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How anyone can read Genesis 1 and get anything other that a literal six day creation is truly amazing.

Genesis 1:3-5 (ESV)
[sup]3 [/sup]And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. [sup]4 [/sup]And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. [sup]5 [/sup]God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Genesis 1:8 (ESV)
[sup]8 [/sup]And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

Genesis 1:13 (ESV)
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[/sup]And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

Genesis 1:19 (ESV)
[sup]19 [/sup]And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

Genesis 1:23 (ESV)
[sup]23 [/sup]And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

Genesis 1:31 (ESV)
[sup]31 [/sup]And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 2:1-3 (ESV)
[sup]1 [/sup]Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. [sup]2 [/sup]And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. [sup]3 [/sup]So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Exodus 20:11 (ESV)
[sup]11 [/sup]For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Jesus condemned the religious leaders for their inability to effectively reason on the Scriptures on more than one occasion. For example, their unwillingness to recognize Jesus as the Messiah despite the evidence that the time period for his arrival had now come, as seen at Daniel 9:24, 25, whereby it says that "there are seventy weeks that have been determined upon your people and upon your holy city, in order to terminate the transgression, and to finish off sin, and to make atonement for error, and to bring in righteousness for times indefinite, and to imprint a seal upon vision and prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies. And you should know and have the insight [that] from the going forth of [the] word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Mes·si´ah the Leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks." On the other hand, many sincere common individuals, upon hearing or seeing him, said: "This is not perhaps the Christ, is it?"(John 4:29) The "sixty-nine weeks" of years (or 483 years, from the time when king Artaxerxes gave the word to Nehemiah in 455 B.C.E., Neh 2:5) came in 29 C.E.when Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.

Hence, Jesus told the religious leaders: "When evening falls you are accustomed to say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is fire-red’; and at morning, ‘It will be wintry, rainy weather today, for the sky is fire-red, but gloomy-looking.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but the signs of the times you cannot interpret."(Matt 16:2, 3) The Pharisees and Sadducees were averse to examining the Scriptures in order to understand that the arrival of the Messiah had now come, as also seen at Malachi 3:1 (and John 5:39), in which Jesus is called "the messenger of the covenant." Thus, Jesus arrival as the Messiah or Christ in 29 C.E. was not discerned by the religious leaders.

So likewise of yourself, for had you more closely analyzed the Scriptures without bias or prejudice, allowing the Bible to speak for itself rather than imposing a personal viewpoint (like putting a square peg in a round hole), it could be readily apparent that the word "day" can mean from a period of about twelve hours to several thousands years.

For instance, at Genesis 8:22, God says: "For all the days the earth continues, seed sowing and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, will never cease.” The word "day" (Hebrew yom) here is only about twelve hours long (see also Lev 8:35), whereas at Genesis 1, the word "day" is a much longer time period, thousands of years and the use of the word "day" at Genesis 2:4 encompasses the entire time period of the "history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created."

Thence, the word "day" in the Bible can be seen as the daylight hours, to twenty four hours, to several thousand years long, as in the six "creative" days in Genesis 1. The apostle Paul helps provide us with the length of a "creative" day by explaining that God's "seventh day" was still ongoing in his time, some four thousand years later from the creation of Adam and Eve in 4026 B.C.E., saying concerning God's resting on the "seventh day": "Therefore, since a promise is left of entering into his rest, let us fear that sometime someone of you may seem to have fallen short of it.....For in one place he has said of the seventh day as follows: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,” and again in this place: “They shall not enter into my rest. Since, therefore, it remains for some to enter into it, and those to whom the good news was first declared did not enter in because of disobedience."(Heb 4:1, 4-6)

Therefore, in Paul "day" (and even you would recognize that here the word day is longer than twenty four hours), Jehovah God's "rest" on the "seventh day"(Gen 2:1-3) was still in effect, allowing obedient individuals "to enter into it” when Paul wrote the book of Hebrews in about 61 C.E. And it must also be remembered that the closing expression of “and there came to be evening and there came to be morning” has not been applied to the “seventh day” yet. So, how long is God’s “rest” or the “seventh day” (and each "creative" day) ? Obviously, more than twenty four hours long, but several thousand years.
 

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The word for "by" in Greek is "en". Please read the meaning of "en". The word "en" does not mean 'by', it means "in".

As per Duckybill, MontgomeryNT has it correct.

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1722 en en en

a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537); TDNT - 2:537,233; prep

KJV - in 1902, by 163, with 140, among 117, at 113, on 62, through 39, misc 265; 2801

1) in, by, with etc.
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1519 eiv eis ice

a primary preposition; TDNT - 2:420,211; prep

KJV - into 573, to 281, unto 207, for 140, in 138, on 58, toward 29, against 26, misc 322; 1774

1) into, unto, to, towards, for, among
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1537 ek ek ek or
ex ex ex

a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, or cause; literal or figurative;; prep

KJV - of 366, from 181, out of 162, by 55, on 34, with 25, misc 98; 921

1) out of, from, by, away from
 

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The last day is forever...

All things take place in/within the beginning and the ending.

Christ Jesus is the beginning and the ending.
 

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Exodus 20:11 (ESV)
[sup]11 [/sup]For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

 

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2Pe 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.

