According to your theory Elohim must have rested or ceased from His work through twelve hours of darkness for every night that passed between the six days of creation.
Maybe. Not quite sure what He did, but it does say He ceased from His work of creation and rested on the SEVENTH DAY not every night in between.
Maybe after every act of creation, like an artist, He just sort of paused and admired what He did.
Maybe it takes Him twelve hours to say "Let...there...be...light" and then another twelve hours to inhale for the next utterance.
Or maybe the timing is intentional. The creation was for us after all...for man, not for Him. He created for us and every artist knows timing is everything for the piece to be successful. So maybe He created the time frames and merely waited, like a good musician, for the next beat, knowing it was beneficial for us.
Or do you suppose He continued speaking through your twelve hour nights?
My God can be silent too...be still and know...
And in addition to that the greater and the lesser lights were not even spoken into existence until the fourth day. Lol, you should have listened to reason but then of course that would mean you might need to forfeit your beloved theory, eh?
It's not my theory...learned it from others...oh and scripture...
And laugh it up, but creating the day and night pattern before the greater and lesser lights were made (or appointed) actually works in my favor. He saw fit to place them, the sun and the moon, into the cadence He established the 3 days and nights before. See? The pattern was established first and then He caused its rhythm and pattern to be sustained by luminous bodies, time keeping tools to keep His time which He created to sustain us. Sadly so many just worship the tools and not the appointer of times.
Yup, darkness was on the face of the deep and then light...day...and then night...no way He could have said "let there be darkness!" It already was...but it was not called night.
How can you not see that your theory is completely unreasonable? Do you really suppose that there are an hundred and forty-four hours of continuous spoken word in the six days of creation written in the first chapter of Genesis?
LoL of course not. He spoke and it was so. And then waited to speak again. Before the moral laws were introduced the natural laws were laid in place. Makes sense and is a pattern Yahushua followed by feeding and healing first then teaching.
A yom can be a year, a yom can even be an age, a yom can be an unspecified amount of time, a yom can simply mean daylight, but God forbid it ever means an hour because none of the wonderful English translations say so anywhere and it would really throw a wrench into your beloved theory I suppose. Tisk, tisk. :chuckle:
yom? Yawn...how long is that? Your post?
Again, like Sabbath, all of creation was made for us and our benefit including time and timing...and for it to be anything besides what is written and understood as a day of creation is not really benefitting us is it?
Was that first Sabbath a flash in time or an age?
Funny how He could have spoke it ALL into existence in merely an instant but waited and deliberately designed a home here on earth for us...good luck keeping Sabbath on Mars...
Even those who believe in evolution try to mess with the timing of creation and extend what a day is to include an age...all to what end?
