No it cannot...because it tells us specifically
The evening and the morning, day 1...day 2...day 3.
Prophetic time of 1 day is as a thousand years is not relevant in the context of creation week. Anyone who understands common use of language can easily pick the difference between literal...
That of course is different to the story in Genesis 1 (and I recall reading that its style points to a different author). However, it seems to me that in the author's mind God required simply a 'day' in its ordinary sense (ie without regard to the question, what is a day? when the sun doesn't...
While it is true that Genesis 1 say water existed before animals, including humans.
Genesis 1:26-27 humans were created last, after vegetation (1:11-12), after fishes and birds (1:20-22), and after all land animals (1:24-25).
You are ignoring the fact that Genesis 2 contradicting Genesis 1 as...
King James Bible, Genesis2:4 -
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Grandfather's Day is comprised of years. So, the single word 'day ' at Genesis2:4 is more than a 24 hr. day.
Good point above about the 'Genesis account Not really history of earth' because the creative 6 days is Not dealing about matter or material but about arranging and preparing Earth for...
it doesn’t say anything about each day being 24 hours, but it summed up each day being comprised of “evening and morning“.
And even though it say nothing about “evening and morning“, it does say the 7th day followed the 6th day, so it is safe to assume the 7th day would also comprised of an...
When confronted with contradictory claims, how do you decide between them? What tools do you use?
Science deals with objective facts, mechanisms, and functions. Religion deals with values, morality, meaning and purpose.
One describes how, the other claims who...
Yes, agree with you that science has No interest in severing relationships with the Creator because science is Not the teacher or morality.
Science being more about how to do, whereas the Bible is more about should we do it.
Science to give us the world view, Bible to give us the biblical or...
I believe the Bible states 6 literal days. Yes various interpretations over the millennia try to jerry rig the scripture to fit latter day interpretations, but the knowledge of the time translates literal. Actually nothing about the order of what was Created and two separate Creation synario...
But the Bible does Not say six 24-hr. days. ALL of the 6 creative days are summed up by the word 'day' at Genesis2:4
Each creative days could be of the same or of differing lengths of time.
CMBR is considered as accurate because of the accuracy of microwaves dating 13.5 billion years.
But we don't speak of more than one such day for a given person.
Once again, there were mornings and evenings. The seventh day was set aside as holy and is the reason *people* are supposed to rest on the seventh day.
Which doesn't change the basic conclusion.
..... and ALL of the 6 creative days are summed up by the single word ' day ' as found at Genesis2:4.
So, just as in our day the word ' day ' can convey more than a 24-hr. day.
For example: we speak of grandfather's day and know that is more than a 24-hr. day.
Unlike us, God's 7th day is His...
Post hoc rationalisation in my view.
Non sequitur in my opinion
That's not what Hebrews 4:10 says in my view, here it is from the NIV;
'for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works,[e] just as God did from his.'
Note the past tense "did". Also since humans can't be in a...
See that is where your rationale is really problematic.
Read the 4th Commandment
8Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or...
Just as in English we speak of grandfather's day and know that is not a 24 hr. day but a period of time.
ALL of the creative days are summed up by the word ' day ' at Genesis2:4
Thus, each creative day could be of the same or of differing lenghts of time.
Plus, God's 7th day ( resting from...
First of all, I find no evidence in Genesis as to just how long each creative day was or whether each was of the same or of differing lengths of time.
After all, ALL of the creative days are summed up by the single word ' day ' at Genesis2:4
Second, to say God made a young earth look old is...
Yes, and it is reasonable to recognize that the seventh day of creation is not said to have ended, but the other six days had a beginning and an end. Not the seventh day. I appreciate @SavedByTheLord's questions, and hopefully she will see in the future that each day of creation is far more than...
There is Nothing in Genesis to say that each of the creative days were 1,000 years long.
It does Not state that each creative day was of the same or of differing lengths of time.
Please note that ALL of the creative days are summed up by the single word ' day ' at Genesis2:4
Jesus spoke of...