The Hebrew word used for days is the same Hebrew word used when Moses wrote about the 7th day will be the Sabath. He did nit say millions
Besides, God said when sin entered then death entered. For millions of years you need death and destruction. No, there was no death and no destruction until after Adam and Eve sinned.
Do you also question the flood?
How about Christ walking on water?
How about Christ bringing Lazarus back from the dead?
Howe about Jesus changing water to wine, such wine that it tasted as good as the wine that was aged. OH, wait, how could He make wine from water taste like it was years old?
I take each one individually. Yes, the same word used for days in Genesis is the one used by Moses regarding the Sabbath. Here’s the deal, though, and it is twofold:
1. these are the meanings that can apply to the word:
NASB Translation
afternoon* (1), age (8), age* (1), all (1), always* (14), amount* (2), battle (1), birthday* (1), Chronicles* (38), completely* (1), continually* (14), course* (1), daily (22), daily the days (1), day (1115), day of the days (1), day that the period (1), day’s (6), day’s every day (1), daylight* (1), days (635), days on the day (1), days to day (1), days you shall daily (1), days ago (1), days’ (11), each (1), each day (4), entire (2), eternity (1), evening* (1), ever in your life* (1), every day (2), fate (1), first (5), forever* (11), forevermore* (1), full (5), full year (1), future* (1), holiday* (3), later* (2), length (1), life (12), life* (1), lifetime (2), lifetime* (1), live (1), long (2), long as i live (1), long* (11), midday* (1), now (5), older* (1), once (2), period (3), perpetually* (2), present (1), recently (1), reigns (1), ripe* (1), short-lived* (1), so long* (1), some time (1), survived* (2), time (45), time* (1), times* (2), today (172), today* (1), usual (1), very old* (1), when (10), when the days (1), whenever (1), while (3), whole (2), year (10), yearly (5), years (13), yesterday* (1).
And this touches on the word “aion” in the new testament. In some places it is translated “world” (do not love the things of this world) and in others it is translated “forever” or “eternity”. but the better translation in both cases Is “age” or “for the age” or for the ages”.
2. Trying to nail down the days misses the whole point. It’s not about seven days, seven years, or seven eons. It is about God Creating the heavens and the earth and everything that is on it.
And since a day is as a thousand years to God, why couldn’t the “days” in genesis be seven thousand years? Or seventy thousand, or seventy million?
Besides, God said when sin entered then death entered.
The word for “world” is Kosmos. http://biblehub.com/greek/2889.htm
When you look at all the information at the above link, it becomes clear that it is dealing with the “earth” as created in genesis. More precisely, it entered this dispensation.
Thing is, it is quite possible to believe that the earth was, before genesis 1:3, wiped clean, as one might paint over a painting on a canvas and then produce an entirely new painting on it. I mean, God destroyed the earth in the flood, which really only wiped out the surface and was sort of a “do over”. And it will happen again at the end of this age, only through fire, which will leave the planet even without any sea.
So, we don’t really know what came before genesis 1:3. We only know that God created the heavens and the earth. And that could have been billions of years (or more) ago.
And not to mess with this too much: Just as with a canvass that has been painted over, and you can peel away the paint and find remnants of the earlier painting(s), maybe that is what happens when we peel away the layers and find things like dinosaurs.
Just thinking out loud. Not saying I believe it or I don’t. But it is an interesting thought exercise. The next step is to find scripture that makes it not a feasible theory about the time before genesis 1:3.
But how do we define a “day”?
To an earthling, a day is defined as one revolution of our planet (measured from sundown to sundown in the Bible?).
But how does the Creator measure each of His first days in the beginning? Is His “day” measured the same as our “day”?
Would His “day” be the rotation of a planet that He was just creating in the beginning?
Does it matter beyond stating that He also created time while creating everything else?
To me, that part of Genesis reads like white boarding a new project at work, or in this case, whatever this matrix program and on-going story is that He created and that we’re all born into.
Beyond that, I’m content to say that I don’t know, like how I don’t know if time references are in our time or His and I’m okay with that.