Originally posted by whodey
The rabbis in question are Onkelos 150 CE, Rashi also known as Solemon ben Isaac 1040-1204 CE, Maimonides (Moses Ben Maimon 1135-1204 CE, and Nahmanides 1194-1278 CE.
As for evening and morning, the Hebrew term for "evening" is erev. The root meaning of erev means "mixed up, stirred together, disorderly. The Hebrew for "morning" is boker. It means the o ...[text shortened]... view that their calculations to be right, it is just their reasoning that was skewed.
Being called a rabbi does not make one an authority on the scriptures.
And these guys opinion is not the true teachings from Judaism. You
also so need to get better sources for you meanings of Hebrew words.
I think you are referring to the following verse:
For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside. (Psalms 84:10)
We also have the following verses:
For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it passes by,
Or as a watch in the night. (Psalms 90:4)
But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord
one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.
(2 Peter 3:8)
But there is no need to think God is trying to trick us, like sunhouse does.
God has already measured thes days for us and tells us that they are made
up of an evening and a morning. This should automatically indicate a day
just like we know it. It is not a trick. The scriptures says that God tells
the end from the beginning, so it is reasonable for us to believe He knew
it was going to take 6 days to make His creation or at least He had the
after the fact knowledge that He could inform Moses.
Yes, the rabbis of old did calculate the coming of the Messiah in the book
of Daniel correctly, but most of the rabbis during that time did not see
it to be Yahshua. But if there was anything wrong with the understanding
of the creation days, why did He not correct it when He came?