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Why did it take 4,000+ years for Bible students to understand that the 7 days of creation, were not 24hr days?
Many modern Bible students believe that the 7 days of creation story as told in the Bible book of Genisis were not a literal 24hrs each.
It was not until the 19th century that this explanation came forward.
Does that mean that all the Bible students prior to this explanation were understanding a falsehood?
Gen 2:17 God says to Adam, "for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Gen 5:5 Adam lives several hundreds of years after eating the fruit.
Gen 7:7-10 Noah entered the ark seven days before the flood began. Gen 7:11-13 Noah entered the ark on the same day that the flood began.
Not so; they WERE 24 hour days. In the KJV OT, starting in Genesis, the word for "day" is yome; it occurs 1422 times in 1250 verses, according to my Bible Software program. There simply isn't space here to post all the pertinent scriptures, demonstrating the consistency of the use of wording in the language.
It is a true statement that "yome" can mean a day, a season, or an indeterminate period of time...but it is ALSO true that throughout the OT, whenever "yome" is used WITH either morning OR evening in the same sentence, it is obvious from the context that it is referring to a period of 24 hours; here are a few examples OUTSIDE of Genesis, yet within the Torah (The Torah is simply The Law, or the First 5 books of the Old Testament):
Exo 10:13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Exo 16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Exo 19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Lev 6:20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
Each of these verses, written in the SAME language, using the very SAME HEBREW WORDS AS USED IN GENESIS, by the SAME author, in the SAME part of the Bible as Genesis, leave NO DOUBT as to a 24 hour day...There are far too many more examples to post; Why would the creation week be the ONLY place that these words represent something DIFFERENT?
The strongest structural parallel of Genesis 1 is Numbers 7:10–84. Both are structured accounts, both contain the Hebrew word for day (yôm) with a numeric—indeed both are numbered sequences of days. In Numbers 7, each of the 12 tribes brought an offering on the different days: The one who brought his offering on the first day was Nahshon, son of Amminadab of the tribe of Judah. ...On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, the leader of Issachar, brought his offering ...On the third day, Eliab son of Helon, the leader of the people of Zebulun, brought his offering. ...On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, the leader of the people of Naphtali, brought his offering. ...The parallel is even stronger when we note that Numbers 7 not only has each day ( יוֹם yôm) numbered, but also opens and closes with ‘in the day that’ to refer collectively to all the ordinary days of the sequence.
In spite of the use of ‘in the day that’ in verses 10 and 84, no one doubts that the numbered day sequence in Numbers 7 (verses 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54, 60, 66, 72, 78) involves anything but ordinary-length days, because these days lack a preposition like ‘in’. This refutes the claim that ‘in the day that’ ( ביום beyôm 23) in Genesis 2:4, summarizing Creation Week, shows that the Genesis 1 days are not normal-length. This is simply a Hebrew idiom for ‘when’ (see NASB, NIV Genesis 2:4 cf. Numbers 7:10, 84). In this structured narrative (Numbers 7) with a sequence of numbered days, no one claims that it is merely a poetic framework for teaching something theological and that it is not history.
No one doubts that the days in Numbers 7 are ordinary days, so there is no grammatical basis for denying the same for the Genesis 1 days. That is, Genesis 1 is straightforward history. Learned and sincere Hebrew scholars concur that Genesis was written as history.
To interpret differently is to use linguistic gymastics, ignore the rest of the text, and quite preposterous. Why would we pick a few sentences to make exception to common sense and the rest of the text of the entire Old Testament?
It is very unfortunate in 2008, there are people and entire websites built around attempts to destroy the credibility of the Bible...Most of them attempt it without the slightest idea of what they are really talking about.
Now, let's keep talking about this Hebrew language of the OT; there is NO PUNCTUATION in Ancient Hebrew!!??&$#@%* Whenever the writer wished to EMPHASIZE something, using ALL CAPS wasn't an option, neither was underlining or exclamation points....How was it done??
Repetition, repetition, repetition...And 3 times repetition is maximum. This is probably why the Bible says God is Holy, Holy, Holy (Isaiah 6:3). It states in Genesis:
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Gen 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Gen 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Gen 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Gen 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Remember, 3 times repetition is maximum in Hebrew, yet in Genesis, "yome" is used with morning AND evening, for ALL 6 days...This is DOUBLE emphasis to the max by using both morning and evening, and repetition SIX TIMES. Such emphasis, clarity, and repetition is used nowhere else in the Old Testament, I'd say God REALLY wants us to get this.
There is also sound science to confirm this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=… This video is about 29 minutes long and presents scientific peer reviewed, court unrefuted evidence of the age of the earth. Of course, this is very inconvenient to atheists/evolutionists.
Once we have established creation week as a week in the sense we know of, Sunday thru Saturday, it is simply a matter of math to do the geneaolgies in Genesis 5, 11, and Matthew 1 to realize just how close Bishop Ussher is/was. The begats do NOT have gaps; they're just not all listed in the same chapter.
I know there is disagreement among mature Christians regarding this; and I gladly concede it is NOT necessary for salvation to agree upon the age of the earth....But it is exciting to me as a Christian to see the Truth of God's Word revealed; and I think it helps us mature as Christians to realize the Bible STARTS OUT with hermeneutic truth.
Hermeneutical's first definition is PLAIN or LITERAL, and Genesis' truth is very simple and plain... I would remind skeptic Christians that the word "parable" is used consistently PRIOR TO a parable in the New Testament; and Genesis as a book is NOT classified by scholars as Poetry, it is part of the Torah, or Law.
Therefore the poetic use of language such as metaphor, hyperbole, allegory and simile are not used and DO NOT APPLY, as they do in the Poetic books of Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon.
Also, there is NOT some "indeterminate" period of time "from the beginning" to the first few days of creation...Jesus, in his divine wisdom, knew that this would be a point of contention, and removed doubt by addressing it...
The New Testament confirms this:
Mat 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Mar 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Act 15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
In Christ,
John the Baptist
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