RE: The universe appears "old", but it is still less than 10,000 years old
December 21, 2013 at 12:49 am
(December 20, 2013 at 8:25 pm)snowtracks Wrote: The biblical word for day, 'yom' has 4 literal meanings, one is an ordinary day (now 24 hours). the 10 thousand years is based on that one meaning. if the proper biblical context is used, the 'young earth' group wouldn't need to machinate science to fit that that one ordinary day meaning.
Yom is day in Hebrew! It is also the same in Arabic. Always nerdy exciting to hear the same word across the Judaic-Islamic religious tradition.