When Is a Day a Day?

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Suppose I told you a story that started with, “Back in my father’s day, it took three days to drive across the Australian Outback during the day?” Would you be confused? Probably not, even though I used the word “day” in three different ways. You see, the context tells you what I meant.

Now, many people say we can’t know what “day” means in Genesis chapter 1, so it could be millions of years. But context tells us what a word means. And throughout the Old Testament, when day is used with a number or the word “night” or with the phrase “evening or morning” … it means a normal day. And Genesis one has all of those!

So, “day” in Genesis 1 means a day!

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