The Age of the Universe

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It does not Mean he created the stars and had to wait till Light shown
Adam was created an adult. No science there
Eve created from Rib as an adult again no science
Though through science, scientist have found out the human rib will regenerate if damaged or removed.
 
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There is no such thing as evolution
Most everyone believes in what we call fine tuning. They call this micro evolution. The Problem has to do with macro evolution. The Bible clearly says that: "God made the beasts of the earth after their kind" (Genesis 1:25) They do not evolve from one kind to another. We see this with fruit flies. They start off with a fruit fly and after 40 million years of simulated evolution they still have a fruit fly. Unless you want to consider a fruit fly with a leg growing out of it's head a new species.
 

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Every miracle I have ever seen restores God's laws. God puts things back to the way He created and intended for them to be. If you serve a God that violates His own laws then you serve a different God then I do. Jesus said: "For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." (Matthew 5:18) Jesus is coming for a Bride without spot, blemish or wrinkle. Clearly none of us qualify for that right now. So between now and when He returns, He is going to have to do a work in His Church to prepare HIS Bride for when HE comes for her.

"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless" (Ephesians 5:25,26,27)
You're conflating God's law with man-made ideas clever clogs. Jesus overrode these alleged "laws of nature" every time he healed someone. Is he not the God you serve?
Why do you assume we are so infinitely wise about the natural world anyway? We don't have the cure for death.
 
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Most everyone believes in what we call fine tuning. They call this micro evolution. The Problem has to do with macro evolution. The Bible clearly says that: "God made the beasts of the earth after their kind" (Genesis 1:25) They do not evolve from one kind to another. We see this with fruit flies. They start off with a fruit fly and after 40 million years of simulated evolution they still have a fruit fly. Unless you want to consider a fruit fly with a leg growing out of it's head a new species.
Adaption is quite interesting, like the eye fold of Asian people, fisherman of the wide Pacific Ocean In ancient times. the sun reflects the most in the P.O. it’s the biggest body of water on earth.

so when the sun is bright on the water the eye adapted to ease the burden of squinting. squinting involves muscles that can be tiring if one squints for to long.

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come check them again in the morning
This has always been a problem with climate control. Once a machine is up and running then it starts to become a lot more consistent. I have a friend that runs a 3 million dollar machine with two robots hooked up to it and his biggest problem is always with the consistency of the heating cooling system.
 
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Jesus overrode these alleged "laws of nature" every time he healed someone.
Again just the opposite. It is a violation of God's law for people to get sick. Every miracle, every healing I have ever seen is God's law being restored. That is why a miracle is difficult to prove. Everything looks normal and you can not show that the person was ever sick in the first place. It is to easy for them to say there was an error in the test results. This is esp true when people are healed of HIV. They just claim that the test result was in error.
 
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This has always been a problem with climate control. Once a machine is up and running then it starts to become a lot more consistent. I have a friend that runs a 3 million dollar machine with two robots hooked up to it and his biggest problem is always with the consistency of the heating cooling system.
 

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Genesis 1 is not speaking of the universe as a whole. It is only referring to the localized creation of Earth and surrounding Sol system. 'The third Heaven', or Heavenly Eden, already was in existence before Genesis 1. Many other unfallen worlds and their unfallen beings already existed before this one. The angelic hosts were already in existence (Job 38:6; Revelation 12:7, etc).

This world, mankind and local Sol system, is circa 6K, roughly 6,224 years old (per this excellent study). That does not speak to the rest of the universe. Mankind was made after and lower than angels for a specific purpose.
 

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Most everyone believes in what we call fine tuning. They call this micro evolution. The Problem has to do with macro evolution. The Bible clearly says that: "God made the beasts of the earth after their kind" (Genesis 1:25) They do not evolve from one kind to another. We see this with fruit flies. They start off with a fruit fly and after 40 million years of simulated evolution they still have a fruit fly. Unless you want to consider a fruit fly with a leg growing out of it's head a new species.
If they subject you and your kids to various kinds of radiation and things you might have damaged DNA and a few abnormalities too ..
 

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Again just the opposite. It is a violation of God's law for people to get sick. Every miracle, every healing I have ever seen is God's law being restored. That is why a miracle is difficult to prove. Everything looks normal and you can not show that the person was ever sick in the first place. It is to easy for them to say there was an error in the test results. This is esp true when people are healed of HIV. They just claim that the test result was in error.
Parting the Red sea must have overridden "laws of nature"
Making the sun stand still must have overridden "laws of nature"

God is sovereign. He doesn't owe us an explanation.
 
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Parting the Red sea must have overridden "laws of nature"
Making the sun stand still must have overridden "laws of nature"

God is sovereign. He doesn't owe us an explanation.
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Genesis 1 is not speaking of the universe as a whole. It is only referring to the localized creation of Earth and surrounding Sol system. 'The third Heaven', or Heavenly Eden, already was in existence before Genesis 1. Many other unfallen worlds and their unfallen beings already existed before this one. The angelic hosts were already in existence (Job 38:6; Revelation 12:7, etc).

