And I am trying to be nice to you.
" The passage in Hosea is not about you unless you take it that way. It is the Bible that says we should seek knowledge."
I never thought it was about me. I was pointing out that you retreated from your former position of sure 'reading and understanding' so as not to be rejected as a priest to one where 'you do your thing and I'll do mine and rely on the grace of God if wrong'. That 180 was done with such ease as to indicate that you are confused.
"I have no need to quarrel with other believers but if you insist, I want you to tell me how you know the first days were 24 hours long."
As I have already said a couple of times now, it is written 'evening and morning' and it does violence to the text to interpret it as anything other than 24-hour days. How can you have read my previous posts and even ask such a question? I have already answered you twice, now three times.
"Do you recall the tongue lashing G D gave Job4: "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. 5: Who determined its measurements -- surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? 6: On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, 7: when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
As far as I can tell, that verse applies more to you than to me. You are the one doing violence to the text and then insisting that a literal 24-hour understanding is lacking in understanding. I think you would be wise to first see if your arguments can apply to you before you make them. You have made no argument that doesn't apply to you first. Do I detect a pattern?
"The light that Shined the first day and all preceding days came from G D himself. I don't know about you but I will put no limitations on how long his days shall last."
You merely place the opinion of men above the clear teaching of the word of God and then try to claim that you 'believe the Bible as it is written'. What a copout.
The Bible was *never* understood to refer to days of creation longer than 24-hours until *man* said the creation was older than 6,000 yrs. That's why the 'evening and morning' verbiage is there. If you can deny that, then you can't say that you 'believe the Bible as written'. Well...you can and do, but you are confused.
You are just afraid of the ridicule you will receive from men if you subscribe to a 6,000 year-old creation as taught by the Bible.