Genesis: Literal vs. Allegorical (ritual, Earth, Torah, mystic, tradition)

[Victor]

Jayhawker is right. But I do hope you answer my question/confusion on Judaic/Christian flexing itself to survive. A more appropriate forum will do. Besides your good at grabbing threads I post and moving them to another place where you can nuke them.

~Victor

[Deut 13:1]

Originally Posted by fromthe heart

Personally I believe it took 6 days in that time and that the Lord rested on the 7th. It is very hard to tell how fast the earth was spinning at the time of creation as to just how long a day was at that point. Currently they are saying we are gonna skip a nano second because the earth is slowing down. I feel one day we will know the answer to that question.


The reason I take it literal is because such a point was made of what was done on what day. What other reason would it be put that way? Perhaps some feel it's not literal because there are so many things where science and Biblical accounts don't seem to match up or the things that the Bible says such as a day is as a thousand in the eyes of the Lord; but I feel God will tell us when He feels it's necessary for us to know...otherwise we are to have faith He knows what to tell us and when for our own good and to test our faith as well.

Originally Posted by Mike182

i think its allegorical, however that does not mean that i disregard the story! if you look at the story, you see that the creation is broken down into days - my question is this, if this was the dawn of time, how long was a day? well, by todays standard a day is 24 hours, but what do hours mean when there is nothing? so in the begining, time was meaningless, so a "day" was meaningless - so if we look at the days in genesis as being vast "periods" of time, we can see a lot of similarities between the "periods" of time and the stages of the big bang theory.

Let it be noted that these are not Jewish answers.