malookiemaloo

As I read Genesis chapter one, that notwithstanding references to 'evening', 'morning' and 'day', the 24 hour cycle did not come in until the fourth 'day'.

Views anyone?


m

Coragyps

M, you obviously don't understand, to paraphrase John Lennon, that "The Lord works in mysterious ways his woodwork to perform."

Albert Cipriani

Dear Mal,
Your question is rather vague. I will try to answer it just the same.

A day, even till this day, represents an arbitrary division of time, as do hours, weeks, and months. Ergo, none of the "days" of Genesis represent 24 hours. They represent the seven divisions of Creation that man has honored ever since with the seven-day week -- our humble way of reflecting in our mundane lives a parallelism with cosmic happenings. Sincerely, Albert the Traditional Catholic

Godot

That's a nice little story, Albert. Perhaps you should forego being a technical writer and sojourn over to apologetics.
Notwithstanding, I would hope that even you could admit that a literal reading of the events as described in Genesis (with respect to current scientific knowledge, and even the pedestrian terminologies preferred by the great unwashed) is a bit far-fetched. It's a bit too simple, I think. But then again, it was originally intended for Bronze Age goatherders.