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Apr 17, 2024 · In Genesis 1:1–5, God creates light and darkness, but in Genesis 2: 5–6, on the day God creates the earth and the heavens, God causes streams to rise to water the earth bringing forth...
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According to Genesis 1, God created the world in six regular 24-hour days and rested on the seventh day. Three pieces of evidence support a six-day creation: (1) the meaning of the Hebrew word “day” (יוֹם), (2) the context in and surrounding Genesis 1, and (3) the gospel.
- What Is A “Day?”
- A Day and The Sun
- Why Six days?
- Day-Age Inconsistencies
- A Day Is as A Thousand Years
- Days and Years
- Day and Covenant
- Does The Length of The Day Matter?
The word for “day” in Genesis 1 is the Hebrew word yom. It can mean either a day (in the ordinary 24-hour day), the daylight portion of an ordinary 24-hour day (i.e., day as distinct from the night), or occasionally it is used in the sense of an indefinite period of time (e.g., “in the time of the Judges” or “In the day of the Lord”). Without excep...
But how could there be day and night if the sun wasn’t in existence? After all, it is clear from Genesis 1 that the sun was not created until day four. Genesis 1:3 tells us that God created light on the first day, and the phrase “evening and morning” shows there were alternating periods of light and darkness. Therefore, light was in existence, comi...
God is an infinite being. He has infinite power, infinite knowledge, infinite wisdom. Obviously, God could then make anything He desired. He could have created the whole universe, the earth and all it contains in no time at all. Perhaps the question we should be asking is why did God take as long as six days? After all, six days is a peculiar perio...
There are many inconsistencies in accepting the days in Genesis as long periods of time. For instance, we are told in Genesis 1:26–28 that God made the first man (Adam) on the sixth day. Adam lived through the rest of the sixth day and through the seventh day. We are told in Genesis 5:5 that he died when he was 930 years old. (We are not still in t...
But some then refer to 2 Peter 3:8 which tells us: “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” This verse is used by many who teach, by inference at least, that the days in Genesis must each be a thousand years long. This reasoning, however, is quite wrong. T...
In Genesis 1:14 we read that God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.” If the word “day” here is not a literal day, then the word “years” being used in the same verse would be meaningless.
Turning to Jeremiah 33:25–26 we read: “Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will cause their ca...
Finally, does it really matter whether we accept them as ordinary days or not? The answer is a most definite “Yes!” It is really a principle of how one approaches the Bible. For instance, if we don’t accept them as ordinary days then we have to ask the question, “What are they?” The answer is “We don’t know.” If we approach the days in this manner,...
- The Hebrew word "yom"
- Manna, the Sabbath and creation。
- The week。
- The seventh day。
Nov 19, 2018 · Here are two possibilities, both pertaining to Shabbos: 1) The Mekubalim write that each day God imbued creation with one of the seven lower Sephiros, culminating in Shabbos with the introduction of Malchus (the last and highest of the seven. I don't recall the exact source for this idea).
Let’s first address the difference between six and seven creation days. Was it six or seven days? God created the heavens and earth in six days in the beginning.
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Aug 12, 2021 · Rather than accepting the straightforward, plain meaning of the account which clearly teaches God created the entire Universe in six literal, 24-hour days, many Christians have reinterpreted...
