The word for “day” in Hebrew is “
yôm” and it’s the same word all through the Genesis account.
Strongs gives the definition as....
“day, time, year
- day (as opposed to night)
- day (24 hour period)
- as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
- as a division of time
- a working day, a day's journey
- days, lifetime (pl.)
- time, period (general)”
So you need to whip out a Concordance and fumble around, looking for some obscure translation to make the Bible say what *you* want it to say eh? Not a good start.
Just to be clear, my interpretation simply uses the already existing translations out there that were done by experts, and not some random person on the interwebs. Moreover, I can show my interpretations to anyone, including non-believers, and not have to play mental gymnastics with God's Word to prove my point. In fact, I can just use the KJV if I want and not change a single thing.
Not just a literal day at all.....so perhaps some homework is in order before you go throwing around false accusations.
Homework. Yes, let us do that now. We will see how the experts have translated Genesis 2:4:
Genesis 2:4 (New International Version) This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Nope, nothing about 'six days' is there. There is no mention of anything else besides heavens and earth being created. There is nothing about plants, animals, birds, fish or man being created. You added all of that to the verse. Clearly the verse is referencing the Third Day when earth was made. You failed the NIV test. Next:
Genesis 2:4 (English Standard Version) These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Nope, nothing about 'six days' is there. Day is singular, not plural. There is no mention of anything else besides heavens and earth being created. There is nothing about plants, animals, birds, fish or man being created. You added all of that to the verse. Clearly the verse is referencing the Third Day when earth was made. You failed the ESV test. Next:
Genesis 2:4 (King James Bible) These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Nope, nothing about 'six days' is there. Day is singular, not plural. There is no mention of anything else beside heavens and earth being created. There is nothing about plants, animals, birds, fish or man being created. You added all of that to the verse. Clearly the verse is referencing the Third Day when earth was made. You failed the KJV test.
I can do this all day. I go with the experts.
This means that the six “days” of creation weren’t just 24 hour days either
No, it means you changed the Word of God again and again to suit your 'feelings'. Yikes, it's worse than I thought.
Feelings do not equal facts.
.....that agrees with what geologists, archeologists and palaeontologists have unearthed in their excavations.
And now you just made such a huge blunder I can no longer take you seriously. You take modern theories and shoehorn them into Genesis without knowing where they go in the creation narrative. I will give some advice.
What science calls the "Big Bang" is what happened in Genesis 3:6:
Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Everything before that moment happened in a *non-physical* Heaven like environment. It was an ethereal
spirit realm. In other words,
the universe had not fallen into a cursed physical state yet. When God said to the man that he would die, he meant it in the most profound way possible, i.e., a total collapse of reality. Therefore, 'millions of years' did not happen before the Fall. A day was a twenty-four hour period of time.
This is the Big Bang being described:
Genesis 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
God cursed the Heaven like spirit realm environment that the man and woman were living in. The entire universe 'fell' into the physical matter we all live in now. Think wave collapsing into particles. We are under the Law as in laws of nature. We are bound to it. Trapped.
If you
really did your homework, you would know about this interpretation.
So yes, the First Adam and Ishshah absolutely died in the process. If you want to fit billions of years into all of that, or Evolution, you can do that if you so choose. However, you cannot do that before Genesis 3:6 and have it make sense.
The earth itself is way older than a mere 6,000 years. This leaves the YEC’s with egg on their faces.
And yet I can play the same game you do with this verse:
2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The above verse is referring to the Flood of Noah. By your rules, Noah was not in the Ark for 360 days, but 360,000 years. A day is a thousand years. God personally sealed him in, remember? It was a supernatural event.
Oh look...
Homo Sapiens were around when Noah entered the Ark some 360,000 years ago. A day = 1,000 years. Noah time travelled. I just solved the biggest mystery ever. Where's my prize?
Where were the dinosaurs on the ark? They were long extinct before man arrived, and thank goodness! We would have been like ants squished underfoot!
The symbology of Noah's Ark. is lost on you. Preserve seed, i.e., DNA, is the key to understanding.
Genesis 7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
We know this concept as a seed bank/DNA storage. Salvation involves DNA. The Bible is trying to teach you this.
