20 May '12 18:57>
Originally posted by sonhouseNo, that is not right. God's concept of time for Himself does not effect how we tell time for God has provided a standard mechanism for us to tell time. Here is the saying in context.
So, a thousand years is like 2 days with your god. Ok, that then makes the age of the earth only 3500 years. We know there are pyramids older than that so your 500 years is one god day has to be off. Maybe by a factor of a billion or so.
Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
(2 Peter 3:1-13 NKJV)
The idea is that what seems to be a long time to us may be a short time to God and what seems a short time to us may be a long time to God. It depends on what is taking place. Thus, sometimes we see time as moving very slowly and other times it seems time is moving too fast.