And where would that lie be (chapter and verse please)?4Pillars said:There was no 24 Hour Day during the creation process and Genesis 1 does not state that there was a 24 hour Day. Genesis 1 shows that God has 6 Creative Days, and 1 Day of Rest -- which will Never End.
If you think a Day to God is 24 hours, then Jesus must have lied to Adam, and Satan must have told him the Truth. At least, that's what your theories of a 24 hour Day of Creation, appear to support.
I believe the Bible. God did not lie to Moses in Exodus 20:11. He did not speak to him in strange allegorical speech. These were the Ten Commandments--meant to be taken very literal, where a day meant a day--24 hours. Either you believe it or you don't. What was Moses to believe? A lie?
I don't consider a 24 hour day a theory any longer. I consider it a fact.
All mankind is created as spiritual beings--Adam and Eve are no exceptions. Read 2Cor.5. Our bodies are but tabernacles, tents--temporary dwelling places until the resurrection takes place. We are as the angels--spirit beings. The only difference is that the angels do not have a body and we now have a temporary body which will someday be glorified.The fasct is when Adam was told that he would surely DIE in the Day, that he disobeyed, it was BEFORE Eve was formed. Adam did not die physically, within 24 hours, and could not have died Spiritually, because he was not Created Spiritually until AFTER Eve was formed. Gen. 1:27 and Gen. 5:1-2 show that Adam was Created, at the SAME time when Eve was created.
"We wait for the redemption of our bodies."
Death means separation all the time when it is used in the Bible. When Adam sinned he was separated from God--spiritually. God sought him out. Adam hid. His sin separated him from God. To this end he had died. He was separated from God.
It was Eve that was tempted. It was Eve that took of the fruit, and then gave to Adam. When Adam ate of that same fruit, then Adam sinned; and then he "died spiritually." Obviously Eve had already been created. Your statement is absurd that Eve had not been made yet. She was right there along with Adam when he sinned.
That the 7th day has no end is only your opinion, and that is all. That is not what the Bible. But you are entitled to your opinion even if it is not in the Bible. The entire concept of keeping holy the Sabbath Day is based on a 24 hour day. How convenient to make it unending--a concept no Jew ever thought of.The Un-Scriptural idea, that the 6 Creative Days and the 1 Day of Rest in Gen. 1 are 24 hour periods of Time, is refuted by Scripture. The 7th Day has no End.
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It is very evident that each day had to be a 24 hour day. Why?
1. Because it is the natural reading of the passage.
2. Because any other reading would imply that there would be death before Adam fell, but the Bible says that there was no death before Adam. Death came with the sin of Adam.
3. Simple biology requires 24 hour days. There are many examples that could be given. I will give you just one:
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
--This was on the third day.
The sun, moon, and stars were created on the fourth day.
Fruit trees, and other plants need sunlight to grow.
Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Now consider well. On the fifth day water animals were created. And on the sixth day (vs.24) land animals (including insects) and man were created. Way back on the third day fruit bearing trees were created, and not until the sixth day were bees created. If these were not 24 hour days, but longer days (thousand year days or longer) then all the grasses, fruit bearing trees, etc would be dead before creation ended. Insects are required for the fertilization of fruit trees, for the pollinization of flowers, and for so many other purposes that relates to plants. Plants cannot exist without insects and insects cannot exist without plants.
A plant can obviously exist three days, but not three thousand years or more. Biology does not permit such a scheme.
4. Over and over again: And the morning and the evening were the ___day. Whenever the Hebrew word YOM (day) is used in connection with a number it always means 24 hour day.
It is an account of the days of creation. It can't mean anything else but a 6 day 24 hour literal creation. And those are the facts.