Of course I am, I quoted it up thread, or maybe that was another thread, it gets confusing with so many going.
That passage has nothing to do with Genesis but how God is outside of time. If Genesis days were really millions of years (which causes all sorts of issues with scripture such as no death before sin) Then why even say to the ancient Israelites in Exodus that he created in six days and that the seventh is the Sabbath? Why not simply say he created it if it was really millions of years. The point was he created time for us, in Genesis. Not just evening and moring but the stars, moon and sun too.
Genesis 1
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
I do not see how this is a convincing argument against the days being literal.
We are already in God's rest. We are to rest in him every day.
Matthew 11:28-30
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
This book was not written the way that Hebrew poetry or parable was written.
There is nothing about the early verses of Genesis that in any way suggest another meaning for the word day.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
And so on.
Yom followed by evening and morning and number only ever means literal 24 hour day.
Does Genesis chapter 1 mean literal 24-hour days? | GotQuestions.org
Then we are told in Genesis 5 that Adam died
5 Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5 Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
Only literal people have literal children and literally die. Or are you suggesting this is somehow symbolic as well? If he died 930 years after day 6, how can we still be in it?
Exodus says twice that God created everything in 6 days. He is talking about their week because they understood the seventh was the Sabbath.
Exodus 20:11
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
Exodus 31:17
It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from labour, and was refreshed.”
These can't just be ignored. If you believe these are saying something other than what they appear to be saying there needs to be scriptural backup.
This here is the whole crux of the matter. Every single person who quibbles with the plain reading of Genesis does not do so because of the Bible but because of sources from outside of scripture, mostly science. It's always the Bible +
If God intended it to be read any other way there would be something, even one verse in the New Testament suggesting it might be an allegory or a parable or should be taken some other way, there isn't.
Jesus quotes from Genesis.
Matthew 19:4-5
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female'
He talks about Abel, Adam's son as a real person.
Matthew 23:35
35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
He even says when he comes again it will be like the days of Noah
Matthew 24:37-39
37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
No hint that any of what he talks about is not literal.
Both Paul and Peter carried it on through scripture showing they believed it literally as well.
Romans 5:12–19; 1 Corinthians 15:21–22, 45–47
2 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Timothy 2:13–14
Peter 3:20, 2 Peter 2:4–9, and 2 Peter 3:3–7
If scripture interprets scripture where is the scripture that supports any other reading?
1 Corinthians 1:25
For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
Why do you assume science has it all correct? How about the fact they are fallible men and woman only working with what they can see and analysis in the here and now. That they have to work on assumptions. Who says those assumptions continue to be correct when talking about the beginning of the world or the fact that God changed some of the worlds governing laws not once but twice. Mankind thought thalidomide was a great cure for morning sickness and that a pigs tooth was a human. Humans make mistakes, God doesn't.
