[Resettozero]

Yes; that was a good read. Thank you.

Would you care to comment on the notion that time, as we now understand it, is a creation of God’s and that, based on Scriptural analysis of “days”, time perhaps wasn’t created until something changed to remove (permanently, as far as they were concerned) man from the Garden of Eden, where the Lord God was known to take a walk at least one early evening.

To me, forbidding man to re-enter the well-secured Garden of Eden, was akin to the third of the angels being expelled from Heaven and cast to earth.

Perhaps all that was when God’s already-created timepiece began ticking?

[Buggman]

I would argue that if you have a sequence of events (as you do on days 1-6), you have time. However, it is true that until Adam, there's no reason for the Bible to track time in human units.

And without going into too much detail at the moment, I would point out that the original Hebrew words for "day," "morning," "evening," etc. have somewhat different ranges of meaning than you might assume from the English translation. As a matter of fact, as my ability to read the Hebrew has increased, so has my comfort with Old-Earth Creationism.

Shalom

[Gideon7]

No idea.

All I know is that Scriptute says that we need to be careful that we don’t dive too deep into futile speculations and and create quarrels between believers that don’t further His kingdom. (Rom 1:21,1 Ti 1:4, 2 Ti 2:23)