God's purpose in giving us Genesis 1 was to demonstrate that He had created and prepared the earth in readiness to receive living creatures and man (yoms 1-3), and then that He had set over it those who would rule it and use it.
Thus in yom 1 God created light and defined it as yom, and then in yom 4 God set rulers over light so as to determine the length of 'yoms' for mankind and living creatures. This in itself makes clear that God's yoms are not limited in time (they were unruled in an earthly sense). In yom 2 God prepared atmosphere and sea, and in yom 5 He populated atmosphere and sea, in yom 3 He made the land appear and provided vegetation, and in yom 6 He created life which would live on the land and partake of the vegetation. God's blessing of the living creatures and man in His own words resulted in their procreation. It is all presented in a carefully laid out pattern. The pattern is not to be overpressed. Birds and fish needed vegetation, and birds needed dry land. But the idea of God providing, and then establishing rule over, is clear.
Having matched everything up He then declared it 'very good' for its purpose. The purpose of the seventh yom was to indicate that all was completed. And there is no mention of its cessation. God's creative work was finished. There would be no eighth yom. This in itself confirms that we are not to see this as an earthly 'week'. It is in terms of God's yoms, unruled by earthly phenomena, carried out in accord with His purpose. It is not scientific. It is not mythical. It is practical.
Indeed the folly of trying to make it fit man's view of time is that we do know that time is not fixed except to those living on earth. When there was no earth it was not fixed. Time is totally different to any who move at the speed of light. God's yoms are His own length determined by Himself. They bear no relation to man's yoms. Thus to God a yom is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a yom. Thus it is as foolish to call a yom a 24 hour period, as it is to call it 1000 years. To God it is both and neither.
Thus in yom 1 God created light and defined it as yom, and then in yom 4 God set rulers over light so as to determine the length of 'yoms' for mankind and living creatures. This in itself makes clear that God's yoms are not limited in time (they were unruled in an earthly sense). In yom 2 God prepared atmosphere and sea, and in yom 5 He populated atmosphere and sea, in yom 3 He made the land appear and provided vegetation, and in yom 6 He created life which would live on the land and partake of the vegetation. God's blessing of the living creatures and man in His own words resulted in their procreation. It is all presented in a carefully laid out pattern. The pattern is not to be overpressed. Birds and fish needed vegetation, and birds needed dry land. But the idea of God providing, and then establishing rule over, is clear.
Having matched everything up He then declared it 'very good' for its purpose. The purpose of the seventh yom was to indicate that all was completed. And there is no mention of its cessation. God's creative work was finished. There would be no eighth yom. This in itself confirms that we are not to see this as an earthly 'week'. It is in terms of God's yoms, unruled by earthly phenomena, carried out in accord with His purpose. It is not scientific. It is not mythical. It is practical.
Indeed the folly of trying to make it fit man's view of time is that we do know that time is not fixed except to those living on earth. When there was no earth it was not fixed. Time is totally different to any who move at the speed of light. God's yoms are His own length determined by Himself. They bear no relation to man's yoms. Thus to God a yom is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a yom. Thus it is as foolish to call a yom a 24 hour period, as it is to call it 1000 years. To God it is both and neither.
Saved people, please 'distinguish' as you are 'learned' and are 'spiritual', where 'creation' without GOD have 'evolved' until today through the 'unsaved'.
Very sad that they all need and we need 'reminders' and 'our memories stirred up' from the Gospel of Salvation and who have 'learned as HIS redeemed people', to 'turn back' to GOD in 'practice' and 'abiding' and 'bear much fruit' and 'our fruit must also abide', through 'spiritual knowledge' and 'spiritual knowledge actions', in order in the 'hope' of the 'set future', GOD will to 'create' a 'new Heaven and a new earth' for all of us who have 'faithfully acted and lived as it is written them of the New Covenant/Testament', to 'occupy' with HIM reigning as our LORD, GOD and KING, forever and ever. Amen.