What is Truth? pt 3

       When: fairly innocuous; basically an ever-morphing investigation, on man's part. Our Creator, having made all this, is aware of and not surprised by what he sees. We, on the other hand, are still in the midst of discovering; if not God Himself, then just how incredible this world is. Modern science, measuring with the latest high tech instruments, puts our physical world as we know and measure it at just shy of 14 billion years old. This is accepted knowledge on most fronts. And this man computed measuring of time is all we can know, right now. It is as accurate as much as we can understand it, with what's been revealed to us; what we've discovered, up to this moment.

       And what if time moved differently at another time, or other dimensions existed during the creation process; let's not quibble. We've yet to consider indiscernible machinations at the cellular level or nebulae millions of light-years in breadth; the vast, unlimited reaches of space.

       What's fascinating is that all this came into existence, all this stuff had to be in place so there could be life. It's the nesting material of Life. All those unknowable time units to accumulate the necessary amount of dust and water vapor and meteoric chunks and chemical and mineral compounds to support life as we know it; time as we know it.

        Current evidence puts human presence on our earth for only so many millennia. Alarmingly close to the Bible's inference. My point is that knowing the speed or lapse of time at any given moment in the process of creation is limited or bound to our present level of understanding; our current method of measuring and understanding time.

       The Bible says that "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth..."(Gen. 1:1). We're not exactly sure how long ago that was. Nor how long it took. For a time, everything was dark. Ever wait and watch a mother hen hatch her chicks? After laying the appropriate number of eggs, she then sits on them, rarely but occasionally getting up, hovering and worrying over them, incubating them to life. This takes time; twenty-one days, on average. For a while, nothing seems to be happening: then, finally, the design is revealed and subsequently apparent; now we get it.

        Since God is eternal and we are not, it stands to reason his thoughts and views and ways might differ from ours somewhat...

       I could see the portion of creation in Gen. 1:1 and 2 taking 13 + billion years of our understood time to coalesce, and from 1:3 through 2:2 taking a week, again, of our understood time. The facts remain: we don't know how long the creation of the basic elements took, let alone what matter and time looked like then, but when God began to refine and define those elements, the Bible states it took Him just six days. What do you believe?