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And where does scripture say that a day was not 24 hours? And why do you doubt that God is able to create all that He created in 24-hr increments? And ....why is it important enough to go back and forth about it? I simply believe God and that nothing is impossible with Him.

Before the fall, these animals were not eating meat. They were not predators. Death and chaos came in after the fall.

You just reversed the burden of proof.

I’m not claiming Genesis says, “These were definitely not 24-hour periods.”

You’re claiming
yôm must mean exactly 24 hours.

So stop asking me: “Where does Scripture say it wasn’t 24 hours?”
Thats not an escape hatch.

The question is: Where does Scripture define each yôm in Genesis 1 as exactly 24 hours?

Nowhere.


And appealing to what God could do changes absolutely nothing.
Of course God could create the entire universe in six 24-hour periods.
He could create it in six seconds.

I could just turn your argument around and say:

“How dare you think it would take God six whole days to create everything! He could’ve done it all in six seconds, or a sixth of a second!” - As Yôm can even refer to less than a full 24-hour period depending on context.

You keep acting like the case is closed because your dumbed-down simplistic English KJV says:

Day.
Day.
Day.
Day.
Day.
Day.


And then you point at the repetition and say:

“SEE? DAY!”

But that proves nothing about the full meaning of the Hebrew yôm.
Your English Bible simplistically rendered yôm as “day.” (Which in my opinion is very unsettling)

You can't then turn around and use that English rendering as proof that yôm itself must mean exactly 24 hours.

That's circular reasoning.

Yôm
gives you a Hebrew word with a broader range of meaning than one rigid 24-hour definition.
What you still haven't produced is the verse that says: YÔM = EXACTLY 24 HOURS.

Because Genesis never says it.

And the KJV does the same kind of flattening in Genesis 1:21.

The Hebrew gives you:

hattannînîm haggĕdolîm

The great tannînîm = great sea creatures, sea monsters, serpentine or dragon-like creatures.

The KJV hands you:

“great whales.”

Then generations grow up ignorantly assuming that the flattened English wording is the Hebrew itself.

It isn’t.

If Genesis were sitting in front of you as a Hebrew child 2,000 years ago as:

On yôm 1, this happened.
On
yôm 2, this happened.
On
yôm 3, this happened.

you'd already know and understand that yôm can mean an ordinary day or a broader, even indefinite span of time…


In that case you'd no longer shout:

“Day! Day! Day! Day!” and pretend the English word settled the Hebrew because you'd know thats not true in the slightest.

The problem is not whether God can create in 24 hours.

The problem is that you've taken one English translation choice, turned it into a Hebrew definition, and then called your assumption the Word of God.

If this happens with obvious words like yôm and tannînîm, imagine how many times readers have mistaken a single English rendering for the full meaning of the Hebrew or Greek underneath it. Genuinely unsettling
 

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You just reversed the burden of proof.

I’m not claiming Genesis says, “These were definitely not 24-hour periods.”

You’re claiming
yôm must mean exactly 24 hours.

So stop asking me: “Where does Scripture say it wasn’t 24 hours?”
Thats not an escape hatch.

The question is: Where does Scripture define each yôm in Genesis 1 as exactly 24 hours?

Nowhere.


And appealing to what God could do changes absolutely nothing.
Of course God could create the entire universe in six 24-hour periods.
He could create it in six seconds.

I could just turn your argument around and say:

“How dare you think it would take God six whole days to create everything! He could’ve done it all in six seconds, or a sixth of a second!” - As Yôm can even refer to less than a full 24-hour period depending on context.

You keep acting like the case is closed because your dumbed-down simplistic English KJV says:

Day.
Day.
Day.
Day.
Day.
Day.


And then you point at the repetition and say:

“SEE? DAY!”

But that proves nothing about the full meaning of the Hebrew yôm.
Your English Bible simplistically rendered yôm as “day.” (Which in my opinion is very unsettling)

You can't then turn around and use that English rendering as proof that yôm itself must mean exactly 24 hours.

That's circular reasoning.

Yôm
gives you a Hebrew word with a broader range of meaning than one rigid 24-hour definition.
What you still haven't produced is the verse that says: YÔM = EXACTLY 24 HOURS.

Because Genesis never says it.

And the KJV does the same kind of flattening in Genesis 1:21.

