In The Bible, A Day Is A Period Of Time

A "day" in the Bible is simply a period of time. In Genesis 1, each day is a period of time: an evening of darkness, and a morning of light. The days are not even over yet. In Genesis 2:17, Adam and Eve are warned not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (which I take from Genesis 3:22 to actually be the Tree of Life). God said, "On the day you eat of it, death you shall die" (Alexander). WE ARE STILL IN THAT DAY, DYING DEATH! It isn't that we sin and die; it's that we are still in that day--born in the state of dying death.

My Romans professor, Dr. Ray Shelton, wrote his doctoral dissertation on Romans 5:12, demonstrating that death entered humanity through the sin of Adam, and that day--the day of dying the death--is still in effect. The verse wrongly says, "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned" (KJV), where it should say, "and so death passed upon all men, because of which all have sinned." I.e., we do not die because we sin; we sin because we are dead. And we are dead because we are still in that period of time.

I entertain the thought that during this day, wherein man dies ONCE, before this day is closed with the Judgment and its retribution for sin (Hebrew 9:27), man may live in this world any number of times. Perhaps some are restored to continue progress toward becoming their part of the Milta, while some incur punishment and/or correction.

A day in the Bible is simply a period of time, but get correct before the period ends.