Young Earth or Old Earth?

[gbausc]

Shlama Akhi Chuck,

Nice try, but you have ignored every one of the questions I asked you and responded with more questions of your own. Why should I answer yours if you will not answer mine? I quote them again here:

FInd a place in scripture outside of Genesis chapter one in which a day which is numbered ("first day"-"day one", "day two", "day three", etc.) is anything but a 24 hour day. FInd also a day with an "evening and morning" in scripture which is not a 24 hour day.

Another point: You say a long time could have passed between "In the beginning" and when God said, "Let there be..."
What beginning is referred to in v.1? V.1 says, "In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth." How can a long time elapse before the universe begins, especially considering that time is as much an essential part of the created universe as space and matter? But if there was a universe before "God said, Let there be...", from whence and how did it come? But if God created in the beginning, then He did not create "after a long time indeed" had elapsed, else it was not "In the beginning", was it?

We cannot base interpretation of the word "day" on the passage whose meaning is in question. We need to see how the word "day" is used with the same phrases used elsewhere where we can find a pattern of word usage.

Personally, I see the word being used consistently for and after the fourth day and before the fourth day. There is no indication of any drastic change in "a day" in the first week of time (creation week) mentioned, so it is perfectly natural to undertand the word in its usual sense, since there is no explanation given for taking it in any other sense.

Blessings in our Lord,

Dave