Why Six Days? (Six Days of Creation, Literal Days or Era's.

Koinonia House ^ | 11/15/2003 | Dr. Chuck Missler

[ijcr]

This issue is not that great when we stop using ourselves and the world around us as markers.If we accept God as a
genetisist, then the ability to populate the earth in seven days is easy.....the DNA match between man and animals is so close that all things are possible. Within the space of 100 yrs man as we know him today will be capable of generating thousands of species in vitrio.

[Romulus]

The account of God accomplishing his work in six days (and therefore resting on the 7th) is a prophecy of the Crucifixion and the subsequent entombment of Jesus. You are wasting your time chasing biblical interpretations as natural science and not as prophetic references to Christ's mission.

[Diddley]

10. Any radio ham that has had to tune an antenna array knows about the 377 ohms.
11. It has been estimated at a staggering 1.071 x 10117 kilowatts per square meter!

What in the world do these mean?

By the way, 1.071 x 10117 = 10288.989 kW/ square meter. Why not just say that?

[WackyKat]

If I don't stop reading this Creation Science cr@p, I'm going to be in a lunatic asylum

[Atchafalaya]

Since Clinton I recoil at the word "is"; it's a shame.
I go with Einstein; God did not play dice with the universe.

[Diddley]

Could someone decipher this for me?
One of the many advantages that 20th century science has given us is that, thanks to Dr. Albert Einstein's brilliant discoveries, we now know that time is a physical property and is subject to mass, acceleration, and gravity. We have come to realize that we live in a four-dimensional continuum properly known as "space-time." (This is what Paul seems to imply in his letter to the Ephesians!8) It is interesting that when one takes the apparent 10^12 expansion factor involved in the theories of the "expanding universe," that an assumed 16 billion years reduce to six days!

Not only have recent scientific articles highlighted the discoveries that the speed of light has changed over the centuries ... Say what?

[Diddley]

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< I go with Einstein; God did not play dice with the universe.

Actually, He did, according to quantum mechanics. Einstein was incorrect.

[lockeliberty]

There is a middle ground, inhabited by far more people than you will find on either end of that supposedly binary choice.

That would be logically impossible. There is either belief or unbelief. There is no middle ground.

[bondserv]

I like that.

It makes witnessing a whole lot easier when you can say, "Just read right there, unless the context indicates otherwise, a straightforward reading leaves no ambiguity".

Most interpretive mistakes were made because the reader refused to take it for what it says. Hence Jesus always having to say, "Have ye not read?”

[Allan]

The universe eternally is being created
and there are 6 days.
Today is the first day of creation.

[Ichneumon]

Actually, all you have to do is look at the machine you are inhabiting. Did it happen by accident? It is a statistical impossibility.

Since it would be dishonest to make such an assertion without having done the math necessary to support such a conclusion, I invite you to show your calculations here. Be sure to clearly state the assumptions they're based on.

[Diddley]

There are other questions that arise from the Genesis narrative. When was the earth created? It seems to have preceded the rest of the universe. Surprisingly, there are some cosmologists that are (again) beginning to suspect that the universe may be geocentric after all!
HUH? Can you name 137 cosmologists (or one) who state that?

How did plants (3rd day) flourish without the sun's photosynthesis (4th day)?
And the answer is?

[Allan]

ps.
On the Seventh Day
God rested
and man rampaged.

[Diddley]

How long were each of the first two days? There was no sun until the third day.
Should be: How long were each of the first three days? There was no sun until the fourth day.

[bondserv]

Augustine also thought the millennium was upon him during his life because Constantine declared the Empire to be Christian.

A brilliant man, but his allegorizing has been proven to be in error by modern events, namely the miraculous regathering of Israel into the Land in fulfillment of prophecy that sets up events in the Book of Revelation.

[Just mythoughts]

Genesis 1:1 "and" 2 set the stage for what follows.

Genesis 1:1 Makes a statement of fact. What "FOLLOWS" describes an EVENT.

Why does "man in the flesh" ignore those two scriptures?

They are spoken to and given some description many other places, thus they cannot be ignored.

Check out how many times the direction of not being "ignorant" and about "WHAT" is given throughout the WORD. Now this as well points to Christ. The WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHERE, AND part of the WHEN.

[candeee]

I don't have a Bible in front of me but I think it begins, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and then the earth became void." Thus after He first created earth, earth became void. How many years did it take for the earth to become void and what/who caused it to become void? It's late and I'm tired but it seems to me that the 7 days did not start until after the earth became void.

[bondserv]

Chapter 2 is a recounting of chapter 1 with more detail associated with Adam and the place God moved him to, Eden.

Also God created again each of the animals before Adam's face so that Adam could name them, as well as to have no question in Adam's mind who the creator is.

P.S. Eve missed that display of creating power. Adam chose of his free-will to sin knowingly, Eve was deceived by Satan.

[Allan]

Day 1 of Creation.

In the beginning
God created the heaven
and the earth.
And the earth was without form,
and void;
and darkness was upon the face
of the deep.
And the Spirit
of God
moved
upon the face
of the waters.
And God said,
LET THERE BE LIGHT:
and there was light.
And God saw the light,
that it was good:
and God divided the light
from the darkness.
And God called the light Day,
and the darkness
he called Night.
And the evening
and the morning
were the first day.

[scripter]

If Genesis is so clear, why does it recite two different, contradictory versions of the Creation?

There's Hebrew literary devices called redundancy and parallel accounts that explain it quite well. Most people don't know anything about Hebrew literary devices so it's a common mistake to think there are two different, contradictory versions.

As the article stated, the Documentary Hypothesis has been thoroughly shredded by modern (actually it was 20th century) scholarship.