>>I see no problem here and don’t understand why you are apparently seeing some sort of contradiction.<<
The problem is that you try to enclose God into a box of roughly 6072 years. I, on the other hand, contend that there was a world prior to Genesis 1:2 that was destroyed then rebuild in Genesis 1:2 and subsequent. In fact, there could have been multiple times that the world has been reframed or rebuilt of billions of years. God is eternal, why would you suggest that He only has done one world that has existed for only 6-7 thousand years?
“God is eternal, why would you suggest that He only has done one world that has existed for only 6-7 thousand years?”
I am reading the Bible and believing the chronology of time that is plainly given.
That is hardly putting God in a box. He revealed what He did. I am simply believing what He said. Would He lie?