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To: DungeonMaster

Actually it’s clear that there was at least part of a day 0 before day one. Day one is, as is the Hebrew sense of days, from a sunset to a sunset, an evening and then a morning, a night and a day.

His announcing the dawn, “Let light be”, didn’t happen during the night and day reckoned to be day one, but instead on this “day 0”, IOW the separation of night from day happened after He said “Let light be” just as the text presents it.

Creation of physical existence happened before He said “Let light be”.

A first reckoned day can be nothing more than the first day of a new epoch, an official calendar. Have you not read that there has been more than one such epoch recorded in the Bible: the times before the flood and the times after it in particular, wherein both Earth and the heavens have been changed?

The earth was already present before the first reckoned day. YEC is unnecessary to a literal reading of Genesis and is a superfluity.


63 posted on 03/21/2016 11:24:07 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne
That's a lot of gymnastics to avoid the simple concept that all of creation was done in 7 days.

The stars and galaxies and even the rest of the planets were not created until day 4 so what is the point of trying to change the meaning of the first day?

67 posted on 03/21/2016 11:33:13 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
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