Path: paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feed1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: NightBulb Newsgroups: alt.bible Subject: The Meaning of DAY in Genesis Uno Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 01:01:16 -0600 Organization: BlueWorld Hosting Usenet (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com) Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 06:59:11 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com; logging-data="23588"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blueworldhosting.com" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:3VrEGZNFjXsD7hPrOsazOI/0c5k= sha256:8KR2GNgr5oI81roo5EaViUvhNZmWUvM3BCQf7+TmG80= sha1:fpXs89SkPcDaCIw91sNKtMUec5E= sha256:2sCCBBxTE4uN+9oFblDwewCBIwF+g/8hfRheDZ1ppgU= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: paganini.bofh.team alt.bible:655590 On 2/4/23 16:52, Michael McLean wrote: > The Lord has asked me to take someone through the whole Bible.  It is > really the Lord, though, as I have no power of my own.  It means you are > stuck with me for a little while longer. > > Try to contain your joy!  Please, no hinds' feet in high places > frolicking in ecstasy! > > However, I sense a great blessing for my atheist and diabolical > religious friends! > > We went through Genesis Chapter 1 yesterday.  I will pass along, along > the way, "some" points that are helpful to you. > > Here is one now: God clearly created the heavens and the earth in six > literal days. That's the end of the story. [.....] Assertions are not facts. If the creation is six literal calendar days, and if a day is strictly a 24-hour cycle, then how does God count all six days together as single day? "(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." In this verse He sums the entire creation period into a single day. He combines all six days, and calls the sum a single day. How is this possible if a day only means "twenty-four hours?" This speaks against the theory of "day" being a literal solar day. How can six days be counted as a single day unless the use of day is epochal rather than calendarist? How can solar days of twenty-four hours even be reckoned for three days before the creation of the sun? If the word "day" from Hebrew JOWM means a literal calendar day, then how can the prophet say the entire age of the gospel is a single day? "(Zechariah 14:7) But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light." Here the Lord specifically says the coming day will not be known by the natural day or night, but will have light in spiritual darkness for the JOWM, meaning age, and not a calendar day. Read carefully. He says the approaching DAY will not be a day or a night. He is referring to the age of the gospel as a single day. This also speaks against the idea of Genesis one being calendar days. "(Zechariah 14:8) And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be." Here the entire summer and winter are summed up as "that day." Entire seasons are called a day. These are the seasons of the gospel harvest age. And to God they are a single day, in the same way that God calls all six days of the creation a single day in Genesis 2:4. This also speaks against the idea of Genesis one being calendar days. Thus we see from the scripture that the following statement is false: "God clearly created the heavens and the earth in six literal days." When we look closely at the scripture we see that God clearly creates the heavens and the earth in six symbolic days of long ages or eons, or "seasons", and when he is finished he refers to the six days as a single day. In sum, the use of the word, "day" in Genesis chapter one is epochal, and symbolic of a long age or epoch of time. The desire to promote solar creationism does not define scripture. The visible sun does not reckon the time of God's days, for He is the light of His own eternal reckoning of endless days: "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there." -- NightBulb | https://blog.nightbulb.net | Flip the night switch. How to get ahead in life. Judaism: circumcision. Christianism: lobotomy.