Just call a day as a “galactic day” Who says it has to be 6 earth days anyway ?
The real argument is not between those who believe in the literal “Six Days of Creation” and those who believe in the “Big Bang”.
The real argument is between those who believe “The Universe was created by God at some point in the past” and those who believe “The Universe willed itself into existence”.
"....once man consciously enters the sensorium of time and space, he is implicitly aware of both Absolute and Infinite, and therefore Love, Truth, Justice, Beauty, Virtue, and Eternity. These are the things that define man, not his genome. ....."
Maybe One who could speak the universe into existence, could do the simple part, any way He chose to.
Here’s my humble understanding and interpretation:
1. Who is God & Moses speaking to in Genesis? Mostly illiterate folk with a strong use of oral tradition. A people who had heard all of the other contemporary Creation mythologies told by the cultures and peoples that surrounded them. A people that had no concept of great periods of time - they mostly lived “seasonally.”
2. So perhaps God says to Himself, “How do I get the point across that I am self and eternally existant and that I have created everything?” He tells them in a story and timeline makes the true point and that they can wrap their minds around.
3. And the true point of Genesis is after all, that God has created everything.
I’ve always wondered how life can form in a sterile environment? Computers don’t build themselves, and neither do houses. Even if there are protein molecules and chemical reactions, that doesn’t prove further reactions.
As for the science of the earth, some scientists or students will laugh at the idea of the world being created and coming from nothing, but will turn around and state that the world and universe came from nothing.
These are the little things that people use to try and prove that God doesn't exist, but they fail to realize that my faith isn't centered around the length of time it took for earth to be formed. Just my 2 cents worth. Thanks for allowing me to quit working for a few minutes. :)
Doubtless our minds have difficulty wrapping themselves around creation ex nihilo but not progressive evolutionism because evolutionism speaks of one thing happening after another thing and this process describes how our minds work.
We think as we speak. First one word, then another and another, each word following after the one before it and never more than one word at a time. Thus our need for faith for what our minds cannot grasp.
First, the Bible in many places uses the word “day” for periods other than one solar Earth day, even employing such specific phrases as “a day for a year, a day for a year” (in a guide to interpreting a prophecy) and “to the Lord a thousand years are as one day”.
Second, God, as presented by the Bible, is omnipotent. If the Bible account is correct, he can circumvent what we view as immutable laws of nature (or maybe there’s a backdoor there available even to us if only we were smart enough to find it). If He wanted to do all that creating in six literal Earth days, the God of the Bible could do so. Therefore the plausibility of the creation account rests on the authenticity of the Bible in general.
The creation story was told, by God, to Moses. If you look at the words carefully, you realize that there is not enough information in the account to nail down how long it really took. It’s really one of those useless arguments since God was intentionally vague on the things on which he wanted to be intentionally vague. He discusses creation and science (and the future) in His word in such a way as to not give anything away. It is why he tells John, in revelation, not to write down what the seven thunders say.
OTOH, regarding all of creation, if you could go back in time and meet Adam 15 minutes after God created him, how old would you guess him to be? ;-)
On which day did He create time?
Scripture says six days, I believe it was six days. God didn’t intend for the Bible to be a riddle; He indicates where He is speaking in parables, and I didn’t see that in the account of creation.
It’s hard to wrap our minds around a six day creation because our minds are so limited, and He is so awesome, so limitless and all-powerful. When we struggle to find alternate explanations for Biblical accounts, it’s because of our limitations, not His. I not only believe the six-day creation wasn’t difficult; I believe it was as simple for Him as speaking it into existence, or even willing it.
Sorry for the typos. I was typing on my phone and didn’t notice it.
The problem with believing the 6 days were “eons” and that evolution is therefore “OK” is that it destroys the Adam and Eve narrative and the Fall of Man. Adam is referred to by Paul, and Jesus makes reference to God creating man and woman. Jesus’s entire saving work is predicated on saving sinful man from Adam’s fall.
Six literal days, the evidence does not point to an evolutionary beginning.
I still wonder why God found it necessary to rest? Was creation physically or mentally taxing?
I remember once reading an athiest’s denial of creation by saying it was all bogus because God created mand and all of the animals on the fifth day but didn’t create the vegetation to feed them until the sixth. Like dude, they couldn’t go one day without eating?
In the beginning, there was nothing... and then it exploded.
God can do anything. Yes, in six literal days He created the heavens and the earth. Do not limit Him. I struggled with it as well and concluded God is always right.