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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Subject: How old is the earth scripturally? |
Bible Note: Greetings Daninjapan! I have been checking out this thread. Personally, I hold to a literal six day creation, without necessarily believing in a young earth. But, the points you make are definitely valid ways of looking at the creation account. I do have one quick question and one quick comment: 1) Question: In one of your previous posts, you mentioned a Dr. Ross. Does he believe that Adam was created as a fully functioning adult male? This would be a key point for me. I'm not trying to imply that he doesn't believe this. I'm just not familiar with his stand. 2) Comment: You said in this post: "Finally, in Genesis 1 the days are numbered using an interesting formula, “And there was evening and there was morning, one day” - etc. From my earliest Bible reading days this phraseology bothered me. In various cultures, days have been counted midnight to midnight, sunrise to sunset, sunrise to sunrise, and evening to evening. But I have never ever heard of anyone counting days from sunset to sunrise - that would be counting nights, not days! But if the text is somewhat poetic and is intended to be read as detailing six long periods of God’s creative activity, then the phraseology suddenly makes sense. The sense of the text would then be: “There was a twilight when God’s creative activity was suspended and then a new dawn when God began His creative activity again, creative era #1” - etc." This was exactly the way that the Jewish culture measured a day, from sunset to sunset. Thus, the Sabbath for them began on what we would call Friday at sunset and ran to Saturday at sunset. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |