The Seven Days of Creation

So you think.

 

Yes. The Greek in the list are with the genitive case article, being translated "of." Joseph being "of Heli" being the son in law. The words, "the son," being added by the translator.

 

Yeah, YEC interpretation. That mere saying that, does not prove my understanding wrong.

 

It does

Here is my second line

Oh what the heck here is a third line

 

So you think.

 

So all YECs think that Jesus is right that Adam and Eve were at the very beginning of Creation.

 

Before I had understood the ramification of a truely global flood I held a day age interpretation of the 7 days based on Genesis 2:4, ". . . in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, . . ." In the understanding that week of days being called "the day."

 

I know Jesus is right. ". . . from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. . . ." Being done on the 6th earth day.

 

God 's yowm were ages, era, or epochs or whatever He wanted. The evidence is those that were here during this time before man, shouted at Light being given. They were surprised. The angels in Heaven sang Praises to Gid fr giving those in darkness Light. Their response indicates that beings who had never known darkness needed Light

 

A thread on this topic is simply not going to give you the depth of information you need.
There are a number of different approaches to the problem of the age of the earth that do not take the Genesis day as 24 hour periods

1. Progressive Creationism (Bernard Ramm, Hugh Ross), I’d recommend You read Ross’ book, A Matter of Days, where he discusses biblical reasons to view the days as long periods.
2. Gap Theory, a rather old approach to the problem, popular in its time but quite lacking in biblical support.

These fall under the heading of “Day/Age” for the Genesis day.

Additionally another approach, Theistic Evolution, and/or Evolutionary Creationism may lengthen the Genesis day as well.

The late John Sailhamer suggested an approach he called Historical Creationism (Genesis Unbound). Somewhat like Walton his approach separates the Genesis day from the creation of the universe. “In the beginning...” is understood as a relative time period understood in a way similar to when we say, “In the beginning of a race there was an event that took place.”

If you are really looking for meaty information on this topic you will need to dig deeper than a thread.

Rob

 

Isa 61:2

To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the yowm of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

any time "in that day" in KJV regarding future conditions or time is more than one day. examples in Isaiah, Zech


yowm
day, time, year

1. day (as opposed to night)
   
2. day (24 hour period)
   1. as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
   2. as a division of time
      1. a working day, a day's journey
3. days, lifetime (pl.)
4. time, period (general)
5. year
6. temporal references
   1. today
   2. yesterday
   3. tomorrow

 

What do y’all make of the ‘yoms’ here? Exodus 20:11
Was Moses just making a point or does days mean days, like seven days in a week?

Exodus 20:11 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

 

I see your point, the verses were showing future events but the use of the words apply generally., yown can mean more than one 24 hr day, In the future examples, an age or time period, as we would use "in the day of the king" as more than one single day

 

The beginning of the universe had to happen before this point.... how close idk maybe at the instant

Luk 10:18¶
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Could have been eons before Gen 1:3... Light