Well, God in his infinite wisdom counted the day & night, obviously. One Mississippi, two Mississippi. Ah ah ah! Three Mississippies!
Granted, it’s just a fictional book we’re talking about, but it does start off with:
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. [Genesis 1:3-5 ESV]
So, within the fiction of the book, there was some sort of other light created before the Sun, doesn’t really make sense that there would be words for day/night/morning before the Sun existed, but maybe there was a temporary light and that created day cycles, whatever. Nitpicking the bible about literal interpretations of things in Genesis seems almost pointless though. It’s stuff that’s easy to dance around and can be hand-waved away.
The bible is probably supposed to be interpreted metaphorically in alot of parts, so pointing out semantic things like this is the equivalent of responding to a long political post with
“You’re”
As if pointing out a single grammatical flaw somehow destroys their entire argument. This was probably meant to be fluff, just someone speaking poetically about an event that nobody would ever know anything about anyways.
Also there is a an antiquated meaning of day which just means a period of time.
The Hebrew word yom translated into the English “day” can mean more than one thing. It can refer to the 24-hour period of time that it takes for the earth to rotate on its axis (e.g., “there are 24 hours in a day”). It can refer to the period of daylight between dawn and dusk (e.g., “it gets pretty hot during the day but it cools down a bit at night”). And it can refer to an unspecified period of time (e.g., “back in my grandfather’s day . . .”).
So, within the fiction of the book, there was some sort of other light created before the Sun
Ah, the Silmarillion.
Look, if God didn’t want the Bible to exist He wouldn’t have done it.
QED JHC
Go bæclinga hwonne tîma +nðh ðêah−hwæðere cwyldtîd Old Englisc spellung sêman incorrect, ðêah nêan cynerôf palster wiðæftan stund ðêah was ðone as “correct” Englisc. In ðone as tôweardnes, what is ðrêagan today lôgian w¯ære ungelîclic Englisc.
There was still a directional lighting system, but it wasn’t tied to an animated skybox yet.
I mean, technically, a day passing doesn’t explicitly need the sun as it is a measure of the rotational speed of the Earth (ie time), not the position of the sun in the sky. The latter was/is simply used to measure the former.
That’s not really a fair/honest argument when the concept of a day existed long before humans knew the earth was rotating. Originally, a day was defined as the rising and setting of the sun
I know. I saw it as a funny akshually moment. I used argument, for lack of a better word
To humans, before we discovered the concept of rotations around the sun, you are correct. But for an advanced being/race that had the power to create universes… I’m sure they understood far greater concepts than the rising and setting of the an orange fireball in the sky. 😊
Without a reference frame, there would be no way to tell when one rotation had been completed.
Logic has no place in religion just like religion has no place in logic
U just not understan.
C, god beyon logic. Logic is human understan of wut we C. Wut we C is wut god mak wit his hands. It tak place outsid of logic in a since. If god mak all thang observable wit ur eyez, naturly it wil follow sum thing. That sum thing is logic reality. We may understan 1 day but 4 now we can not. It not gods plan I gess. Win we get 2 heven may be.
I pray 4 u and luv u evin if u gay or sum thing like that bcuz I luv the sinner not the sin. In jesus name, a man.
