yom preceded by a number is ALWAYS a 24 hour period of time.
ernt, wrong. yom preceded by a number is ALWAYS from a starting point to an ending point. there is a type of "yom" in the hebrew faith that is 2 days strung together, but it is a single "yom"
I have all faith in God and His Word. I also have faith God knew what we could understand and what we couldn't at a period of history where "0" wasn't even a concept.
Plain reading of Scripture conveys a literal 6 days of creation.
Only when you buy into evolutionary myth and try to factor that nonsense into Scripture do you start jumping through hoops to force God's Word to fit junk "science".
Yom with a number IS a 24 hour day... and everywhere else in Genesis where it is used it is never questioned. Only in the account of Creation to people start mangling the Bible.
I have faith the God conveyed what we needed to know, period. And "0" wasn't an issue.