(April 11, 2014 at 10:57 am)Revelation777 Wrote: 2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.I'm glad that you quoted the whole verse and not just the "thousand years as one day." In its full context, we are reminded that time means nothing to god, and therefore "soon" has no meaning to him. "The end is near" and "soon" mean something to humans, who live finite lives. To an infinite being it can mean tomorrow, and it can mean a billion years from now. So I ask again, why would you think the end is near?
Quote:2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.Just quoting for a bit of comedy; apparently thieves in Peter's time were rarely successful, based on the comparison in verse 10. Or perhaps he meant to say "arsonist."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
