He was telling Moses whose job it was to pass the information along to the people of that time....How many of them do you suppose could have differentiated between days and thousands of years????
they could all understand a day and the passing of that day....creation, explained in that context would have been easy for them to understand and accept....the actual lapse of time was totally irrelevant. Try to explain to an aborigine the difference between an eon and a day..no concept whatsoever....Moses was not speaking to PHD's, he was teaching to humans with pretty much only a basic understanding of what was happening around them....seems simple to me.
>> “.How many of them do you suppose could have differentiated between days and thousands of years?” <<
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What an arrogant and ignorant presumption!
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Maybe it’s God’s Truman Show being explained, which Truman just can’t accept.
The Hebrews were not stone age aborines, they were living in the cradle of civilization. They used the earliest alphabet invented in the world. They had just left Egypt, a center of learning and technology, and would soon enter Israel and then begin building their own marvel of engineering in Jerusalem. They may have been pastoral, but I don’t think we can assume they were morons.