A Day Age Concordance

[St.Roymond]

@Terry_Sampson

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That last one is $65 as an e-book!

[Dogdoc]

@St.Roymond

A way to be clearer is to point out that the meaning of “good” in that context means “functions well, as intended”

A good point. I think many people assume this means “perfect” which itself is a poorly defined and subjective term. Scripture, to my knowledge, rarely uses that word, much less the concept in the way we often think of “perfection” today which is based more on Plato than scripture - I am, of course, open to being corrected on this. Even the very Resurrection body of Jesus retained scars. So our concept of what scripture means as “good” should be evaluated through the lens of the original readers and writers.

[graft2vine (Ethan אֵיתָן)]

@St.Roymond

If someone writes twelve paragraphs using terms like “bunt”, shortstop", “run”, “base”, “out”, “2nd base”, and “innings”, the word "baseball doesn’t have to be there to know that the paragraphs are about baseball.

So, if they write about the “greater light”, it can only be about the Egyptian sun god… it couldn’t possibly be about the actual sun in the sky, right? Again, it could be there but lets not limit the creation account to something that is not about the actual creation.

@St.Roymond

I’m not going to bother commenting on your science-fiction allegory.

I believe my response to @CSTR is what @knor was earlier on suggesting I do to gain credibility:

@knor

One way to get credibility is to first make predictions based on your method and thereafter, check if the predictions match the findings. The order needs to be this because reading first about the findings and then trying to fit them to your system leads easily to such twisting of both that is not credible.

So this is what I did in further dividing up the Days into evening and morning. I had a hunch, predicting that we should see more activity in creation during the warm (morning) part of the day:

@graft2vine

With the warm hours or active period we should be able to notice if the defined boundaries I have set in the OP are a possibility.

I then looked at different sources and we see that new major forms of life are created during the day and there is less activity at night. Also the two most widespread glacial periods occur at night – Huronian glaciation is in the night of Day 2 and Sturtian in the night of Day 5.

@Dogdoc

A very intriguing discussion!

@graft2vine I applaud the work you have done and time you have spent looking into and synthesizing this, though I don’t agree with your conclusion.

Welcome Dogdoc and thanks for your comments!

@Dogdoc

To me, there is a much simpler explanation which many here have talked about on some level.

Yes, there is a simpler explanation that works for some people. Many here see Genesis written just to ANE people from that perspective. I don’t see that as a very good foundation for the rest of Scripture, but more like patchwork… What true basis does it have? If its not also written to us, then how it it relevant anymore?

I am digging deep to show the evidence that Scripture does go into great detail about how God created and how it aligns with modern science. God said it thousands of years ago and modern science is discovering it just in the last couple hundred years. That’s true inspiration that has greatly built my faith!

@Dogdoc

This has profound implications on what the Image of God means for humans. It means that it is not a quality but a calling - a vocation.

I agree, being made in God’s image is a calling, not something we are already in as humans, but received by faith. Jesus is the Image of God and we need to be grafted into Him. That is what the 6th day creation of man in His image is about. Mankind has already been ‘baked’, and this image is the spiritual ‘icing’ on the physical ‘cake’.

[St.Roymond]

@Dogdoc

Scripture, to my knowledge, rarely uses that word, much less the concept in the way we often think of “perfection” today which is based more on Plato than scripture

Agreed.