(DAVE 5/30) Ian: I can't think of any reason, conclusively, to not accept
this Exodus passage as literal - I still can though about the Genesis
passage - it is far less specific than the Exodus passage, and involves (or
describes) a proces on a much larger scope and scale than this one in Exodus
- the creation of the earth is far less specific than a day at work by an
individual. I don't see how this Exodus passage proves that the Genesis
writer meant a literal 24-hour period. I remain unconvinced either way.
regards.
Dave.
> 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
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