Grow up, All-Knowing Alan! 4 points to go in one of your ears- and out the other:
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Note 1 (Day 1) : Genesis 1: 1- In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2-And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
...The Earth ALREADY existed when the Creative "Days" began..
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Note 2 (Day 1): Gen 1:3-And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4-And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5-And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
...the Creative "Day" was a period of time when he used the Light. Was it the Sun giving Earth a 24- hour Day as we know it???
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Note 3 (4th Day): Gen 1:14nd God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night (Can you read this?); and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15-And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16-And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17-And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18-And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19- And the evening and the morning were the fourth day
....the FIRST Light (making day/ morning & evening/night) was from another source, since He didn't make the sun & moon til the 4th day.
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Note 4 (AFTER the 6th Day, into the 7th Day): Genesis 2:1- Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2-And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3-And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4-These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
....the ENTIRE PERIOD of 6 Creative Days is referred to as ONE Day.
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Thus the BIBLE shows the Earth was Older than the NON-24 hour Days in which He made the Earth.
The Church Fairy Tale of the 6 Periods of time being 72 hours is one of the reasons many smart, educated people don't give credit to the Bible- when the fault was not with it- but the Brainless Clergy- and people like YOU!
The Mad JW
edited to cure hyper-asterisk-ism and scrolling text ~ Scully
