Transcript The Facts About Creation

The Facts About
Creation
The six days of Creation
The six days of creation
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“In
the beginning God
created the heavens and
the earth”. Gen 1:1
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earth was without form
and void (waste & empty,
JND); and darkness was on
the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God was hovering
over the face of the waters.”
Gen 1:2
The six days of creation
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“In the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth.
Time interval???
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Rebellion & judgment of Satan
The earth was without form and void; and
darkness was on the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the
waters.”
Genesis 1:1-2
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See the following Scriptures:
Isaiah 14:12-17
 Isaiah 45:18
 Ezek 28:11-19
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Thoughts about the recreation of the
earth:
– “Only the earth, not the universe is said
to have been ”without form and void”.
– The word translated was in verse 2
could also be translated “became.”
Scofield (2002)
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“the Hebrew expression for without form
and void is used to describe a condition
produced by divine judgment in the only
other two texts where the two words appear
in conjunction (Isa 34:11; Jer 4:23).”
Scofield (2002)
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Some Christians have used this
unspecified interval to try to
harmonize the ideas of scientists with
Scripture since science MUST be
correct!!!!
This is called the Gap Theory
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Evolutionary timetable
– Universe began with a big bang 10-20 billion
years ago
– Solar system arose 5 billion years ago
– Single celled organisms 3-4 billion years ago
– Man , 1-3 million years ago
– Modern civilization 5-10 K years ago
Morris (2007)
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Evolutionist base their timetable upon
radioisotope dating techniques which are
NOT trustworthy since they make several
assumptions.
– Closed system (no contamination of sample)
– Known amounts of daughter material at the
start. (assume none present at start)
– Constant decay rate *
Morris (2007)
See “The Young Earth” by John Morris
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In contrast, many reputable creation
scientist today using Scripture as their guide
contend that the earth is much younger.
– “Even if one inserts every possible time gap in
genealogies and elsewhere (which is clearly not
warranted), the time of the creation of Adam
would be no longer than say, 12,000 years(most
likely, closer to 6,000 years).” Morris, 2007.
The events on the 6
days of creation
The six days of creation
 The
earth was without form
and void (waste & empty,
JND); and darkness was on
the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God was hovering
over the face of the waters.”
Gen 1:2
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Day
Event
1
–Light created (some say appeared)
–Day and Night cycles initiated
–Starting with evening and morning
2
Division
waters
of the waters from the
–Water vapor above
–Waters beneath
–Expanse was called Heavens
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Day
Event
3
–Dry land appears and is called Earth
–Waters collected to form seas
–Grass, herb, fruit trees made
–NOTE, God’s commentary
4
–Sun, moon, & stars created
To divide the day and night
For signs ,seasons, days, years, for light
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Day
5
Event
Fish
and other creatures that live in the waters
Birds
6
Living
creatures, cattle, creeping things
Man created in the image of God to have dominion
over the creation.
Man was a vegetarian
God commented that everything was very good
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Were these 6, 24 hour periods?
– “..the Hebrew word yom, translated day, has a
variety of possible meanings and sometimes can
mean an indefinite period of time. The word
occurs over 2000 times in the Old
Testament…this word almost always certainly
means a solar day..” (John Morris, 2007)
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Reasons for the solar day in Gen 1:
– “when the Hebrew word YOM is modified such
as six days or the third day (as it is some 359
times in the Old Testament outside of Genesis 1)
it always means literal day.” (Morris, 2007)
– Use of evening and morning
– There are other Hebrew words for day that
would imply an indefinite period of time but YOM
is the only one that can mean a solar day.
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Read Exodus 20:8-11
– Here God establishes a weekly pattern for
His people that refers back to His creation
of the world in 6 literal (solar) days with a
7th day of rest.
Some definitions
Definitions
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Biblical creationism:
– “Supernatural creation of all things in six
literal days by the God of the Bible.”
Evolution
– “the idea that all of life has come from a common ancestor
through a process of modification over time. Thus, man
and apes are thought to have descended from an ape-like
common ancestor. All vertebrates came from fish, which in
turn came from an invertebrate. All life descended from a
single-celled organism that arose spontaneously from nonliving chemicals. Changes occurred through natural
processes, including mutation, natural selection and
genetic recombination.”
Morris (2007)
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Theistic Evolution:
– “..God may have either started the
evolution process, and then left it to
natural processes, or may have guided
the evolution process.”
Morris (2007)
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Progressive creation:
– “Sometimes called the day-age theory.
The days of Genesis were long periods of
time, roughly equivalent to the supposed
geologic ages. Each basic category of life
was created by supernatural intervention
at various times throughout the age.”
Morris (2007)
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Framework Hypothesis:
– The idea that the Bible, when it speaks of
things historic or scientific, is to be
understood in the theological sense only,
assuming that God was involved but not
as actually recorded. Genesis is not to be
taken as factual history.”
Morris (2007)