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[alphaomegaman]

Well, tonight I managed to have a little discussion, if it was even that, with a guy who is one of the leaders at a local church in town about 'old-earth' and 'young-earth' creation. For those of you who don't keep up with that, old-earth creationists believe that the earth is millions of years old and that the six days in which God created the

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[juneybg84]

I completely agree. Why is it so hard for people to believe that our God is big enough to create the Earth in 6 days? He can do whatever He wants He is God!

[anonymous]

Just to play Devil's Advocate (no pun intended), just because one says that " '6 days' in the Bible may not mean 6 literal days", does NOT mean that person does not believe that God could not create the world in 6 days. I, personally, believe that it is impossible to know how long a "day" was back then. If you can prove that a "day" in Genesis equaled 24 hours (Biblically), then you'll convince me otherwise. I think God chose a word that was familiar to us. I don't think you should assume that the "old-earth creationists" 1) underestimate the omnipotence of God or 2) try to make evolution and Bible theology work together.

[alphaomegaman]

Ok, first off, I find that first statement about how...
"just because one says that ' '6 days' in the Bible may not mean 6 literal days', does NOT mean that person does not believe that God could not create the world in 6 days..."
...a bit self contradicting. I understand what your trying to say but if a person DOES believe that God could create the world in six literal days, and the Bible says six days (with evidence that they were literal days), then why would they not believe that God indeed created the universe in six LITERAL days? Hopefully, I'm reading that right, but if not then I'd appreciate it if you could clarify it for me.

As for the evidence...

The Hebrew word used for day in Genesis is yom and a number. Yom is used with a number 410 times, and each time it means an ordinary day. For some reason people only seem to debate the meaning of day in the Genesis 1 account though. One example of this would be in Joshua 6:3-4 where God commanded Joshua to march around the city of Jericho once for six days and seven times on the

My God is so Great!

[anonymous]

This is so a God thing that I happened to read your journal. You really answered a lot of my questions. I was talking to a girl in my Geology class today about the same thing. What started the conversation was a comment I made on evolution. She had the same comment as the man you heard. I actually had never heard this point of view before and didn't know what to say. All I new to say was "I believe the word of God and I take it word for word." Thanks for "getting on your soap box," God used you to help me know what to say next time. I ask that you pray for me in this class because it is hard to know what to say, when you are asked to wirte a paper proving evolution is true.
Thanks,
Dara