No one is saying anything about hours or 24 hours.
And you still don’t understand the concept of Hebrew language to critically analyze and comment about the Hebrew word “yom”, Hockeycowboy.
You don’t cherrypick a single word, then you think you know what it mean, and then put any number of period you like, into yom.
Yom may well mean unspecified period of time, but it certainly not a thousand-year, million-year, or billion-year, or whatever silly number some silly creationists - old or young - want to plug into yom.
That’s just typically sloppy biased biblical scholars I’d expect coming from any creationist - twisting a single word from a quoted passage.
The only way to grasp the meaning of yom, is to read the entire sentence.
Note the quoted in colored highlights:
“And there was evening and there was morning...”
That part of the sentence is repeated 6 times, provide what the context to yom mean, Hockeycowboy.
The word morning (or dawn) is
boqer or
voqer (in Hebrew transliteration of בֹּקֶר). And the word for evening (dusk, night) is
`ereb or
erev (transliteration of עֶרֶב).
An evening and a morning is cycle of 1 day.
It is not a cycle of one week, not one year, not one century, not one million years, not one billion years, etc. No, Hockeycowboy, it is just “one day”.
The passages may not explicitly say “24-hour”, but it does say “there was evening and there was morning”, and that cycle or period does explicitly equate to “one day”.
I know that some creationists would like to quote some other passages (eg 2 Peter 3:8), to twist Genesis 1:5, but that silly shoddy scholarship that I would only expect from some dishonest creationists.
Read more than one word, Hockeycowboy. You want to know what yom mean, read the whole damn sentence, or even read the whole paragraph.
Jubilees 4: 30; And he (ADAM) lacked seventy years of one thousand years; for one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the heavens and therefore was it written concerning the tree of knowledge: ’On the day that ye eat thereof ye shall die.’ For this reason he did not complete the years of this day; for he died during it.
The weekly Sabbath (The Lord’s Day) was but a shadow of the future reality, which is the thousand year ‘DAY OF THE LORD,’ the seventh day from the day in which Adam ate of the forbidden fruit and died in that day at the age of 930.
Did you hear about the young girl in the North Pole, who spent the night with her boyfriend, and next morning discovered that she was 6 months pregnant?
According to the ancient cultures, we live in an eternal oscillating universe that expands outward and contracts back to its beginning in space time, a living universal being who is all that exists, and in who, all that is, exists. A universe that exists in the two states of seemingly visible matter and invisible energy=anti-matter.
“Universe after universe is like an interminable succession of wheels forever coming into view, forever rolling onwards, disappearing and reappearing; forever passing from being to non-being, and again from non-being to being. In short, the constant revolving of the wheel of life in one eternal cycle, according to fixed and immutable laws, is perhaps after all, the sum and substance of the philosophy of Buddhism. And this eternal wheel has so to speak, six spokes representing six forms of existence.” ---- Mon. Williams, Buddhism, pp. 229, 122.
The days and nights of Brahma are called Manvantara, or the cycle of manifestation, ‘The Great Day,’ which is a period of universal activity, that is preceded, and also followed by ‘Pralaya,’ a dark period, which to our finite minds would seem as an eternity, or but a moment in time.
‘Manvantara,’ is a creative day as seen in the six days of creation in Genesis, ‘Pralaya,’ is the evening that proceeds the next creative day. The six periods of Creation and the seventh day of rest in which we now exist are referred to in the book of Genesis as the “GENERATIONS OF THE UNIVERSE.”
The English word “Generation,” is translated from the Hebrew “toledoth” which is used in the Old Testament in every instance as ‘births,’ or ‘descendants,’ such as “These are the generations of Adam,” or “these are the generations of Abraham, and Genesis 2: 4; These are the generations of the Universe or the heavens and earth, etc. And the ‘Great Day’ in which the seven generations of the universe are eternally repeated, is the eternal cosmic period, or the eighth eternal day in which those who attain to perfection are allowed to enter, where they shall be surrounded by great light and they shall experience eternal peace, while those who do not attain to perfection are cast back into the refining fires of the seven physical cycles of endless rebirths that perpetually revolve within the eighth eternal cosmic cycle.
Enoch the righteous, wrote that God created an eighth day also, so that it should be the first after his works, and it is a day eternal with neither hours, days, weeks, months or years, for all time is stuck together in one eon, etc, etc, and all who enter into the generation of the Light beings, are able to visit all those worlds that still exist in Space-Time, but not in our time.
A series of worlds following one upon the other-- each world rising a step higher than the previous world, so that every later world brings to ripeness the seeds that were imbedded in the former, and itself then prepares the seed for the universe that will follow it. This is the true resurrection in which all from the previous cycle of universal activity, who still have the judgmental war raging within them, are born again into the endless cycles of physical manifestation, or rebirths.
A DAY is a period of Darkness followed by an equal period of light.
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