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The real question is the mystery of how one day can contain all days. Genesis is literal, yet there is a deeper meaning. In the same way we have the body, which represents this world and we have the soul that represents the world to come.
I am amazed at how a few word can tell us about all of creation. We need to be careful not to confuse day Yom that represents a 24 hour period with bə-yō-wm, which represent an age or an era. Not only in a 24 hour day. In an instant of time God created all of time, all ages and all eras. So we wonder how can a little contain so much?
Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day bə-yō-wm that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
I always get asked this question: YEC represent YOM the 24 hour day. OEC represents bə-yō-wm meaning all of time and all ages. They are talking about two different word with two different meaning in Genesis one and Genesis two.
The first letter in the word for day means a little that represents a lot. As they say a day contains all days and all ages. One literal, the other symbolic.
I am amazed at how a few word can tell us about all of creation. We need to be careful not to confuse day Yom that represents a 24 hour period with bə-yō-wm, which represent an age or an era. Not only in a 24 hour day. In an instant of time God created all of time, all ages and all eras. So we wonder how can a little contain so much?
Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day bə-yō-wm that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
I always get asked this question: YEC represent YOM the 24 hour day. OEC represents bə-yō-wm meaning all of time and all ages. They are talking about two different word with two different meaning in Genesis one and Genesis two.
The first letter in the word for day means a little that represents a lot. As they say a day contains all days and all ages. One literal, the other symbolic.
