Not even the Bible supports that idea. The creative “days” were actually creative periods of undetermined length. The Hebrew word for “day” doesn’t just mean 24 hours, and to back that up, it says “there was evening and there was morning” for each “day”......For Jews, the day begins at sundown and ends at sundown, but these “days” began in the evening but were concluded in the morning.....that is not a 24 hour day...is it?
The Genesis account was not given to a learned race, but to people who had been enslaved for hundreds of years. Even though the Egyptians were superior in their education, I am not sure they passed that education on to their slaves. The simple terms used in Genesis would have sufficed without a lot of explaining, such as we do today when pseudo-science is used to discredit the Bible.....yet, true and provable science backs it up.
The two methods that science uses to date things are obviously not fool proof, but they do indicate an old earth and fossils prove that creatures existed way longer than 6,000 years.
Radiocarbon dating is used for dating once-living matter less than 40,000 years old, like wood and charcoal. Uranium dating techniques are used for dating objects from thousands to billions of years old.
I see no evidence for that in Scripture at all.....do you have some references that tell us otherwise?
The only way Adam could know what death meant, was to see what happened to animals. He was privileged to name them all, which would have taken quite some time to give each creature an appropriate name....certainly not 24 hours.
I see the scenario very differently....Jesus is already here and has been for over a hundred years, overseeing the work he assigned to his disciples in the period the Bible calls “the time of the end”. (Foretold by Daniel some 500 years before Jesus was born. Dan 12:9-10)
As he said in Matt 28:19-20, before he left to return to heaven.....
”Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And look! I am with you all the days until the end of the age.”
In Matt 24, Jesus gave his disciples a series of important world events that would indicate his “presence” (parousia) not his “coming”. He said that this was the sign that he had arrived, which is why the world is waiting in vain for something that has already taken place. They are expecting a visible coming, which takes place only when he appears as judge of all...at the very end of this time period.
All the features of the sign that he gave have been fulfilled, starting with unprecedented warfare. What do they call the first global war in the history of mankind?.....“The First World War”, which was followed by the Spanish Flu pandemic and food shortages everywhere, because the war effort in every nation, made food scarce.
We have seen more major earthquakes since 1914 than in the centuries before, and false “Christs” leading people astray, sometimes to their death.
And who can doubt that love has all but disappeared from this world of horribly selfish governments and people in general?...losing spirituality to a love of money and material things. (2 Tim 3:1-5)
Jesus is here, and he has been judging mankind for some time, so that when he manifests as the scriptures indicate, all those living at that time will already be in one of only two categories....”sheep or goats”.
He is overseeing the preaching and disciple making work that he commanded so that a thorough witness would be given to the whole world before he passes sentence. He said he would be with them in this work......so who are doing what Christ commanded for this time of the end? (Matt 24:14; Matt 10:11-14; Acts 20:20)
Like I said, our wishful thinking will not make something true, when he never said that we could expect that our pets will come back with our dearly departed family members.
God does know how much we love our pets, but perhaps he can make that grief disappear when the saved ones find themselves walking out onto a cleansed earth after the destruction of the wicked.
Did you know that the Israelites were never said to keep pets? They kept livestock for food and fleece and for sacrifice, but it was the Greeks who kept puppies as pets.
When Jesus told his disciples to “flee to the mountains” when the Roman army threatened to destroy Jerusalem, he said to only take a few provisions and the clothes that they were wearing. He said nothing about taking their animals.
Animals were created with a limited life span, only humans had the prospect of living on earth forever. (Gen 3:22-24; Psalm 37:29) Jesus said that to enjoy “everlasting life,” we must exercise faith and take in knowledge of God—something that animals are incapable of doing.
So have we allowed our animals to occupy a place in our hearts that they were never meant to?
Is it all part of our imperfection to put our animals on a par with humans in believing that God will resurrect them? There is nothing in the scriptures that says animals will live forever.
Do we believe scripture, or our own misled hearts?
Whatever God does in the future, we will never be upset or disappointed about it.
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