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WE BELIEVE THAT GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE IN SIX LITERAL
24-HOUR DAYS. WE REJECT EVOLUTION, THE GAP THEORY, THE DAY-AGE THEORY, THEISTIC
EVOLUTION, AND EVERY OTHER THEORY OF CREATION EXCEPT THE SIX LITERAL 24-HOUR
DAYS, AS RECORDED BY GOD IN GENESIS.
Part I
WE BELIEVE THAT GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE IN SIX LITERAL 24-HOUR DAYS.
Introduction
God is the creator
Genesis 1:1 – In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth.
Is this verse true or is it false? What you think about this verse reveals
what you think of the entire word of God. Why would anybody not believe this
verse is true? Because evolutionists have filled the world with the theory
of evolution, proclaiming it is no longer a theory, but the truth.
Have you ever been on vacation and gone to a scenic overlook, and there
before you (and your children) is a placard that states, "The scene before
you was produced millions of years ago by … so forth?" I know I have. Is
this really true? Is the world millions of years old? Did God really create the
world?
It seems to me that evolution has taken a front seat in our society. As our
society has turned father and farther away from God, this is a natural
conclusion – that God is not our creator that we just happened to be on this
earth by chance.
I. God has created the heaven and the earth and all that therein is.
A. The word "beginning" means first, or the beginning.
1. If this is truly the beginning, then there was nothing before it as
far as humans and this creation are concerned.
a. Genesis 1:1 is not the beginning of God, because God has never had
a beginning, nor will he ever have an ending.
b. God is eternal, while the earth and the entire universe is
temporary, and material.
2. Job 38:4-7 - God asks Job where he was when God created the
foundations of the earth in the beginning when the morning stars sang for
joy.
a. Revelation 22:16 - Jesus Christ is the morning star.
b. Indications in Job are that the morning stars (plural) are the
angels that God created to praise Him and be His messengers to the
earth.
B. God created the living creatures (of Ezekiel and Revelation) before
time was created.
1. This reveals that God knew from all eternity that He was going to
create man, that man would fall, and that Jesus would come to die for the
sins of sinners.
2. It is very possible that these living creatures were not created in
the sense we think of creation.
3. It is possible that they are representatives of God to fleshly
mankind.
4. We cannot see or begin to comprehend God, His majesty, and His
splendor, or the living creatures.
5. These living creatures are there to help us understand how great God
is and to reveal to us the incomprehensibly of God.
C. God created the living creatures in his own image and after his own
likeness, and they do nothing at all, but praise Him day and night, 24 hours
a day. They have no will of their own, or any desire to do anything but
praise God.
1. Ezekiel 1:5-10 – The living creature represents God as He appears
to man.
2. God has made other living creatures.
a. Genesis 1:21 – God made living creatures – from the water, and
also fowls of the air.
b. Genesis 1:24 – God made living creatures – cattle, beasts, and
creeping things.
c. These living creatures, which dwell on the earth, are different
from the living creatures that live in heaven, yet they are all
described as "living creatures".
3. Ezekiel 10:14,15 – Another description of the living creatures,
and their faces.
4. Revelation 4:7 – Another description of the living creatures, and
their faces.
a. The face of a lion – the face of one who rules, as in Matthew,
where Christ is revealed to be a king.
b. The face of a calf, or an ox – as revealed in Mark, where Christ
is presented as a servant. Ezekiel 10:14 – this face is described as a
cherub, or an imaginary one.
c. The face of a man – the face of Christ as a man, as revealed in
the book of Luke.
d. The face of a flying eagle – the face of divinity or the
suffering saviour as revealed in the book of John.
5. The marvelous thing about God creating these living creatures is
that they are alive. He did not create an inanimate object, which repeated
a program installed in it, which program or machine had no life at all.
a. I could create a machine with a voice and program it to repeat
over and over again how good I am.
b. This is not what God did. He created a living creature that
reflected his very image and person, and that living creature gives
eternal glory and honor to God because that is the nature of the living
creature. The living creature sees, understands and rejoices in the
glory, power, and all the other attributes of God, and therefore gives
praise to God. This is something like we will do when we see Jesus face
to face. Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. There will
be nothing else to do.
