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matahari
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But Matahari, that’s just the point. Acknowledging an old Earth and allowing for the evolutionary process as contributing to how we got here does not turn Genesis into a fairy tale. Genesis is full of truth and will ALWAYS be crucial in our understanding of our humanity and relationship with God. Genesis is not diminished. It isn’t either/or.
The Hebrew word for day is YOM . The word Yom is used frequently in the Old Testament and it means a 24 hour period, with one or two exceptions which the context makes clear what it means .
See Genesis 1: 4-5 Yom is defined the first time it is used in the Bible in its two literal senses: the light portion of the light/dark cycle and the whole light/dark cycle. Second, Yom is used with " evening " and “morning”. Everywhere these two words are used in the Old Testament they always mean a literal evening or morning of a literal day.
Third. Yom is modified with a number. one day, second day, third day etc. which everywhere else in the Old Testament indicates literal days.
Genesis 1:14 And God said " Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to seperate day from night; Yom is defined literally in relation to the heavenly bodies.
Then in Exodus 20 verse 9 God’s gives His command to Israel to work six days and then take a sabbath rest “Six days you may labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, your God. No work may be done then by you , or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your beast, or by the alien who lives with you. In six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the Lord has blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” The word Yom is used in both parts of the commandment. If God had created over six long periods of time He could have said that using one of the three indefinite Hebrew time words.
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a_priori
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You are approaching these words as if they carry the specificity of the fuel control schematic for the Rolls Royce 250-C30 turboshaft helicopter engine. As I posted in another thread, Genesis had to be a one-size-fits-all account. It had to inform the Israelites of old but it also has to inform modern (actually postmodern) man. Our understanding of the physical world is very different than theirs. We are expecting too much of that book if we insist it is literal.
The Hebrew word for day is YOM . The word Yom is used frequently in the Old Testament and it means a 24 hour period, with one or two exceptions which the context makes clear what it means .
See Genesis 1: 4-5 Yom is defined the first time it is used in the Bible in its two literal senses: the light portion of the light/dark cycle and the whole light/dark cycle. Second, Yom is used with " evening " and “morning”. Everywhere these two words are used in the Old Testament they always mean a literal evening or morning of a literal day.
Third. Yom is modified with a number. one day, second day, third day etc. which everywhere else in the Old Testament indicates literal days.
Genesis 1:14 And God said " Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to seperate day from night; Yom is defined literally in relation to the heavenly bodies.
Then in Exodus 20 verse 9 God’s gives His command to Israel to work six days and then take a sabbath rest “Six days you may labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, your God. No work may be done then by you , or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your beast, or by the alien who lives with you. In six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the Lord has blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” The word Yom is used in both parts of the commandment. If God had created over six long periods of time He could have said that using one of the three indefinite Hebrew time words.
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matahari
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You are approaching these words as if they carry the specificity of the fuel control schematic for the Rolls Royce 250-C30 turboshaft helicopter engine. As I posted in another thread, Genesis had to be a one-size-fits-all account. It had to inform the Israelites of old but it also has to inform modern (actually postmodern) man. Our understanding of the physical world is very different than theirs. We are expecting too much of that book if we insist it is literal.
So the word Yom no longer means a literal 24 hour period ?
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a_priori
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IMHO, given all of the evidence both scriptural and scientific, the account is allegorical. Your literal take on this makes you no better and no worse than anyone else. My allegorical take on this makes me no better and no worse than anyone else.So the word Yom no longer means a literal 24 hour period ?
"I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all that is, seen and unseen.
I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation, he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered, died, and was buried. On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.
Amen."
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reinaldistic
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me neither, a lot of catholics are turning to theistic evolutionism that is accepting evolution by acnolodging the evidence; theistic evolutionism tells us that God did create us but he did so by guiding the process of evolution that he himself started, there is no reason why he would have to make us so fast, its not like he is going to get bored, he is outside our time flow so billions of years for us would not be a second for him
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