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To: Mrs. Don-o
Explain, please.

Do you believe that the universe was created in 6 literal days?

33 posted on 07/13/2018 10:49:25 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: DungeonMaster
Before I can answer that, I'd need some definition. What do you mean by "literal days"?

The most obvious definitions differ from each other:

"There was evening and morning" --- which is referenced Biblically after every verse describing Creation --- wouldn't quite work before the sun was created. This raises the question of what "evening and morning" meant with no sun.

"24-hour period" assumes, without warrant, that the earth's rotational period was always what it is now.

"A thousand years are as one day to the Lord, and one day as a thousand years" suggests that these may be very long, possibly indefinitely long, periods.

???

Please explain what this undefined period of time

has to do with the existence of other inhabited planets. I'm still interested.

37 posted on 07/13/2018 11:01:24 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (I'm here to learn.)
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To: DungeonMaster
Enjoy: http://www.geraldschroeder.com/AgeUniverse.aspx
39 posted on 07/13/2018 11:07:49 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: DungeonMaster

Time to us and time to God are two different things.


67 posted on 07/13/2018 4:25:13 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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