Hebrew conception of the earth/universe

[graft2vine (Ethan אֵיתָן)]

@St.Roymond

I don’t have a model – I’m just pointing out that if you’re going to try to force science onto the scriptures you should go with science that actually fits, and fits amazingly since that understanding of the scriptures came from long before modern cosmology.

So like Thales that @Terry_Sampson posted, all matter is from this fluidity. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of it shaping all other forms of matter.

@St.Roymond

They will line up very loosely because not a single literary genre used in the scriptures has any space for science. You’re trying to force foot-wide pegs into inch-wide holes, which is bad for the pegs and the holes – and that’s actually a generous analogy since given the literary genres of the first Creation account the holes are more like 1/16 inch across.

The Creation account is highly condensed and I started explaining it here before the thread was closed.

Is there a standpoint from which the creation days in Genesis 1 are described as 24 hours per day?

Yes, there is a standpoint from which the days are 24 hrs. The 6 days are a time scale that we can understand instead of billions of years, and is scaled correctly. Day 1 begins in the evening at 6pm (4.5 billion years ago). Halfway through the day at 6 am, God says, let there be light! The inside of the Earth is light mixed with darkness, liquid mixed with solid, without form and void. The whole earth is lit up because the light comes from within! Just like our light of Christ comes from within…

You responded saying my math was sloppy. I will be reposting in more detail in a new topic but have nothing further to add here. Thanks for all the responses and I found this to be a productive discussion.

God bless!