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A "day" is the function of the earth spinning and the light from the sun hitting only one side. Since there were no people most of the "week" and God was not standing on the equator, then "day" in Genesis has no ties to 24 hours.
Because "the earth does not spin if only God is there to see it"??
Seriously??
There were not even humans around to give a 24 hour day perspective.
Because God cannot show or tell a human what happened in the past if the human was not already there to see it in the past in the first place?
You are being serious?
And God was not standing on the earth providing a day/night perspective either.
So there is no 24 hour connection.
Because God cannot tell that the planet He made rotates every 24 hours unless he stands right here to see it.??
Plus the words used in scripture (bara) do not suggest anything quick.
The "words in scripture"... "legal code" --
"Six days you shall labor.. for in six days the Lord made.." Ex 20:11
BTW: That was from the OP.
So is this
A literal day is, at the very least, a twenty four hour period in which the earth rotates on its axis is the time for day and night cycles to complete but to have that rotation viewed from the surface of the earth as composed of day and night we need a single-side light source... which of course some assume God would not know how to provide without the sun in place.
Let's be honest and admit that for case of those tossing out the historic reliability of the Genesis account, one has to make some massive unproven speculative assertions in the above.
1. They must "assume" God only has the capacity to know of 'one source of light' and so failing to create the sun first he is simply "mistaken" in his recollection of what He did. That is not a logical position .. as if the only source of light known to God is a fusion reaction 93 million miles from Earth.
2.They must "assume" that the rotation of the planet (no matter if it is day or night) cannot possibly happen (or cannot possibly be 24 hours ) IF the light source God uses is anything other than the sun created on day 4. The imagination that the "observer" at the surface of Earth would not "notice" day or night during that single rotation IF the light was anything other than "fusion reactions 93 million miles away" demonstrates a paucity in logic that is difficult to take seriously. "AS IF" the rotation of the planet had not even started 6000 years ago. That is not logical
3. They then place their own unproven assertions in the steps outlined above - and make those assumptions "the infallible rule" / foundation from which to reject the entire historic account of Genesis 1-2:3 as being "literal".
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