This is somewhat of what I felt when we visited the Grand Canyon recently. I am very much interested in what else you have to say.
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I recognise the moments of dought that troubles me also.
Someone told me ones that the bible contains the thruth packed in riddles, this is not to make it hard to believe but to get your tension for your whole life, also searching for the best GOD has in mind for us.
In this case i see the first days of creation.
The days in the past had diffent lenght as we know a day now
If the creation days took like 25000 years a day the story of those human bones are very well to place. I do believe however that the stages of creation took much longer.
And i see the moment of the creation of the universe as the day of creation of light, the thousants of years to vreate the flora and fauna, and just at the end we humans came in the picture (so all things created before we were created are timeless and put in fases told by God to the profets)
There is no fact in this, but it makes me less worry about those misalligned timeframes.
Currious to part 4
Part 3 of my autobiographical short story:
It happened on a sunny winter morning. I just had had breakfast and had already done my daily bible studies. Busy with some home works I now was listening radio, but not much intensively.
But at the end of the ten o`clock-news the speaker caught my full attention: “In Africa archaeologists have been grabbed out human bones of 30 000 years-of-age. The age of the bones has been established through the C-14 method, which is known as a very precise one. It is a sensation … “
The rest of the news passed unheard. My own thoughts had taken over the the rule of my mind. “30 000 years-of-age … but this is not possible … the bible says that Adam lived 6000- 6550 years ago!”
I felt panic rising up. There was difference of at least 23 000 years. And I knew that the reliability of the C14- method was out of question.
A horrifying question manifested in my mind, “ Is all wrong what I have believed the last six months. Is my faith, are Jesus and God an illusion … a fake!!??… Am I in sect, as my parents believed? Have I betrayed myself?”
From one second to the next I felt myself in a deep emotional trouble. It seemed that the ground had opened in front of me and I would look into an abyss.
With desperation I said to myself: “Stop it! You must keep cool and think clearly!” So I sat down and tried to collect my thoughts.
Continuation will follow