Thank you.
Some see the creative week as proclamations, not generations. In other words, God is "calling things that be not as though they were." He spoke the words into the soil and water on that day, and the process began the very moment He spoke. But the process took time. Much like Jesus cursing the fig tree. He said that nobody would eat from that fig tree forever. The tree did not dry up from the roots before their eyes at that moment. It was not until the next day that, when passing, they saw the tree had dried up. Jesus explained that He was using the "God kind of faith" when He spoke. He said that if you believe that the things you say come to pass when you say them, then you will have whatever you say. He applied this same principle to prayer and said that we are to believe we have received what we ask for when
we pray, not when we see it come to pass. So when God said "it was good," He could have been simply professing His faith. In His mind and in the mind of faith, those things were there, even though they were not yet seen. He saw them, in faith, and they were good.
Gen chapter two calls this a "day," not days, and describes this creative process as "generations" long.
Genesis 2:4
4. These are
the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created,
in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Young's Literal Translation uses the word "birthing of the heavens and the earth."
"These are
births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in
the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;"
This throws a wrench into the idea that these were single days; rather, they were days that were generations long, and not fully grown and developed on their birthday. It takes a long time to mature and become fully grown.
All these things lend, I think, to a longer period of time of both birthing and generational development.
Isaiah 55:11
11. So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
So God sent His word into the dirt and the water, and that word worked within those substances to generate life.
A portion of A. T. Robertsons book, "“
A New Short Grammar of the Greek New Testament.”
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