Introduction
The topic of creation and humanity is debated by Christians and non-Christians. Modern scientists can claim that the age of the universe is billions of years old and back up their claims with a dating system that cannot be proven. The Bible expresses that God is the creator and humans were fashioned by Him. There are different and varying views of creation, and as Christians, the Bible must be analyzed to examine the truth behind creation.
Creationism: Six Literal Twenty Four Hour Days
Creationism is the view that states the universe, including Adam and Eve, were created in six literal, twenty-four hour days and is the view that agrees with Scripture. The Hebrew word for day is yom, and when analyzing the context of Scripture, it can be concluded six literal, twenty-four hour days of creation of the earth. The Bible makes this argument clear in describing a day as “evening and morning” (Genesis 1:5-2:3). Pastor Mark Driscoll, in his article, “Answers to Common Questions about Creation,” gives support to this view, quoting Exodus 20:8-11 many times in the article. Scripture is clear that God made everything in six literal, twenty-four hour days and rested on the seventh.
The article provided six different views of creation and Creationism is the one that best defines what is written in Scripture. This solidified my conclusion that the universe and everything created was made in six days. For example, the Gap Theory explains that there were two creations. First, the earth was created and then a cataclysmic event happened and it was destroyed. God, then, re-created the earth. Driscoll offers that God declared his creation to be “very good,” which could not be said if evil had previously plagued the world.
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...t warns against this in Scripture. Jesus said, “Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men” (Mark 7:8). As Christians, we need to put the Bible as the absolute source of authority, as it is God’s Word. 2 Timothy 3:16 states: “All Scripture is inspired by God.” If all Scripture is inspired by God, then everything in it is absolute truth, including creation. If we mix Scripture with evolution, then the Bible is not authoritative.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the Bible tells us that creation happened in six literal, twenty-four hour days, and God rested on the seventh. It is impossible to determine the age of the universe as the Bible does not give us that information. The book of Genesis is intended to show us that God is the creator of all things, and to show us His glory. With the biblical account of creation, the Bible refutes evolution.
(Genesis 1-2). Religionists believe that the universe was created in seven days because that is what the Bible says. There are some people who have a strict set of principles and they are called fundamentalists. There are scientific fundamentalists and religious fundamentalists. Their beliefs are very extreme.
...’ ‘story,’ or ‘parable,’ and not as a straightforward record of events of creation.” The idea that the creation story is a literal twenty-four hour day is not the important part of the story, it is just a story to introduce the idea that the world was created by God. Faith is defined by dictionary.com as belief that is not based on proof. We are asked in the bible to live by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). The fact that The Bible was written with the inspired words of God to tell us the creation story as a means to show the awesome power of a Creator is all that we need to consider. The difference between the days being literal twenty-four hour periods, or ages of time, or dark void of time falling between all don’t matter in the grand scheme of our walk with God. All that we need is to have faith that God is our Creator and the Bible tells us his story.
In the beginning, God created...the earth and the heavens, or an evolving mass of matter, later to become the heavens and the earth? The conflict between science and religion is a hot topic in many intellectual circles today. One of the more controversial topics is creation versus evolution. How did the world get to where it is right now? How was creation initiated? Is there a Creator or was life created spontaneously? These are some of the questions that boggle minds and set people searching for answers. There is even a conflict within the church: Did God create the heavens and the earth as they are, or did God allow the universe to develop according to natural laws? This conflict between science and religion continues to hold up in our supposed intellectual society. In order to tame this conflict and be true to their faith and science, Christian biologists have an obligation to reflect their Christianity in the realm of biology as well as their biological intellect in the realm of Christianity.
The Historic Creationism deals with the “beginning” in Genesis 1:1. This verse does not speak of God using a blueprint to start creation. Genesis 1 does let us know that God created the heaven and earth in six days. This should be the foundation fact of the Bible. During this time frame, each day is described with having a morning and evening. To be able to fully understand and believe the creation in a Historic Creation, one will have to reflect to Hebrew 11:3, “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made of what was visible”.
