ws the same line; and there was evening and there was morning, one day. Better, ?day one.? Later Jewish reckoning began the day with eventide (Lev. 23:32). This may be the reason for the order here, or it may simply mean that one day-night cycle was completed. Since daytime closes at evening and the night ends with the morning, the phrase indicates that the first day and night had been completed. Evening and morning cannot be construed to mean an age, but only a day; everywhere in the Pentateuch the word ?day,? when used (as here) with a numerical adjective, means a solar day (now calibrated as 24 hours). (3) The keys to interpretation are not found by scrutinizing Scripture with the world's logic, which can be faulty, or with its knowledge, which is incomplete, but by comparing Scripture with Scripture itself. Since Moses was God?s human instrument, and he used yom for a creative day, what was he talking about? For the answer we need look no further than to the Bible itself. I guess that we could take a look at nature, it is like reading a mystery novel, we can skip to the last pages and find out who did it, and then read the book knowing from the beginning that the culprit would be in the end. The abundance of geological and astrophysical evidence underscoring only one answer - an old earth - is a heavy persuader, but the Bible can be gauged on its own terms. Can One Day Equal Six Days? Following the six days of creation and God?s sanctification of the seventh day of rest, a shift of focus begins at Genesis 2:4: ?These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.? Here Moses used the word ?day? as a blanket to apply to the previous six days of creation. But how can one 24-hour day equal six 24-hour days? This does not seem to be a problem in semantics; this could be a mathematical issue.If a day of creation is a time of indefinite length, then ...
