Originally Posted by LynneClomina where is scripture does the word for day used to mean an indeterminate time, and not specifically a literal 24 hour day?
scripture, and even what the hebrew word used is, would help me. thanks!
Looking at Genesis plants were created on the third day. The sun is made the following day. Plants can't live very long without sunlight so the length of a day can not be years or eras long otherwise the plants would have died. In this manner God shows us the time period of a day seen very clearly without reference to other time periods that may be misunderstood or misleading.
Gen 1:12-19
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the
third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the
fourth day. 
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