The Evangelical Universalist Forum

God's Days Overlap

Theology Biblical Theology
#1

I believe the Days of creation are God’s days not earthly days. They are therefore analogous to the human work week. I also believe that they overlap with each other. Each day when God speaks initiates the creative fulfillments. After God commands a parenthetical comment follows stating that it indeed takes place. It doesn’t say when. Evidence that the days overlap come from at least two areas. One of them is in Psalms 104. Keep in mind there is no evening and morning on God’s Seventh Day and as Hebrews 4 tells us we are still in God’s Seventh Day of rest. Yet the psalmist describes the natural death and rebirth of animals in psalms 104 by saying God is still creating:

You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their spirit, they expire and return to their dust. You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the ground. - Psalms 104:29-30

Here we have the outworking of day 5 and 6 overlapping God’s seventh day of rest. For God rested long ago and is still resting even though the psalmist speaks of Him creating animals during his lifetime after they die.

Another piece of evidence that the days overlap is in Genesis 2. Genesis 1 says “Let the land produce animals.” It then says “Let us make male and female”. Genesis 2 has God making man and then making animals because man needs a helper in “the land”. No suitable helper was found so God then makes woman. The order isn’t contradictory. God’s creative fiats overlap one another.

#2

They are not days at all. ‘Yowm’ never meant day. It means ‘an age’. To the Hebrews a day was when the sun shone. The 24 hr day was a far later Catholic invention. :mrgreen:

#3

Since the sun, by which Earthly days are measured, is created in the middle, I think your proposition is true.

It’s also amusing to ask proponents of 7x24 creationism if they mean solar or sidereal time.

#4

i’ve lost track of the number of times i have suggested this book.

amazon.co.uk/The-Genesis-Enigma-Andrew-Parker/dp/0552775282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1378121409&sr=8-1&keywords=the+genesis+enigma

it is excellent…written by an Agnostic (ie no religious baggage) who is arguing that religion is not rendered invalid by science, and that it’s uncanny how the original writers of the Bible knew about epochs of evolution that correspond to the days of the Bible that (he thinks) reflects those actual epochs.