As may I.
You're absolutely correct, my brother. I'm just suggesting a way that is fully consistent with both the Bible and with God's revelation as revealed to us in his creation.
I just, for the life of me cannot see how what is written is not plainly obvious to be six days...
...And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. Gen 1:5
...And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. Gen 1:8
...And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. Gen 1:13
...And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. Gen 1:19
...And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. Gen 1:23
...And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. Gen 1:31
I have not seen anywhere in the Bible where “ages”, “years”, “months”, “seasons” described as having an evening and a morning! Only days are described that way. It is almost as if God is making sure at some later day, someone doesn't come along and try to call the days anything other than...well...days!
In the Bible, if the normal sense makes the most sense then it is the most probable sense.
And in this case...the most probable sense is that each period of time is...a day.
This interpretation is in full agreement with the whole of scripture.
Ask any child to read those verses and ask how long of a period of time is being described and they will tell plainly that they are days. And if something so plainly and simply laid out as this is not believable by someone, how can they believe anything the Bible says. To me that is a real wonder.
Next, I am compelled ask what other plain facts in the Bible has that same man spiritualized so much that it renders God so weak and ineffectual. For if a man cannot believe that God created as He said he did, in such simple and obvious language, then how can that same man possibly believe that God loves him unconditionally? Or even more gripping how can that man possibly believe what was told to Nicodemus in John 3, or any matters of total forgivenss of sin? Or any other number of things in God's word?
How can a man have such weak faith in God as the creator of eveything, yet claim to believe that same God has the power to raise that man from the grave?
If a man cannot accept the plainly simple truths of God, then logic dictates that he cannot possibly accept the complex truths of God.
In other words...
can't accept the six day thing...God isn't THAT big
but...
can accept the salvation thing
can accept the raise me from the dead thing
can accept he fulfilled prophecies thing.
can accept the new heavens and new earth thing. Oh..this makes me ask...will it take him anohter 6,000,000,000,000 years to create the those too?
can accept the judgement of the dead
can accept the eternity thing
can accept the glorified body on order
but that God created the heavens and earth out of nothing in six literal days as his word clearly teaches?
NOPE...that simply can't be!
simply cannot have any of that!
look at the fossil evidence!
must have been billions and billions of years after a big bang of supercompressed matter.
Sorry, but that is just not consistent thinking.
...that, or that man's faith is double-minded, with one foot in the worldliness of the lie of evolution and one foot in God's economy.
I do not intended to sit in the seat of judgement of the a man with weaker faith. That is not my heart in this matter. May God the faith in each of us, for He tells us plainly that it is the faith He gives us that leads us to salvation.
Oh well...gotta go!
Again, have a great yom!
=D
SDG