807: How Old Is the Earth? Dr. Tremper Longman
Theology in the Raw
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The Analogical Days View
There's no question that 24 hour days are being described there evenings and mornings but because of the fact you don't have sun, moon and stars you can't have an actual historical evening and morning for the first three days. So what's going on is I believe and so did Herman Boving by the way I like to cite these old these old be form guys old reform guys you know it's it's taking a literal week in order to describe the creation and but it's using a literal week in a metaphorical way okay it's not God did it in six days and rests on the seventh and saying let's take a work week and let's use that as a figure of
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