I am coming from a fundamentalist type non-denominational background to the Orthodox Church, so this whole days=periods thing has been hard for me to get a grasp on.
In Exodus, with the 10 Commandments, it says God created in 6 days and rested on the 7th to demonstrate and consecrate the Sabbath. It seems to me that periods would ruin that.
Also this:
Wisdom of Solomon
1:13 For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.
Wisdom of Solomon
2:23 For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.
2:24 Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.
And doesnt the NT speak of events in Genesis as if thats how they happend?
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
also Romans 5:16, 19
and Romans 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
if death and destruction were a natural part of the world from the beginning then why is creation in pain? why will all of creation be redeemed if not all of creation is fallen?
Genesis 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;.....God curses the ground AFTER their sin bc of their sin.
