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Peter clearly told us that a day unto the Lord is one thousand of our years. When the world was made, it was made by God. Why wouldn't it be made according to God's time? The reason it is not mentioned in Genesis is because Adam had not yet been given his time of reckoning and therefore it wasn't necessary to count the days of creation according to the days given to Adam after the fall. Not sure what your significance is in saying Adam was created in the "Beginning"? All the days of creation were considered to be in the beginning and yes, Adam was created on the 6th day of creation and thus was created in the beginning.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth.
The creation of the earth ( ie in the beginning) includes the 6 days of creation of the earth. Yes, Matthew 19;4 and Mark 10:6 speak of the creation of man being in the beginning so evidently the beginning includes all the days of creation. But this does nothing to nullify the idea that God created heaven and the earth in 6 of his days and rested on the seventh. I would imagine that to an immortal being, 6 or 7 thousand years is not a very long time. Your problem is that you take days according to our time of reckoning and compare them to God's days and feel that it is a very long time. One could ask why God didn't simply snap his fingers and have all of creation finished in less than a second of our time? But NO! He takes all the time he desires to do what he wishes to do. It wasn't until after the days of creation and after Adam and Eve had partaken of the forbidden fruit that Adam and Eve fell and became mortal and at that time was given his time of reckoning according to the rotation of the earth on its axis in relation to the sun. It was from that time that Adam and Eve began to count the number of years of their life. Yes, Adam lived from the time he fell to be 930 years according to scripture.
Now before Adam and Eve had fallen, the Lord told them the following:
Genesis 2:15-17
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Here God specifically tells Adam and Eve that in the very day that he eats of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that they should surely die. Now it is true that after they partook of the fruit, they hid themselves because of their nakedness and when facing God they were cast out of the garden and suffered a spiritual death in that they were cast out of his presence, and at that time the seeds of death began to work upon them to eventually bring them to a physical death. However, they were not completely dead at that time. It wasn't until 930 years after this event that Adam died. Now if you are counting according to Adam's time of reckoning which is the same as ours today, Adam didn't fully die on the very day he partook of the fruit. It wasn't until 930 years later that he was completely dead. So if you are to equate his physical death to the decree of God, then Adam didn't die on the very day he partook of the fruit according to Adam's later time of reckoning. But he did die within the very day of God's time of reckoning which, according to the Apostle Peter, is 1000 of our years. There is nothing that counters this line of reasoning. God simply created the heaven and the earth according to his time of reckoning as Peter has told us, and later After Adam and Eve fell, they were given their time of reckoning. When God spoke, it was after his time of reckoning and Adam surely did die within a thousand years.
According to the prophet Joseph Smith, the book that John saw that was sealed with seven seals has the interpretation that the seven seals are 7000 years of the earths temporal existence. In other words, the seven seals represent the seven thousand years of this earth's temporal existence. This means that from the fall of Adam and Eve until the earth is renewed in celestial glory, will be 7000 years. This would be 7 days unto the Lord according to his time. The 7th thousand year period will be the millennial period when Christ reigns on the earth. It is a type of a sabbath day for this earth. I believe what Peter said in 2 Peter 3 is very significant. 1000 years of our time to the Lord is but a day unto him.
For LIKE AS to be used......by definition, LIKE AS means Similar, a "Simile. If something is similar it is not EXACT. As demonstrated........in order to twist your cult's private interpretation of 1 day......literally = 1000 years.......you must contradict other, literal revelations found in scriptures. Pointed out are but a few.........Adam would have lived at least 2000 years instead of the quoted 930 years........plants would have had to exist without the ability to reproduce for 1000 years before the source of pollenising was created (flying insects).
This by nature is called a "logical fallacy" or a false premise based upon circular reasoning, as you demand that sources other than the actual record found in the Holy Scriptures must be considered to establish doctrinal truth......in other words, doubt what you read, instead, believe what you will. The actual word of God contradicts your conclusion. You have one topic correct, and its established by the actual content, context and subject presented by the Apostle Peter........comparing 1 year to a 1000 years is indeed a simple type of symbolism used by Peter to explain that God looks at time differently than mankind. (2 Peter 3:8-9)
