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Morover, Adam lived to be 930 years old. Gen 2:17 says "in the day you eat of the fruit" you will die. By the reckoning of time IN the garden of eden, a day after being kick out into the normal world, must have been 1 day equals 930 years (or close to 1 thousand), then it took 6510 years to create the earth then rest on the 7th day (or 7000 years).

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The 7 days of creation were NOT 7 literal 24 hour days.

The word 'day' in The Bible, does not always mean a 24 hour day.

For example: just the next Chapter in Genesis (chapter 2) in verse 4, it labels all the 6 days (plural as depicted in Genesis 1); all those 6 days are labeled as 1 day (singular). Is this to say that 6 days also equals 24 hours, since it is also called 'day', not 'days'?

This is but one example of MANY, where the word 'day' refers to something OTHER THAN a 24 hour day. Likewise with the term 'evening' and 'morning'; it is also used in a 'figurative' was, NOT NECESSARILY always 'literal'; as fundamentalists would have you arbitrarily believe.

Another Evidence that the creative days were NOT 24 hour days. In the Scriptural record the account of each of the six creative days concludes with the statement: "And there came to be evening and there came to be morning" a first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth day. The seventh day, however, does not have this ending, indicating that this period, during which God has been resting from his creative works toward the earth, continued on. (Among other scriptures) at Hebrews 4:1-10 the Apostle Paul indicated that God's rest day was still continuing in his generation, which had by then been more than 4,000 years after that seventh-day rest period began. This makes it evident that each creative day, or work period, was at least thousands of years in length.

Reference Quotes:

  • A Religious Encyclopaedia (Vol. I, p. 613): "The days of creation were creative days, stages in the process, but not days of twenty-four hours each."-Edited by P. Schaff, 1894.
  • The Hebrew word yohm, translated "day," can mean different lengths of time. Among the meanings possible, William Wilson's Old Testament Word Studiesincludes the following: "A day; it is frequently put for time in general, or for a long time; a whole period under consideration . . . Day is also put for a particular season or time when any extraordinary event happens." (Old TestamentWord Studies, Grand Rapids, Mich.; 1978, W. Wilson, p. 109)

Therefore we cannot be as arbitrary as 'fundamentalists'.

I believe that science agrees with this Bible view. While not calling them 'creative' days; science agrees that there was MUCH TIME involved in the things that formed the earth, and life on it.

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Yes -- 24-hour days.

A day consists of two parts... a day or "light" portion, and a night or "dark" portion. And these are treated in the account:

"God called the light 'day,' and the darkness He called 'night.' And there was evening, and there was morning -- THE FIRST DAY." (Gen.1:5 NIV)

"...And there was eveniing, and there was morning -- THE SECOND DAY." (verse 8)

"And there was evening, and there was morning -- THE THIRD DAY." (verse 13)

And so on.

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