mans are likened to grass. ?In the morning it flourishes, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth? (Psa. 90:6). Although we usually liken this to the human life cycle, we must remain literal. Perry Phillips comments, ?I know of no grass that literally springs up in the morning and then is dead by the same evening. Rather, the Psalmist has in mind the life cycle of grass in the Levant, which begins its growth with the November rains and dies with the hot, dry, March, desert winds. In this psalm, therefore, ?morning? stands for the period of growth and ?evening? stands for the period of death?. (10) Fiat Days? Some interpreters treat the creation days as 24 hours in duration and in proper sequence, but not necessarily consecutive. As this theory goes, God commanded, ?Let there be light,? but the implementation following His command could have taken any amount of time. Some argue that the ?evening? and ?morning? applied only to His divine fiat or command, not to the entire events, which followed. According to this view, the first 24-hour day may have occurred 4 billion years ago. The second 24-hour day was a billion years after the earth was established, with the third 24-hour day taking place two and a half billion years after that, and so on. Separating those six 24-hour periods with at first billions and later millions of years is simply a harmonistic device that seems to distort the data. First of all, it does not take 24 hours to say, ?Let there be light.? Also, just as the sun never set on the British Empire in the days when Britannia ruled the waves? and its colonies ringed the globe, likewise the sun never sets on God. Transcending time and space, sunset and sunrise are visual phenomena. For one to see or experience evening or morning requires that such an observer be in a fixed position on one of the planets which revolve around our sun, in this case Earth. God is not fixed in a compartment of time or space....
