Another point, we have defined the term “day” to mean the rotation of the Earth in relation to the sun; how, then, could there be any “day” (much less multiple ones) before God created the sun?
Answer: The Hebrew term translated as “day” was simply a period of time. In fact, we have a similar usage for the word “day”. Does the phrase “back in my day” mean a SPECIFIC day in your past? Or a general time-period?
==The Hebrew term translated as “day” was simply a period of time. In fact, we have a similar usage for the word “day”. Does the phrase “back in my day” mean a SPECIFIC day in your past? Or a general time-period?
I don’t have time to get into it right now, but the following may change your mind on that. All the best—GGG
http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter2.pdf
Do you think that's why the Hebrew says, 'evening morning x day'?
Of course, we know that the Hebrew 24-hour day begins at sundown, consistent with the word order that we see in Genesis indicating the same 24-hour day.
Or maybe, Exodus 20:9-11 - "Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."
This is where Scripture specifically relates the 24-hour days of the work week and the 24-hour Sabbath with 24-hour days of creation.
You have to be really, really, super-duper smart to get around it when it's worded like that.
You determined it??? How about letting God determine it...
That's your 'logical' understanding of it...Obviously it's not God's...
Light and darkness were created before the Sun was created...A day obviously was determined by God before the Sun was created...
God created the Sun to line up with His definition of DAY, not yours...