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To: malakhi

True science, no. Man-made reaching for anything-but-God-to-whom-I-am-accountable, yes.

The difference is not "this is my opinion" and "this is your opinion". What does the text SAY. It its normal natural sense, it is 6 twenty four hour days and I don't care if Moses himself wanted to muse about it. If he meant periods of time, there were words for that. When the Bible makes common sense, seek no other sense. It says 6 days, it means 6 days, it qualifies those days with morning and evening so they are literal days. This is true whether you call it "opinion" or not. It would be true if nobody believed it because God inspired the writers to write it. He was the eyewitness on the scene and should know how long he took to create the planet.

Unfortunately, I see you will not accept common sense and want to use the old out of "that's just your opinion." Sorry, it is what it SAYS. It may also be my opinion. But someone who wants to claim it says something other than 6 days is either blind or an idiot.


302 posted on 06/08/2005 9:25:37 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: Blogger
But someone who wants to claim it says something other than 6 days is either blind or an idiot.

"The thought of a ruined condition of the earth succeeding its original creation...is required by the typical view" (F. W. Grant).

Jer 4:23-26 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.

Do you think that the fall of Satan occured before Adam was Created? This passage from Jerimiah seems to be refering to a time before God said "let there be light."

Do you have an opinion on this?

304 posted on 06/08/2005 11:09:22 PM PDT by Seven_0 (You cannot fool all of the people, ever!)
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To: Blogger

Ah what standing does this leave Peter when Peter wrote in IIPeter 3:2 (the whole chapter is very telling about Genesis and the creation)?

verse 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.


310 posted on 06/09/2005 3:50:18 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Blogger
What does the text SAY.

What you think the text SAYS is ALWAYS a matter of interpretation. It is unavoidable.

Unfortunately, I see you will not accept common sense

It is "common sense" to me that Genesis 1 is not a literal account.

It says 6 days, it means 6 days, it qualifies those days with morning and evening so they are literal days.

Since Genesis 1 does not record the creation of the sun until the 4th day, that might be some indication that the meaning of "evening", "morning" and "day" in Genesis 1:5 is something other than literal. How can there be a literal 24-hour day without the sun?

315 posted on 06/09/2005 5:31:42 AM PDT by malakhi
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