"Now let’s return to the first verse of Genesis: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”This is a majestic verse. It is a tremendous verse. I am of the opinion that it is the doorway through which you will have to walk into the Bible. You have to believe that God is the Creator, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
“In the beginning”—that is a beginning which you cannot date. You can estimate it as billions of years, and I think you would be accurate, but who knows how many? Certainly man does not know.
McGee, J. V. (1997). Thru the Bible commentary (electronic ed., Vol. 1, p. 12). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
Do you believe God made light on Day 1, or made it a second time, or what?
Do you believe the land was made after the water?
Do you believe that the Sun Moon and Stars were made on day 4?
This whole line of reasoning is absurd! If there is no night/day cycle, there is no day. If there is no sun to rotate around, there is no year. In fact, from our point of view, without either of these two time clocks, there is no way to measure time, per se. Thus, a day is a day only if it has an evening and a morning, and it always lasts 24 hours, except when Joshua defeated the Amorites in Joshua 10.
Why assert anything else? To fit with radiometric dating time frames? It does not help with light travel from stars, unless you omit Sun Moon and Stars creation on day 4.
I dont care about J Vernon McGee
I care what the scriptures plainly teach
you never seem to think that Joshua marched for 7000 days around Jerico, do you?
Did Jesus fast 40,000 years in the desert to be tempted by Satan?
but you insist on creation being millions of years ago
You have a problem with what God said