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Please keep reading, this is explained in full.

But here is an expansion on that anyways::

(Heb 1:1 KJV) God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers

by the prophets,

(Heb 1:2 KJV) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of

all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

(Heb 1:3 KJV) Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and

upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on

the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Genesis doesn't have to be written as a science textbook, all it has to be is true.

The story of Creation is one of teaching us that there is a creator, and some small points on how He

crteated, so that we realize that we are humans created specially by God, and therefore here for a

reason.

Genesis does not have to be a science book to teach us the order of days that Creation was, nor

does it have to be a science book to describe what came first, the chicken or the egg.

God made it clear in Genesis that we are specially created beings, that ALL life is specially

created, and that therefore any attempts to infuse evolution into the argument is false.

And there is no twisting of the creation accounts between Genesis 1 and 2.

Genesis 2 clearly starts with saying that the creation is complete. Gen 2:4 is clearly spoken as a

metaphor, while the days of Genesis 1 are CLEARLY added to with modifiers to make them

known as single, 24 hour days.

Someone brought this up on another thread a couple days ago. Here was my response to him::

have no idea where you got that from, but here is what the Bible actually says in Genesis 2::

(Gen 2:1 KJV) Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

(Gen 2:2 KJV) And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on

the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

(Gen 2:3 KJV) And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested

from all his work which God created and made.

(Gen 2:4 KJV) These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created,

in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

(Gen 2:5 KJV) And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field

before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a

man to till the ground.

(Gen 2:6 KJV) But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

(Gen 2:7 KJV) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his

nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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Notice there is NO MENTION of the Creation days as singular events. It is an overview of the

events written in a way that some scholars call the geneology pattern listing the origin of some

kingdoms of the Mid-East (See Gleason Archer and others). Nor is there any mention of Adam

being around before plants existed. In fact, Genesis 2:5 clearly says plants were there BEFORE

there was a man.

The only way you can get confused is if you twist Gen 2:4, IN THE DAY.

WE USE THAT type of speech today, referring to In the days of Clinton, the Day of our

revolutionary fathers and such, and we dont mean a single day, we mean a time period.

If a person just reads it plainly, like it was written to be read, it is obvious Gen 2:4 means a time

period, not an individual day referring to the whole Creation week.

As for the lack of a literal day, if there was no literal day in the description of Evening, Morning,

and then the term DAY, then we have no reason to believe any word day means a day.

The days of Genesis 1 are the most clearly defined 24 hour periods in the Bible, and it is only those

who wish to do away with the meaning of the word day who try to say otherwise.

And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And the evening and the morning were the second day.
And the evening and the morning were the third day.
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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.

You must observe what you are trying to say when you deny the days of Genesis 1 are not 24 hour

days:
Day 1, the creation of the Heavens and the Earth took an undetermined time, possible what we

would call a million years

day 2, the firmament separating the waters above from the waters below took an indeterminate

length of time, possible what we would call a million years

day 3, the creation of plants and herbs took an indeterminate length of time, possible what we

would call a million years

day 4, Stars, the sun and moon took an indeterminate length of time, possible what we would call a

million years
WHICH CAN ONLY MEAN GOD HAD PLANTS THAT WERE CREATED ON DAY 3 EXIST

FOR MAYBE A MILLION YEARS WITHOUT SUNLIGHT, something we KNOW cannot

happen today!

day 5, all the whales, the sea monsters, the birds, the fish took an indeterminate length of time,

possible what we would call a million years

day 6, all the cattle, beasts including dinosaurs and cows, crickets and mice and MAN took an

indeterminate length of time, possible what we would call a million years

day 7, God's REST took an indeterminate length of time, possible what we would call a million

years

And what you need to notice, that order of Creation is DIFFERENT from an evolutionist order of

events.

SO, if you call the Bible a lie because you dont want to believe the LITERAL DAY of Genesis::

And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And the evening and the morning were the second day.
And the evening and the morning were the third day.
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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.

IF you dont believe that a DAY means a DAY when it clearly has modifiers next to the word DAY

EXPLAINING it is a 24 hour day, then you have no reason at ALL to believe that the word day

means a 24 hour period anywhere in the Bible.

You also call GOD Himself a liar, for GOD HIMSELF said 6 days was the length of Creation::

(Exo 20:8 KJV) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

(Exo 20:9 KJV) Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

(Exo 20:10 KJV) But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do

any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle,

nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

(Exo 20:11 KJV) For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,

and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

If the days were not LITERAL DAYS, then there was no reason for GOD HIMSELF to use the

word DAY here, was there? You are calling God a liar when you do that...