Deism Apparent Age Theory Of Cosmology

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Cosmology is the study of creation. The study of the event recorded in Genesis 1. Through the Bible there are many verses describing the event of Creation. God in His magnificence chose to create this Earth where we could dwell and live out our lives. God is the Creator of all things, Ephesians 3:9.
There are three views on creation, Theism, Deism, and Pantheism. Theism is the view that God was actively responsible for creation. He was part of everything that happened in the creation event and continues to be actively involved in our lives and the earth. Several verses that support this view are John 1:1-3 to show Jesus’ involvement and Isaiah 40:12 which talks about how intimately involved God was with the process of creating the earth.
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This doesn’t line up with the Biblical belief, even though it might take Genesis 2:7 out of context where God created Adam as a full grown man.
The Punctuated 24 Hour Theory states that each day of creation was 24 hours but then there were millions of years in between each day to let evolution take place. Scripture doesn’t support this theory.
24 Hour Theory is the theory that the Seventh-day Adventists believe. This goes along with the mention of morning and evening everyday of creation as in Genesis 1:13. The Seventh-day Adventists Believe book talks about the word for day in Genesis 1 which is yom and when the word is with a literal number that means a 24-hour day. 24-hour theory also supports the 4th Commandment in Exodus 20:8-10 about resting on the Sabbath day. (Adventists, 1988) I believe that this is how the creation event took place.
The next is the Framework Theory. This theory believes that first half of creation week was set up for the natural kingdom and then the second half was set up for the creature kingdom, the Bible doesn’t support this theory.
The last theory is Historical Creation, which says the creation event in the Bible is not the creation of the universe. Rather the creation of the universe happened over an infinite period of time

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