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To: P-Marlowe
Again, you seem to know nothing about Hebrew or haven't bothered to try.

The Hebrew for the phrase “evening and morning” or “evening, and there was morning” has usages not limited to 24-hour days. In fact, there are numerous usages in the Bible that this phrase, or variants of it, refer to continuous processes or activities. Exodus 18:13, 27:21, Leviticus 24:2-3 and Daniel 8:14,26 all use this phrase in a context of something that occurs on a continual basis over more than one 24-hour day.

(And since you weren't able to follow the chain of posts before, I'll spell it out for you: this is from Young-Earthism is NOT Biblical

No, God did not create the world in 6 24 hr days. The bible doesn't say that. Only your force-fitted, contradictory interpretation does. It's poor biblical skills like that that confuse so many people.

109 posted on 05/31/2006 6:55:56 PM PDT by truthfinder9
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To: truthfinder9; where HE leads me; Alex Murphy; Alamo-Girl; Larry Lucido; xzins; PetroniusMaximus; ...
No, God did not create the world in 6 24 hr days. The bible doesn't say that. Only your force-fitted, contradictory interpretation does. It's poor biblical skills like that that confuse so many people.

"Probably, so far as l 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 (c) Noah's flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark. Or, to put it negatively, the apologetic arguments which suppose the 'days' of creation to be long eras of time, the figures of years not to be chronological, and the flood to be a merely local Mesopotamian flood, are not taken seriously by any such professors, as far as I know."--Professor James Barr, (1984) former Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford.

FWIW (according to my limited research), Professor Barr, like you, rejects the idea of a six day creation, but is honest enough to admit that the Hebrew cannot be twisted to infer that these are ages or that the Noahic event was anything other than a world wide flood.

It is clear that if anyone is force fitting the scripture to fit their pre-conceived notions it is you.

111 posted on 05/31/2006 8:19:10 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (((172 * 3.141592653589793238462) / 180) * 10 = 30.0196631)
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