Guess what? From day 1 to 3 there was light and a rotating Earth.
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Allegory/Symbolism in Genesis 1
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Guess what? From day 1 to 3 there was light and a rotating Earth.
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What do you mean by "makes night and day"?
Are you referring to the sun? Does the Bible say the sun "makes night and day"? Show us where you imagine the Bible says that.
Why does the light have to be fixed?
Why can't God create light that does not have a source from which it emanates?
What is "The YEC context"? I'm talking about the Bible.
Again, the context is the Bible, not what "YEC" thinks or wants or needs.
Addressed by someone else.
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You mean just like Genesis 1 says? Nice! Glad you've come to your senses.
There is no such thing as "YEC context". But there is the description of normal days associated with Creation.
Red herring.... again.
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the earth was rotating which is how we get evening and morning
annabenedetti
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So instead of actually looking at the multiple usages of yom and yamim in scripture, you turned to Pilgrims Progress?
annabenedetti
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But the light would have to be fixed to have the other side of the earth in its shadow.
What was the light source in the first day?
The cosmic microwave background.
annabenedetti
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Nah. Just telling.
annabenedetti
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Is that your literal interpretation of the Bible? Because it certainly looks more like conjecture.
It's an idea.
annabenedetti
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If it isn't fixed, how can you have shadow on the other side of the earth?
I'm not saying He can't. I'm asking why there's an evening and a morning before the sun.
This is completely about a YEC vs. a non-literal, old earth interpretation.
By having the light from one side of the planet.
Because there was a light source and a rotating Earth.
It's a contest between what scripture says and what you say. The Bible is explicit. Genesis is an account of history and it presents the creation as happening in six days.
There is no justification for your "non-literal interpretation." At least, when asked for good reason, you ignore the challenges you face, preferring to ask questions like: "Why did you bring up Pilgrim's Progress?"
WHY?
If the answer had teeth it would have bitten you and would have been clinging onto you as if it's life depended on it.
If it had eyes, it would have been staring you in the face this entire time.
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. - Genesis 1:4 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis1:4&version=NKJV
GOD.
He created light.
What He did not create is a "source" for that light, but instead light itself.
Why is that so hard for you to understand?
Because God divided the light from the darkness.
And yet you refuse to even consider that a possibility, insisting that because there's nothing from which the light emanates, therefore the passage must not be literal, but instead figurative, and therefore we can discount Genesis 1 as having described exactly what happened, literally, in the beginning.
Because God divided the light from the darkness, and had light on one side of the earth, and darkness on the other.
No source needed, other than God.
Stripe answered this sufficiently.
I'd go so far as to say there was no "source" (aside from God) from which the light emanated, but rather that light itself was on one side, and darkness on the other.
annabenedetti
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Based on evidence and reason.
Evidence: The cosmic microwave background shows that something light-related permeated the universe in its earliest days.
Reason: The Bible says there was a source of light and "evening and morning."
You might use the perjorative "conjecture" to ridicule our ideas, but we provide reasons and evidence for what we say.
For your ideas, we just have to trust that somehow you've gotten it right and the Bible got it wrong.
Right Divider
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Just because a word has multiple meanings doesn't mean that you just get to pick the one that fits your idea.
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Gen 1:3-5 (AKJV/PCE)
(1:3) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. (1:4) And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness. (1:5) And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.