I agree with both of those verses. But from personal expieriance in Alaska I can tell you that up there we have the midnight sun during the summer. That means we get 24 hour daylight for two months or so and yet we don't call that period of sun one long day.
Agreed!
Either did the Genesis acct. (i won't quote them as i know you know them)
The sun and moon were created on day four. For signs and seasons. And days and years.
Day one there was Day and night, but, it could not have been the Sun and the moon.
So it was not a solar day as we know it! (I would tend to think)
Or, who is to say if GOD was speaking from a point in Alaska? Or the North Pole? (Though, i think it would have been Africa, Saudi Arabia or Israel) (Must consider that HE is omnipresent also).
Also, i seem to see here that GOD has done this before, and will do it again as seen in
Ecclesiastes:
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
I know that GOD is not bound by time, i think HE would have us open our minds to HIS greatness. We just don't know such things, so, i carefully watch out for my dogmas. (Could get run over by a reindeer!)
Just thinking out loud with you! Thank you. This is what the scriptures refer to (in my mind) as "Iron sharpens iron, as friend sharpens a friend"
Your thoughts are important to me. If GOD wants me to find a 24 hour day creation acct, who am i to fight?