Originally posted by VoidSpirit
it's not different when the bible specifically says : the evening and morning was the n'th day. it is talking about literal days.
No it's not. First the Bible uses the word "day or days" to mean many different lengths of time.
But one scripture shows this would no doubt not mean a literal 24 hour period...
2 Peter 3:8
Good News Translation (GNT)
8 But do not forget one thing, my dear friends! There is no difference in the Lord's sight between one day and a thousand years; to him the two are the same.
So at the least, a creative day would be a thousand years long minimum.
But get these points:
The Bible does not specify the length of each of the creative periods. Yet all six of them have ended, it being said with respect to the sixth day (as in the case of each of the preceding five days): “And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day.” (Ge 1:31) However, this statement is not made regarding the seventh day, on which God proceeded to rest, indicating that it continued. (Ge 2:1-3) Also, more than 4,000 years after the seventh day, or God’s rest day, commenced, Paul indicated that it was still in progress. At Hebrews 4:1-11 he referred to the earlier words of David (Ps 95:7, 8, 11) and to Genesis 2:2 and urged: “Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest.” By the apostle’s time, the seventh day had been continuing for thousands of years and had not yet ended. The Thousand Year Reign of Jesus Christ, who is Scripturally identified as “Lord of the sabbath” (Mt 12:8), is evidently part of the great sabbath, God’s rest day. (Re 20:1-6) This would indicate the passing of thousands of years from the commencement of God’s rest day to its end. The week of days set forth at Genesis 1:3 to 2:3, the last of which is a sabbath, seems to parallel the week into which the Israelites divided their time, observing a sabbath on the seventh day thereof, in keeping with the divine will. (Ex 20:8-11) And, since the seventh day has been continuing for thousands of years, it may reasonably be concluded that each of the six creative periods, or days, was at least thousands of years in length.
So did you notice that all the creative days had ended... But the seventh day has not as the scriptures make it clear that we are STILL in the seventh day which is a length of time that God is resting from the creative process. And we are "4K+ years" into that seventh day.
So could that seventh day be 7 thousand years long? Again the Bible does not say how long his rest day is or how long the creative days were. But in no way was it a 24 hour period as it would not make sense as we are now over 4K years from Adam being created which was at the end of the 6th day of creation.