6. The living creatures are also represented in the Shekinah glory that
slowly left Israel after years of their rebellion against God.
a. There was a cloud that led the Israelites by day and a fiery
pillar led them by night.
b. The cloud filled the tabernacle after it was completed.
c. The cloud filled the temple of Solomon when it was completed.
7. Isaiah 6:2,6 – God created Seraphims, which are so holy, they burn
in their own holiness, yet they do not reflect their own holiness or
righteousness, but constantly declared one to another, Holy, holy, holy
is the Lord of host, the whole earth is full of his glory.
a. God created angels with wills, so they could either worship God or
not. 1/3 of the angels rebelled against God and followed Satan to
destruction.
b. God created humans when He knew they would rebel, and Satan would
fill the earth with tares, Matthew 13:28.
c. Of all of God’s creatures, only angels and humans have a will.
Only humans are granted opportunity for redemption. Joshua 24:14-17 –
Joshua told the Israelites to make a choice about whether they would serve
God or not. They chose to serve God and did serve him all the days of
Joshua, and the next leader.
D. A miracle to consider – God is in eternity, and is so powerful that
He created beings that will go from time to eternity. Some will go to
everlasting destruction, and some to everlasting life.
1. God created angels before time began even though God knew 1/3 of the
angels would follow Satan in rebellion, and they would spend their
eternity in the Lake of Fire.
2. God created this present heaven and earth, and He created it
perfectly perfect, complete and whole.
a. God knew Satan would come to the earth, deceive the woman and the
man would willingly follow his wife instead of God
b. God knew He would completely destroy this present heaven and earth
and would establish a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth
righteousness.
3. Psalm 19:1-3 – If the italics are left out of these verses, it
reads: The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth
his handiwork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night
sheweth knowledge. 3 no speech nor language, their voice is not heard.
a. All of God’s creation glorifies God and reveals a worldwide flood.
b. Men misread the signs of nature because they are blind to spiritual
truths.
4. God created man in His own likeness after His own image.
a. God gave men dominion over this present earth and everything on it
b. God gave men dominion even though he knew man would fall into sin
and rebel against Him in everything.
E. Scriptures showing God created everything.
1. Psalm 89:11,12 – Everything belongs to the Lord. He has created
the north and the south. The heavens are thine, the earth also is
thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall
rejoice in thy name.
2. Psalms 102:18 – The people that shall be created (future
generations) shall praise the Lord. This shall be written for the
generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the
LORD.
3. Psalms 104:30 – They are created and they praise the name of the
Lord. When God hides his face from man, they are troubled, their breath
goes away and they die and return to the dust. Thou sendest forth thy
spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
4. Psalms 148:5 – Heaven is created, and all of this creation gives
praise to the Lord. The heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the
waters above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he
commanded, and they were created.
5. Proverbs 16:4 - The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea,
even the wicked for the day of evil.
6. Isaiah 14:24 - The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I
have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall
it stand:
7. Isaiah 45:18 – God has created the earth, made it, and established
it to be inhabited. Don’t worry about other planets having life on them.
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that
formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in
vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
8. Isaiah 54:16 – God also creates the waster. Behold, I have
created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth
forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to
destroy.
9. Ezekiel 28:13-15 (and beyond) – This is given to the king of
Tyrus, but speaks spiritually of Satan, who was blessed in every way, but
turned against God, and God found iniquity in him.
10. John 1:3 - All things were made by him; and without him was not
any thing made that was made.
11. Hebrews 1:10 - And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the
foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.
12. Revelation 4:11 - Thou art worthy, IO Lord, to receive glory and
honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure
they are and were created.
II. Why did God take six days to create the world?
A. He could have created it immediately if he had wanted to, but he took
six literal 24-hour days.
