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Originally posted by Isaiah 24:21
Those 6 days are akin to our 24 hour day.
Originally posted by Isaiah 24:21
Necromancer9,
Those 6 days are akin to our 24 hour day.
There are a few points to consider however.
(by the way those were 6 days of re-creation, not the absolutely original creation)
a) the sun is created on the 4th day, after the earth
The reason I believe they were about 24 hours is because God set that time period up when he set up the sun. So he basically defined it.
Yes in some places we read of God considering one day as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day, but those verses are context-specific.
Many a time have I seen a man grab those verses and apply them across the Bible as a blanket statement.
There's no reason to use that equivalency unless we are instructed to do so in certain situations, which we are.
b) You have to give or take a few minutes or hours because those were 6 antediluvian (pre-flood) days.
Originally posted by junglejake
What's remarkably fascinating about this is that it could imply the atmosphere God created on the Earth on the third day was opaque -- one couldn't see through it, and then on the fourth day God changed it to be transparent, revealing two great lights in the sky. This would actually be in line with the understanding of current geological predictions of the formation of the Earth, too.
Originally posted by junglejake
reply to post by amitheone
It's possible. However, there are phenomenal theological arguments for both this interpretation and the one where the sun was actually created on the 4th day based on scripture by theologians and Biblical scholars far wiser than you or I.
Something to keep in mind, too. While science can guide our interpretation of scripture, it should not dictate it. There have been many times in the past where science proved scripture wrong only for it to be discovered that science hadn't discovered everything there was to know quite yet. One great example is the rivers in the oceans the Bible talks about. That was stupid according to science a few hundred years ago, you can't have rivers of water in water -- it's all homogeneous. So naturally, that scripture must mean something else, since science says it's impossible, right? Yet now we know there are currents in the oceans and rivers of water that flow through that are separate from the other water in the area. Just something to remember when trying to understand God's Word
Originally posted by amitheone
Any Christian can read the Bible with the help of the Holy Spirit.
The way of a fool seems right to him,
but a wise man listens to advice.
Originally posted by Isaiah 24:21
I believe that the Lord preserved all the words he wanted to me to have, the way he wanted to have them, in the King James Bible.
Originally posted by Isaiah 24:21
ask a Bible-believer
Originally posted by dbates
What does the Bible mean by "Clouds of Heaven"? (Daniel 7:13) Does Jesus ride water vapor or does this have a deeper meaning?
"The clouds of heaven portray the Son of Man as divine; throughout the bible clouds represent his majesty and awesome presence. God's glory appeared in a cloud in Exodus 16:10 (Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied. "But I say to all of you: In the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven) and Exodus 19:9 (While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud) at the giving of the law at Sinai."