6 Literal Days Of Creation

6 Literal Days of Creation It is wrong to assume that every Christian holds to the belief that God created the universe in six literal 24-hour days. It is apparent that today’s liberal influences have seeped their way into our Christian homes and helped cultivate what is now known as Postmodern Christianity. Christians have mixed secular teachings with Biblical truth and created a contradicting stew of delusion. Somehow, many Christians have mistakenly decided that Evolution can coincide perfectly with the Biblical account of Creation. However, what we find is that nowhere in Scripture is there even a “Hint” that an Evolutionary process occurred. After much comprehensive study on this topic, I have not been convinced otherwise. I stand firm that God literally and completely created the entire universe, out of nothing, in six literal 24-hour days, and then rested on the seventh day. I'll just state a few concepts here. Please read my explanations carefully as I believe they are vitally important. To begin, we must ask ourselves, what did the author of Genesis "Moses" want us to know about the omnipotence of God... what was he trying to say to us? Is it a hidden riddle that is indecipherable? God wants us to praise Him for His power and glory, and so He revealed, to us, His power through creation. “The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands” (Psalms 19:1). God surely did not need any longer than 6 days and, in fact, He didn't even need that much time as well. Nonetheless, this is the amount of time that He chose to use and it was perfect. Genesis 1:5 explains that "the evening and the morning was the First day”. This can only be understood that the first day of creation was accomplished through the morning to the evening of the same day. It does not imply a long span of time. This statement is repeated throughout all of the 6 days of creation as well. The Lord rested on the 7th day from all that He had created and made. He commanded that we must rest on the 7th day because He blessed and sanctified that day. How can

we understand this if it was not a single day? Did God rest from His work for a long, long span of time, possibly several million years? This would be a great stretch. It does not appear to be what the author of Genesis was trying to convey to us. The Hebrew word for “Day” is "Yom" and is mainly used to define a 24-hour period, a working day, a day as opposed to night, and does this 1109 times. In comparison, it is only used to define a long period of time, not nearly as often, about 10 times. God used phrases that plainly explain His actions during these 6 days, such as: "Then God said..." "Let there be..." "Let the ...." "God blessed them saying..." "and it was so" These phrases illustrate that God spoke and it was so. Again, Scripture does not even give a hint that the process of Evolution occurred during creation; it is completely absent. For example, when God created woman, (Eve) she was created out of the rib of man. This clearly was completed in instantaneous steps as He fashioned the woman from the rib of Adam, omitting any Evolutionary process. Also, the Bible teaches that God created every living instantly and then commanded “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind” (Genesis 1:24). Every species reproduces “after it own kind”. This implies that one particular species cannot produce a different species; it will always reproduce after itself. Rather, what we find is that God instantly created everything living thing, out of nothing “ex nihilo”, by the power of His spoken Word, "Divine Fiat". It is my conviction through this study and these facts that I must hold to the traditional view of the six literal days of creation, as did almost all of our Christian fathers in the early church. It was almost never an issue until the last 100 years or so. I must go where Biblical evidence takes me...