Bible Discussion Thread

God said that the span of man's life is a hundreth and towent years is it true.

The concept of time is a great wonderment. The Bible tells us with God a thousand days is a year, and a year is a thousand days. This tells me we cannot measure time as it relates to God.

Psalms 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. The verse in Psalms says 70 years, 80 if you're strong, and I think that fits today. I think at that point in time, that David wrote the Psalm, man's lifespan was limited to these averages.

But, Jerry we have no way of knowing how God measures time. As I previously posted, with God a day is a 1000 years and a 1000 years is a day. Therefore, we do not know what 80 years means to God.

That doesn't mean that one day = 1000 years. It means that God isn't bound by his own creation, Time and it also illustrates his patience with us. Jesus rose on the third day. Do people seriously think that took 3000 years? Context is everything.

I think we know he measures it by days, and I don't know, but there seems to be a repetitive cycle of the seasons, so that seems to be a kind of clock he gave us in his creation. Time is nothing to God, but ought we not learn to number our days? That's from the very same chapter, "So teach us to number our days" Psa 90:12. God doesn't need to number them, we do. What is a day to you?

Yes, it is true,