(January 3, 2020 at 11:02 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: The 6,000 year thing is derived from counting generations and assuming the first five days of creation were literally five 24-hour days. In the NT, it is made clear that 'days' for God are not necessarily the same as human days, citing the possibility that a day could be a thousand years. Once that door is open, why not a day that is 600 million years? Mainstream Christians usually don't have a problem with an old earth, it's the young earth creationists who can't handle deep time.
At least the young Earth creationists are not reinterpreting the story into something it is not.
The Genesis story is talking about creating light, seperating light from dark and then you have day and night, right? So, if that is the case, it is talking about day for the Earth.
