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Originally Posted by Sticks
In the Exodus piece the argument goes that God created the world in six literal days, and flags this in Exodus to set the pattern for the Jewish working week when he gives the regulations on observing the Sabbath.
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It is still just that, an "argument" - a matter of interpretation or belief of what constitutes "a day". The oral stories handed down through the centuries were vulnerable to corruption,superstition, embellishment, personal beliefs etc, and at the end of the day it is a matter of pure faith whether you believe God created the world in seven days, or seven millennia, or whether you believe anything in the bible at all! You say, yourself, that the Jews took the "days" in Exodus as literal 24 hour days in order to establish a pattern for the working week, and observation of the day of rest - the sabbath. This is equally true of the Christian belief in a 7 day week with a rest day on Sunday. This is a belief rooted in blind faith and literal interpretation of certain parts of the bible, other parts of which the Jews choose to ignore or dismiss, as do Christians!