Hello MacCullock,
I am a YEC.
Exodus 20.
quote:
8 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
It is obvious whether or not day can mean a thousand years or a single day that in this context, all references to days are literal days.
Matthew 19
quote:
4"Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,
Mark 10
quote:
5"It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law," Jesus replied. 6"But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.
Notice that Adam and Eve were created at the beginning, vice billions years later after creation.
This is the plain teachings of the Bible, even in Genesis 1 it reads plainly in days. Even though yom can mean a single day or a longer/ shorter time period, there is no clearer way to describe yom as a literal DAY than how God has it written in the Bible.
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