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Re: six days
Posted By: wintermute, on host 195.153.64.90
Date: Friday, October 26, 2001, at 04:55:20
In Reply To: Re: six days posted by kerploppus on Thursday, October 25, 2001, at 16:22:24:

> > > Yes, yes I do. The Hebrew word for day actually means (15 billion years)/6. Don't ask me why, though, because it seems like a silly length for a time limit. Oh well.
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> Actually, the Hebrew word for day as found in Genesis 1 is "yom" which can be translated to mean 24 hours or the length of time in one day that the sun is shining. I say "can" because the overwhelming majority of the 1704 times it is found in the Old Testament it is used in that manner. So maybe it is slighty more than can...
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> --kerploppus

Just out of interest how much meaning does the concept of a day have before the division into day and night? Shouldn't all the days before that be considered one day? Or no days, maybe?

winter"Just curious"mute

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