relationship. How could the human family begin from two parents and their two sons if it had not been in this way? Keep in mind, too, there had not been the centuries upon centuries of sin and degrada tion in the human race as we know it today. Q. Renton, Wash. "/ have won dered about the age of the earth. I assume that the Old Testament covers a period of about 4,000 years, while the New, including this present, may engulf 2,000. The last final 1,000 years covers the millennium. This would make the earth about 6,000 years old now. Scientists, however, declare that evidence shows animal life exist ed billions of years ago. I need to help explain this to my children. I have used II Pet. 3:8 which tells us that a thousand years is as one day with the Lord." A. The passage you have cited shows us that the Lord is infinite and eternal, not subject to time or space. The reference has nothing to do with the days of creation in Genesis. It is not a correct assump tion to hold that the Old Testa ment covers a perid of 4,000 years. The dates found in the top margin of many Bibles were added by Bishop Ussher of England who lived several centuries ago. His computations were based on genealogies. As more manuscripts of ancient days have been discov ered we see that there were other generations, without any particular spiritual significance, which were not included in the Biblical record. Some good Bible scholars be lieve that there could have been, for example, a vast time period be tween the first two verses of Gen-
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