2250 hmera hemera hay-mer'-ah

from (with 5610 implied) of a derivative of hmai hemai (to sit, akin to the base of 1476) meaning tame, i.e. gentle; TDNT - 2:943,309; n f

KJV - day 355, daily + 2596 15, time 3, not tr 2, misc 14; 389

1) the day, used of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from and contrasted with the night
1a) in the daytime
1b) metaph., "the day" is regarded as the time for abstaining from indulgence, vice, crime, because acts of the sort are perpetrated at night and in darkness
2) of the civil day, or the space of twenty four hours (thus including the night)
2a) Eastern usage of this term differs from our western usage. Any part of a day is counted as a whole day, hence the expression "three days and three nights" does not mean literally three whole days, but at least one whole day plus part of two other days.
3) of the last day of this present age, the day Christ will return from heaven, raise the dead, hold the final judgment, and perfect his kingdom
4) used of time in general, i.e. the days of his life.

Mt 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
 

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Jesus condemned the religious leaders for their inability to effectively reason on the Scriptures on more than one occasion. For example, their unwillingness to recognize Jesus as the Messiah despite the evidence that the time period for his arrival had now come, as seen at Daniel 9:24, 25, whereby it says that "there are seventy weeks that have been determined upon your people and upon your holy city, in order to terminate the transgression, and to finish off sin, and to make atonement for error, and to bring in righteousness for times indefinite, and to imprint a seal upon vision and prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies. And you should know and have the insight [that] from the going forth of [the] word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Mes·si´ah the Leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks." On the other hand, many sincere common individuals, upon hearing or seeing him, said: "This is not perhaps the Christ, is it?"(John 4:29) The "sixty-nine weeks" of years (or 483 years, from the time when king Artaxerxes gave the word to Nehemiah in 455 B.C.E., Neh 2:5) came in 29 C.E.when Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.

Hence, Jesus told the religious leaders: "When evening falls you are accustomed to say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is fire-red’; and at morning, ‘It will be wintry, rainy weather today, for the sky is fire-red, but gloomy-looking.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but the signs of the times you cannot interpret."(Matt 16:2, 3) The Pharisees and Sadducees were averse to examining the Scriptures in order to understand that the arrival of the Messiah had now come, as also seen at Malachi 3:1 (and John 5:39), in which Jesus is called "the messenger of the covenant." Thus, Jesus arrival as the Messiah or Christ in 29 C.E. was not discerned by the religious leaders.

So likewise of yourself, for had you more closely analyzed the Scriptures without bias or prejudice, allowing the Bible to speak for itself rather than imposing a personal viewpoint (like putting a square peg in a round hole), it could be readily apparent that the word "day" can mean from a period of about twelve hours to several thousands years.

For instance, at Genesis 8:22, God says: "For all the days the earth continues, seed sowing and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, will never cease.” The word "day" (Hebrew yom) here is only about twelve hours long (see also Lev 8:35), whereas at Genesis 1, the word "day" is a much longer time period, thousands of years and the use of the word "day" at Genesis 2:4 encompasses the entire time period of the "history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created."

Thence, the word "day" in the Bible can be seen as the daylight hours, to twenty four hours, to several thousand years long, as in the six "creative" days in Genesis 1. The apostle Paul helps provide us with the length of a "creative" day by explaining that God's "seventh day" was still ongoing in his time, some four thousand years later from the creation of Adam and Eve in 4026 B.C.E., saying concerning God's resting on the "seventh day": "Therefore, since a promise is left of entering into his rest, let us fear that sometime someone of you may seem to have fallen short of it.....For in one place he has said of the seventh day as follows: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,” and again in this place: “They shall not enter into my rest. Since, therefore, it remains for some to enter into it, and those to whom the good news was first declared did not enter in because of disobedience."(Heb 4:1, 4-6)

Therefore, in Paul "day" (and even you would recognize that here the word day is longer than twenty four hours), Jehovah God's "rest" on the "seventh day"(Gen 2:1-3) was still in effect, allowing obedient individuals "to enter into it” when Paul wrote the book of Hebrews in about 61 C.E. And it must also be remembered that the closing expression of “and there came to be evening and there came to be morning” has not been applied to the “seventh day” yet. So, how long is God’s “rest” or the “seventh day” (and each "creative" day) ? Obviously, more than twenty four hours long, but several thousand years.
This is a wonderful post....
 

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It is very sad that so many believe the literal six day creation is too difficult for God. The Truth is that it is MUCH more difficult for Him to forgive us low life worms of our sins.
 

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God wants to be in relationship with us.
 

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You have no proof!!! Just your opinion, myth.


Why do you keep talking about proof? The Bible proves nothing. I believe in the truth of the Bible and in Jesus Christ as my Savior because of the faith He has given me.




 

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It does for Christians. It proves everything.

Make up your mind Aspen!!! You said the Bible is myth!

The Bible confirms what Christians believe - that is not proof.

Where did I say the Bible is a myth?
 

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It means the Bible is God's Word, which you deny.


Where did I deny that the Bible is God's Word? Once again, it takes faith to believe the Bible is God's Word - that is faith not evidence.