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Yes, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Everyone knows about 7 days and such, but what people don't know is that it's also written in the Bible that for God, a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day. The seven days is just because seven is God's number, and God does things in sevens. The author of that passage wasn't actually stating that God took literally seven days as we know them to make the universe.

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I'm currently working my way through <u>Misquoting Jesus</u>; it's a literary criticism of the bible, as we now have it, based on the errors, omissions and edits that were made to it along the way by scribes (among others).

Unfortunately, it reads like an eigth-grade word-length essay assignment ("The Periodic Table is a listing of all known elements, which, taken together, make up the Periodic Table. The first element listed, and I say first because it occupies the first position on the Periodic Table, with the other elements following, is Hydrogen; Hydrogen, therefore, is the first element listed on the Periodic Table." etc), but I think it's a pretty good read for anybody that's going to be quoting the Bible to people, its cultural and temporal displacements aside.