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Genesis

We do not view the world as He views it. If any of us could be observers standing on the bright side of the Moon, we could see the small hand on our watch make numerous revolutions without witnessing a sunset or a sunrise. Morning (boquer) may have an absolute meaning on God?s scale; yet have only symbolic meaning on our scale. Conversely, an early morning sunrise may be an absolute experience to us, yet be symbolic to God, as His sunrise is perpetual, just as His sunset is perpetual, likewise His day is perpetual, as is His night. For us humans, we cannot envision the world as God must see it. Not only is God omniscient, He is omnipresent. God has the unique characteristic or capability of being everywhere at once - at an infinite number of locations simultaneously. We are situated both in time and space. When we speak of evening and morning, we consider it synonymous with sunset and sunrise. This is because, as observers, we are locked in time and space at one specific geographical location at any given time. Astronauts, when they are in orbit around the earth, are less restricted. They see many ?evenings? and ?mornings? during a 24-hour day as they watch the sun disappear and reappear rapidly over the horizon. From God?s perspective, the earth is always half in daylight and half in darkness perennially; day after day from the moment He created it until the moment of its ultimate destruction. In one respect, we might say that God never sees ?evening? or ?morning,? or maybe we could say that He sees an infinite number of ?evenings? and ?mornings? every single day. But we cannot trap God in Jerusalem or Jericho, and think that He like us is limited to one sunrise and one sunset per 24-hour period, lest we feel like Henry Morris and think God cannot work at night. To human observers, who did not exist until day six, the term ?morning? could be thought of as sunrise. The same thing may be true with the lower ?living creatures,? on day fi...

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