From: Dick Fischer (dickfischer@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 16:47:21 EDT
Allen wrote:
>It has been understood forever that the word Yom can have more than one
>meaning. However, the use of the word Yom in Genesis 1 in connection with
>the ordinals and especially associated with the phrase "evening and
>morning" can only have one meaning and that is a single rotation of the
>planet day.
On the contrary, the phrase "evening and morning" can have a meaning not
associated with one 24-hour day.
In Psalm 90, humans are likened to grass. "In the morning it flourisheth,
and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth" (Psa. 90:6).
Perry Phillips noted:
I know of no grass that literally springs up in the morning and then
is dead by the same evening. Rather, the psalmist has in mind the
life cycle of grass in the Levant, which begins its growth with the
November rains and dies with the hot, dry, March, desert winds. In
this psalm, therefore, "morning" stands for the period of growth and
"evening" stands for the period of death.
For more on the
<http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1990/PSCF3-90Fischer.html>"days" of creation,
this article published in PSCF and is on the ASA web site.
Dick Fischer - Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org
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