This world, mankind and local Sol system, is circa 6K, roughly 6,224 years old (per this excellent study). That does not speak to the rest of the universe. Mankind was made after and lower than angels for a specific purpose.
in the beginning God created the heaven/hydrogen and the earth/helium with a dash of others things
 

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Yes He did, the dusk and dawn of a day the twilight, to ancient people’s it was the most elusive parts of a day about 18minutes in the evening and morning when there is visible light but no visible sun. the people used sundials in the daytime and counted stars at night to tell time. Today the world is ruled by the mechanical clock thus the mind is geared by minutes and seconds no longer by sundials and star counting.
How about 'today the world is ruled by the silicon sands of Microsoft and Apple', thus the mind is geared by Google, Android and IOS. lol
 

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Modified creation then ? I watched him a couple times and wasn't too impressed .. I was lied to all my life against what the bible says then I found out for myself, I actually got angry and still am at what I was taught as facts in school .. Ross is just another compromise to me that I don't need.. When I go out or when I was more able and did witness I wanted bible answers for the tuff questions .. And the day I got saved I told Jesus something kinda dumb, ''it's all true or the deals off'' .. I have not found a lie yet and neither have I spent anytime looking for a lie in the Bible over 40 yrs later ... I've had to pray, fast, study and wait a few times but I've always got answers ..
God Bless Bro
Good testimony. I haven't studied all of his material but just his material on the creation account. Sounded plausible to me and to me it even made the scriptures make more sense. The evidence points to a beginning. Fossil layers tell me there had to be death before Adam atleast in the animal kingdom.

It just always comes down to every scientist is viewing the same evidence. The evidence doesn't say anything, only scientist do. So whichever pre held biases or beliefs a scientist has will determine what they see in the evidence. For example a materialist will be predetermined to see only a material answer.

There is a Christian organization called Biologos who do believe in God designed Evolution. Answersingenesis.com with Ken Ham has a lot of information supporting the Young Earth view. Reason.org with Hugh Ross and his team has a lot of counter info against the young earth perspective. Intelligent design with Stephen Meyer at discovery.org explains the concept of intelligent design within creation and how some designs can only come from intelligence. And ICR.org which takes the literal Biblical creation into defense.

Stephen Meyer, Ken Ham, Hugh Ross, and ICR all 4 dont agree with biologos.

Dealing with Biblical creation this is your main theories.
 

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Good testimony. I haven't studied all of his material but just his material on the creation account. Sounded plausible to me and to me it even made the scriptures make more sense. The evidence points to a beginning. Fossil layers tell me there had to be death before Adam atleast in the animal kingdom.

It just always comes down to every scientist is viewing the same evidence. The evidence doesn't say anything, only scientist do. So whichever pre held biases or beliefs a scientist has will determine what they see in the evidence. For example a materialist will be predetermined to see only a material answer.

There is a Christian organization called Biologos who do believe in God designed Evolution. Answersingenesis.com with Ken Ham has a lot of information supporting the Young Earth view. Reason.org with Hugh Ross and his team has a lot of counter info against the young earth perspective. Intelligent design with Stephen Meyer at discovery.org explains the concept of intelligent design within creation and how some designs can only come from intelligence. And ICR.org which takes the literal Biblical creation into defense.

Stephen Meyer, Ken Ham, Hugh Ross, and ICR all 4 dont agree with biologos.

Dealing with Biblical creation this is your main theories.
I don't believe man experienced death before Adam .. Genesis says what the animals were given to eat at creation .. The curse on Adam could have changed all of that .. There was a lioness named ''little tyke'' you can google who never eat any meat and wouldn't even eat milk with even a drop of blood in it her whole life .. Animals can live off vegetables , Walter Veith (who I recommend) has a great 7 video creation series on creation and his experiments on man and animal non meat diets .. Isaiah prophesies 6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox...
As far as Ham, Meyer, Ross, others go, they're great until something better comes along ..Some seem to make their defense their own stronghold at times and set in their ways .. I appreciate their stuff in general but I don't agree with everything they say at all . My working point is the Word of God itself first and winning souls .. If you didn't watch that video by James Tour on post #90 you need to watch it .. These types of things spurs thought on unrelated things too ..
 
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I don't believe man experienced death before Adam .. Genesis says what the animals were given to eat at creation .. The curse on Adam could have changed all of that .. There was a lioness named ''little tyke'' you can google who never eat any meat and wouldn't even eat milk with even a drop of blood in it her whole life .. Animals can live off vegetables , Walter Veith (who I recommend) has a great 7 video creation series on creation and his experiments on man and animal non meat diets .. Isaiah prophesies 6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox...
As far as Ham, Meyer, Ross, others go, they're great until something better comes along ..Some seem to make their defense their own stronghold at times and set in their ways .. I appreciate their stuff in general but I don't agree with everything they say at all . My working point is the Word of God itself first and winning souls .. If you didn't watch that video by James Tour on post #90 you need to watch it .. These types of things spurs thought on unrelated things too ..
that’s later, God made beast, sharks, snakes, vultures any many other beast of the earth

Genesis 1
24And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
 

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that’s later, God made beast, sharks, snakes, vultures any many other beast of the earth

Genesis 1
24And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
Yes, it is future ..
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
 
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Yes great white shark have a purpose
I have no problem with your point, but there are fish that eat plants today .. Plants were created before the Sun too ..
 
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I have no problem with your point, but there are fish that eat plants today .. Plants were created before the Sun too ..
scripture you posted is another day