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So I grew up around creationists. When I presented this idea, the only attempt at a justification I heard was something like "in the original Hebrew the word for a literal day was used, that's how we know creation happened in literal 6 days"
Which baffled me enough to shut me up, so that guy probably thinks he convinced me.
Well duh, if they meant metaphorical day, they should have used the hebrew word for metaphorical days.
/s
This seems to happen to me more frequently these days. Sometimes a person will say something so absurd that it just stops me in my tracks and I'm sure they think it means they "won"
I dont know hebrew, but that does seem plasuable enough to me. My understanding is that different languages have different structures, and therefore its definitely plausible that hebrew has a "literal" structure. Similar to how we say literally, except we use it wrong a bunch.
Of course, I generally doubt anyone that says they know hebrew until they demonstrate it, so i doubt what they said was true, but I could understand how it might've been believable.
Yeah, I could imagine there being some kind distinction in a language, such that it is always clear when one is making a metaphor as opposed to being literal. I also don't know if that actually applies to Hebrew.
But what baffled me was more that even if this were true, holding a belief that goes against pretty much all evidence, based purely on a grammatical quirk of an ancient culture. It's quite a stretch 😅
Original Hebrew? Anything in Hebrew that is supposedly from the "original" is a translation.