Define literal vs non-literal.

Hi Peg, You are absolutely correct that God did not say a day consisted of 24 hours. That is a concept of man that he determined by the rotation of the earth in relation to the sun. God did call a light portion day.
God did call a dark portion night.God did say the evening which means the light period expired.
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The following morning when the dark period expired was the first day.God then did some work during the light period and evening came with darkness which ended with the light of the morning which God called the second day.Now when man came up with his concept of time he could have used the number of 24,000,000 to represent how long the light period and the dark period lasted. He could have then called them years but he didn't. He could have called them hours, minutes seconds or he could have decided to break down the light period and the dark period God called the second day as 24 hours made up of 1440 minutes made up of 86,400 seconds.Which man did.God is not concerned with time only man needs time to measure duration.God is existence and is not bound by time.You can not make the light period and dark period any longer than they are. You can change the numbers all you want to represent anything you want but the duration of the rotation of the earth is very close to the same all the time, it just gets a little ABE (longer) as the earth slows down.The only way you can get a long period of time is to have an extended light period that ended with the evening found in
Genesis 1:5.God Bless,Edited by ICANT, : to correct shorter to longer

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"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."

Hi Doc,Thanks for reading my post seems you are the only one that did. Thanks for the correction. I am getting too old to try to do anything in a hurry.God Bless,

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"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."

Hi Peg, They exist between the morning and the evening that is necessary for you to have evening and morning.You can not have an evening that you did not first have a morning.God Bless,

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"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."

Hi PD, No doctrine of the Bible.It is required by those who believe in the day age hypothesis of creation. You must have time periods equal to hundreds of thousand of years to get enough time for the correct age of the earth.God Bless,

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"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."

Hi greyseal, When was this waters created?
When was the land created that appeared when the waters was gathered into one place?The earth existed prior to Genesis 1:2.
It was evening at Genesis 1:2.So when was the earth created?How can you have an evening without a morning?God Bless, Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

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"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."

Hi Theodoric, It is completely inconceviable that the universe came into existence in total darkness.Especially if it was the millions of degrees Kevin that is put forth by science..I think that would have been a light period that was very long before it became dark. But I could be mistaken.The universe did not begin to exist in Genesis 1:2 which according to the Bible was a few thousand years ago..The universe began to exist in Genesis 1:1 which there is not a stated time for the beginning to exist other than it began to exist in the beginning.God Bless, Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

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"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."