The seventh millennium is our Sabbath rest!
I am a student of the Bible, but I cannot make sense of this.
What?
I am going to need a more powerful Calculator Ping!
And how about those Dodgers...
You are calculating all of this without time. The only point in time before matter exists is G-d’s time- which you don’t know two squirts about.
Time is anything between infinity to the snap of an electron depending on where you are and who you are. Don’t bother straining yourself over the math. The is no static time cycle in the observable Universe before it was even created.
Just stop and understand that from His point of view, it was a day- Not from the point of view of a planet, that didn’t even exist yet, spinning around a Sun, that also didn’t even exist yet. It’s pointless. You might as well ask a fish to calculate the veolicity of nuclear reaction in another Universe from a fish bowl. You simply can’t. You ain’t him.
2480590000 x 7 = 17364130000
1+7+3+6+4+1+3 = 25, 2 + 5 = 7 days!
“The seven days of creation!”
Wait... I thought it was 6.
I heard the boys are back in town.
This reminds me of the old joke about the CEO hiring an accountant. He asked each one: “What’s 2+2?” The first three applicants all replied: Four! The next applicant sits down. CEO: “What 2+2?” The applicant slides his chair closer and quietly asks: “What do you want it to be?” He got the job.
It looks like this accountant is still at work!
Well this is certainly looks like a lot of words.
It is true that there are Orthodox Jews, even Charedim, who accept the "scientific" chronology and interpretation of Genesis (Rabbi 'Aryeh Kaplan was one of these), though I understand that most do not. It is also true that even some "Modern Orthodox" reject the cosmogony of "science."
Unfortunately, non-Jews know nothing about Qabbalah and I am not sure we are supposed to. Even pious and learned Jews are not supposed to start learning it until they are forty years old. The tendency on FR and among chrstians is to make Qabbalah into a punching bag and blame it from leading Jews "astray" from chrstianity (a religion they were never commanded to believe in the first place). I can only say that from my experience (limited, it is true, but still more than most non-Jews on FR) it is the Qabbalists and mystics who are most dedicated to the literal truth of Genesis while the anti-Qabbalists tend to be hyper-rationalists who have no problem with evolution or secular chronology. I have seen anti-Qabbalah sites which are quite friendly to evolution whereas the Chabadniks (for example) are among the most dedicated to the the historicity of Genesis. The late Lubavitcher Rebbe (zt"l) was a staunch creationist who held the line while many others were caving in. And here is a book published just last year by a distinguished rabbi and scholar on this very subject, defending the historicity of Genesis from modern rationalist/scientific critiques within Orthodoxy.
I will make two more points:
1)Regardless of the interpretation of the days of creation, once Adam and Eve are created on Day Six we begin dealing with actual history and a literal chronology. Ie, Adam actually lived 930 years, the Flood and Dispersion actually occurred, and Noah died when Abraham was 58 years old. I am unaware of anyone in traditional Orthodoxy, Charedi or "Modern," who would deny this, though I'm sure in this day and age many calling themselves "Orthodox" (defined exclusively as practice rather than belief) who do.
2)"Science" speculates on events of the distant past based on observation of the world as it exists and operates today. The notion that this is valid is based on nothing but an assumption. Why should the process of creation follow laws that were not even in existence at the time? Why would not the universe begin to function according to natural law only after the act of creation was complete? This is a perfectly rational question which advocates of scientific cosmogony never seem to get around to answering. They often insult creationists for not knowing much about paleontology, biology, astrology, cosmology, etc., but what have such subjects to do with the absolutely unique creation of the objects of the study of those fields? That the current laws of biology or astrology can throw light on the events in which life or the stars were created from nothing is a modern conceit with no external justification other than the claim that "G-d would never do that!" And why wouldn't He, especially considering that the alternative attributes falsehood and errors to the Holy Torah (chas vechalilah!)?
Well, that's my two sheqels' worth.