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1 | Is the 7th "day" still going on? | Heb 4:6 | kalos | 132101 | ||
A literal twenty-four hour day Genesis 1:5 New English Translation God called the light "day" and the darkness "night." There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.[22] '[22] Another option is to translate, "Evening came, and then morning came." This formula closes the six days of creation. It seems to follow the Jewish order of reckoning time: from evening to morning. Day one started with the dark, continued through the creation of light, and ended with nightfall. Another alternative would be to translate, "There was night and then there was day, one day." 'The first day. The exegetical evidence suggests the word "day" in this chapter refers to a literal twenty-four hour day. It is true that the word can refer to a longer period of time (see Isa 61:2, or the idiom in 2:4, "in the day," that is, "when"). 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. Also, when the Hebrew word yom (oy) is used with a numerical adjective, it refers to a literal day. Furthermore, 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' (www.netbible.com). |
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2 | Is the 7th "day" still going on? | Heb 4:6 | Glory Bound | 132109 | ||
Can there be any sincere doubt that the terms evening, morning and day mean anything other than a single 24 hour day. I fail to see the complexity. There is nothing other than mans foolishness to indicate anything other than just what is stated. Why can't we simply take scripture at face value until we discover something "other than science," preferably something in scripture that leads us to believe it states otherwise? Are we so complex that we can not comprehend the simplicity of scripture? Or do we not see through the ulterior motives of those who spawn such foolish questions? GB |
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