The Hebrew gives you:

hattannînîm haggĕdolîm

The great tannînîm = great sea creatures, sea monsters, serpentine or dragon-like creatures.

The KJV hands you:

“great whales.”

Then generations grow up ignorantly assuming that the flattened English wording is the Hebrew itself.

It isn’t.

If Genesis were sitting in front of you as a Hebrew child 2,000 years ago as:

On yôm 1, this happened.
On
yôm 2, this happened.
On
yôm 3, this happened.

you'd already know and understand that yôm can mean an ordinary day or a broader, even indefinite span of time…


In that case you'd no longer shout:

“Day! Day! Day! Day!” and pretend the English word settled the Hebrew because you'd know thats not true in the slightest.

The problem is not whether God can create in 24 hours.

The problem is that you've taken one English translation choice, turned it into a Hebrew definition, and then called your assumption the Word of God.

If this happens with obvious words like yôm and tannînîm, imagine how many times readers have mistaken a single English rendering for the full meaning of the Hebrew or Greek underneath it. Genuinely unsettling
Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
 

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You just reversed the burden of proof.

I’m not claiming Genesis says, “These were definitely not 24-hour periods.”

You’re claiming
yôm must mean exactly 24 hours.

So stop asking me: “Where does Scripture say it wasn’t 24 hours?”
Thats not an escape hatch.

The question is: Where does Scripture define each yôm in Genesis 1 as exactly 24 hours?

Nowhere.


And appealing to what God could do changes absolutely nothing.
Of course God could create the entire universe in six 24-hour periods.
He could create it in six seconds.

I could just turn your argument around and say:

“How dare you think it would take God six whole days to create everything! He could’ve done it all in six seconds, or a sixth of a second!” - As Yôm can even refer to less than a full 24-hour period depending on context.

You keep acting like the case is closed because your dumbed-down simplistic English KJV says:

Day.
Day.
Day.
Day.
Day.
Day.


And then you point at the repetition and say:

“SEE? DAY!”

But that proves nothing about the full meaning of the Hebrew yôm.
Your English Bible simplistically rendered yôm as “day.” (Which in my opinion is very unsettling)

You can't then turn around and use that English rendering as proof that yôm itself must mean exactly 24 hours.

That's circular reasoning.

Yôm
gives you a Hebrew word with a broader range of meaning than one rigid 24-hour definition.
What you still haven't produced is the verse that says: YÔM = EXACTLY 24 HOURS.

Because Genesis never says it.

And the KJV does the same kind of flattening in Genesis 1:21.

The Hebrew gives you:

hattannînîm haggĕdolîm

The great tannînîm = great sea creatures, sea monsters, serpentine or dragon-like creatures.

The KJV hands you:

“great whales.”

Then generations grow up ignorantly assuming that the flattened English wording is the Hebrew itself.

It isn’t.

If Genesis were sitting in front of you as a Hebrew child 2,000 years ago as:

On yôm 1, this happened.
On
yôm 2, this happened.
On
yôm 3, this happened.

you'd already know and understand that yôm can mean an ordinary day or a broader, even indefinite span of time…


In that case you'd no longer shout:

“Day! Day! Day! Day!” and pretend the English word settled the Hebrew because you'd know thats not true in the slightest.

The problem is not whether God can create in 24 hours.

The problem is that you've taken one English translation choice, turned it into a Hebrew definition, and then called your assumption the Word of God.

If this happens with obvious words like yôm and tannînîm, imagine how many times readers have mistaken a single English rendering for the full meaning of the Hebrew or Greek underneath it. Genuinely unsettling
Brother, do you need a day to be longer than 24 hours? I'm wondering why you couldn't fathom Almighty, Omnipotent God couldn't have created all these things in a matter of a sequence of 6 days as we know it. He speaks and things happen.

For me, since He didn't state that the days were longer than 24 hours, the fact that He said "the evening and the morning were the first ....second.....third.........sixth day" .. that's enough for me. I can see what a day is by experience.
 
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Brother, do you need a day to be longer than 24 hours? I'm wondering why you couldn't fathom Almighty, Omnipotent God couldn't have created all these things in a matter of a sequence of 6 days as we know it. He speaks and things happen.


Thats already been covered up above in detail. You must not be reading my comments all the way through.
 

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But the English KJV gives you “whales” instead of the full definition/range of meaning. Yikes.
Not "yikes" but why? Why has God given it in that manner?

