Young Earth or Old Earth?

[Thirdwoe]

Good points Dave....but lets try and tackle something here ok

"Yowm" in Genesis one simply cannot refer to anything but what we call a solar day. Another point overlooked by day-agers: The plants need sunlight or something very like it to photosynthesize make food and live. But each day is described as having an evening and morning. Evening is the onset of darkness of night. Morning is the onset of light of day. God made day and night (light and darkness) on day one and separated them and named them on day one, so evening and morning occurred on day one and every day thereafter.

Can you explain then, how day 1, 2, and 3 are to be considered each a ???solar day??? when the Sol/Sun was not in existence until the 4th day?

And what do you say the 'LIGHT' is that God brought forth on the 1st Day if not the Sun/Sol ....what else could it be?

If you say that this Light that God brought forth on the 1st day was not our Sun???. did it act like our Sun in the sky then? Counting off 3 days of risings and settings around it until being replaced with the Sun/Sol proper on the 4th 'day'?

This would mean that it was a fixed thing in space that the Earth spun around???. And if so, then what became of this 'Light' that appears on the 1st day and which God calls DAY???.

Please explain???

We can agree then, I think, that God was creating and making during the six days, since scripture says he created all living creatures (day five) and man (day six). Indeed, He created all things, so the six days of making Heaven and Earth were also six days of creating Heaven and Earth. He did not cease from creating until the 7th day. I see no point in maintaining the first six days were not all creation days. They certainly were.

Yes???. God Creating/Making something from something???. whereas at 1st when God created the Earth, it was out of nothing that it (minerals and elements) came forth from???. nothing else in existence (that we know of)??? all Plants, Sea and Land creatures and even the Human came out of this Earth that God created at first, being a compounded formula of the Earth???s minerals and elements???which when these bodies die return unto the dirt/dust being completely dehydrated of all water???.

I say God formed/made all these bodies from the material that He created in the beginning???the Earth that was at first empty and void but for water and dirt???and this making and forming taking place during 6 ???days??? when He furnished the Heavens and the Earth that He created at the origin.

If a day were a thousand years, this would leave plants on day three in the dark for about 500 years.

That is not a minor difficulty! It would seem to me that is an untenable position, to say the least.

If all the days 1 to six were the same, (and they would have to be the same to be grouped together and numbered, otherwise the narrative is senseless and incoherent) then all the animals on day five must live through 500 years of darkness of night, as must Adam and Eve on day six! What kind of Paradise is that? Their lives would have been also half over at the end of the day, if they were made at the start of the day, and I don't believe God needed all day to do it. He simply spoke, and it was done.

And if the seventh day was 1000 years, Adam and Eve never lived through it! Neither did any of the animals made the day before!

That???s all if you suppose that the Earth spun around that Light God brought forth on the 1st ???Day??? and that this Light was set in space until the Sun showed up and took over the job and the Earth was spinning around this 1st Light in Space it at a real slow pace???. then later on the 4th day when the Sun replaces the 1st Light, the Earth spins faster to make a 24-hour revolution around the new light in the sky???.

But I don???t say this was the case???.

Notice that this Light that God brings forth on the first ???day??? is Called DAY and not making up the first day as the Earth spins around it say???. God calls this Light ???DAY???

Now what do you say this DAY/Light is???

Some orb in the Sky that the Earth rotated around until the Sun/Sol showed up on the scene? I say no.

But what do you say it was then???.


Anyone?