Chapter, Paragraph
1 9 | profound thinkers of ancient days as well as of recent (Socrates,
2 14 | the Book of Genesis, the days of Creation, and man as
3 15 | it will be shown below, “days” of creation should not
4 15,2| assumes that of the six days of creation, God used one
5 15,2| then He spent the next five days making provisions for the
6 15,2| Yet as we shall see, the “days” of creation are not our
7 15,2| creation are not our 24-hour days.~ The earliest theories
8 15,3| and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them
9 15,4| Scriptural evidence for long “days.”~In the book of Job we
10 15,4| argument made for 24 hour days is that the Hebrew word
11 15,4| time. Whether day means 6 days or 15 billion years makes
12 15,4| years.~As has been shown, days can and often are understood
13 15,4| hours, and numbering the days does not force a fixed time
14 15,4| In each of the creation days, we see darkness followed
15 15,1| division listed in the creation days of Genesis chapter one: “
16 15,1| On each of the creation days the important point to grasp
17 15,5| Russian Church Abroad, “the Days of creation should be understood
18 15,5| could create either by ‘days,’ at once and in final form,
19 15,5| gradually, in the course of ‘days’ to ‘bring them forth’ from
20 15,5| to understanding of the days of creation as 24-hour intervals,
21 15,5| philosopher I. N. Ilyin, (The Six Days of Creation, Paris), by
22 19,1| dimensions (6:9-22). Seven days before the Flood, God commands
23 19,1| the rain falls for forty days and nights; all living things
24 19,1| earth a hundred and fifty days (7:6-24). The waters decrease,
25 19,1| lasted but one year and ten days. A flood of such brief duration
26 19,1| basins cannot erode in forty days nor build up in eleven months,
27 19,3| the Mount Ararat of our days. The distinction makes a
28 19,4| historical event: “And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the
29 19,4| of man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were
30 19,4| less real than the last days will be of which He speaks
31 19,4| the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was
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