24 hour days in Genesis 1

[Wrangler]

God created heaven and earth in six solar days

Agreed but like so much of the Bible, it is not meant literally. Figurative. Allegorical. Metaphorical.

If it were literally true, how do you explain the fact Cain and Able did not marry their siblings but women from another town?

Genesis is a great story! No one can literally believe a man would work years to marry Woman A but upon finding out he was a victim of fraud he’d just accept it and labor again for years in the hopes of marrying Woman A for real.

No one can literally believe a military commander, Joshua, would hold himself to a treaty with a people in Exodus who obtained the treat my via fraud.

It’s interesting that Christendom projects Satan on the snake but that is Eisegesis. Consider how unjust it would be for God to not only punish the snake to crawl on its belly but all its descendants when it was supposedly Satan in the form of a snake or possessing the snake.

And talking snakes? What’s the literal explanation for snakes not talking today?

One thing our society struggles with is that a fictional story can still be true! Fiction does not mean false. Sure, the story involves a normal 24 hour day. God said let there be light. We don’t know how the light was literally made. Maybe it is the created light from God’s son. Anyway, we don’t need to know the literal truth.

The moral of the story is we ought to submit to the will of God and our innate tendency not to is why we need a savior.

 

[101G]

God defines what he means by “day” in Genesis 1: “God called the light ‘day’ and the darkness he called ‘night’ ” (Genesis 1:5).

this LIGHT in 1:5 is not the NATURAL LIGHT from the sun in the Fourth day.
Light verse 4. H216 אוֹר 'owr (ore) n-f.
1. illumination.
2. (concretely) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.).
[from H215]
KJV: bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Root(s): H215

and the LIGHT from the sun verse 15, H215 אוֹר 'owr (ore) v.
1. to be luminous.
2. (causative) to make luminous.
{literally and metaphorically}
[a primitive root]
KJV: X break of day, glorious, kindle, (be, en-, give, show) light (-en, -ened), set on fire, shine.

these two Lights are not the same. 1. illumination. vs 1. to be luminous. it's not the same.

also, in order to get a solar day, A. the earth must be rotating. B. the sun shining, and the sun did not shine until ceartion day 4.

and lastly this verse tells us that the days of creation was not 24hr. days. Genesis 2:4 "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,"
H8435 תּוֹלְדָה towldah (to-led-aw') n-f.
תֹּלְדָה toldah (to-led-aw')
1. (plural only) descent, i.e. family.
2. (figuratively) history.
[from H3205]
KJV: birth, generations.
Root(s): H3205

so, if you can tell us how a GENERATION exist in a single "ONE" day 24hr, as you say period, because the scripture states, ", in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,"

so 101G is all ears.

101G.

 

[civic]

this LIGHT in 1:5 is not the NATURAL LIGHT from the sun in the Fourth day.
Light verse 4. H216 אוֹר 'owr (ore) n-f.
1. illumination.
2. (concretely) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.).
[from H215]
KJV: bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Root(s): H215

and the LIGHT from the sun verse 15, H215 אוֹר 'owr (ore) v.
1. to be luminous.
2. (causative) to make luminous.
{literally and metaphorically}
[a primitive root]
KJV: X break of day, glorious, kindle, (be, en-, give, show) light (-en, -ened), set on fire, shine.

these two Lights are not the same. 1. illumination. vs 1. to be luminous. it's not the same.

also, in order to get a solar day, A. the earth must be rotating. B. the sun shining, and the sun did not shine until ceartion day 4.

and lastly this verse tells us that the days of creation was not 24hr. days. Genesis 2:4 "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,"
H8435 תּוֹלְדָה towldah (to-led-aw') n-f.
תֹּלְדָה toldah (to-led-aw')
1. (plural only) descent, i.e. family.
2. (figuratively) history.
[from H3205]
KJV: birth, generations.
Root(s): H3205

so, if you can tell us how a GENERATION exist in a single "ONE" day 24hr, as you say period, because the scripture states, ", in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,"

so 101G is all ears.

101G.

