The Antiquity of the Earth: Biblical or Scientific?
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is the most read part of the Bible because it is the very first verse of the very first book of the Bible. “And the earth was without form and void….” This implies that at this moment in time the heavens were already formed and inhabited but the earth is yet to be formed. Can we find a proof in the Bible that the heavens were already formed and inhabited while the earth is yet to be formed?
JOB 38:4-7
Where
wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding.
Who
hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath
stretched the line upon it?
Whereupon
are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone
thereof;
When
the morning stars sang together, and
all the sons of God shouted for joy?
There
were already sons of God shouting for joy when God started to lay the
foundations of the earth. These sons of God are angels who were
created and have been in existence before the foundation of the
earth.
LUKE
20:35-36 (Revised Standard Version)
But
those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the
resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,
For
they cannot die any more, because
they are equal to angels and are sons of God,
being sons of the resurrection.
Angels
and other beings like the four living creatures and the twenty-four
elders are some of the inhabitants of heavens.
REVELATION
12:12
Therefore
rejoice,
ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them.
Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is
come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he
hath but a short time.
Moses
in his inspired writing did not elaborate on how the “heavens”
were created and were filled with inhabitants but something is sure:
the heavens were not made in a 24-hour day period.
When
God created the heavens, there were no angels yet! Logic dictates
that before God created man, he prepared first his dwelling place.
The heavens, which would be the abode of angels, were created first
before its inhabitants. We must not forget at this juncture, that
when God began forming the formless earth, the heavens were already
formed and not empty!
Another
thing to consider is that God had His “works of old” before He
formed the heavens and the earth! This may not be known to most
doctors of theology but it is written in the Bible.
PROVERBS
8:22-31
The
LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before
his works of old.
I
was set up from everlasting, from
the beginning,
or
ever
the earth was.
When
there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no
fountains abounding with water.
Before
the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
While
as yet he had not made the earth,
nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
When
he prepared the heavens,
I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
When
he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains
of the deep:
When
he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his
commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Then
I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his
delight, rejoicing always before him;
Rejoicing
in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the
sons of men.
One
of the oldest works of God is “His earth” where He dwells with
His son! Here is another Biblical logic: God worked first on His and
His son’s dwelling place.
The
abode of God is not our earth but “His earth,” one of His “works
of old”.
JOHN
14:1-3
Let
not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In
my Father’s house are many mansions:
if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
you.
And
if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive
you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
If
the abode of God where He would dwell with His people is this earth
like the claim of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, then the Lord Jesus
should not have said that He will go and prepare a place for the
elect and come back to receive them, that where He is, they may be
also! The abode of God is a place that was created and prepared by
God before the foundation of our earth.
MATTHEW
25:34 (CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH VERSION)
Then
the king will say to those on his right, ” My father has blessed
you! Come
and receive the kingdom that was prepared for you before the world
was created.
There
are those who say (like the Seventh Day Adventist Church) that the
earth and the entire universe are just a little over 6,000 years old,
created within seven 24-hour day period. Some even assert that God
does not create gradually.
ISAIAH
66:8
Who
hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day?
or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she
brought forth her children.
The
preceding verse negates the idea that the earth was made in a literal
24-hour day. How misinformed these people can be!
This really shows how illogical and biblically incorrect it is to believe the Earth was only made within a span of a literal 24-hour day.
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This prove that the bible do not contradict science. That's why I believe that earth is billions years of age and the dinosaurs really exist. It is scientifically and biblically correct. remember, God created animals before man was created.
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ReplyDeleteAnother wonderful topic and it must be read. Bible does not support science instead science support the Bible. Before human discover everything it do exist in the Bible and unknowingly maybe the Bible is the patent of some discoveries in science. Thank you Mr. Controversy for another wisdom.
ReplyDeleteGod is the best creator of all., through this article I learned a lot and people like me who will read this will arouse their mind to who created the earth where we live! Heaven already formed before Earth, and Bible proves it! The heavens were not made in a 24-hour day period and little over 6,000 years old! This will show that science only proves what was written in the Bible.
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