Top Hebrew Scholars agree that in Genesis 1 a Day is 24 hours
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Top Hebrew Scholars agree that in Genesis 1 a Day is 24 hours -
April 5th, 2012, 06:51 AM
Of course it is, Jesus backs it up, the Ten Commandments back it up, the whole Bible backs up the creation story as being literal. But because people want to accept evolution it has to be explained over and over again. Amazing. So while some of you Christian scholars distort and deny the word of God, the truth still stands.
James Barr of Oxford University - “So far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Gen. 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that (a) creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience (b) the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story.”1
Hugh Williamson Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University - “So far as the days of Genesis 1 are concerned, I am sure that Professor Barr was correct. . . . I have not met any Hebrew professors who had the slightest doubt about this unless they were already committed to some alternative by other considerations that do not arise from a straightforward reading of the Hebrew text as it stands.”2
The current warden at Tyndale House - “Although the Young Universe Creationist position is not widely held within secular academia, the position—that the author of Genesis 1 maintained that the world was created in six literal days—is nearly universally held.”4
It wouldn't go on about the evening and the morning unless it meant days.
Genesis 1 is about days, and it is ancient Jewish mythology that bears no relation to what really happened in history. It actually doesn't matter what units of time are used, it is a fantasy story regardless.
I have been trying to wrangle this time thing out since Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Resurrection Day are all coming very quickly. It is exciting for me for some reason to think they are close like this to the way it might have been in reality back in the day it all happened.
I have trouble with time in the Bible, it is like a conceptual Rubik's Cube that I love and try to work with - but then have to put it down before wanting to pound my head on a wall! lol
I thought Genesis says an "evening and morning"? Genesis 1:3-5
Then is a day twelve hours?
Jesus says a day has twelve hours, but He meant we had twelve hours of light.
John 11:9
I have tried to work out the days because there are or were some threads bringing up the accounts and the number of days and nights The Lord was in the grave. My apologies if your thread is not the place fro me to post this.
BTW, I believe He said the days it took because He wanted us to know the days it took AND He required Israel to take His Word for it to the point of them keeping the Sabbath because of it.. Which means to me it is essential to believe God to see prophecy.
Of course it is, Jesus backs it up, the Ten Commandments back it up, the whole Bible backs up the creation story as being literal. But because people want to accept evolution it has to be explained over and over again. Amazing. So while some of you Christian scholars distort and deny the word of God, the truth still stands.
Actually, doubt is cast on a literal creation week absent evolution. Physics, geology and astronomy show your holy book to be based on the oral tradition of shepherds and based on fear of The Other.
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April 5th, 2012, 09:32 AM
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You want so badly to explain why, but that too does not matter ... even a little.
What is to explain?... it just doesn't matter.
Literalism is one of the more stupid ways to read the bible, because it assumes that the world view of Moses is exactly the same as ours is.
The more simple minded people just cannot come to grips with the fact that in the end, things just are what the are. There is no black and white, and never will be.
How many years did Adam and Eve live in the garden before they sinned?
If you say a few, then you are calling God stupid and his creation flawed.
Literalism is one of the more stupid ways to read the bible, ...
How would you know?
What is stupid, and intellectually dishonest and irresponsible, is to modulate you interpretation of the Tanakh to assuage your embarrassment with the text, particularly while implying that the Torah was written by Moses. What is stupid is to willfully ignore the archaeology, anthropology, and philology of the levant. And what is truly stupid is your posturing.
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