rlortie wrote:
First, in Genesis it states that God created the earth in 7days, but yet he did not create day and night first. So what is seven days based on and how long was a day in Gods eye. Was it millions of our years allowing for his creation to be accomplished in an evolutionary time cycle.
Second, Also in Genesis we read that Adam and Eve bore Cain, the eldest and first son and then Able. Cain slays his brother Able and goes into the land of Nod where he meets his wife. Who was his wife and where did her conceivement begin and by who? Was she his sister, making us all bastards and inbreds.
If you can answer these two questions in such matter that a layman as myself can understand, then and only then would I care to respond to any more of your posts.
Ralph
Since John gave you his answers, I can give you answers from the Bible.
1. God did create day and night the first day.
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Personally I understand creation week to be the creation of life on the earth. It appears that the earth itself was created before creation week as "the earth was without form and void". It also appears that the creation account may have been from the point of view of an observer on the surface of the earth.
2. Even up to the time of Abraham it was ok to marry near relatives. Abraham married his half sister.
Genesis 20:11-12 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
