Do my fellow christians know that Genesis DOES NOT state the age of the earth?
Yes, it does. The fact that we are not familar with the use of the language used does nothing to take away from the truth in Genesis. I believe the Biblical account is intended by God to be taken literally; and I accept scripture as infallible. In the KJV OT, starting in Genesis, the word for “day” is yome; it occurs 1422 times in 1250 verses, according to my Bible Software program. There simply isn’t space here to post all the pertinent scriptures, demonstrating the consistency of the use of wording in the language. It is a true statement that “yome” can mean a day, a season, or an indeterminate period of time…but it is ALSO true that throughout the OT, whenever “yome” is used WITH either morning OR evening in the same sentence, it is obvious from the context that it is referring to a period of 24 hours; here are a few examples OUTSIDE of Genesis, yet within the Torah (The Torah is simply The Law, or the First 5 books of the Old Testament): Exo 10:13 And Moses stretched forth his ro
