[Blogger]

nmh is not wrong about yom. It the most literal sense, in the Genesis creation, yom means a literal 24 hour day. It includes qualifiers such as evening and morning and in NO instance where such qualifiers are included does it mean anything other than a literal day. Of course, yom means other things than 24 hour day elsewhere in Scripture. But in the first chapters of Genesis, it is 24 hours and if it weren't for the evolutionary hoax we wouldn't be trying to fit millions of years into the first two chapters anyway.

[malakhi]

Of course, yom means other things than 24 hour day elsewhere in Scripture. But in the first chapters of Genesis, it is 24 hours

You admit, then, that yom has more than one meaning; it is only your interpretation which insists that -- in this particular usage -- it must be understood to refer to a period of 24 hours.

[nmh]

Thank you!

You have far more patience than I.

I appreciate it very much ... I just get weary of ... .

[Lurking Libertarian]

if it weren't for the evolutionary hoax we wouldn't be trying to fit millions of years into the first two chapters anyway

At least 100 years before Darwin ever published the theory of evolution, geologists recognized that the earth had to be millions of years old.