Jayhawker Soule said:
No. I would like to understand why you chose to be nonresponsive. Please consider addressing the bible.org assertion and argument. Later, you can tell us just how far you've adanced in your pursuits, and why we should therefore accept you as an authority against those responsible for the well received translations mentioned above.
Oh, I feel so inferior. I guess credentials make a person intelligent.
So I'm supposed to respond to you when you've refused flat out to respond to any of the evidence I've shown you over the weeks and months? Very well.
bible.org said:
But this chapter uses day, night, morning, evening, years, and seasons. Consistency would require sorting out how all these terms could be used to express ages.
And every single one of these words has several different meanings, both literal and metaphorical. Hebrew rarely is without metaphors and allegories. "Evening" is
'erev in Hebrew, and it can be translated "evening," "night," "sunset" or "end of the day," just like
boqer, the Hebrew word for "morning," can also be "break of day," "sunlight, ""beginning of day," "dawning" and "coming of light." All of these words refer to components of the "day," irrespective of the literal nature of its use.
bible.org said:
the commandment to keep the sabbath clearly favors this interpretation. One is to work for six days and then rest on the seventh, just as God did when he worked at creation.
Just because God says he rested on His Sabbath day so we do to doesn't mean the "day" has to be equal. The Feast of Tabernacles is supposed to commemorate Moses' wanderings in the wilderness, but he wandered a lot longer than eight days. The land has a Sabbath as well, but it lasts a whole year.
bible.org said:
Also, when the Hebrew word יוֹם (yom) is used with a numerical adjective, it refers to a literal day.
Not necessarily. This is a theory arrived at if you already conclude that the "day" in question is a 24 hour period. The other occurances agree with that, but they don't deal with God's schedule independent of man or an issue like the creation of the earth. There is no reason to assume that they are not an exception to that observation. Peter says that "one day is with the Lord is a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." His timetable works completely independent of ours.
The scriptures in question also don't mention an evening or a morning for the seventh day. All the other days ended, but that day apparently hasn't ended yet. I know how you don't like to read stuff into the scriptures, so you'll need to explain that.
In Gen. 2:4 the Hebrew says the heavens and the earth were made in a day. It also mentions the "generations" of the heavens and the earth in that "day" in which they were created.
I also am very aware that the earth has been around for more than six thousand years. If I interpret that literally then I disagree with pretty much insurmountable evidence. I'm not in the habit of doing that, and at the same time I know that the Bible is the word of God, so far as it is translated correctly.
In addition I could care less about what other Ph.Ds teach. If I base all my conclusions on what everyone else says then I'm not gonna make a whole lot of progress, am I? You may be impressed by a man's work because he has a lot of letters behind his name, but I look at the content, not the credentials.