How long were the days?

[Roger Thornhill]

The text is clearly talking about 24 hour days:

Gen 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.​

One cycle of light and dark equals one day.

Sounds like a day is not 24 hours unless you live where the sun never sets.

 

[CrowCross]

Which "Authoritative" version do you hang your hat on??? It's only "Theology", so unimportant.

I'll go with the 24 hour day - after the sun was revealed.

I agree. In fact I'll even say prior.

 

[The Pixie]

Sounds like a day is not 24 hours unless you live where the sun never sets.

Pretty clearly it is talking about day/night cycles - which is a 24 hour day. Further, it says that they existed before the sun was created, so your point about the sun is irrelevant.

 

[CrowCross]

Pretty clearly it is talking about day/night cycles - which is a 24 hour day. Further, it says that they existed before the sun was created, so your point about the sun is irrelevant.

Prior to the creation of the sun there was light.
It also seems logical to think the earth was rotating from the beginning.

 

[Roger Thornhill]

Pretty clearly it is talking about day/night cycles - which is a 24 hour day. Further, it says that they existed before the sun was created, so your point about the sun is irrelevant.

It is using the Hebrew yom to refer to less than 24 hours and so it does not refer to. 24 hr day.

 

[The Pixie]

Prior to the creation of the sun there was light.
It also seems logical to think the earth was rotating from the beginning.

More likely they believed the earth was flat, and daylight appeared each day because God created it. On day four God created a fiery ball to cross the firmament to mark time.

 

[Roger Thornhill]

More likely they believed the earth was flat, and daylight appeared each day because God created it. On day four God created a fiery ball to cross the firmament to mark time.

A Bible writer was inspired to to write about the circle of the earth and the earth being suspended from nothing when the rest of the world believed it was on the back of a turtle.

 

[CrowCross]

More likely they believed the earth was flat, and daylight appeared each day because God created it. On day four God created a fiery ball to cross the firmament to mark time.

We have no way to determine more than likely.

 

[The Pixie]

A Bible writer was inspired to to write about the circle of the earth and the earth being suspended from nothing when the rest of the world believed it was on the back of a turtle.

Circles are flat.

As far as I know every culture originally believed the world is flat - because that is how it looks and that is what makes intuitive sense. The Ancient Greeks realised it is like a ball in the fifth century BC, but not sure how quickly that idea spread within the Greeks. There is no evidence that it had spread to the Jews of Jesus' time, and verses in Revelation about stars falling to earth indicate they still believed stars were lights on a solid dome.