The OP's absurd logic also presupposes that the earth was created in six 24-hour days. Now maybe the OP believes it was, but unless a person is willing to completely ignore the scientific evidence to the contrary, it's absolute nonsense to even find the matter worth arguing. I don't know if the average Seventh Day Adventist believes in an actual six day creation, but for those of us who don't, the message to be gleaned from Genesis is that God wishes us to set aside every seventh day to rest and to worship. That is precisely what I do, and what I know you do as well.
(By the way, I hope you're in this for the long haul, because I can assure you that the OP is. He's not going to give it a rest till the day he drops dead. I got tired of playing his game and decided to just let him have the last work, since he's determined to do so anyway. In other words, I decided several weeks back that I was no longer going to feed the troll. So, if you're up for a decades long conversation, my friend, I wish you well. Enjoy Conference this weekend!)
It depends if you believe and follow the bible or not and believe it is true. Why do you think God cannot make the heavens and earth in six days and rest on the seventh day when that is what the scriptures teach? If you believe Gods' Word is true of course the bible teaches a literal six day creation.
In the HEBREW language in
GENESIS 1 meaning for
a day ....
Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries w/TVM, Strong - H3177
DAY H3177 יום; yôm means;
a day (as the warm hours), whether
literally from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next, or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially): - age, + always, + chronicles, continually (-ance), daily, ([birth-], each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever (-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (.. . live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year (-ly), + younger.
There is not one hint in
GENESIS 1 and
GENESIS 2 that says any of these scriptures are symbolic to 1000 years or anything else. Note also for each individual day within the creation week of
GENESIS 1 it says "
AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING" (A literal day) was the "FIRST DAY" *
GENESIS 1:5; "SECOND DAY" *
GENESIS 1:8; "THIRD DAY" *
GENESIS 1:13; "FOUTH DAY"
GENESIS 1:19; "FIFTH DAY" *
GENESIS 1:23; "SIXTH DAY" *
GENESIS 1:31.
[5], And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY.
[8], And God called the firmament Heaven. And the AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE SECOND DAY.
[13], And the AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE THIRD DAY.
[19], And the AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FOURTH DAY.
[23], And the AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIFTH DAY
[31], And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE SIXTH DAY.
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I believe that the scriptures teach that God separated the light and darkness on the first day which made up the evening and the morning and the first day
GENESIS 1:3-6. [3], And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. [4], And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. [5], And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And THE EVENING AND THE MORNING (Light and Night being the day) WAS THE FIRST DAY.
There was no firmaments, Sun and Moon ands stars of the heavens at this point and there was no world (earth) until after the third day (evening and morning time wise) *
GENESIS 1:6-13.
Once the world was created, God said, [14] "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and LET THEM BE FOR SIGNS AND FOR SEASONS AND FOR DAYS AND YEARS: [15], And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so. [16], And 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. [17], And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light on the earth, [18], And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. [19,] And THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FOURTH DAY *
GENESIS 1:14-19.
What I believe this means is exactly what the scripture says and that is God separated the LIGHT and the DARKNESS in an "EVENING and MORNING DAY ONE" *GENENSIS 1:3-5. God created the firmaments in an "EVENING AND MORNING DAY 2" *
GENESIS 1:6-8, God created the earth in an "EVENING AND MORNING DAY 3" *
GENESIS 1:9-13 and the reason God made the Sun and the moon was to help us to know time and that an EVENING and a MORNING make up a DAY.
God said, [14] "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and LET THEM BE FOR SIGNS AND FOR SEASONS AND FOR DAYS AND YEARS: [15], And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so. [16], And 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. [17], And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light on the earth, [18], And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. [19,] And THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FOURTH DAY *
GENESIS 1:14-19.
The sun and the moon was given so that man could understand the times and what constitutes the evening and be morning, a day and the seasons. This proves that everything made before when God's Word quotes an "EVENING AND A MORNING" is in reference to a literal day time wise.
As for me I simply believe Gods' Word. Are you another christian at this website that does not believe God's Word?
