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Originally Posted by Twisp
Technically, we both have a Bible wherein the word "day" can be translated to mean a 24 hour period or simply a period or passage of time. If we are to believe Psalm 19:1-4, then we have to believe that the heavens declare the glory and knowledge of God. If that is the case, then the heavens definitively declare towards an old universe.
You can't say that Genesis declares 6 literal days, because it does not. Conversely, we can also cannot say that it declares billions of years, because it does not. However, when taken into context with other scriptures, and with what the heavens declare, there is little doubt towards an OEC viewpoint. |
James Barr was a Professor of Hebrew. He says pretty bluntly that neither he nor any other serious Hebrew scholar sees any reason in the text to take "day" in Genesis as anything other than a true 24 hour day. So yeah...there is plenty of reason to declare Genesis is a literal day.
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