I’ve read once that the Hebrew for “day” can mean any unspecified period of time, from as short as like a second or two to as long as hundreds or even many millions of years. It’s not my job to correct things as if I were an enforcer, though. I’m not interested in being a theological policeman. I do know man was created last (1:26-31, compare with other verses in the Bible’s first chapter), however. But I don’t want to debate with anyone concerning creationism vs. evolutionism; it never really works and is completely fruitless. For while I believe in good theology, we can’t force our opinions down anyone’s throats. I think Jesus is perfect theology, for He has loved everyone flawlessly since before the events in this book even began. I think there’s a tension between promoting truthful things and doing good works, but they should go hand-in-hand. If you want to go more in detail about this, I recommend talking to a professional theologian concerning anything on how the universe began, for I can only say so much. Besides, I can’t assume that because evening and morning (in that order) make up a 24-hour day, we should go to sleep as soon as sunset happens. I think we should feel free to go to sleep and wake up at anytime! But I don’t recommend missing out on anything important (i.e. work, job interviews, a Sunday church service that actually helps, etc.). Still, I have been told that waking up at, like, 7 a.m. is quite normal. However, this isn’t what God calls everyone to do. There is a vast expanse of lifestyles in which we can only see slivers of, and here on earth, we can only see part of God’s reality due to our actions disrupting creation from Adam and Eve’s disobedience (Romans 5:12) up to now. I am strongly against divisive opinions that go against freedom of concept when the concepts are good. I’m not willing to believe these opinions.
If there’s anything you can take away from this, it’s that no one deserves to be restricted in anything good. The Lord Jesus died so we can be free, right? But this isn’t freedom to sin, as if God’s grace somehow gave license for that. Instead, I can decipher that just as good predated evil in every form (and even after the fall, good wasn’t eliminated entirely), so we were created wanting to do good and nothing but. That’s what every Christian wants, male or female (Proverbs 11:23). We can do good things at the wrong time, though, and even want to do them at bad times, not understanding that it’s not the best method on God’s time table. Thank God you don’t have to understand everything as well as He does, though. It’s not as though He demands perfection anyway. He’s more so interested in each person, and all people across time itself accepting Jesus as Lord and Saviour. Not that we shouldn’t learn new things; we just can’t do it all at once. Also, both the NKJV and NASB Bibles I’m using have this passage in page 1 of each of them, and the VOICE has this passage in pages 2-3 there, and the Amplified Bible I’m using — that’s for pages 1-3 there. By the way, creation began on a Saturday evening (as we know it today) — Sunday is the first day of the week, and creation was finished on a Friday afternoon, when man came into play. I don’t know why the day format was listed as evening then morning here, but there are many ways you can define a day in a certain 24-hour period, one being the day beginning at sunrise, and ending the next sunrise the next day. I’ll get into the whole “let man rule” thing sooner or later, but not in this post.
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