At 12:35 PM -0600 3/5/01, Jim Guinee wrote:
>4) The "age-day" theory is based upon the fact that the Hebrew word for
>"day" usually meant a 24-hour period, but by no means was it limited to that
>meaning. It can also mean epochs or long periods of time, and this is how it
>should be understood in this context.
>
>5) The "pictorial-day" (or literary framework) theory regards the
>creation as
>more a matter of logical structuring than of chronological order. Either
>God's
>revelation to Moses (believed to be the author of Genesis) came in a series
>of six pictures, or Moses arranged the material in a logical grouping which
>took the form of six periods.
>
>The author summarizes by suggesting that the most tenable theory is the
>"age-day" theory. He states that there are too many exegeticl difficulties
>attached to the gap theory, and the flood theory involves too great a
>strain on
>geological evidence. The ideal-time theory is ingenious and in many ways
>irrefutable scientifically and exegetically, but presents the theological
>problem that it makes God look deceptive (and if God is supposed to be
>truthful, this is contrary to the bible writers claim that God is not God's
>nature). The pictorial theory resolves the problem of chronological
>sequence, but has difficulties with God resting on the seventh day
>(suggesting there IS some sort of chronological sequence).
>
>The author contends that the age-day theory is the option that best fits
>biblical wording and geological evidence. Yet, he also points out that a)
>there is no way to be dogmatic about this, and b) the age of the universe
>is a
>topic that needs additional scientific and biblical analysis.
>
>How about that?
I'm afraid you'll have to stay with your "pictorial-day" interpretation.
The "age-day" interpretation contradicts the geological and genetic
evidence that flowering plants are a recent development, chronologically
speaking.
They emerged _after_ 'the beasts of the fields'.
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