6 Arguments For 24 Hour Days In Genesis   

Bobby Graham, February 07, 2010

The seven days involved in creation in Genesis one are sometimes explained to be long periods of time, even eons. Is this reasonable? The following six arguments are set forth as reasons for accepting "day" to mean what it normally means.

1. "Yom" (the word for day) is usually literal, though not always.
2. The days in Genesis one included evening and morning.    This is a description normally associated with a 24-hour day.
3. It is also stated in Genesis that the sun was to rule the day and the moon was to rule the night. Does not the word "day" in this statement identify which day is meant?
4. The statement of Genesis 1:11 definitely shows that 24-hour days were involved.
5. The word "day" used with "first","second", etc. means a 24-hour day.
6. Adam lived part of the sixth day and all of the seventh day. If long periods of time were meant by "day" in Genesis, then Adam lived for eons, even millions of years. The very people making this point also deny Scripture's information about many of the ancient Biblical characters living for a few hundred years of life but take a position demanding a life of a million years for Adam.

It is far more reasonable to accept the usual meaning of the "day" in Genesis. Why would God need millions of years to do the work of creation? It is the desire to eliminate the miraculous from Genesis and to make of man a mere elevated animal that is behind all such efforts. How unnecessary and unreasonable! These and other matters are dealt with in an outstanding treatment of these matters in the book Creation Compromises by Bert Thompson.

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