Bill The Baptist
Puritan Board Graduate
We are currently studying this in church and I just wanted see what the consensus, if any, was here on the PB.
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Only on the Puritanboard would there be a preponderance of people voting for option 1.
The Hebrew word yom is used 2301 times in the Old Testament. Outside of Genesis 1, yom plus a number (used 410 times) always indicates an ordinary day, i.e., a 24-hour period. The words “evening” and “morning” together (38 times) always indicate an ordinary day. Yom + “evening” or “morning” (23 times) always indicates an ordinary day. Yom + “night” (52 times) always indicates an ordinary day.
Read more: Does Genesis chapter 1 mean literal 24-hour days?
2 people voted for this option on the PuritanBoard???
God created the world in the distant past using evolution
I said "not sure" only because I believe in 6-day creation but am not certain of the age of the earth. If I had to say, I lean toward young earth because I think it's a valid point that something God created would already appear to have age, but then again, maybe it didn't before the Fall. I don't think we know for sure, except that literal 6-day creation makes the best sense to me, and there are theological implications otherwise.
We always go 6 24 hour days, but a friend of mine put forward something I had never thought about: what was the age of the void (and what exactly was it)? That may have been around for bazillions of years...
BAM. What a boss answerAnything other than option 1 being true means the creation account in genesis is wrong, thus breaking the scriptures, foiling biblical inerrancy, and rendering the LORD to be a lier and the bible to being rubbish.
Anything other than option 1 being true means the creation account in genesis is wrong, thus breaking the scriptures, foiling biblical inerrancy, and rendering the LORD to be a lier and the bible to being rubbish.
We always go 6 24 hour days, but a friend of mine put forward something I had never thought about: what was the age of the void (and what exactly was it)? That may have been around for bazillions of years...
I go with six literal days, but I won't say 24 hour days, because Scripture says nothing about clocks or hours at creation.
The only timepiece at that point was "evening and morning."
As far as the age of the void was, how do you measure time when there are no objects to mark it? If it was void, it was without time.
I did vote, because the question spoke only of six literal days. I was hesitant on the "recent past" portion, because I don't think thousands of years ago is all that recent.
I go with six literal days, but I won't say 24 hour days, because Scripture says nothing about clocks or hours at creation.
The only timepiece at that point was "evening and morning."
As far as the age of the void was, how do you measure time when there are no objects to mark it? If it was void, it was without time.
how do you measure time when there are no objects to mark it? If it was void, it was without time.
The time period from Adam to today may be considerably longer than 6,000 years.