That reading starts sounding stranger than the text itself.
...no doubt, to some.

...the word “day,” which can make readers assume...
Who gives wisdom? "readers", or God's Holy Spirit?

...imagine how many times readers have mistaken...
I prefer not to "imagine" because

...that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

I'm wondering why you couldn't fathom Almighty, Omnipotent God couldn't have created all these things in a matter of a sequence of 6 days as we know it. He speaks and things happen.

For me, since He didn't state that the days were longer than 24 hours, the fact that He said "the evening and the morning were the first ....second.....third.........sixth day" .. that's enough for me. I can see what a day is by experience.
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Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
And GOD said let there be Light . beginning of his creation .
And years upon years later
THE SON would FINSIH the works , LET THERE BE LIGHT . As he has shined the light in the glorious Gospel of Christ
unto the hearts of the sheep .
There is a lot that can be seen in even genesis my friend .
And as for seven literal days . WELL the evening and the morning were the first day
And so on . SO We know WHO we beleive david . And we do not twist the bible
to fit the sciences and physcologies and love of man . We simply read and we simply BELIEVE what is written .
SHEEP Do not twist truth , SHEEP feast upon and believe TRUTH . Just a reminder my friend .
The greater light TO RULE THE DAY . and we are not of the night but of THE DAY
and the lesser light to rule the night , And we are not of that . not anymore .
Ye are children of the DAY , of the GREATER LIGHT
not the darkness that calls itself light , BUT OF THE LIGHT , OF JESUS CHRIST .
And no marvel for even satan himself , WHO BE DARKNESS can transform himself into an angel of Light .
And now a word .
IF the light that is in you be darkness , THEN GREAT IS that DARKNESS .
And the sheep DONT HEED IT .
 

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Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
now how much clearer can it get . And the evening and the morning . THAT be a literal day my friend .
Evolution is of the devil . Yeah i said it and yeah i mean it . We dont heed evolution
WE heed GOD , HIS CHRIST , THE TRUTH and not man .
This generation seems to not realize something david , SEEING it has sat under the wisdom of men
through physoclogy , through science and etc .
SO allow me a reminder .
THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY with GOD .
And cannot recieve the things of GOD .
SO I DARN sure aint gonna be trusting IN THEIR SCIENCE or their anything .
HERE is WHO we TRUST and BELIEVE my friend . GOD . LET GOD be true but every man a liar .
And seeing ITS GOD WE BELIEVE , BELEIVE ME WHEN I SAY WE BELIEVE HIS CHRIST JESUS .
WE BELIEVE HIS WORDS . Cause GOD cannot lie . But man sure can and the prince of lies sure can decieve man .
 

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GREAT POST
verily verily i do type unto my friend .
This people has thrown out the pure water
for the cisterns of men .
And when one does that it is just like a man
who went digging for water under a outhouse . THEY AINT GONNA FIND ANYTHING worth drinking my friend . but dung waters .
 

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Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Hey everyone i am gonna ask david a question . lets see how simple he answers it .
Hey david , JESUS said in this world ye shall have t ribulations .
And we both read on how the beast cometh against the saints .
WHO YOU GONNA BELEIVE . JESUS and what is simply wri tten , OR PRE TRIB .
 

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Brother, do you need a day to be longer than 24 hours? I'm wondering why you couldn't fathom Almighty, Omnipotent God couldn't have created all these things in a matter of a sequence of 6 days as we know it. He speaks and things happen.

For me, since He didn't state that the days were longer than 24 hours, the fact that He said "the evening and the morning were the first ....second.....third.........sixth day" .. that's enough for me. I can see what a day is by experience.
cause ,
cause you already know the answer to why he cant .
MANY rather trust iN MEN and their sciences and etc .
So at most they gonna twist things to fit THAT .
And THAT
yes THAT is a big mistake sister . We even have folks believing the story of jonah and the whale
was imaginary . SEEING it seems so impossible for a man to even survive in a whale .
TRUTH IS , IT IS IMPOSSIBLE . BUT NOT WITH GOD .
I simply BELIEVE IT . IS ANY THING too hard FOR GOD .
FAITH . child like faith . GOD spoke everything into existance .
IT aint too hard for GOD to do anything . Aint too hard for GOD to prepare a whale to swallow a man either
and keep him alive within that whale .
In fact it was not too hard for GOD to have a virgin concieve and bear a child and his name would be called
IMMANUEL . THERE IS NOTHING too hard or difficult for GOD . THAT IS THE SOLID TRUTH
and I STAND ON IT . FAITH . its always been FAITH that pleased GOD .
SO IF IT be written , I BELIEVE IT no matter how impossible it might sound .
GOD parted the seas and the jordan . Aint anything too hard FOR HIM .
 
