The Tower of Babel

[Huggy Bear]

The term 'Days' aren't meaningless if it's clearly defined. The measurement of time is relative, it's not universal.  We measure a day by the rotation of the earth, THAT"S SPECIFIC TO THE EARTH... If you lived on a different planet are you measuring time by earth standards?

Yet again you make my point, not yours, yes the bible was absolutely referring to earth days, it was very specifically recounting the creation of the planet we call earth,  why are you being so slippery on this ?

The Bible makes it clear that God counts time differently than we do.

Well yes that's what the bible says, but clearly days in this sense are earth days (24 hour periods), if they were longer periods why not simply have the bible say so without all the torturous twisting and relying on what is not said, in a book that's meant to tell us exactly what happened.

'Eve' simply means the period of time before an event and 'dawn' simply means beginning of a phenomenon or period of time, neither are explicitly referring to a 24hr period.

Of course in this context it is, again you rather rely on the bible being vague (it could mean anything) in everything for your beliefs, if you are going to torture meanings of words then why not all the other words in the bible ?  

Every 'day', no matter how you measure it, has a beginning and end....

Well it depends, what exactly does a day mean to you ?

And it still does not help you, not only is the bible putting the earth into existence before the sun (we know it could only happen the other way around), but the whole timescale from Adam (who we can very firmly place in time) bears no relationship to what we know of human history.

When you begin to rely for your beliefs on what is not said in the bible, then why believe the bible at all, why not simply make things up ?

*emphasis mine*

Answer this question.

If the earth was here before the sun as you state, how are 24 hours being measured?