2 Peter 3:8 - I've said this numerous times! Nice try, but stop running.. Either show where you can find the Bible saying a day is 24 hours long, otherwise I am going to stop replying to you because you have been refuted and you are trying to validate your feelings on your beliefs.
That has nothing to do with Genesis. 2 peter is referring to God being outside of time. To him a day is the same as a thousand years and a thousand years is the same as a day.
Just because God is himself outside of time, the creation is not.
The creation is inside of time.
You can believe whatever you like, as I have said many times but I believe the plain text. When it says God created in 6 days I take him at his word. That is all there is to it, nothing to do with my feelings. The Genesis text gives no reason to think that day means anything other than day.
It doesn't matter where you live, a day is 24 hours.
You have to be educated when dealing with scripture because you have to show others why our God is true compared to all other beliefs out there. If Christians start to promote things that are factual wrong and visibly unintelligent, then the reason why his gospel gets rejected is on us (or you).
You think it's unintelligent because it goes against what science says. Why do you assume they are correct? God says the wisdom of man is foolishness. Science can only test what it has and it does not have the created world, nor was anyone there to see the process nor can anyone test or understand how God is outside of time yet created a world inside of time, who knows how that could have bent and changed things. These are things we can never know and no testing the groaning world will give them these answers. All we can know is that God said 6 days passed on the earth during creation and that is what I will believe.
The Bible says that there was no death before sin. Sin caused death.
Evolution holds to millions of years and death for millions of years. They do not in any way fit together.
Also, You believe each of the 6 days to be 24 hours, you believe the moon reflects light, these are taught by science. So what if some kid comes to you and tells you that 12am isn't the start of the new day because the sun hasn't rose yet, or the moon gives it's own light, and that snakes eat dirt.. how are you going to tell him he/she is wrong?
I believe that if it could have been watched by a man upon the earth, that he would have seen each day was 24 hours and that it took 6 days in total to complete.
How that looked beyond the earth could be anything, it could have been infinity or instantly. I don't pretend to know how God being outside of time alters things away from the actual physical earth. God is not bound by time but we are and since we are we cannot understand what outside of time even means.
The day was a day because God deemed it to be so. I use to think it was from the light God made and the earth turning but I changed my mind on that since Exodus includes everything into the 6 days, from before he made the light source in Genesis 1:3
The passing of the day with light and dark is solely for our benefit as was the moon and stars so we could plot the seasons and time passing.
But if my children had asked such a thing I would have explained that in our country say the new day starts at 12am but in Jewish culture the new day began at 6pm, but that when we (people) determine when a day starts or ends isn't important, what is important is that 24 hours have passed. God deemed that a day is 24 hours and that a week is 7 days.
I think the only ones who believe the moon gives it's own light are those who hold to a flat earth. I disagree that the Bible teaches flat earth, but I will not argue with them anymore. If this is what they believe in faith then that is what they believe. I don't think the shape of the earth affects salvation.
Snakes do eat dirt. That doesn't mean their diet is dirt, its simply a consequence of being on the ground.
