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The Fathers of the Church and the ecclesiastical writers of the third century frequently mention Terce, Sext, and None as hours for daily prayers. [5] Tertullian, around the year 200, recommended, in addition to the obligatory morning and evening prayers, the use of the third, sixth and ninth hours of daylight to remind oneself to pray.
Day-age creationism, a type of old Earth creationism, is an interpretation of the creation accounts in Genesis. It holds that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are not literal 24-hour days, but are much longer periods (from thousands to billions of years). The Genesis account is then reconciled with the age of the Earth.
Genesis 8:4 Genesis 8:13 2587 Ante C. 2204: The year Arpachshad was born, 2 years after the Flood. Shem was 100, Noah 603 years old. The Great Pyramid of Giza (Khufu), built over a period of 20 years c. 2580–2560 BCE [37] Genesis 11:10 2552 The year Shelah was born. Arpachshad was 35, Shem 135, Noah 638 years old. Genesis 11:12: 2522 The year ...
Gap creationism (also known as ruin-restoration creationism, restoration creationism, or "the Gap Theory") is a form of old Earth creationism that posits that the six-yom creation period, as described in the Book of Genesis, involved six literal 24-hour days (light being "day" and dark "night" as God specified), but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations in the first and ...
Gap creationism Yom is 24 hours, but there is a gap of time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, before the six consecutive days of creation. Day-age creationism Yom is time span. Progressive creationism Yom is time span, but there are gaps of time.
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story, [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.
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Franz Delitzsch sees the evening and morning as marking the end of a "day" which is aeons in length, [8] while others have seen it as marking a literal 24-hour day. [9] Theistic evolution [ 10 ] and day-age creationism follow the first interpretation, [ 11 ] while young Earth creationism follows the second. [ 12 ]