http://www.geocreationism.com/2006/12/17/genesis-15b-what-is-a-day/ Geocreationism - Showing harmony between mainstream science and scripture Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:36:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.geocreationism.com/2006/12/17/genesis-15b-what-is-a-day/#comment-145 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:48:33 +0000 http://www.geocreationism.com/2006/12/17/genesis-15b-what-is-a-day/#comment-145 [...] In my post, Genesis 1:5b - What is a Day?, I explain how a day in Genesis 1 is defined by when Jesus intentionally experienced evenings and mornings.  However, I have received numerous responses of the following form: that “yom”, the word for day, always means 24-hour days, because its use in other scriptures are always meant to be treated as 24-hour days.  Therefore, the argument goes, creation days, which use the same word “yom”, must by necessity be 24-hour days.  In conclusion, I am twisting scripture to mean something it does not.  Naturally, I disagree. [...] […] In my post, Genesis 1:5b - What is a Day?, I explain how a day in Genesis 1 is defined by when Jesus intentionally experienced evenings and mornings.  However, I have received numerous responses of the following form: that “yom”, the word for day, always means 24-hour days, because its use in other scriptures are always meant to be treated as 24-hour days.  Therefore, the argument goes, creation days, which use the same word “yom”, must by necessity be 24-hour days.  In conclusion, I am twisting scripture to mean something it does not.  Naturally, I disagree. […]

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