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On 4/4/2016 2:43 PM, Richard Tobin wrote:

> According to Psalm 90:4, "a thousand years are in your sight but a
> single day".  How fast is God travelling relative to the earth?

I think that it is the resident of Paradise who is experiencing
the 1000 years as a day, not (necessarily) the earth.
So, I would ask the question "How fast would I (in heaven)
be traveling relative to God?"

Although, come to think of it it works both ways doesn't it?
Is there also a verse somewhere that says something like
"a day for You in my sight is as a thousand years"?

As a bonus, the hyper-relativistic-God theory explains
how He can do all that sparrow-watching. How many years
would it take an ex-sparrow to hit the ground?

Anyway:

  gamma = 1/sqrt( 1 - beta^2 )
        = (1000 years)/( 1 day ) = 365242.2

  beta = v/c
       = 1 - 1/(2*gamma^2)
       = 1 - 3.748e-12

c = 299792458 m/s

v = c - 1.124 millimeters/second

So, fast.