No 4

(6 days of creation - an overview)

The word "yom" in Hebrew means day and it is used 1250 of times throughout the Old Testament and it always describes a period of 24 hours or, said differently, a period from sunrise to sunset. Still, some people have a problem with the fact that the act of Creation in Genesis 1 & 2 happened in 6 days literal of 24 hours. As we have discussed before, some Bible-believing Christians try to put millions of years between each day and you know what? It just doesn't work; the only logical way of calculating the time is in 6 twenty-four- hour days. We will look at this more deeply in subsequent studies

If the Lord had wanted us to know that the creation had taken 6 literal days, what word for day could He have used? Of course, "yom". But if the Lord had wanted us to know that the Creation process was over a long period of time, He would have used much differant wording possible the word"'eth" which means a season or a time. The context in the Hebrew clearly gives the meaning of words and no other meaning is logical. In Exodus 20:11 the Bible states"For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it".

Let me ask you a question: Is the sabbath day an undetermined period of time? No, of course not, it lasts 24 hours and is from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday; Jews today use that very same chronology. However, we, as Christians, tend to complicate matters. Why would we do that?? God only knows..... As we have discussed before, the Bible must be taken litterly otherwise we "interpret" Divine Revelation and who knows what humans can come up with.