Posted on 08/20/2023 1:39:04 AM PDT by spirited irish
Were the days of Creation Week of 24 hours duration or were they long periods of time? This article will discuss the Hebrew ‘time’ words which the author had available to him and what meaning he intended to convey by his choice of the specific words he used.
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Time is relative. In his book, The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom, Gerald L. Schroeder describes how the seven days of Genesis were both 7 24 hour days, and billions of years. A really fascinating read. He is a scientist and biblical scholar
I have heard there was a “world” before Adam. Where did Adam’s sons get their wives.
They were literal 24 hour days. Jesus made the Sabbath and kept the Sabbath. He said he was LORD of the Sabbath. A “day” he “made” for man.
They married thier sisters
That’s entirely possible. I tend to agree with it. I refuse to believe God created anything that was void and formless. No way. Isaiah 45:18 I believe the earth became formless and void, but was not created that way.
Where did Adam’s sons get their wives.
They married sisters. The human race was not as polluted, as is now. Technically, since we all descended from Adam and Eve, (and Noah) we are all related. When we marry, we are marrying a relative, just not a close relative.
That is called the Gap theory, and it suggested that the earth existed before then and was destroyed for some reason, so thus the darkness over the void face of the deep in Genesis 1, sort of a gap between that and the creation described in Genesis 1, but it has been totally debunked.
As for Adam’s son’s wives, they married their sisters. Since DNA had not had time to build up genetic impurities yet, there was no danger at that time of children with siblings or close cousins resulting in problems.
How does one determine the length of a day without the sun?
(a question...by the way...that was already being asked in ancient times)
They married their sisters.
Between Genesis chapter 1, verses 1, 2..and the rest of Gen.. The earth was without form, and void, and darkness upon the face of the deep. Suggesting something had happened or it existed in that condition.
God spoke the creation ...light, seas, animals, Adam.
For us time in measurable in precise units of duration measurable by the mechanics of clocks. We have a precise idea of the duration of a second or minute or hour. Days for us are almost exactly 24 hours but we have the concept of them not being exactly 24 hours and the adjustments in leap seconds...so our careful measure of duration of our clocks is not frustrated.
The natural norm is for duration to be measured in sequence of events and by psychological experience which lacks the precision of clocks. Days are counted and time of day by the sun. Seasons by various methods like when crops reach a certain state or by count of days like us. Meetings might be scheduled not at 9am but at sun rise.
The language of the creation week says there was evening then morning as a sequence. The modern idea of duration was not even in view.
Amen. Even in the 10 commandments the 4th one states that God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th.
The conclusion at the end of the article gives a good summary
"In Genesis 1, God, through the ‘pen’ of Moses, is going out of His way to tell us that the ‘days’ of creation were literal earth–rotation days. To do this, He used the Hebrew word yôm, combined with a number and the words ‘evening and morning’. If God had wanted to tell us it was an ancient creation, then there were several good ways He could have done this. If theistic evolution had been intended, then there were several constructions He could have used. If the time factor had been meant to be ambiguous, then the Hebrew language had ways of saying this. However, God chose not to use any construction which would have communicated a meaning other than a literal solar day.
The only meaning which is possible from the Hebrew words used is that the ‘days’ of creation were 24–hour days. God could not have communicated this meaning more clearly than He did in Genesis 1. The divine confirmation of this, if any is needed, is Exodus 20:9–11, where the same word ‘days’ is used throughout:"
Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Genesis 1:8, a day was a morning and an evening. I walk by faith in Jesus Christ, not by sight. I believe God’s word before any of man’s attempts to conform God’s word to man’s thinking.
totally agree
by faith
I understand that
since the beginning
a week was seven 24 hour days
our Creator did not need evolution as a tool
Gods view on our attempts at understanding creation
Job 38:4-7
New International Version
4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels[a] shouted for joy
Here is a study of the great pyramid of Giza. Done by Jack Kelly.
It has some very interesting dimensions about the earth that were used in its construction.
https://gracethrufaith.com/end-times-prophecy/the-great-pyramid-of-giza/
2 Peter 3:8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.
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Lesson: Don’t get locked into the notion that the universe was created in six 24 hour periods as defined by man.
I’ve read some of his writings on the age of the universe and agree that it is fascinating and does a credible job of explaining the apparent discrepancy between man’s calculations based on Scripture and the visual evidence we see that suggests otherwise.
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