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6, the days. There is no reason that these cannot be 6 days as we know them. There is nothing about God's creation that is a 'mountain to big for him to lift.' He can re-order any part. The waters of the Red Sea were made to stand for a limited amount of time for the nation to move along through. He confused language in a mere moment. Those are acts of God.
What is difficult to understand is the lighting. There is 'morning' and 'evening' light from day 1 even though the sun is not in place until day 4.
We must remember that the expression 'formless and void' is structurally very important to the account. This may clear up what is meant about the light. There are two kinds of creative acts by God, those that form and those that fill.
Day 1 light formed
Day 2 water—oceans separated from the canopy above, vertically
Day 3 land formed (the land sort of 'fills' with plants on its own), horizontally
Day 4 details about light—the various objects fill the sky
Day 5 the oceans filled with creatures and the air with birds
Day 6 the land is filled with creatures and with mankind as man and woman
The difficulty of the light of day 1-3 may simply be that Moses meant to stick to the forming only (light vs darkness) and saved details of the filling with objects for day 4.
The account proceeds with a sufficient amount of organization (there are no creatures in spaces not ready for them), but does not account for issues like this.
What is difficult to understand is the lighting. There is 'morning' and 'evening' light from day 1 even though the sun is not in place until day 4.
We must remember that the expression 'formless and void' is structurally very important to the account. This may clear up what is meant about the light. There are two kinds of creative acts by God, those that form and those that fill.
Day 1 light formed
Day 2 water—oceans separated from the canopy above, vertically
Day 3 land formed (the land sort of 'fills' with plants on its own), horizontally
Day 4 details about light—the various objects fill the sky
Day 5 the oceans filled with creatures and the air with birds
Day 6 the land is filled with creatures and with mankind as man and woman
The difficulty of the light of day 1-3 may simply be that Moses meant to stick to the forming only (light vs darkness) and saved details of the filling with objects for day 4.
The account proceeds with a sufficient amount of organization (there are no creatures in spaces not ready for them), but does not account for issues like this.