Analysis Of Seven Days That Divide The World

In Seven Days That Divide the World, John C. Lennox, Lennox explains creation based off of the book of Genesis and science. In the first chapter, Lennox explains the theories as to whether or not the earth moves. He also references people such as, astronomer Nicholas Copernicus, philosopher Aristotle, Martin Luther, Galileo, and John Calvin. Throughout history, it has been argued as to whether or not the earth moves, or if it is fixed in space and the sun, moon, and other planets orbit around the earth. Lennox explains the theories of the different people mentioned earlier and why they thought what they thought. Scientist tended to believe the earth moved and everything else stood still. However, many Christians believed that the earth stood

The thoughts of man being a special creation is given. Humans are the only creation made in God’s image. Lennox finally concludes in chapter five with the message of Genesis one. From Genesis one alone we can learn a lot about God. He is the eternal creator, He is distinct from his creation, He is Throughout the book there were many things I had never thought of before, but they made a lot of sense. For the most part I agreed with a lot of the things Lennox had to say. I had never thought about the possibility that the earth does not actually move (16). In school we have always learned that the earth rotates and moves around the sun while the sun stays in one position. Pulling in the Biblical side of this argument was interesting to me and made me think what if scientist have it wrong. The scripture to this argument makes perfect sense as to why people would have had a hard time when scientist started saying that the earth moves and the sun does not. The whole thought of whether the earth moves or sits still now has me perplexed. After all these years of hearing the earth moves, it has never been mentioned that the sun might actually be what moves and not the earth. I believe this would be an interesting thing to be brought up again in today’s time. However, I could also see where talking about the earth and the sun could have simply been a way to describe things for people to understand

Personally I have always thought of creation as seven twenty-four hour days. Along with this idea is whether the earth is old or young. I personally believe it should be interpreted how the Bible has it written that God created it and that it is not much older than the human race. The framework view and the triad it forms was interesting to me (45-46). I had never thought about how the days correspond to one another. The first three days create something and then days four through six fill the things created on the first three days. It makes sense to look at how God created something and then after everything was created He went back and filled the earth with those creatures. Another thing I found to be very important is the different meanings of the word “day” used in Genesis (50). We lose the meanings in translation which I find to be very important and am glad Lennox brought this up in the book. We can better understand what was happening with creation by understanding the differences in the meanings of how day was used in the different verses. For example, the seventh day when God rested uses a different form of day than the previous six days had