conclusion, if I do say so myself. (Insert mocking snorts here).

Those two first chapters taking up two pages don’t talk about what happened in so little time. They are worded in a way that we would think so and take the meaning of ‘seven’ literally in measurements we can only understand. But what we don’t know is that this is based on God’s view, his basic understanding of it all, which we can’t help but try to see his way.

I just managed to find a total different meaning to the expression ‘twenty-four/seven.’ Yes. I am proud of myself too.


oh! And
PS: "She shall be called "woman" for she was taken out of man". Seriously? Just because a child comes from out of their mom's stomache, that does not make it fit to name them "Child". Are you freaking kidding me? So now we know the reason towards the chauvinistic, sexist views in further history and in the present. It all started with certain little nasty named Adam. That pig.

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