So what we have, I feel, is a sort of compromise. God, being the Author of Life and the greatest of any or all who have understanding, would have been fully aware of the implications of telling BC man too much information. I don't need to elucidate, it should be obvious to anyone with a decent sort of understanding.
God allows people to believe whatsoever He chooses. It is His supreme right as it is also His divine right, as The Creator, to exercise His Will whensoever He chooses to, i.e. to intervene or not to in any and every situation.
So the most likely is that God told at least one contributor to the Scriptures that for Him, one day was more like a thousand years whilst actually knowing, of course, that the real figure was significantly higher say ~ 2-5 billion years. That figure would have meant absolutely nothing to any individual alive at that time. God would not waste His time revealing truth to people incapable of understanding it. Isn't that obvious?
I am hoping that people understand what I am saying here as it really is that plainly obvious.
As I have said, the most remarkable thing of all and the one point above all others that people miss, is that at some point, those who wrote the Scriptures were made aware that the universe and the earth were formed by processes and also, maybe more crucially, even man himself.
The clues are all there in the Scriptures, you just need to be like a child to understand..... why?
Because a young child is much more likely to listen to their parent.
When people get older they tend to get a bit ..... you know ..... sort of .... smart***.
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Fuzzy say: I consider myself a fundamentalist (responding to someone's post); however, I am an OEC. In no way do I believe that the earth only is 6,000 years old. Please study this issue. It is the YEC's who believe this.
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