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   > and a thousand years is as one day." This is a way of saying that God   
   > is the creator and ruler of time as well as every thing else in this   
   > universe and beyond. So even a million or a billion years can be as one   
   > day or one nanosecond to Him as He chooses it to be, since He is beyond   
   > time. With that in mind, lets move into Genesis. In the beginning God   
   > created the heavens and the earth. I think that this represents the   
   > start of our universe. The heavens representing space and the earth   
   > representing matter. The earth being without form and void and the   
   > Spirit of God hovered above the waters. The matter had not coalesced   
   > together sufficiently to form large physical bodies in space, but had   
   > coalesced enough that internal heat within the matter was driving off   
   > water vapor that may have condensed on the surface of that matter. Then   
   > God said let there be light. This was beginning of nuclear fusion in   
   > our universe, along with planet building. Where the light hit these   
   > protoplanets, there was day and on the backside of these bodies was   
   > night just as God had commanded. Obviously it took billions of our   
   > years for our universe to reach this stage, but to God that is little   
   > more than a blink of the eye.   
   > God called this time the first day. The morning and the evening being   
   > whatever time that God wishes it to be or when He wishes it to be. I   
   > think it highly unlikely He is saying an Earthday at this point because   
   > our solar system had not been created yet, that did not occur until the   
   > fourth day. On the second day God separated the waters into the seas   
   > and the sky. Evidently certain planets in scattered solar systems had   
   > cooled enough for their atmospheres to start clearing instead of one   
   > big shroud of clouds enveloping these planets from their surfaces   
   > upward. This probably took millions of years to occur. During this day   
   > God formed the land surfaces upon these planets. Again in God's time   
   > there could have been another blink of His spiritual eyes. Evening   
   > could be when He closes His eyes and the morning when He opens them   
   > again. So ended the second day. (I can see that you folks have erected   
   > the stake and gathered the firewood. You're having a cookout! Right?).   
   > On the third day, God brought forth vegetation. There have probably   
   > been many planets within our universe in times past and yet today that   
   > have some forms of life upon them. This is God's universe, along with   
   > any others, and He can do with them whatever He so desires. Who are we   
   > to limit Him to only caring about what happens on our dinky little   
   > planet, as important as it is to us? Don't get me wrong, God does care   
   > about us and this Earth, but We are not His only responsibility. Again   
   > God blinks His eyes and another day is over in His book, even though   
   > more millions of Earth type years may have elapsed.   
   > On the fourth day God created our sun, the moon and obviously the   
   > planets in our solar system. From this point on, I think that God is   
   > referring to our planet when He speaks of the earth, although He is not   
   > yet talking in Earthdays when He speaks. We tend to limit God into our   
   > way of thinking, not realizing that He is far greater than we could   
   > ever imagine. God also created the land and plants on our Earth in this   
   > time frame. This "day" must have been several billion Earth years long.   
   > It is wonderful that God never gets tired doing all this creating,   
   > because if He did He would probably get worn out just trying to keep up   
   > with all the petitions I offer up to His throne, let alone those that   
   > everyone else bring to Him in prayer.   
   > On the fifth day, God created the animals. Plants were already in   
   > existence on the Earth, being part of his previous day's work. This   
   > time frame probably lasted hundreds of millions of Earth years. As you   
   > can tell by now, I think that God used an evolutionary process to bring   
   > this to past. Not a random type of evolution, but a God inspired and   
   > God driven evolutionary process that only He is capable of doing. Truly   
   > we have a great and awe inspiring God.   
   > On the sixth day, we arrive at the place where the rubber meets the   
   > road so to speak. Did God create man? You bet He did. Did God use an   
   > evolutionary process to create man from the higher mammal animals? You   
   > bet He did. (GASP!) You say what about Adam? I think He came along   
   > later. This day probably lasted several million years. God looked at   
   > all of this creation and declared it good. Who are we to argue with God   
   > about something like that. If He says it is good, then it must be good.   
   > Anyway God decided He needed a little vacation after all that work of   
   > creating. I'll bet my bottom dollar that the seventh day did not last   
   > even two Earth seconds, because God loves what He is doing so much that   
   > He won't ever give it up and keeps on keeping on.   
   > Getting back to Adam, I believe that Adam was the first human with a   
   > spirit bearing soul. God created him from the dust of the Earth and   
   > breathed life into Him because God had created him for a special   
   > purpose. Adam was a perfect man. He could not say that bad genes had   
   > caused him to sin. Likewise Eve whom God created from Adam was perfect.   
   > These two were to be the first of mankind to enter into this world with   
   > a God created spirit. All men existing before Adam had a soul, but no   
   > spirit indwelling that soul. This leads me to think that the fall of   
   > Lucifer from Heaven occurred sometime after the sixth day. This I have   
   > reason to believe: that spirits of men are leftover remnants from the   
   > old order that existed in Heaven before Lucifer launched his revolt   
   > against God. As beings who did not take part in that revolt, but   
   > nevertheless of suspect loyalty to God, we could not remain in Heaven   
   > in our old form. We have to be transformed into new creatures before we   
   > are acceptable to God again. This is the purpose of our earthly   
   > existence. God knew that Lucifer and a third of the angels were going   
   > to revolt against him. He also had originally created us as subangelic   
   > beings to assist Lucifer in carrying out his heavenly responsibilities,   
   > before Lucifer got the big head and decided to try to take over God's   
   > position. I wonder if that happened while God was on vacation during   
   > the seventh day. It would be just like old Lucifer to try something   
   > like that.   
   > Anyway, once God decided that we subangelic spiritual beings (see   
   > Hebrews 2:7) could no longer dwell in His heavenly kingdom in our then   
   > spiritual form and He began thinking of ways to change us. He could not   
   > do this at the eternal level because He is constrained by His own   
   > eternal laws at that level. He had to bring us to a temporal level to   
   > accomplish that. Since a suitable vehicle (man) was already in place to   
   > accomplish this objective, God decided to piggyback these spirits into   
   > men's souls. This is why our soul also contains a God created spirit   
   > (see Hebrews 4:12). Adam was the first of these spirit souled men. Had   
   > he not disobeyed God, he would have been permitted to eventually eat of   
   > the tree of life and been transformed into an eternal creature, with   
   > rights to dwell with God forever. Adam and Eve were a special test   
   > case. God knew that if they failed the test, then all men from that   
   > point on would fail this test. They were cast out of the Garden and   
      
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