2 Peter 3:8—‘one day is like a thousand years’
Doesn’t 2 Peter 3:8 indicate that the days of creation might not be literal, but thousands of years long?
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How does the Bible teach 6,000 years?
Calculating the dates from the Flood to the Exile.
The sixteen grandsons of Noah
Secular history shows that the survivors of Noah’s Flood were real people,
whose names were indelibly carved on much of the ancient world.
Did God create over billions of years?
The god of an old earth is not the God of Christianity.
Genesis contradictions?
Skeptics claim that the order of creation in Genesis 2 is different to that in chapter 1. But is it?
Should Genesis be taken literally?
How would the original readers have understood it?
Who really is the God of Genesis?
Does Genesis chapter 1 mention the Trinity?
The use of Genesis in the New Testament
Why should New Testament scholars care about the interpretation of Genesis? Because the New Testament quotes it frequently—as history!
Replenish the earth
How come Adam and Eve were told to ‘replenish’ the newly created earth
with their descendants if it had never been previously filled?
Indian creation myths
The evidence is substantial, the conclusion undeniable. Throughout the Americas
various groups share similar, detailed creation accounts that mirror Genesis and
mirror accounts from virtually every culture on the planet.
Genesis: Bible authors believed it to be history
Those who insist that Biblical creationists are being divisive over ‘small details’, need to reconsider what Jesus said about Genesis.
Is Genesis poetry / figurative, a theological argument (polemic) and thus not history?
The ‘Genesis is poetry’ (Framework Hypothesis) idea is thoroughly self-inconsistent and nebulous, but also undermines the Gospel at its foundations.