Here's one for you,
"Jehovah, I hear that a thousand years is like a day to you"
"Yeees" (booming voice)
"And I hear that a thousand dollars is merely a dollar to you"
"Yeees"
"Oh, Jehovah, could I have a dollar?"
"Just a minute."
One Day is as 1000 years to Jehovah
by confusedandalone 30 Replies latest jw friends
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jgnat
Here's a better timeline:
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adamah
Oh, THAT one. The scripture that gives the conversion factor for going from God Standard Time to Mankind Time is here:
2nd Peter 3:8
8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
Verse 9 says God wants to give us all time to repent, AKA the "Waiting on Godot" verse.
But being that the overarching premise of the book of 2nd Peter seems to be to serve as a patch-job for controversies in the then-fledgling Early Christian Church (where the Book of 2nd Peter is widely recognized by NT scholars as being a fraud, the last book to be added to the NT), I guess that would explain why I've always thought of that conversion factor as being used as an excuse to cover for God's threaten Adam, "the DAY you eat of the forbidden fruit, you shall surely die".
Of course, Genesis later reveals that Adam lived to the ripe old age of 940 years, so by God Time, Adam died with a little over an hour to spare! God didn't lie!!
(And just forget all about the verse where the serpent said to Eve, "God knows THE DAY you eat from it, you won't die, but your eyes will be OPENED" (the same Hebrew word for 'day' which God had earlier used), and that Adam and Eve's eyes were opened that very same day! The answer to that one requires a deep understanding of quantum mechanics, Einstein's theory of relativity, Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle, with a bit of Avogadro's and Boyle's Gas Laws thrown in for good measure. So go study those, and get back to me. Frankly, I could explain it to you all right now, but in your current level of understanding, you likely just wouldn't understand it, anyway!)
Adam
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Nosferatu
Jehovah's fast-moving chariot broke down. It'll be in the shop for the next 6 days.
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Jeffro
confusedandalone:
Adam was created six days ago and Jehovah immediately purposed to restore what Adam had lost for his offspring. 39 hours and 45 minutes later He acted to prevent the demons and Satan from ruining the earth with their violence and to give a clean start to a few righteous people. 10 hours later, the same day, a covenant with Abraham was in place to give a guarantee that Jehovah would provide a ransom and restore human creation to its rightful state. The very next day, Israel left Egypt , the law covenant was put in place and the temple was built. One day, 1 hour and 48 minutes later the ransom was paid and mankind saved. 2 hours and 5 minutes ago Jehovah placed his son on the throne in His kingdom to finalize the arrangements for the new system. Within minutes time will expire for all those wanting to disrupt His purposes! As the saying goes: "All in a day's work." And some still think Jehovah is slow respecting His promises!
No. That's retarded. But if you believe Adam was actually the first human and he was around only 6000 years ago, there's probably no point discussing the rest of the stupidity in the argument.
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rmt1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS
The next world record breaking supercomputer should be named "The Watchtower". -
prologos
read the whole verse:
"-- one day is with Jehovahs as a thousand years and
a thousand years as one day.
these are TWO DIFFERENT measures of time.
the first is a timelaps, slow motion movement through time
at 31 billion, 536 million (31 536 000 000) frames per second. in other words
for the craetor time is both stretched and contracted, he/she does not travel through time as we do.
there is no movement of the shadow (or any other clock) for the creator James 1:17.
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Jeffro
prologos:
the first is a timelaps, slow motion movement through time
at 31 billion, 536 million (31 536 000 000) frames per second.Not really. There's no specific frame rate. It's just a phrase to imply that time has no significance to the fictional deity in question.