1. Exodus 20:8-11 - God intended to use the seven days of creation as a
lesson for humankind.
2. We are supposed to work for six days, then use the seventh day for
worship of God.
B. How long is a day?
1. Genesis 1:5 - The evening and the morning was the first day.
2. This is 24 hours long.
III. What about dinosaurs?
A. If there is a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, then the destruction of
that world caused by Satan would not only have destroyed the dinosaurs, it
would also have destroyed any evidence that dinosaurs existed.
1. Many do not believe the earth is 6,000 years old.
2. It is possible for a person to believe the earth is millions of
years old, yet believe God created the earth.
3. It is impossible for a person to understand the genealogy of the
Bible and believe the earth is millions of years old.
B. It is likely there are still dinosaurs on the earth today.
1. China has always been renowned for its dragon stories, and dragons
have always been prominent on Chinese pottery, embroidery and carvings.
2. England has its story of St. George, who slew a dragon that lived in
a cave.
3. In the tenth century, an Irishman wrote of his encounter with what
appears to have been a Stegosaurus.
4. In the 1500s, a European scientific book, Historia Animalium, listed
several animals, which to us are dinosaurs, as still alive.
5. A well-known naturalist of the time, Ulysses Aldrovandus, recorded
an encounter between a peasant named Baptista and a dragon whose
description fits that of the dinosaur Tanystropheus. The encounter was on
May 13, 1572 near Bologna in Italy, and the peasant killed the dragon.
6. So the evidence for the existence of dinosaurs during recorded human
history is strong.
C. We also have the description of two beasts that could very well have
been such great reptilian creatures still existing in Job’s day.
1. The text records that God was showing Job how great He was as
Creator, in causing him to observe some of the most powerful creatures he
had made.
a. Job 40:15 - Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he
eateth grass as an ox. 16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his
force is in the navel of his belly. 17 He moveth his tail like a cedar:
the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. 18 His bones are as
strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. 19 He is the
chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to
approach unto him.
b. In many commentaries, behemoth is said to be an elephant or a
hippopotamus.
c. However, this description is unlikely, since behemoth is said to
have had a tail like a cedar.
d. Now if there is one thing an elephant’s tiny tail is unlike, it
is a cedar tree!
e. The elephant is quickly eliminated as a possibility for this
beast.
f. In fact, after reading this passage in Job very carefully, one is
hard put to find any living creature to fit the description.
g. The closest that we know could be Brachiosaurus, one of the
dinosaurs.
2. Leviathan (Job 41:1) seems also to have been some form of
fire-breathing dragon.
a. Job 41:19-21 - Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of
fire leap out. 20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething
pot or caldron. 21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of
his mouth.
b. Most commentaries say this animal is a crocodile, but is very
apparently not so.
c. For those who wonder about this, remember that the living
bombardier beetle can shoot out super-heated gases in its own defense.
d. Why not leviathan?
IV. Why don’t people believe the Bible account of creation?
A. Ecclesiastes 3:11 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time:
also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the
work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
B. Eccl. 7:29 - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man
upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
1. God made man perfect, but subject to falling.
2. Believers are better off than Adam. We can’t fall.
C. Hebrews 11:3 – Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of
things which do appear.
D. If you do not believe there is a creator, you have no need of a
Saviour, because there is no such thing as sin.
1. According to I John 3:4, Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth
also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
2. God gave the law, and if there is no creator, there is no God, there
is no law, and there is no sin.
3. Therefore, there is no hell, no heaven, nothing.
4. We might as well act like animals because that is all we are.
E. The Biblical account of creation is treated as pure history in the
following:
1. Exodus 20:9-11 - We rest on the seventh day because God did.
2. Exodus 31:17 – We keep the Sabbath day of resting because God
created the heaven and earth in six days and rested on the Sabbath.
3. Psalms 8 and Psalms 104 declares there is no thought but that God
created the heavens and the earth.
