The Hebrew word
yovm is never used figuratively?
Would you like to check again.
Ezekiel 30:3; Joel 1:15; Joel 2:1, 2; Joel 2:30-32; Joel 3:12-16; Amos 5:17-20; Zephaniah 1:4-2:3
When you are finished, you can get back to me, and let me know if you consider the day in those verses to be a literal 24 hours.
The specific time frame is not 24 hours, but specifically a day in God's view - God's creative day of his 6 creative days. Would you agree?
Can you describe the heavens created at Genesis 1:1, please?
The sun and moon.
Yes.
Where did Genesis 1:14 say God put the great lights and the stars?
I do not see any point in this.
It is not about how fast one can say A, or Z.
It is a matter of how a meaningful name that represents a creature, is given.
Anyone can spill gibberish from their mouth, but not everyone can make a sensible utterance. Especially when it is important, and of value.
No one with any regard for any creature... whether that be a baby that now comes into the world, or an animal that will be recognized by others, will just rattle off any junk name to that creature.
Adam was an intelligent being, remember. So, I would not compare him to the thinking of fallen beings, in a day and age which the Bible says will be dominated by people lacking good sense.
No need to get personal.
If a thousand years is a day to God, the day is singular. An evening and morning - singular, can be applied to that day.
Even the wisest man of his day - Solomon, understood this.
Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper. Ecclesiastes 11:6
Is Solomon talking about literal morning and evening?
No. Even God used this kind of figurative speech. Isaiah 17:11
I'm not referring to a need. I am referring to the fact that those reading the Genesis account as 6 literal 24 hour days, are saying that God rested for 24 hours, which is really applying man's imperfect thinking, to the supreme creator.
Do you really believe God rested for 24 hours?
Does such a belief have scriptural support?
According to Hebrews 4:3-5, it does not.
3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:
“So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ”
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; 5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”
Clearly, this verse refers to that same rest day of God, which is ongoing.
So, this is proof that the creative days were not literal 24 hour days, because the 7th day is not 24 hours, but thousands of years.
A person who accepts this, and yet claims that the six days were 24 hours long, is not being consistent.
Do you accept this?
No. How do you figure that I am only looking at Genesis 1 by itself, and
Genesis 1:1 does not have to be an overview, but is part of a sequence of events from Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 1:31?
Please address the question.
