Man asked God - what a million years ----- to him?

1 Answer
Feb 17, 2018

This question reflects the questions and statements in Psalms about the nature of God and Man's relationships with God.

Explanation:

In Psalms 90:4 where the psalmist states" For a thousand years in thy sight is but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night." The Hebrew concept of God was a being that was outside of time. A day,a month, a year, a thousand years , a million years are all the same to God. The Hebrew concept of time being relative and not eternal are reflected in the modern theories or relativity, and the Big Bang.

So when man asked God about a million years the man is acknowledging God's independence from time being outside of the dimension of time.

In Psalms 8 the psalmist asks " What is man that thou are mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him? The question acknowledges the vast superiority of God to man. A million years is a big thing to man but almost nothing to God.

It is interesting that the Bible acknowledges the idea that time is a variable and changes. This idea is the basis of Einstein's theories of relativity. The Bible was several thousand years ahead of modern science.