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Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
WHO is the author of confusion my friend . The d evil is .
What is the one thing that truly pleases God .
FAITH .
WHEN GOD spoke abraham BELIEVED .
And now a word .
TO show us exactly what the sciences , physcologies , the wisdom of man has DONE to even the churches .
IF it is written I BELIEVE IT .
Yet many today even think its impossible for GOD to have created the earth in six d ays .
They often dont believe the story of jonah and the whale .
cause all of it seems so impossible to man . THE TRUTH IS , it is impossible
for man . BUT NOT GOD .
You see GOD simply spoke and created ALL that is .
IS IT REALLY SO HARD FOR GOD to KEEP a man Alive in a whale . I SAY NO WAY .
IN fact is there anything to difficult for GOD . AGAIN I SAY NO .
GOD caused a virgin to concieve and bear a child and his name is IMMANEUL .
GOD caused sarah a NINTEY year old woman , WHO had darn sure passed the manner of women
TO CONCIEVE and bear a child . Now of course we know that seems impossible ,
ONLY NOT WITH GOD . NOT WITH GOD . IF IT IS WRITTEN in that bible ,
I BELIEVE . And i BELIEVE THERE IS NOTHING too hard FOR GOD . Seeing he simply speaks
AND THINGS WERE CREATED . oh he can easily cause a river to part waters .
OH he can easily with no problem create the earth in Six days . YOU SEE , I BELIVE GOD . FAITH david .
CHILD LIKE FAITH .
and now a word .
LEST YE BECOME as c hildren you shall in no way enter INTO the KINGDOM OF GOD .
And a child of GOD , BELEIVES GOD . that a fact my friend .
And now a word .
FOR this cause came i into the world and for this reason was i born
TO TESTIFY OF THE TRUTH . All that are of the TRUTH come to ME .
JESUS didnt testify on sciences of men and evolution and lies of men . BUT ON THE TRUTH david .
And i can assure us all JESUS DONT contradict THE ScRIPS . For not only does HE speak truth .
HE IS THE TRUTH . AND EVERY WORD OF GOD IS TRUE . amen and forever ame n . THE ONLY ONE
i can trust IS GOD , IS HIS CHRIST and thus IS his words . man can lie , NOT GOD .
Simple child like faith . WITHOUT faith IT IS IMPOSSIbLE to PLEASE GOD .
 

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Hey everyone i am gonna ask david a question . lets see how simple he answers it .
Hey david , JESUS said in this world ye shall have t ribulations .
And we both read on how the beast cometh against the saints .
WHO YOU GONNA BELEIVE . JESUS and what is simply wri tten , OR PRE TRIB .
I will never forget when the Holy Spirit opened my understanding to Matthew chapter 24 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

The LORD Prophesied: "Immediately AFTER the Tribulation...........I Come and gather My Elect"

My-oh-my did the churches hate me when i told them that pre-trib was false.
 

