Are the days of creation real or are they periods?

[FLARIMI0701 (FLAVIEN PHANZU)]

@mitchellmckain

My objection is whole idea of God accomplishing things by giving commands like a despot. It works as a metaphor for human beings according to our own limited understanding and experience of power. The Bible uses other metaphors such as God shaping Adam from the earth like a sculptor/potter or the idea that features of the world could be added like painter adding things to a blank canvas. But to think these are literal descriptions of how God created the universe as if the Bible were some creation of dummies book is not only ludicrous but simply doesn’t work logically, scientifically, or even theologically.

Despots accomplish things by giving commands because that is the nature of the depot’s power in the support of other people who have all the knowledge, tools, and abilities to accomplish what the ruler wants. But clearly this is pure nonsense when we are talking about God, who not only has all of the knowledge and ability to do things Himself but is the creator of everything (which is the real point of Genesis 1).

To be sure God certainly can and likely did create tools and subjects to which He could give commands – the angels. It is a natural and efficient way of doing things. But in that case, the story doesn’t really begin with a command of “Let there be light” – it would begin with the creation of those servants who can follow such commands.

And everything we learn shows us that the universe is not the product of a painter, or sculptor, because of the way it is all connected and interrelated. Life and free will is not a magic added at the end but a part of how everything works.

You have said many things to demonstrate your objection. But the most important is this sentence: "But in this case, the story doesn’t really begin with a command like “Let there be light” - it would begin with the creation of those servants who can follow such commands.
In fact, if you started following my publications from the beginning, you will see that things started in the vacuum, in nothingness, and started to evolve from particles until we arrived at the appearance of light on the basis of physical phenomena. This is what I said:

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For those who have not yet followed the thread of my publications in this forum, in our previous publications, I had developed the following themes which are very important to understand the biblical pattern of creation, namely:

• The biblical days were periods ( Cfr : Are the days of creation real or are they periods? ),

• The difference between the spiritual heaven and the physical heaven or space in the verse “in the beginning God created the heaven”. (cfr: : What does “in the beginning God created the heaven” (i) )

• The difference between the earth representing the universe and the earth representing our planet in the verse “in the beginning God created… the earth”. (cfr: What does "in the beginning god created... the earth" mean? )

• The meaning of what “the spirit of God moved upon the waters” means in cosmology (cfr: What does “the spirit of God moved upon the waters” mean in cosmology? - Open Forum / Scientific Evidence - The BioLogos Forum)), and the meaning of “the deep” in the verse “there was darkness in the surface of the deep”.