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To: AmericaUnited
Ok, I'll go easy on you and give you a huge hint: The Sun and Moon were not created until the "fourth" day. So, as most Hebrew scholars know, "day" as used in Genesis, meant a "period of time", not a 24 hour day.

What the hell are you talking about, It the context of the post it doesn't matter if a day was 24 hours, 24 months, 24 years or 24 centuries. What matters is regardless of the "period of time" the sequences of Genesis condradict each other.

But speaking of the "fourth" day when the sun and moon were created, A day couldn't have been to long because plants were created on the third day. If a day was a long period of time all plants which need sunlight to grow would have shriveled and died. Hmmm, You would think an all knowing, All powerful God would know that!

Again it shows that Genesis was written by people who tried to explain the Universe with the limited knowledge they had at the time because it would make no sense for an all knowing God to do it that way, However to people living in BC times they wouldn't see a problem with what he wrote because at that time he wouldn't have any knowledge of Photosynthesis

477 posted on 06/19/2003 6:22:35 PM PDT by qam1
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To: qam1
My plants didn't die while it was dark last night.

And yes God can keep the earth’s atmosphere that He just created warm for a night.

I personally disagree with the "not a 24 hour day" idea. Not that someone can't be a believer and say otherwise.

I refer those who question my judgment to:
Exo 20:8-11 and
Matthew 19:4

Moses correlates the six-day creation week with the Hebrew six-day workweek. Moses is the author of both Genesis and Exodus so he would know his YOM.

Notice Jesus affirms that Adam and Eve were created on the sixth day in Genesis 1 and also affirms the reference from Genesis 2 being the same Adam and Eve of Genesis 1.

It is funny how some seminaries are willing to twist around Jesus' commentary on the Old Testament.
496 posted on 06/19/2003 9:26:27 PM PDT by bondserv
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To: qam1
But speaking of the "fourth" day when the sun and moon were created, A day couldn't have been to long because plants were created on the third day. If a day was a long period of time all plants which need sunlight to grow would have shriveled and died. Hmmm, You would think an all knowing, All powerful God would know that!

Light did exist before day 3. READ!:

Ge 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Ge 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. Ge 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

How do YOU know what form/shape/intensity, etc, etc., this light was in? You don't! It could have supported photosynthesis.

541 posted on 06/20/2003 4:25:04 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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