I refer only to the posts I've made directly to you.
I've told you everything you need to know and you never respond with anything other than the Bible says six days. When the Bible says something you can't assume that it means what it says. In this case it does mean what it says but it doesn't mean what you say what it says that means.
Day is not limited to 24 hours.
I worked the day shift 5 days a week in those days. That is an example of the English word day being used three different ways. 1 meaning a few hours. 2 meaning a literal 24 hours and 3 meaning an indeterminate time that could be any number of years given within a narrative. Two of those don't mean a literal 24 hour period.
The Hebrew word yohm, which is translated day, is used the same way. Exactly. At Zechariah 14:8 the word day means summer and winter. Proverb 25:13 uses the word to mean harvest season, consisting of many days. (Genesis 30:14). Ezekiel 38:14, 16 uses it to mean a long time. At Isaiah 49:8 the word means thousands of years. At Matthew 10:15; 11:22-24 it uses day to mean many years.
What those mean is that the word is used for various times. A few hours to time indefinite. A day can mean 24 hours or billions of years. Eternity.
The question then becomes which meaning does the creation account of Genesis use? It uses all three the same as my example of working the dayshift above. At Genesis 2:4 it says: "This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven." So, then, by your logic does that mean the earth and heaven were made in not six days but one? You see? It says it right there. You aren't getting your literal interpretation from what the Bible says. You're getting it from the traditional dogma that comes from the dark ages when they thought night and day came from miasmas from the earth and sky.
Another example of this dark ages influence is better documented. Rain. The writers of the Bible described the hydrologic cycle straightforward and accurate. But in the dark ages they thought that the atmosphere was a metal bowl covering the earth with sluice holes to let the rain in. Bible dictionaries had illustrations of this dome and that's what everyone
from the dark ages thought. Case closed.
Now idiot atheists - and all atheists are idiots - think how foolish the Bible is because of some ignorant Bible scholars. Ignorant of what the Bible actually said while they dogmatically propagated what they thought scientifically.
You have to get rid of all of that and focus on what it says upon closer examination.
Your literal interpretation has the universe being created without light for grass to grow and light traveling from galaxy GN-z11, 32.1 billion light years away taking about 6,000 years instead of 13.4 billion years to reach the Hubble Space telescope.
We currently divide the day into just two parts? Morning and evening? I don't think so. How many parts did the ancient Hebrews divide their days into?
When was the sabbath to be observed? From evening to evening. What was in between?
1. The morning twilight (morning darkness) before the daylight; 1 Samuel 30:17
2. The dawn; Job 3:9
3. The morning; Genesis 24:54
4. Noon or midday; Deuteronomy 28:29; 1 Kings 18:27
5. The sunset; Joshua 8:29
6. The evening twilight (evening darkness); 2 Kings 7:7
So, Morning twilight, dawn, morning, noon, sunset, and evening twilight.
But what about me? Maybe I'm as ignorant as those lunatic theologians in dark age or the modern day pathologically narrow minded atheists of today! I promise you. I am. And so are you. But we carry on as if we're not.
Me. About me. Do I have a problem with Almighty God, Jehovah, possibly having created the life, the universe and everything in just 6 or even 1 day? I do not. If he can create the universe who am I to place limitations on his abilities as I am able to perceive them? Unless I have good reason to think that his word, the Bible, says that's the way it was done.
Do I have a problem with traditional theology as known in the modern world? Well, yes. It comes from Greek philosophy, mostly, like the theory of evolution itself. BUT! If it can demonstrate the Bible says six literal days, 144 hours, then kudos to them. I believe it. That hasn't been the case. And if any of y'all are representatives of that school of thought you have remarkable success only in that you believe it. And are able to repeat it.
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@Clete uses Exodus 20:11; 31:17 as support of a literal six days, but just because the week model was based upon the days of creation 1. Doesn't make it a literal 24 hour period because that would be a contradiction of Genesis 2:4, which states it was only one day. 2. Because the Bible often uses models like that in a figurative sense, like with the 40 days turning into 40 years wandering in the wilderness, and 3. Because the Hebrew perfect (bara/created) and imperfect (asah/made) don't allow for a literal 24 hour interpretation. Neither does science. Like the sluice holes of the dark ages it just makes the Bible look stupid.
Not just because science is infallible. Science is, more often then not, stupid as well. And it isn't evidence, reason and logic that dictates stupid theology and science. It's Semmelweis Reflex.
I've read all your ones to me.
