Re: [RR] Quiz (days\years)

[Mike Burke]

 The Jewish calendar is not the same as the Roman calendar and it is set up differently. It for example would be like trying to compare the differences between the Metric system and the Standard American English system of measurement. Years were not always measured the same way as we presently know it.  If there ever was such a thing as a Metric year, it would go by faster than the present one we observe. Units in the Metric system are smaller than SAE units of measurement. The point is that things have changed over the years.   Some people are going to say that the Earth has slowed down and is losing time but it's not. They can throw the supporting math at you and the supporting math is very convincing saying that we have lost a day but we haven't. The lost day was accounted for very early on. If you do the math from 2003 all the way back the year "0" accounting for leap years and the likes, it would show you that a day is missing and the story of that the earth is slowing down would be pushed. God's already dealt with that day before zero year, explained where that day went and the earth is not slowing down.  (Joshua 10:13 NIV)     the whole point here is that do you take the prepackaged stuff and accept it blindly, or do you gain in your understanding by developing your relationship with God by taking the time to understand the big picture? As the Bible is studied, you learn about the peoples and the situations they were faced with and how they dealt with so that they could understand how God's Word was supposed to apply to them and now how it applies to you. Don't just accept things blindly because you limit your growth potential when you do that. Give your faith and the reasons why you believe some substance. (This is an indirect statement, not being made to any one individual) The website that was referred to is a very good and informative site and basically went where I had wanted my earlier post to go because it covered my train of thought on it.   Mike             ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 2:08 AM Subject: Re: [RR] Quiz (days\years) In a message dated 9/13/03 8:40:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well now. We have a delima.  Do I take your interpretation of God's Word or what has been preached from our Pastors Pulpit. I can't say anything about your pastor's view, but mine is based of a straightforward reading and research from various groups. You have neglected the third option:  Do not take the opinions of others, but research for yourself. Here is fine case of a Day is it 24 hours or a 1000 years? Common sense:  Why say "day" (yom) when you mean thousands of years? Exudos 20:11 reads: For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.   A year is it 365 days or something else?  I know what it is in my life today.  I can't say beyond a doubt what it was 4000 years ago.  I do believe God's word is infallible but man's interpretation of it...well it is less than perfect.  God Bless you my brother.  Mark Jones http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/2452.asp http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c011.html http://www.kulikovskyonline.net/hermeneutics/Gendays.htm Lucas Hoffmann http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aflatb/ Quaerite prime regnum Dei ‘be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you ...’ (1 Peter 3:15)