Yes, my pastor said that the word "Yom" is where the controversery come in to play.
He states in an article that I have that it is just as dangerous to say more than scripture says as it does to say less. He also says that it is our culture that tempts us to mute or warp the clear statements of scripture, and also tempts us to add to the Word. He says that in the last 40 years Covenant has not changed their position. All of their professors affirm that the first chapter of Genesis can be reasonably interpreted as teaching God's creative activity occurred in six solar days. Not all of their professors, he states, believe that this is the best interpretation. He says some profs hold to a 24/6 view, others hold to a longer day theory, and they even have one who leans to a possible gaps-between-the-days-view. He says their profs face questions arising from the fact that the sun did not appear until the fourth day of creation, the seventh day not having a designated evening (for which reasons theologians for centuries prior to any evolution theories have argued that we are still in the 7th day of God's rest and will be until the creation of the New Heavens and the New Earth at the consummation)the 6th day being so full of activity, the possibility of gaps between the days, the use of the Hebrew word "day" in some passages to designate an indeterminate period of time, and many more concerns he states.
As I type this I am wondering if we even are talking about the Creator of the Universe! As though, because there is so much activity it might have taken God longer to create it than a day!!!! I am astonished that we have such small thoughts of God. Does He not speak and it is done! It not the light in he speaks on in verse 1 the bright and morning star? Our light of the world?
Anyway, there you go, and the article goes on for 6 pages!
