Don

I do not think I have said that the creation week is allegory, I have called it a creation hymn (as have others) and I have said it can be called poetic narrative and/or narrative with poetic elements and that people can disagree over what is narrative and what is poetry, some seeing more narrative and some seeing more poetry. From everything we have discussed, I see it as having more poetry than you.

Some aspects I have shared are:
1) bara/create can take lots of time elsewhere in the Bible, so it is POSSIBLE to take time here also, FOR ME.
2) The structure of the week, the first 3 days being anti-tohu (formless) and the latter 3 anti-bohu (void). This indicates a literary structure TO ME.
3) The “morning, evening, day 1” does not indicate a 24 hour day, nor a 12 hour daytime to me, TO ME.

Others are:
4) The 7th day does not have the same ending. In fact, all of the days have differences in literary structure.
5) The order of doing things is different in Gen 1 and Gen 2, also the problems are different.
6) Sun on day 4, but earth rotation in relation to a sun defines a day, in MY understanding.

And there are others. Again, Jews themselves call them 6 creation days and leave it at that, letting the days be special and allowing various understandings. Now it is not the case that YE people do not have what they see as solutions to these concerns, it is that the YE arguments fail to convince me, so in faith I am OE. There are also science aspects as truth is one, but I decline to get into that, at least here.

I also feel I am being asked questions from a schema I do not believe in, yet when I try to go to basics I get no response, just more questions. And I have offered to read a book by a former OE who became YE, yet I have suggested a book on the opposite yet have received no response from Paula or Cheryl on reading P on P or even a book suggestion for me.