christians say that the each day in the 7 days of creation is not a 24-hour day?
Genesis1:5 "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."
This verse is pretty clear! Christians should really entirely stick to what they believe and stand by that! They can't cherry pick and say they believe in some parts of the bible literally and some parts figuratetively! Either take the bible as it is or don't take it at all!
2007-07-23 16:50:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe it refers to 24 hour days but many Christians do not. You say that the verse clearly indicates a 24 hour day and thus you give away your ignorance of biblical Hebrew. The Hebrew word "yom" can mean day or age. The English word can mean this too. There are many factors scholars examine in translating and interpreting "yom" in this passage. You do not say which scholarly factors influenced your dogmatic insistence upon "yom" as a 24 hour day. I have studied Hebrew on the graduate level and I do not feel qualified to pontificate on this issue the way you do. Please elaborate on what lexicons you are consulting and your reasons for your dogmatic statement.
2007-07-23 17:03:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No where does it say, a 24 hour day..even in the verse below, you will notice the word "like"...we don't know for sure how time was measured by God....time is a manmade thing....God is not subject to time.
2 Peter 3:8–9 reads:
‘But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.’
2007-07-23 17:00:24 · answer #2 · answered by dreamdress2 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
About the emphatic statement about 24 hour days; that is STILL being debated by scholars. I saw a program with 3 astrophysicists and a theologian and they were brilliant but all three physicists were very succinct and yet not in agreement with each other and there was no consensus regarding if the "evening and the morning" were in fact the same 'time' value as our present 24 hour day. Watch your assertions. You can't build your argument on "shifting sand". Now, it is talking about 7 days as you said whether or not it was like ours, it was 7 specific time intervals and even if it is metaphorically about 7,000 years of the creation "process" or God did it in seven 24-hour days, we are here and all we need is provided.
All of science is about these categories: Time/energy/force/ space/ & matter. "In the beginning/ God/ created/ heaven/& earth.
2007-07-23 17:00:42 · answer #3 · answered by gg28 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Creation of the universe was 6 days not 7
2007-07-23 16:56:43 · answer #4 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That's a horrible hermeneutic! If we applied that same logic to any other work of literature, folks would (rightly) consider us morons. In my opinion, we have to understand Scripture as the original authors intended. If the author of Genesis intended the creation account to be a metaphysical allegory, then I certainly don't want to misunderstand it as literal history. Jesus uses the word "day" in Matthew 20 (the parable of the laborers), but he certainly didn't intend for that passage to be interpreted as history.
2007-07-23 17:00:01 · answer #5 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good advice I won't take it at all.
Now have you factored in the time adjustment for Greenwich mean time, daylight saving, and of course the intermittent leap year. You have a lot of faith in an absolute 24 hours.
Time and years were calculated differently when the Old Testament was written. Have you factored this in. It's very lucky the ancients had clocks on their walls ??????????
2007-07-23 17:02:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You error.
There is not a time measurement given.
This just states energy and void of energy.
You are trying to box something in that cannot be boxed.
Think outside of the box to understand the bible.
Yes it is literal but also full of symbolism and euphemisms.
These periods, day and night, may have lasted less than a nano sec. or billions of years.
2007-07-23 18:45:48 · answer #7 · answered by cordsoforion 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No 24 hours there. The original Hebrew means "time period", could be a day or a million years.
2007-07-23 17:18:20 · answer #8 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you notice that God made the Day >>> Pause >>> and THEN, he made the night. It doesn`t say how LONG between the two it took him to make it? It just says that one day light time, and one dark time, make one day.
Why do you just assume that the hours he made, are how long, it took him, to do it ?
2007-07-23 17:02:20 · answer #9 · answered by jaantoo1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are slowly accommodating for an old earth and evolution. Next they will find how their god did evolution all over the bible.
2007-07-23 16:56:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