If the Bible means 1,000 years (or 1 million, or 1000 million or 1 billion) when it says “day” in Genesis, why does it say there was a morning and an evening? Example: “ God called the expanse ‘sky.’ And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.”—Genesis 1:8
And when you say you take God at His word, does that mean you believe that plants appeared on the Earth before there was a sun? At least (according to your measurement of a “day” to God) 1,000 years before there was a sun? Do you also believe that birds appeared before land animals? (Genesis 1:11-25) Unless I miss my guess, that cosmology would be waaaayyyy out of whack.
Morning and evening for three days without a Sun?
Poetic language, not literal.
“As a thousand years” is not exactly one thousand years, but I see how dogmatic literalism could make you think I was taking that as literal.
Do you not recognize parable when you see it? Jesus said he would teach using parable.
For example, the expression “forty days and nights” is a common regional expression meaning a long time, much like “a month of Sundays” in the South. Luckily the Bible did not use that phrase, or we would be treated to Creationists explaining how God changed time to make a literal “month of Sundays”.
And do you take God at his word when the Bible says that the foundation of the Earth does not move?
Some here seem to think this means the Earth doesn’t move. Are you also of this opinion, or are you not taking God at his word?