Last Sunday's sermon, at a local Presbyterian Church in America congregation, touched briefly on the nature of the days of Genesis 1. The passage mentioned the six days of labor and one day of rest. The pastor noted the connection to Genesis 1 and said he neither knew nor particularly cared how long the days were, but God certainly did a lot more each day than he could have.
This gets to the point that the most important aspect of the passage is theological and that the means are not all that important, a perspective we can lose when focusing on details. God's power in creating is not the only theological lesson of Genesis 1, but it was one of the most relevant for the text at hand.
Dr. David Campbell
Old Seashells
University of Alabama
Biodiversity & Systematics
Dept. Biological Sciences
Box 870345
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com
That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at Droitgate Spa
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