Well people have been disagreement since the garden of Eden and there were only two people, but as the story of Adam and Eve teaches us our father and mother went astray when they each pursued their own ways and left the ways of God. My hope for this thread is to get people talking more and, thinking more about what the Bible has to say about all branches of knowledge versus what the world says.
I'm praying that we are moved to not lean on our own understanding and be led astray by not having our thoughts checked against, and rooted in the Word of God. But as you hinted
"birds of a feather flock together" so can we really expect anything different to happen?
Okay so you're speaking of the resurrection...and yes I believe for any honest reader they would know that
Genesis 2 chronologically would fit into
Day 6 of creation as it is giving more detail into Adam's creation.
This is not true because there are some people who can see the resurrection of the body and prophecies of Christ in Moses and the Prophets without needing to know the chronology first, or even the prefiguration of the creation week speaking of a
7,000 Year period which God has set for the world.
I'm not sure I'm following your math here...I've stated in my own separate works on the is site that the
7 Days of the Week = 1,000 Years each for a total of
7,000 Years. As for the period which I omit from the chronology--for which I give my appropriate reasoning elsewhere--it is the period known as the
Middle Ages which is
~1,000 Year period; and I add onto the fact that
~500+ Years more of phantom were added onto the timeline.
Of course this is difficult for most people to understand who don't know the difference between the
Anno Mundi and
Anno Domini timelines or how the
7,000 Year timeline relates.
For those interested in what I'm discussing can view some clear illustrations and beginner friendly videos which will help guide you through what I have said about the
Middle Ages:
Anatoly Fomenko: Phantom Time
Genesis 2:4
4 These are the toldoth ha-shamayim and ha-aretz in their being created, in the yom
[that the] LORD God made Eretz
[no article] and Shamayim
[no article]
Eretz and Shamayim, (without the article) were not both created in a single yom in the previous chapter, (which, imo, is still the same passage in the above text).
Shamayim is/are named by Elohim when it/they were created, in Yom Sheni:
Genesis 1:6-8 KJV
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven
[Shamayim, no article]. And the evening and the morning were the second day
[Yom Sheni].
Eretz is named by Elohim when it was created, in Yom Shelishi:
Genesis 1:9-13 KJV
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth;
[Eretz, no article] and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day
[Yom Shelishi].
Thus, because of the statement in Genesis 2:4 quoted above herein, the yamim of creation in the first chapter of Genesis all occur in one yom: the yom wherein Elohim Almighty created Shamayim, Eretz, and all their host.
Right away, in the very beginning, yom has multiple meanings. This is because Yom is Light, just as Elohim says in Genesis 1:5 where He calls the Light, Yom. If therefore Yom is Light then yom, when it is used for an increment of time, can used for any increment of time. If therefore yom can be a day, then yom can surely also be used for an hour: for yom is not any particular increment of time, but is used in a general way for increments of time, for Yom is instead, Light. And this Light is the Light which Elohim Almighty called forth to shine out of the darkness, (Genesis 1:3). The Yom Light is therefore much more important than the greater light, the lesser light, and the stars which were themselves created
in Yom Rebii.
So then, as has been said before, if you can say that the creation days represent thousand-year days, as you have now said again in this post, then you are engaging in a special pleading argument if you choose to ignore the fact that they can also be counted as thousand-year days right there in the text in the way they are written.
Moreover your commentary regarding Genesis 2:7 fitting only the sixth day is just your opinion. The context surrounding the first creation actually fits much better with the third day of creation. There was not yet any plant of the field in the earth, and there was not yet any herb of the field sprouted up, and immediately after the first man Adam is formed, and given the breath of life, and becomes a living soul, Elohim plants a garden. This fits the third day much better and this pattern shows up in the parables of the Master all over the place, (Matthew 13 is a good place to start looking for this pattern).
Just as Paul says, the first man Adam became a living soul, (and this is Genesis 2:7), and the second man is from the heavens, and the Psalmist agrees that this is Genesis 1:26-28. What is it then? From the very beginning, ha-adam was
recreated in the image and likeness of Elohim, and only then is/are he/they named Adam, (and this also is provable by the Hebrew text and the usage of the definite article).
