Timtofly
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It is not "another" age nor added time. No one is claiming God adds time to creation. That is a strawman argument.Good Morning David :)
Sorry, but you have not proven Gen 1-5 and Rev 20:4-6 prove there will be another one thousand literal years of time given this earth after Christ comes again. What is the purpose for another one thousand more years of time since at His coming again the saints will be immortal and incorruptible? That happens when the Kingdom of God is complete and time for proclaiming the Gospel unto all the nations of the earth ended. Christ returns to usher in the new everlasting, never ending, eternal earth where there will be no more sin, no more pain or sorrow, no more death. The new eternal earth will be inhabited only with immortal/incorruptible living souls.
Time is not over at the Second Coming.
The time that is up is Adam's 6,000 years of punishment, sin and death. That time is over, no more sin and death. Also the 70 weeks of Daniel 9 is over when the 7th Trumpet stops sounding. Then, the fulness of the Gentiles is completed at the Second Coming. These are the mysteries that the Jews could not understand in the first century.
Creation is not a mystery declared by the prophets. Salvation was a mystery. Taking the gospel to the whole world, and not just the Jews was a mystery. Even God's redemptive work was a mystery to them, because obviously they rejected God which was part of the plan, and the Cross was a reality.
You cannot even state that the NHNE is eternal. This current heaven and earth only had a life span of 8,000 years. The next one may last longer than 8,000 years, but you have no basis to proclaim the next creation eternal, when you cannot even get the time alloted to this creation correct.
You do realize that this creation was to be "eternal" without sin. Adam was supposed to "eternally" obey God. Obviously that did not happen. If Amil can question God in this creation, what is to keep them from rising up in the next one and causing many to rebel? Has any one figured that factor out?
It is Amil who claim God cannot have 1,000 years of perfection after removing sin and death.