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The Quran Verse
Surah 22:47:
...And indeed, a day with your Lord is like a thousand years of those which you count.
The Contradiction
Surah 70:4:
The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.
To the critic, an omniscient God would not be inconsistent with the scale of His own relative time. Is a "day with the Lord" 1,000 years or 50,000 years?
While Islamic apologists argue these refer to "different days," the discrepancy suggests a poetic use of large numbers by a human author rather than a precise mathematical or divine standard.