"DAY"

Farrell Till (jftill@midwest.net)
Thu, 22 May 1997 21:30:58 -0500 (CDT)

(DAVE 5/22) Yoel: Agreed - I believe this is his purpose here as well.
Going back to the Genesis "day" then, can the same inference be applied?
Could this "day" be longer than 24 hours? It depends on whose "perspective"
the account is coming from - a God whose concept of "day" is (or could be) a
very long time, or a human. Even for us, the idea of "day" can have several
meanings - I could say "In my grandfather's day...." and mean much more than
a 24-hour time period, and not even be time specific.

TILL
So Dave again ignores what has been pointed out before on this list.

>Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy.
>9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work.
>10 But the seventh day is a sabbath to Yahweh your God; you shall not do
any work--you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your
livestock, or the alien resident in your towns.
>11 For in six daysYahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is
in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the sabbath
day and consecrated it.

Is the word "day" being used in this passage in the sense of a 24-hour
period or an undetermined period of time? The reason that verse 11 gives
for Yahweh's consecration of the seventh day of the week is that Yahweh
created the heaven, earth, sea, and everything in them in six days, and so
he rested on the 7th day, blessed it, and consecrated it. The passage makes
no sense unless the six days of creation are understood to be six literal days.

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net