[Just mythoughts]

"The literal language is THE FIRST DAY, THE SECOND DAY, etc. Definitive article associated with day. There's only one first day. And there is no precident for translating the original hebrew to anything but "day". Nothing else stands up. It only gets worse. "

Peter speaks specifically to the meaning of the word "day".

IIPeter 3 starts off with the statement "This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance;

2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

4 And saying, "Where is the promise of His coming?

for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as there were from the beginning of the creation."

NOTE subject is 'beginning' = Genesis the creation.

5. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of OLD, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

Now this is not Noah's flood as Peter has just spoken about Noah's flood in the previous chapter.

6. Whereby the world that then WAS, being overflowed with water perished:

7 But the heavens and the earth which are NOW, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the DAY of judgment and 'perdition' of ungodly men.

8. BUT, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, THAT ONE DAY IS with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as ONE DAY.

9 The LORD is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10 BUT, the DAY of the LORD will come as a thief in the night;

in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the WORKS that are therein shall be burned up.

We are going to have a real environmental CLEAN-up!

[Havoc]

NOTE subject is 'beginning' = Genesis the creation.

No, wrong, the subject is the end times and the attitudes of people in that time. It is not the "beginning".

Now this is not Noah's flood as Peter has just spoken about Noah's flood in the previous chapter.

No, this is noah's flood in verse 6. What was talked about in 5 was the creation. You're flatly mistating the record after quoting it. You think this behavior is passable? It's a lie - being boldly and blatently told by yourself about the very thing you're displaying. Have you an ounce of shame at all?!

We are going to have a real environmental CLEAN-up!

Yes, we are going to have a cleanup cause God is ticked and coming back to judge people for what they're doing if they aren't right with Him. He will be judging the people of the first earth and destroying the first earth. Willing ignorance as Peter discusses, will be no excuse.

[shuckmaster]

Peter speaks specifically to the meaning of the word "day". IIPeter 3 starts off with the statement...

From this, may we conclude that christians have been creating excuses to explain away the obvious impossibillities of genesis since the days when the disiples were still around?