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Interesting perspective.

I would go along with a "LITERAL" as we know a day 24 hours, for each "DAY" of creation, if it had not been for Peter describing what a "DAY" means.

The LORD'S DAY is mention many many times. That being the case is that a "LITERAL" one day, 24 hours, or to what Peter describes a "thousand years"?

Now Christ was in the tomb for three days and three nights, just like Jonas was three days and three nights in the "great fish". So seems when instructing to our 24 hour "time" the night gets mentioned with it.

Now Christ was in the tomb for three days and three nights, just like Jonas was three days and three nights in the "great fish". So seems when instructing to our 24 hour "time" the night gets mentioned with it.

I believe the Christian astronomer Hugh Ross uses the Day Age theory to reconcile his scientific understanding of the universe with Scripture.

Are you implying a similar model.

P.S. I am not claiming Christians that try to take a non-straightforward reading of the text from Genesis 1-3 and Exodus 20:8-11 cannot be believers. I just believe they have a tendency to instill confusion into those who they witness to, because of the evident difference between what they say and what the passages in the Bible say.

Exo 20:8-11
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

A direct comparison. I believe the Holy Spirit is competent enough in His communication to make sure if there were a difference to point it out here.