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But with God - because He is eternal - time is not binding on Him which means our thousand years could be as one day with Him.

Exactly. So why are you insisting that a day is 24 hours?

You know, it wouldn't seem like you guys are playing games with words if you just stuck to the questions you ORIGINALLY asked and which WERE answered - NOT avoided or ignored as y'all seem to be doing here. What did you originally ask? Here it is again with my answer:

To: FatherofFive

From Scripture, how long is a day?

It depends on the context, doesn't it? In Genesis, God created the world in six "days" and specifically said "evening and morning" were what counted as a day. To humans, in THIS earthly life, a day is approx. 24 hours. But with God - because He is eternal - time is not binding on Him which means our thousand years could be as one day with Him. Not everything is a pat yes or no answer, is it?

262 posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2014 1:40:18 AM by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)

Once again, do y'all need help with reading comprehension?

Why are YOU insisting that a day isn't 24 hours? For humans, living on the earth here and now, a "day" is 24 hours (approximately) and matches the "evening and morning" God stated all the way back in Genesis. If you want to change your question to what is a day TO God, then it depends on whether or not He is speaking of His creation of time on earth FOR human life or HIS view of days or time where He is not bound by time at all. In His view, and for eternity a thousand years is as a day and a day is as a thousand years - in other words, there IS NO TIME in eternity. Is this clear enough now or should I expect more semantical word games and pretend gotchas? I really DO have better things to do with MY time.

Why are YOU insisting that a day isn't 24 hours?

Because the Bible tells me so.

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. Peter 3:8

I always find it interesting that folks who claim the Bible is literal ignore those parts that disagree with their man-made beliefs, this one, IS means represents, and "not by faith alone"