The Bible shows me that Eden falls on the International Date Line (IDL). Genesis 1:3-5 shows that the first day is from light to light or from morning to morning. In Israel, the Sabbath is not the seventh day of the week as it was in Eden: Israel remembers to keep the seventh-day Sabbath established in Eden holy by remembering the Sabbath in the time zone of Eden from evening to evening, ten hours before its local seventh day of the week from morning to morning in obedience to God's instructions. This shift of ten hours point to the site of Eden from Israel and fall on the International Date Line. The International Date Line comes from all of us from the beginning: when God taught the human race to count the days with the week to remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy; before humanity spread throughout the world. This tradition of counting days established the International Date Line without us appreciating its significance in our history until these last days. I have written a book on the subject, links below. I welcome everyone to challenge my point of view. I am willing to provide a free PDF copy to influential people who can promote this book through reviews or other means. Sincerely, Jorge
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I totally disagree with you. Genesis clearly states the evening as the beginning of the 24 hour cycle--12 hours dark, followed by 12 hours light. That is why the Jews, and Jesus Himself, kept the Sabbath from sundown to sundown. Don't tell me that Jesus did not know what He was doing. It is not from sunup to sunup nor any other time--evening to evening is a 24 hour period in biblical time.
Mat_28:1
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.
Act_20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
This actually was Saturday night that they got together at sundown--which begins the first day of the week.
"The Hebrew word for day is yom and this word appears in Scriptures over 1400 times. And without exception this word, when written in the singular sense, means day. And that's it. Never anything else. Eons are indicated with the plural form: days, as in the days of such and such. The most popular counter argument is that the meaning of our word is fiercely restricted to 'day' for about a thousand times in the sequential Scriptures, but in the secluded chapter of Genesis 1 means something completely different! But honestly, if in Genesis 1 our word should have meant 'long time' it would have said 'long time'. There are words available in Hebrew that mean just that. None of which occur in Genesis 1.
The word as used in Genesis 1 means day and day alone. There's no way around it, and every serious theory to make (systematic, not theological) sense out of Genesis 1 should first and foremost address the yom-problem.
A yom therefore is a phase of a continuum (whether space-time, complexity or something else) that consists of two periods: a 'dark' part and a 'light' part. During the dark part of a regular day people sleep and are disconnected. During the light part they communicate and work together. Any other manifestation of yom should display the same kind of darkness (elements not connected) and lightness (elements connected).
The yom problem in addressing Genesis 1
5 and~he~will~CALL.OUT(V) (וַיִּקְרָא / wai'yiq'ra) Elohiym (אֱלֹהִים / e'lo'him) to~LIGHT (לָאוֹר / la'or) DAY (יוֹם / yom) and~to~DARKNESS (וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ / wê'la'hho'shekh) he~did~CALL.OUT(V) (קָרָא / qa'ra) NIGHT (לָיְלָה / lai'lah) and~he~will~EXIST(V) (וַיְהִי / wai'hi) EVENING (עֶרֶב / e'rev) and~he~will~EXIST(V) (וַיְהִי / wai'hi) MORNING (בֹקֶר / vo'qer)
DAY (יוֹם / yom) UNIT (אֶחָד / e'hhad)
RMT: and Elohiym called out to the light, day, and to the darkness he called out, night, and evening existed and morning existed, a day unit,
17 and~from~TREE (וּמֵעֵץ / u'mey'eyts) the~DISCERNMENT (הַדַּעַת / ha'da'at) FUNCTIONAL (טוֹב / tov) and~DYSFUNCTIONAL (וָרָע / wa'ra) NOT (לֹא / lo) you(ms)~will~EAT(V) (תֹאכַל / to'khal) FROM~him (מִמֶּנּוּ / mi'me'nu) GIVEN.THAT (כִּי / ki) in~
DAY (בְּיוֹם / bê'yom) you(ms)~>~EAT(V) (אֲכָלְךָ / a'khal'kha) FROM~him (מִמֶּנּוּ / mi'me'nu) >~DIE(V) (מוֹת / mot) you(ms)~will~DIE(V) (תָּמוּת / ta'mut)
RMT: but from the tree of discernment of function and dysfunction you will not eat from him, given that in the day you eat from him you will surely die,
The word for DAY in Gen. 1 is different from the word for DAY in Gen 2
Yom is 24 hours Beyom is an age----which makes perfect sense in as much as Adam and Eve did not die in that 24 hour period---but in an age--in this case, over 900 years later.
The Torah: Genesis 2
The yom problem in addressing Genesis 1
Before the advent of clocks, time was measured according to the sun’s position with a day being the duration between two consecutive “noons.” The early mechanical clocks were set to use this particular description of time, but their effectiveness was limited to a specific geographic area due to the variations in the position of the sun in different regions. During the 19th century, the transport industry was experiencing a boom with trans-continental travel being made easier and faster. However, the long-distance travel posed an issue with time-keeping with travelers having to set their clocks severally during their journey which was an annoying inconvenience. The development of other long-distance modes of telecommunication such as the telegraph and the telephone further compounded the problem especially in their military and commercial application. The remedy for this problem was to establish a global standard of time with 24 time zones, a theory which was first coined by Sir Sandford Fleming in 1876. The theory was applied in 1900 and used to date. Standard Time Zones were divided to be 15 degrees wide with the Greenwich Meridian, at zero degrees, being the starting point. The time zones run east and west of the Greenwich Meridian until they reached the 180 degrees longitude which became the International Date Line.
This is something that man created. To impose something that man created unto God's command of evening to evening makes no sense whastsoever and has nothing to do with where Eden is. If Jesus could keep the Sasbbath without Eden, there is no problem with us keeping it without Eden. This is not "SDA theology," this is your theory only.