The Day-Age Theory
- In case you don't already know what the 'Day-Age Theory' is, let me give you a brief run-down. This theory is held by many people who believe that when God used the word day in the Bible He wasn't speaking about a literal, 24-hour, day but an age during which time Evolution, supposedly, took place. These people rarely agree, however, on just how long an age was supposed to have been, but they often quote 2Peter 2:8 in an attempt to 'support' this non-Biblical theory. But if you take a close look at what Peter said in that verse you'll see that the reference he was making had nothing to do with 1,000 years being equal to 1 day in God's eyes. The point Peter was trying to make, in fact, was that time is irrelevant to God. Think about it: Of what significance are a few thousand years to an infinite being? Surely I'm not the only one who's noticed that time seems to go by faster as one gets older? I still recall, as a toddler, that the time between one Christmas and the next seemed like an eternity to me whereas now, being over 40, it feels like one Christmas comes, pretty much, on the heels of the last one. And, despite what my kids jokingly might tell you, I haven't been around nearly as long as God! Another thing to consider is that, if God had used the 1:1000 day ratio the Day-Age people believe He used, Methuselah would have been 353,685,000 years old! (And to think I'd thought he was old when I first heard he'd died at 969!)
Another fact that goes against the Age-Day Theory is that, throughout the Bible, all uses of the Hebrew word yom ,when prefixed with a numeral, meant a literal 24-hour day. So why wouldn't it have the same meaning when it's used in the book of Genisis at the conclusion of each and every "day" of God's creation?
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