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To: Sherman Logan
It is not necessary, IMO, to assume the “days” of Genesis refer to 24 hour periods.

Except for that "evening and morning" thing ...

21 posted on 10/26/2011 9:32:50 AM PDT by dartuser ("If you are ... what you were ... then you're not.")
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To: dartuser
Except for that "evening and morning" thing ...

Funny you'd say that. Not all days have an "evening and morning" were the nth day.

According to the Bible we're still in the 7th day by that criteria.

25 posted on 10/26/2011 9:40:24 AM PDT by null and void (MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
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To: dartuser

What do “evening and morning” really mean in the “day”’s before the Sun had been created?


27 posted on 10/26/2011 9:44:28 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: dartuser

“Before Abraham was I Am”.

You are under the illusion that you understand time.


32 posted on 10/26/2011 9:49:50 AM PDT by DManA
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To: dartuser

I understand what you believe and why and I respect it. I just happen to disagree. I do not believe the Genesis account was ever intended by God to be a historical/scientific statement of how God went about creating the universe, or more specifically creating the ecosphere on the Earth.

I believe it was more along the lines of a poetical allegory. In much the same way, though not inspired of God, Dante wrote his Divine Comedy. I doubt even Dante ever intended anyone to take his account as literal truth of what the afterlife was like, but it incorporates much spiritual truth.

IOW, while all Scripture is inspired of God, it is not unreasonable, at least in my opinion, to believe that not all Scripture was meant by the author to be taken as literal scientific truth.


83 posted on 10/26/2011 12:45:27 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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