Monday, October 26, 2009

DEFENDING GENESIS - In Six Days


DEFENDING GENESIS

In Six Days
The Biblical Case for a Six-Day Creation

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” - Exodus 20:8-11

The very basis of our 6-day work week is the 4th Commandment, which in turn finds its
basis in a literal 6-day Creation. The word “day” in this passage and in Genesis 1-2 is the Hebrew word yom. Yom is used in its two literal senses [as a 24 hour day and as the light portion of the light/dark cycle] in Genesis. Every time the word yom appears elsewhere in the Old Testament coupled with the words “morning” or “evening” or is specified with a number like first, second or third, it signifies a literal day. It doesn't make sense, nor is it consistent, to say that yom is a literal day when used this way, except in Genesis!One also has to account for the genealogies in Genesis, which begin at Creation. The time frames given in these genealogies are measured from event to event; therefore, there is no possibility of a gap in the record. If we add up all of the years given, allowing an entire year for partial years and gestation periods, the total earth years from the Creation of Adam to the birth of Abraham is no more than 1,985 years. "It is apparent that the most straightforward understanding of Genesis, without regard to the hermeneutical considerations suggested by science, is that God created the heavens and the earth in six solar days, that man was created on the sixth day, and that death and
chaos entered the world after the fall of Adam and Eve, and that all fossils were the result of the catastrophic deluge that spared only Noah’s family and the animals therewith." [Pun, P.P.T., Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 39:14, 1987; emphasis added.] The Bible claims to give an account of history from the very beginning [Gen 1:1]. Christ Himself affirmed that God made Adam & Eve “from the beginning.” [Mark 10:6] We ought to judge the opinions and conclusions of fallible, finite men by the revealed, inerrant Word of an infinite, infallible God – not the other way 'round! We can take Him at His Word.



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