A careful examination of the Hebrew word for “day” and the context in which it appears in Genesis will lead to the conclusion that “day” means a literal, 24-hour period of time. The Hebrew word yom translated into the English “day” can mean more than one thing. It can refer to the 24-hour period of time that it takes for the earth to rotate on its axis (e.g., “there are 24 hours in a day”). It can refer to the period of daylight between dawn and dusk (e.g., “it gets pretty hot during the day but it cools down a bit at night”). And it can refer to an unspecified period of time (e.g., “back in my grandfather's day...”). It is used to refer to a 24-hour period in Genesis 7:11. It is used to refer to the period of daylight between dawn and dusk in Genesis 1:16. And it is used to refer to an unspecified period of time in Genesis 2:4. So, what does it mean in Genesis 1:5-2:2 when it's used in conjunction with ordinal numbers (i.e., the first day, the second day, the third day, the fourth day, the fifth day, the sixth day, and the seventh day)? Are these 24-hour periods or something else? Could yom as it is used here mean an unspecified period of time?

We can determine how yom should be interpreted in Genesis 1:5-2:2 simply by examining the context in which we find the word and then comparing its context with how we see its usage elsewhere in Scripture. By doing this we let Scripture interpret itself. The Hebrew word yom is used 2301 times in the Old Testament. Outside of Genesis 1, yom plus a number (used 410 times) always indicates an ordinary day, i.e., a 24-hour period. The words “evening” and “morning” together (38 times) always indicate an ordinary day. Yom + “evening” or “morning” (23 times) always indicates an ordinary day. Yom + “night” (52 times) always indicates an ordinary day.

The context in which the word yom is used in Genesis 1:5-2:2, describing each day as “the evening and the morning,” makes it quite clear that the author of Genesis meant 24-hour periods. The references to “evening” and “morning” make no sense unless they refer to a literal 24-hour day. This was the standard interpretation of the days of Genesis 1:5-2:2 until the 1800s when a paradigm shift occurred within the scientific community, and the earth's sedimentary strata layers were reinterpreted. Whereas previously the rock layers were interpreted as evidence of Noah's flood, the flood was thrown out by the scientific community and the rock layers were reinterpreted as evidence for an excessively old earth. Some well-meaning but terribly mistaken Christians then sought to reconcile this new anti-flood, anti-biblical interpretation with the Genesis account by reinterpreting yom to mean vast, unspecified periods of time.

The truth is that many of the old-earth interpretations are known to rely upon faulty assumptions. But we must not let the stubborn close-mindedness of scientists influence how we read the Bible. According to Exodus 20:9-11, God used six literal days to create the world in order to serve as a model for man's workweek: work six days, rest one. Certainly God could have created everything in an instant if He wanted to. But apparently He had us in mind even before He made us (on the sixth day) and wanted to provide an example for us to follow.got?

hope this helps !!!

 

[101G]

A careful examination of the Hebrew word for “day” and the context in which it appears in Genesis will lead to the conclusion that “day” means a literal, 24-hour period of time.

not according to the Lord Jesus, John 11:9 "Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world." ...... (smile). so a solar DAY and a Jewish Day is not even the same.

Yom + “evening” or “morning” (23 times) always indicates an ordinary day. Yom + “night”

DAY plus Night? so a Day then is just as the Lord Jesus said, 12 hrs. so ... "a" .... day is not 24 but 12.

The truth is that many of the old-earth interpretations are known to rely upon faulty assumptions.

101G agree 100%

According to Exodus 20:9-11, God used six literal days to create the world in order to serve as a model for man's workweek: work six days, rest one.

that's for MAN, based on a 7th day rest.BUT NOT GOD. Exodus 20:11 "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."
Days here is the Hebrew H3117 יוֹם yowm (yome) n-m. BUT DID YOU UNDERSTAND IT? ...... LISTEN AND LEARN
1. a day (as the warm hours).
2. (literal) from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next.
3. (figurative) a space of time defined by an associated term.
{often used adverb}
[from an unused root meaning to be hot]
KJV: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.

DID YOU UNDERSTAND DEFINITION #2? FROM SUNRISE TO SUNSET...... HELLO.... ANYONE HOME? THE SUN DID NOT SHINE UNTILL CREATION DAY FOUR.

the KJV can translate it as "AGE"
Psalms 90:4 "For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night."

2 Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

101G.

 

[Dizerner]

They were 23 hours 56 minutes 4.091 seconds SOLAR DAYS!

NOT A SECOND LONGER!

All these 24 hour heretics.