I suppose I should offer more of an explanation on the theory of evolution:
The thing that fuels the theory of evolution is from God. It is He who has allowed--no,
insisted, that all things be made manifest in the world before or in the Judgement. Thus, if one believes that evolution is true, billions of years of would-be "evidence" are made manifest. While at the same time, if another believes that the word of God (and not evolution) is true, that too is made manifest. And this is the fullness of what is meant by creation being made "
in our image." In a manner of speaking, God has answered "the fall" with (in other words), God speaking, "Well, okay, let's
see (image) just what that looks like":
“Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not to be set on a lampstand? 22 For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light. 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”
24 Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. 25 For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”
But truly, even according to science, time is a complete illusion:
"For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one." Albert Einstein
Even those who would like to take God at His word have trouble with believing that what their life experience in the world and what they see with their eyes, is not rather the truth, causing them to imagine all sorts of ways that both could somehow be true.
The problem is-- neither is true in the way that we perceive it-- even the scriptures!
God has clearly stated that there is no timeline with Him, that all is "
the same yesterday, today, and forever." And that the end of the story for those who are His, is "
without shadow of turning"-- without
evening and morning,
without time, just as it is true of God Himself. From the very beginning and all throughout the scriptures, He clearly defines even this would-be reality as a "
creation", and us as an "
image." Which includes the entire would-be timeline-- not from the fall, but from "
the evening and the morning" of the first day, the first "
shadow of turning!"
And God does not define this would-be reality as a new thing, no, but refers to it as the actual and godly reality of what was before time was created, "
before the foundation of the world."
So then, what is this-- what is the nature of this world, which is not the nature of God?
It is what "
is written." Written in the stars, written in the mind of God-- call it what you like, but the timeline of history, is simply His story, of what is made manifest rather in a [storyline] for the sake of revelation to those who are implemented in the story, for their living testimony for or against them in the Judgement, which is the glory of God. But that storyline is not a timeline anymore than there is a timeline in any story-- it is simple what is written. And the confusing part, is that because it is God who has done the writing...it appears to be in
real time, where there is
none.
Thus we are counseled to walk in the timelessness of God in the spirit, and not in the flesh and in the blindness of this world. Here, we merely walk through the pages of what is written in the timeless reality of God.
