Creation or Judgement: One day - 1000 years?
“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.” ( 2 Peter 3:8 ) Some Christians today are willing to compromise God ’s clear revelation. God has made it as clear as plain words could make it, that “in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is” ( Exodus 20:11 ). At face value each day appears to be 24 hours. Yet because evolutionary “science” has alleged that the earth is billions of years old. 2 Peter 3:8 is perhaps the key verse of the so-called “ progressive creationists ” who try to correlate the days of creation in Genesis with the supposed 4.6 billion-year system of evolutionary geological ages, by citing Peter as agreeing that “one day is a thousand years.” But, Peter is saying that “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years”! That is, God can do in one day what might, by natural processes, take a thousand years. 2 Peter 3:8 “with the Lord one day