Intro An account of creation is found in the book of Genesis. Chapters one through eleven tell of how and when God created the Earth, the Heavens, all forms of life, and everything else in the Universe. Genesis also tells the stories of Adam and Eve as well as all of their descendants. Genesis is part of the living Word of God, providing details of the character of God, the principles of man, and man’s relation to God.
...arth and humans were not created less than 10,000 years ago; however, it does not mean that divine intervention did not take place in the creation of the universe and the earth. It is this that is the focal point of my argument; the debate is not merely black and white, the grey area is where the compromise can be made. Many argue that without divine intervention, there is no possible explanation for the creation of the universe; however, others argue that due to evolution, creationism is clearly untrue. These ideas when combined allow creationists to retain their belief that the universe was created by the divine, yet allow for the introduction of modern science to explain evolution. The result is a successful resolve to the evolution and creationism debate. Therefore, I believe that not only can evolution and creationism coexist, but also support one another.
The Original Context Summary: Genesis 1: 1- 32 is the story of Creation. It is defined as either a Historic and/or poetic narrative. The narrative was written to tell the story of how God had created the world we live in today. “Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath” is the chapter title and it goes on to give details of what was created on each of the six days. Each day the world had gotten better and more useful. The first day god created the earth and made day and night. The second day he made the sky. The third day he separated the land and sea. The fourth day God created the Sun, Stars and Moon. The fifth day God created animals for the sea and air. The last day was the sixth day and god created animals for the dry land as well as the first
happen? If not, then why should science teachers teach that life evolved over billions of
For centuries people have believed in Creationism which is the idea that the Earth, its inhabitants, and everything in the universe was created and governed by a supernatural power. According to Branch and Scott, the biggest influence on this idea is the Bible and more specifically the Book of Genesis which presents “creation ex nihilo (“from nothing”), a world flood, [and] a relatively recent inception of the Earth” (27). Branch and Scott are of course referring to the Judeo-Christian biblical creation stories of “Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, the Flood and Noah’s Ark” which, in the seventeenth-century Europe, were “generally considered to by literally true” (Park 24). From these stories the idea that except for the “great flood, the Earth and its inhabitants were pretty much the same now a...
Humans have asked questions about their origin and their purpose on earth for eons. The Bible tells humans that God created them and explains their purpose. However, since the Renaissance, humanism answers questions about origins by naturalistic means and science has been redefined in the process. Most institutions of higher education and many individuals have adopted the naturalistic theory of evolution to explain human origin without considering its effects on faith. In contrast to prevailing thought at Goshen College, a literal six-day creation is foundational to the Gospel message. Combining evolution and Christianity makes one’s faith less logical and opens one’s science to new quandaries.
... My friend, who claims to believe in Confucianism, answered my first question with a smile. Although he thinks that the evolution makes more sense than creation, he refused to admit that man and apes share a common ancestor, because not only he wants to believe in higher power, but also wants to value human life. A short time of doubt in evolution, a short period of wondering of higher power gave me an opportunity to explain the problems with evolution. My friend always respected my faith even though he was an unbeliever, so I was able to tell him that both evolution and creation worldview greatly depends on one’s faith, and that the evolution is not as scientific as he thought. When Bible makes sense to them, they believe in God and the rest of the Bible.
In the scripture, God formed the universe in six days. This is evident by the words that are used. For example, in the scripture, Moses uses the word “Yom” to mean day. This word is also used at other occasions in the Bible and it literally means the twenty-four-hour day. This thus gives an assurance that
The Bible and the written laws of nature are like two different books. These books are written and read in completely different languages. The Bible was written in the view of people of that time; whereas, science laws are constantly written and changed for modern world. Therefore, there always will be some controversy between two thoughts. There are still many unknown things in the world that science is yet to find out. Christianity on the other hand accepts extraordinary occurrences and prevents science from explaining things that it cannot. Christianity is needed to explain unbelievable phenomena that are part of our daily life.
The information presented in evolution studies must be viewed with an open mind since there is no definite proof or law of evolution. The dilemma boils down to science vs. religion. God has been our creator since beginning of time, but the discoveries of recent science are sudde...
For all intents and purposes, there are two views of the beginning of the universe. One of these is the creation told in chapters one and two of Genesis. Genesis confirms that God created the Heavens and the Earth on the first day of the first week of Earth’s history.