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WHO is the author of confusion my friend . The d evil is .
What is the one thing that truly pleases God .
FAITH .
WHEN GOD spoke abraham BELIEVED .
And now a word .
TO show us exactly what the sciences , physcologies , the wisdom of man has DONE to even the churches .
IF it is written I BELIEVE IT .
Yet many today even think its impossible for GOD to have created the earth in six d ays .
They often dont believe the story of jonah and the whale .
cause all of it seems so impossible to man . THE TRUTH IS , it is impossible
for man . BUT NOT GOD .
You see GOD simply spoke and created ALL that is .
IS IT REALLY SO HARD FOR GOD to KEEP a man Alive in a whale . I SAY NO WAY .
IN fact is there anything to difficult for GOD . AGAIN I SAY NO .
GOD caused a virgin to concieve and bear a child and his name is IMMANEUL .
GOD caused sarah a NINTEY year old woman , WHO had darn sure passed the manner of women
TO CONCIEVE and bear a child . Now of course we know that seems impossible ,
ONLY NOT WITH GOD . NOT WITH GOD . IF IT IS WRITTEN in that bible ,
I BELIEVE . And i BELIEVE THERE IS NOTHING too hard FOR GOD . Seeing he simply speaks
AND THINGS WERE CREATED . oh he can easily cause a river to part waters .
OH he can easily with no problem create the earth in Six days . YOU SEE , I BELIVE GOD . FAITH david .
CHILD LIKE FAITH .
and now a word .
LEST YE BECOME as c hildren you shall in no way enter INTO the KINGDOM OF GOD .
And a child of GOD , BELEIVES GOD . that a fact my friend .
And now a word .
FOR this cause came i into the world and for this reason was i born
TO TESTIFY OF THE TRUTH . All that are of the TRUTH come to ME .
JESUS didnt testify on sciences of men and evolution and lies of men . BUT ON THE TRUTH david .
And i can assure us all JESUS DONT contradict THE ScRIPS . For not only does HE speak truth .
HE IS THE TRUTH . AND EVERY WORD OF GOD IS TRUE . amen and forever ame n . THE ONLY ONE
i can trust IS GOD , IS HIS CHRIST and thus IS his words . man can lie , NOT GOD .
Simple child like faith . WITHOUT faith IT IS IMPOSSIbLE to PLEASE GOD .
Shadrach Mishack and Abednego thrown into the FIRE = which was a GIANT OVEN

The FLAMES were so INTENSE that the soldiers who threw the THREE in the Oven were burnt to a crisp - Daniel ch3

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. 18But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.”

Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. He spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. 20And he commanded certain mighty men of valor who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and cast them into the burning fiery furnace. 21Then these men were bound in their coats, their trousers, their turbans, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. 22Therefore, because the king’s command was [c]urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. 23And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

24Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his [d]counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?”

They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.”

25“Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the[e] Son of God.
 

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Not "yikes" but why? Why has God given it in that manner?


...no doubt, to some.


Who gives wisdom? "readers", or God's Holy Spirit?


I prefer not to "imagine" because

...that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,


.

What you’re describing is not discernment.. It’s a dangerous closed loop built on what you were probably taught from childhood.

DAY = 24 HOURS.

Then someone shows you that yôm can mean less than 24 hours, an ordinary day, or a much broader span depending on context.

And Genesis itself proves that.
Genesis 2:4 uses the same word yôm: “in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.”

Thats plainly not one isolated 24-hour period.

So instead of revisiting your assumption, you pivot to - “Who gives wisdom, readers, or the Holy Spirit?”

And now anybody questioning your interpretation can conveniently be placed among those whose “foolish heart was darkened.”

Thats called extraordinarily convenient and a dangerous closed loop.

Your interpretation can never be wrong, because disagreement itself becomes evidence that the other person lacks "spiritual understanding."

And when you ask: “Why has God given it in that manner?”

God did not give you the English word “whales.”

God gave: hattannînîm haggĕdolîm.

The KJV translators gave you “great whales.”

God gave yôm.

The KJV translators repeatedly gave you “day.”

Those are translation decisions made by men attempting to render Hebrew into English.
So no, appealing to the Holy Spirit does not magically turn an English translation choice into the definition of the Hebrew word underneath it.

And Romans 1 certainly doesnt say:

“Anyone who checks the Hebrew instead of accepting my English interpretation has become a fool.”

Thats not exegesis.

That's making your interpretation immune to correction.

The Holy Spirit is not a permission slip to ignore Genesis 2:4, ignore the actual range of the Hebrew, and then declare the English wording you inherited infallible.
 
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Hey everyone i am gonna ask david a question . lets see how simple he answers it .
Hey david , JESUS said in this world ye shall have t ribulations .
And we both read on how the beast cometh against the saints .
WHO YOU GONNA BELEIVE . JESUS and what is simply wri tten , OR PRE TRIB .
I would say Jesus as well as the other Holy Spirit inspired authors of the bible were pre-trib.
 
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Hey everyone i am gonna ask david a question . lets see how simple he answers it .
Hey david , JESUS said in this world ye shall have t ribulations .
And we both read on how the beast cometh against the saints .
WHO YOU GONNA BELEIVE . JESUS and what is simply wri tten , OR PRE TRIB .
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