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::Wait, so if Genesis isn't giving us a literal timescale, then Jesus wasn't here to save us? I'm going to hold off on my criticism of that statement until I know that I interpreted your statement correctly. [[User:Jazzman831|Jazzman831]] 14:17, 6 July 2007 (EDT)
::Wait, so if Genesis isn't giving us a literal timescale, then Jesus wasn't here to save us? I'm going to hold off on my criticism of that statement until I know that I interpreted your statement correctly. [[User:Jazzman831|Jazzman831]] 14:17, 6 July 2007 (EDT)
:::Criticize all you want--but if the [[Bible]] is found in definite error on any one point, then it ceases to be trustworthy on any other point.
:::The Bible itself has multiple testaments to its all-or-nothing standing as regards the truth. For one thing, the phrase rendered in [[English]] "His Mercy endureth forever" actually refers ''not'' to mercy as we understand it, but to [[God]]'s Word being His Bond. God is a Being of His Word. If God says that He will do a thing, He does it, and if He says that he will see a thing done, He will see it done. And as a corollary to that, if God says that a thing occurred, then it occurred--and if God went into detail, then those details are matters of fact.
:::Therefore, if God said that "such-a-man lived so-many years and begat such-a-son," then you can bank on it. And if God gives us a long string of years-at-birth-of-sons, then you can reliably add them up--and you can be sure that only so much time has passed since the beginning ''of'' time--at least by an earthly clock, which is the only sort of clock that need matter to us.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 14:27, 6 July 2007 (EDT)