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Monday, September 20, 2010
Episode 7 [Part 1] :: Question 8 on The Age of the World
7:36 PM | Posted by
St. Burnish
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| Pastor Chris Oyakhilome |
Question 8- Jonathan (United Kingdom): Thank you sir for this forum. Please sir, can you shed more light in accounting for the issue of the age of the world which scientists claim to be millions of years old. Does the bible support this view? Especially those of dinosaurs, prehistoric man, fossils and so on?
Answer 8: Yes, the bible does support the view that the world is probably millions of years old. It does, because we need to understand that the age of the world and the age of man in the earth are not the same. Man is about 6,000 years in the earth; actually, less. But, the world is much older than that. Now, you cannot tell the age of the world when you study the book of Genesis that tells us about creation. What we need to understand is that, in Genesis we are not given an account of the creation of the world but of the recreation of the world. So, the world was not created in the story that we have in Genesis but recreated in the story that we have in Genesis. When you study that whole chapter, you’ll get to understand it. There are just some key words that’ll help you understand. For example, in Genesis chapter 1, from verse 27 it says, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.” You can only replenish something that’s been there before! So, it says [continuing in verse 28], “…replenish the earth and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” [Genesis 1:27-28] So, He told them to replenish the earth, and that’s very, very important.
And if you notice how these things came to be, if you’ll read from verse 1 chapter 1: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” [Genesis 1:1-2] God couldn’t have created an earth without form [and void]. That means it was formless and empty; God couldn’t have done that. I’ll show you a scripture now. And it says, [Continuing from verse 2] “And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” [Genesis 1:2-3] And so on and so forth - "let there be, let there be, let there be," - and that ‘let’ is not a creation word. See, it’s more of a permission word. So, God says "let there be" and this leaps into being, because He was replenishing the earth in this area, and He called man to do the same. So, what you have - the account in Genesis chapter 1 - is the account of recreation.
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