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Originally Posted by Praxeas
Oh, another question: If creation was done in 6 literal days, when was the earth created?
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form and empty. And darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.
Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided between the light and the darkness.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light, Day. And He called the darkness, Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
According to a literalist reading one has to conclude the earth was already created before the first day |
It does appear that there was some period of time involved that the writer was intending us to see between "... God created the heavens and the earth..." and "... God said, Let there be light..."
I'm not talking about "gap theory" (though others may) and I don't see a one-to-one correlation between "days" and "ages" (of the earth) to give us a "Day/Age Theory" either.
It was poetic metaphor. The words are aligned in "mathematical couplets" whereby the sum of the number of word equates to a "divine" principle that the writer was trying to (and did) convey.
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