2 Peter 3:4-8 asking, "Where is His promised advent? Since the day our fathers fell asleep, things remain exactly as they were from the beginning of creation."

Moffatt⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ asking, "Where is His promised advent? Since the day our fathers fell asleep, things remain exactly as they were from the beginning of creation." ⁵ They wilfully ignore the fact that heavens existed long ago, and an earth which the word of God formed of water and by water. ⁶ By water the then-existing world was deluged and destroyed, ⁷ but the present heavens and earth are treasured up by the same word for fire, reserved for the day when the impious are doomed and destroyed. ⁸ Beloved, you must not ignore this one fact, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.