RB,
I realize you are stridently committed to this - apparently to the point you cannot consider another rubric. I understand. I just disagree.
Creation, in my view, begins in verse 3. From verse 3 through the rest of the creation account is 6 days plus a day of rest.
I am talking about what happened before verse three.
Again, if you want to believe whatever, I”m fine with it because it is non-essential to the faith. I am just pointing out that I disagree with your initial article that refuses to believe people of faith can disagree. I disagree.
I'm curious, how do you reconcile that statement with this scripture:
Exodus 20: 11 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.
but your view completely disagrees with Scripture
And, the 6 day creation is repeated numerous times in Scripture
yet you claim to have a ‘Biblical’ view
Your view contradicts what is said, completely
Ex 31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it [is] a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that [ye] may know that I [am] the Lord that doth sanctify you.
Ex 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it [is] holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth [any] work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Ex 31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh [is] the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth [any] work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Ex 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, [for] a perpetual covenant.
Ex 31:17 It [is] a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for [in] six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Ex 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
If SIX DAYS is not clearly taught in Scripture, you are either not in possession of a Bible or you are ignoring the numerous places it is stated