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Does Genesis Contradict Science (DIR)
- Thread starter Deeje
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LightofTruth
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"Every time the word yôm is used with a number, or with the phrase ‘evening and morning’, anywhere in the Old Testament, it always means an ordinary day. In Genesis chapter 1, for each of the six days of creation, the Hebrew word yôm is used with a number and the phrase, ‘evening and morning’. There is no doubt that the writer is being emphatic that these are ordinary days."
The necessity for believing in six literal days - creation.com
The necessity for believing in six literal days - creation.com
Then show me one of the other times in the OT, please.
I say it doesn’t mean a literal day, for God told Adam, “in the day you eat from it (the tree), you will die.” He didn’t die in 24 hours... rather, over 900 years later.
In Hebrew, a literal 24-hr. day has nothing to do with “morning”; neither the beginning of a 24-hr day, nor the ending.
Yom can mean “an indeterminate amount of time, to accomplish a purpose.”
The evidence that the Genesis text uses “Yom” to mean more than 24 hours, ie., “an indeterminate amount of time, to accomplish a purpose,” is at Genesis 2:17…
“But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it, for in the day “yom” you eat from it you will certainly die.”
When did Adam die? Over 900 years later, “an indeterminate amount of time”; that day of his life was “accomplished” over 900 years later.
So the Creative Day’s understanding, when taken in context, agrees with the understanding of science RE: the age of Earth.
Whenever the Bible touches on topics that empirical science has discovered, both are always in agreement.
Yom can mean “an indeterminate amount of time, to accomplish a purpose.”
The evidence that the Genesis text uses “Yom” to mean more than 24 hours, ie., “an indeterminate amount of time, to accomplish a purpose,” is at Genesis 2:17…
“But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it, for in the day “yom” you eat from it you will certainly die.”
When did Adam die? Over 900 years later, “an indeterminate amount of time”; that day of his life was “accomplished” over 900 years later.
So the Creative Day’s understanding, when taken in context, agrees with the understanding of science RE: the age of Earth.
Whenever the Bible touches on topics that empirical science has discovered, both are always in agreement.