The Tower of Babel

[possibletarian]

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 ?


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.


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 ?  


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?

The bible has the earth before the sun, in fact before any stars were visible from earth, something we know is not possible.
So given that it is not possible, why put any faith in it ?  Again you make my point, the bible clearly has a (earth) day a very specific amount of time.

The sun (light) is created on the first day  at least according to the bible, something we know is not true, be it a billion years, a trillion or 24 hours, but again why so slippery when the bible clearly means a 24 hour period.

And again we have Adam, we can put a very clear and specific time period on human creation, the fall etc, we know humans have been around for much much longer, the bible (again) is wrong, you seem to rely more on what the bible does not say, rather than what it does.
Hardly a holy book full of god's wisdom when you have to twist and torture what it says in a vain attempt not to look stupid.

I think YEC's are nuts, but at least they are more honest and true to the bible as they read it.