To: rxsid
What's interesting to me is that when one talks about God creating the heavens and the earth in 6 days...that doesn't have to mean 6 earth days (24 hrs each). The way the Hebrew is constructed and used within the context of the OT it does mean a 24 hour day as we understand it.
30 posted on
03/05/2018 9:33:31 AM PST by
ealgeone
To: ealgeone
The Bible is a RELIGIOUS text, NOT a scientific Tome.
It uses symbolic language to explain reality to a tribe of stone age shepherds.
It’s purpose is to explain God, His power,
the need for salavation, Christ’s sacrifice, and guidelines for a moral life, NOT COSMOLOGICAL, BIOLOGICAL OR CHEMICAL THEORY.
32 posted on
03/05/2018 9:42:03 AM PST by
ZULU
(Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - WC)
To: ealgeone
The way the Hebrew is constructed and used within the context of the OT it does mean a 24 hour day as we understand it. The Sun and Moon were not made on the first day so where did the 24 hour day come from?
33 posted on
03/05/2018 9:53:48 AM PST by
itsahoot
(There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
To: ealgeone
"
as we understand it."
And that's what I'm referring to. "We" understand a day to be 24 hours. Well, there is more to the universe than our planet's "day" time period.
The first astronauts to land on mars will experience that, albeit, a small difference.
36 posted on
03/05/2018 10:12:09 AM PST by
rxsid
(HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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