young? Those who are ?willingly ignorant.? And to drive the point home, the apostle follows in 2 Peter 3:8, ?But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.? Although heavily disputed in meaning, clearly man?s measurements are mere yardsticks indeed. How long is a day of God?s creation? We are not told how long it is, it seems that me may be told how long it is not. Specifically, His time and our time are dissimilar. A 24-hour day is the one interpretation that may be downgraded as a possibility. In the words of Augustine, they were ?God-divided days,? not ?sun-divided days?. So, the bottom line is this, do I actually believe that the 24-hour literal view is wrong? not necessarily. I do believe that through the evidence presented, we should not only take the view as the correct one. As Pinnock said, ?Our exegesis ought to let the text speak and let the chips fall where they may?Bibliography...
