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RE: Were the seven days of creation in Genesis seven twenty four hour periods? - Some conclusions
Yes, they were 24 hour periods. I don't believe in numerology. I believe the bible. No disrespect intended.
The discussion of a non-literal interpretation of Genesis 1 doesn't need to bring in numbers. What we have to realize is who the audience was for this text and what they might have understood it to mean. Genesis 1 is not primarily about science or some evolution debate. Genesis 1 is about God.
Genesis 1 is a proclamation to the pagan nations. It is an apologetic text combating the competing creation myths. Instead of the world forming out of chaos and accident, it is formed by God's definite plan. Instead of the sun and the moon being gods themselves, they are creations of the ultimate God.
Genesis 1 is about two things, glorifying God and establishing the Sabbath. Trying to read our modern scientific debates into it isn't its purpose.
It is about the Word.
God said, ... God said... God said...
It is about the Logos, and the Logos, when He speaks, creates Order from the Chaos.
This is why John 1:1 is another creation account, which brings us back to Genesis. PRE-Genesis, in fact.
I second that, The Almighty God is a the most Accurate one, the 3s and 7s might or may not mean anything significant to the Most high.
But grouping concepts into groups of three, seven etc. is very significant to the Hebrew writer and reader, God was not the intended reading audience, the children of Israel were.
Great point. And the court of King James also.
I agree 100% in God's word.
Job 38:4 Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
Isaiah 55:
8For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
If what you found in this post was numerology then perhaps you need to read it again and read the provided link.
https://bible.org/seriespage/3-use-three-bible
24 of God's hours or 24 human hours?
24 human hours!
This is when the can of worms begins to open.
When man and science can fill in the missing gaps I might be persuaded to believe otherwise - but the scales tip significantly towards a literal meaning based on the research that I have done.
Why are you so emphatic about that? Does it really matter?
Check out my links elsewhere in this post to the Jordan Peterson Bible Lecture Series. He uses evolutionary biology to bring atheists out of their intellectual morass. They CAN find meaning in the bible, and the DON'T have to abandon evolution. They can start to see biological evolution as a creative instrument, instead of as what they always thought it was - an unbridgeable chasm between science and religion.
It does matter - if not for us then certainly for future generations. They will have to live through the reign of the antichrist while we will most likely be dead. Most christians are setting their kids up for a future fall.
I will go back and look at your other comments but I am busy for a little bit and the comments are flowing thick and fast (which is good) - but now is not the right time for me to carefully consider and reply to your comments.
I'll be back a little later.
Good stuff, bro! See you after I've mowed my lawn :)
Take some time on Sunday to listen to Dr. David Jeremiah. He knows exactly what the Bible says.
And you need to listen to Dr. Scott Hahn. I would say the same thing about him. I'll listen to some Jeremiah if you listen to some Hahn.
Hahn doesn't have a clue.
You do not understand the meaning of the Bible. I suggest you read it over and over and over until you get it. You are "all over the map" as they say and it is taking you nowhere fast.
Finding "meaning" in the Bible means NOTHING unless you understand it and LIVE it.
You sure are able to read a lot into what I know and don't know about the Bible. What is your Bible tradition? Everyone has one. Tradition is not a bad thing. It is the democracy of the dead. I respect those who came before me, and I am under no illusion that I can just pick up an ENGLISH translation of the bible and interpret everything for myself. It is not a magic book.
It is a book (collection of books) which has been preserved and lovingly handed down to us by the Church. Why should I not care what others in the tradition of the Church have said about the books?
Like I said, you are "all over the map."
It's called discernment.
What is the main point of the Bible?
2 Peter 3:8 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
It doesn't make any difference. It isn't important.
Believing the bible includes some numerology. Different numbers mean different things throughout the bible texts. Specific numbers occur in nature/creation over and over again across species so it does come into play to some degree.
They we're not 24 hour periods.... it is numerology just how Adam and Eve is a story of desire and how noah's ark is a story of evolution. I hope you don't idolize Jesus as the son when the trinity is a work and Jesus came out of a 40 day fast and destroyed a church because they were idolizing. The very first thing he did! and then you cult religious people disgrace him by worshipping him as a god.