Reverend Paul Norwalt's Evolutionism And Creationism

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Try to imagine total emptiness. No sky. No land. No heat. No light. No time. No sign of life. No objects. No sounds. Total emptiness. As stated in “Evolutionism and Creationism”, Reverend Paul Norwalt defined “evolution” as” the scientific theory that all living things develop over millions of years from previous life forms”. He defines “creation” as “the belief that life on Earth was created just as it appears today by God, in only six days a few thousand years ago, as recounted in the Book of Genesis in the Bible”. God’s word tells us that creation had a Creator. There are six days of creation and one day of rest in God’s creation week. The theory of Evolution tells us that everything such as matter, time, energy, and space accidently made …show more content…

Genesis 1:14-19 says “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years” (Genesis 1:14-19). God made two great lights – one to govern the day and a lesser light to govern the night. The sun and the moon were created. God made the sun and moon for our benefit. The sun lights up the earth during the day, but the moon gives earth light during the night. These two lights indicate seasons, days, and years. God continued his creation of light for the Earth by also creating the stars that make up our galaxies and the universe. Now that He had provided everything needed for living creatures, all was ready for the fifth …show more content…

Genesis 1:31 says, “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). Creation.com helps explain why God rested after speaking a creative word into existence and then making Adam and Eve; it states “that the Hebrew word translated here as ‘rest’ also means ‘cease’. So God ceased or rested from His work after six days.” God was not tired from the exciting creative activity. It was time to rest because everything had been completed exactly as planned. God blessed this day. On the first through the sixth days, the Bible tells us that God was pleased with Creation, but he had not blessed the day. The seventh day was special because he made it

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