What do you mean we don't consider the creative days as 7000 years? Russell explains how he comes to the conclusion of the length of each epoch through his research of the bible and God's guidance. He was not struggling..,mankind is struggling because of it's fallen nature and reluctance to accept God's word as fact. The time periods he describe add up to the great jubilee at 50,000 years.
He clearly was struggling with he limited knowledge of his time. Today we don't consider the creative days as being 7000 years long. That the problem with ideas formed when all the facts are not available. Evolution was a theory created without many facts. Modern science has shattered this idea, yet it held onto because there no other idea beside the one with a creator in it.
Russell already saw a 6000 year old sun or a 21000 year old sun as problematic. (Day 4-part of 6 at 7000 years each). He tries to explain this away by saying that perhaps the account doesnt really mean the sun was created on day ("era") 4. Read Gen 1:14-19. His comment that the moon represents the Law Covenant, and the Sun the new Covenant is very Russell. He seemed to love finding symbolic meaning in things. This is vintage religious history.
What do you mean we don't consider the creative days as 7000 years? Russell explains how he comes to the conclusion of the length of each epoch through his research of the bible and God's guidance. He was not struggling..,mankind is struggling because of it's fallen nature and reluctance to accept God's word as fact. The time periods he describe add up to the great jubilee at 50,000 years.
MJMATRANGA 1 year ago
He clearly was struggling with he limited knowledge of his time. Today we don't consider the creative days as being 7000 years long. That the problem with ideas formed when all the facts are not available. Evolution was a theory created without many facts. Modern science has shattered this idea, yet it held onto because there no other idea beside the one with a creator in it.
johnsanders2000 1 year ago
wow fantastic thank you soooo much
shikilla77 2 years ago
Russell already saw a 6000 year old sun or a 21000 year old sun as problematic. (Day 4-part of 6 at 7000 years each). He tries to explain this away by saying that perhaps the account doesnt really mean the sun was created on day ("era") 4. Read Gen 1:14-19. His comment that the moon represents the Law Covenant, and the Sun the new Covenant is very Russell. He seemed to love finding symbolic meaning in things. This is vintage religious history.
KatherineRogers 2 years ago