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What does the word 'day' mean in Genesis?
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<blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 374120" data-attributes="member: 2070"><p>Several people claimed that Genesis 2:17 was not a 24-hour day... Of course, that's *also* subject to debate.</p><p></p><p>I think there's a certain amount of question-begging; if there are a number of usages where the Bible would be perfectly understandable if it meant "24-hour day" or if it meant something else, then he can't easily show you one of those, because you can say "oh, that one's a 24-hour day too", and use each of them as part of the evidence that it's "always" a 24-hour day, even though maybe it isn't.</p><p></p><p>It's hard to find anything that one can be unambiguously sure is a metaphorical usage; generally, the only way we can be sure that something is metaphorical is if we learn that it would otherwise be physically impossible. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seebs, post: 374120, member: 2070"] Several people claimed that Genesis 2:17 was not a 24-hour day... Of course, that's *also* subject to debate. I think there's a certain amount of question-begging; if there are a number of usages where the Bible would be perfectly understandable if it meant "24-hour day" or if it meant something else, then he can't easily show you one of those, because you can say "oh, that one's a 24-hour day too", and use each of them as part of the evidence that it's "always" a 24-hour day, even though maybe it isn't. It's hard to find anything that one can be unambiguously sure is a metaphorical usage; generally, the only way we can be sure that something is metaphorical is if we learn that it would otherwise be physically impossible. :) [/QUOTE]
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