Is Literal 24 Hour View a Recent Interpretation?

[paloma22]

Men can take a wife before 3 years of age? You've
created a cloud of confusion in my reasoning.
I don't think Paul would approve of these hijinks.

Where the heck did you get that from? Hijnks perhaps but not from me

Adam took a wife shortly after her Creation... since they both were created at a nice mature age, (logically) there was no problem!

 

[SkyWriting]

Where the heck did you get that from? Hijnks perhaps but not from meAdam took a wife shortly after her Creation... since they both were created at a nice mature age, (logically) there was no problem!

Likewise, our planet and the Cosmos are mature and ripe as well as
the fruit on the trees in the Garden and the ancient mountains.

 

[paloma22]

Likewise, our planet and the Cosmos are mature and ripe as well as
the fruit on the trees in the Garden and the ancient mountains.

Yes, I agree, created mature in six days, but actually YOUNG!

 

[SkyWriting]

Yes, I agree, created mature in six days, but actually YOUNG!

Granted, perhaps...but scientifically not supported.
If such things were scientifically reproducible
they would be natural.

 

[Hoghead1]

By the evidence of Genesis, Adam was only mere hours "old" by day seven, but he most likely looked like a mid-20 year old or so, we have no way of telling, as the text, as you know does not say. If events happened as Genesis records, he was in reality only hours old yet appeared much older.

I see what your saying here skywriting, I think you misunderstand our position. YE's can only assume based on the text....but we use the evidence to hone the case, that creation AND mankind are relatively young (under 10,000 years old). And sure enough, the two agree; the whole creation and mankind can be young.

If God just creates something, it's going to look older than it actually is. This is consistent and internally correct.



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So God creates beings with deliberately designed deceiving age features?

 

[paloma22]

So God creates beings with deliberately designed deceiving age features?

Why do you say deceived? That does not make sense. God used a miracle to create something and some think deception? I don't see that logic, sorry. It just goes with the territory, making stuff out of thin air. Like feeding. 1,000's with fish...

Was Jesus being deceitful when we made fish from nothing ? As we all know how long a fish takes to grow

12Now the day was ending, and the twelve came and said to Him, “Send the crowd away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and get something to eat; for here we are in a desolate place.” 13But He said to them, “You give them something to eat!” And they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and buy food for all these people.” 14(For there were about five thousand men.) And He said to His disciples, “Have them sit down to eat in groups of about fifty each.” 15They did so, and had them all sit down. 16Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed them, and broke them, and kept giving them to the disciples to set before the people. 17And they all ate and were satisfied; and the broken pieces which they had left over were picked up, twelve baskets full. Luke 9

 

[StanJ]

Hello!
I am studying the different views of Genesis and which one is the most biblically accurate.
I am a young earth creationist, but old earthers also have good arguments.
I have heard that interpreting the Creation Week as six literal days is a recent development and that the Church did not historically hold to that view.
We all know Augustine doubted a the days as literla days. IIRC, he believed it all happened simultaneously.
Is there any historical evidence that early Christians believed them to be literal 24 hour days?

The Hebrew word used in Genesis one for day is yôm, and in context connotes an actual day as we know them today. Just as in all languages every word may have a few connotations but the context here requires that it is an actual day as we know them today. The same way it was used in Exodus 16 and 20:8-11, so very early on the creation account shown in Genesis 1 was taken literally under the old Covenant and under the New Covenant.

 

[yeshuasavedme]

Hello!

I am studying the different views of Genesis and which one is the most biblically accurate.

I am a young earth creationist, but old earthers also have good arguments.

I have heard that interpreting the Creation Week as six literal days is a recent development and that the Church did not historically hold to that view.

Is there any historical evidence that early Christians believed them to be literal 24 hour days?

The new day began at sunset, from the beginning of creation. God set the day with 18 parts. Man has changed it to 24 hours.
God set the year as 360 days, with 4 "Sabbath stops" at the head of each of the four seasons, and the "Sabbath stops" are, not counted in the days of the week, but are added to the total number of days in a year at the end of a year, making exactly always, 364 days in a year, from Spring equinox to Spring equinox -for the "religious year", and Fall equinox to Fall equinox for the civil year and the years numbered from creation..
The parts are called "moments" in Joshua, but they are "parts" again, in Revelation.
They correspond roughly to a 24 hour day.

 

[paloma22]

So God creates beings with deliberately designed deceiving age features?

No, God creates beings that appear older than they actually are. That goes with the territory of creating things out of thin air. No deception involved, only a miracle. You see "deception", we see miracle. There is a difference.