This is interesting, comparing the literal and symbolic. Can we hold both to be valid to some extent? I tend to believe that divine patterns exist at different amplitudes throughout nature.
For example, we view the day as 24 hrs. This is a cycle of death of a day and the beginning of a new day, marked by the sun. It was God’s design to have the Sun take a 24 hr cycle at this era of human existence. What if that cycle was longer from our perspective many ages ago?
This is interesting, comparing the literal and symbolic. Can we hold both to be valid to some extent? I tend to believe that divine patterns exist at different amplitudes throughout nature.
For example, we view the day as 24 hrs. This is a cycle of death of a day and the beginning of a new day, marked by the sun. It was God’s design to have the Sun take a 24 hr cycle at this era of human existence. What if that cycle was longer from our perspective many ages ago?