In previous confessions I have attempted to explain why I feel the Creation days were actual, 24 hour days. I have shown that the Bible makes clear that Jesus in the New Testament and God the father in the Old Testament both agree with the Genesis 1 narrative- that Creation was a week long around 6,000 years ago. But if you have read anything about this debate from the people who consider me a dirty, unwashed, uneducated, unscientific backwoods hick, you know that they will try and argue that Genesis 1 uses a word for ‘day’ (Yom in the Hebrew) which, just like the English word ‘day’ can mean more than merely a single 24 hour calendar day. And they are correct. It can mean more than that.
This is where the Old Earth Creationist cries “BWAHAHA! (Literally: “Fo’Shizzle!”)
Then 
you admit that the word translated as DAY in Genesis 1 can mean something OTHER than a normal, 24 hour calendar day!”
And I say, “Yup.” (Literally, “FoSho.’”)
And then they say “Then you admit that the days of Genesis 1 could be LONGER than a single day!”
And I say, “Mmmmm..Nope.”
I don’t know what they say to this, because no one ever seems to carry on past this point. They just wander off and get distracted by other things I suppose. Continue reading →