4. Matthew 19:4-6 - Christ believed that man was made male and female
at the beginning. Note that the Pharisees were questioning divorce because
they had forgotten the facts of the creation.
5. II Peter 3:5 - Some folks are willingly ignorant of the fact that
God spoke the creation into existence. Therefore they are ignorant of the
fact of the soon return of the Lord.
6. Hebrews 4:4 - God resting the seventh day from all His works. So
they believed that God created the creation.
F. The Bible states that God made the creation out of nothing.
1. Romans 4:17 – Christ …calleth those things which be not as
though they were.
2. Hebrews 11:3 - things that are seen were not made of things which do
appear.
3. Psalms 33:6, 9 – Christ made the heavens by his word, by the host
of heaven and by the breath of his mouth.
4. Amos 4:13 - The Lord, the God of hosts created all things.
V. Genesis is to be interpreted literally.
A. Some believe Genesis is to be interpreted allegorically.
1. If Genesis is to be interpreted allegorically, why isn’t the rest
of the Bible interpreted allegorically.
2. There is no clear scriptural division between that which is
allegorical and that which is literal.
3. The Bible is clear concerning that which is allegorical.
a. Revelation 1:1 states, …and he sent and signified it by his
angel unto his servant John.
b. The word "signified" means to give a sign.
c. The prophecies given to Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, and most of
the prophets, were clearly allegorical.
B. We believe Genesis is to be interpreted literally, each day being 24
hours long, seven days being one week.
1. Genesis 1:1-5 describes day one.
a. This is the beginning of this universe.
b. The earth was without form and was void.
c. God created light and separated the light from the darkness.
2. Genesis 1:6-8 describes day two.
a. God created a firmament, which divided the waters of the
atmosphere.
b. The firmament is called heaven.
3. Genesis 1:9-13 describes day three.
a. God caused the dry land to appear, causing a separation between
the seas and the landmass.
b. The earth brought forth grass, herbs, and fruit trees, after his
kind.
4. Genesis 1:14-19 describes day four.
a. God created lights in the heaven, which are for divisions, signs,
seasons, and measurements.
b. The sun rules the day and the moon rules the night.
5. Genesis 1:20-23 describes day five.
a. The waters bring forth moving creatures, and all sorts of fowl
that reproduce after their own kind.
b. God also created great whales on this day.
6. Genesis 1:24-31 describes day six.
a. The earth brings forth cattle, creeping things, and the beasts of
the earth after their own kind.
b. God created man after his own likeness and the woman from the rib
of Adam.
c. God gave to man the authority to rule over all the creation,
giving him full option to do with it as he pleased, withholding only
eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
7. Genesis 2:1-4 describes day seven.
a. God rested on this day, not because he was tired, but because he
would be an example of how men ought to work six days and rest the
seventh day, Exodus 8-11.
b. God said all his creation was very good; not good, but very good.
8. Genesis 2:5-25 gives a fuller description of the creation of Adam
and his wife.
Day One
Genesis 1:1-5 – In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said,
Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was
good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light
Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the
first day.
I. The creator.
A. God the Father.
1. "Elohim" - the creator God, not "Yahweh" - The
faithful, merciful one (Jehovah)
2. God was speaking to someone. (Himself - the trinity shown here)
3. The Hebrew "Elohim" is here used in the plural, showing
vaguely the trinity, which doctrine is more clearly expounded later in the
Bible.
B. Jesus the Word.
1. Spoken word.
a. Hebrews 11:3 – the worlds were framed by the word of God. God is
not speaking to inanimate objects, but is speaking to those things that
are not that they might come into existence.
b. Genesis 1:3 - by God speaking. (Also in other places in Genesis 1)
2. Jesus the Word.
a. John 1:3 states that all things are made by God. Verse 14 - Word
(God) made flesh and dwelt among us.
b. Colossians 1:16 declares that all things were created by Christ.
c. I Corinthians 8:6 relates that all things are created by God the
Father and Jesus Christ.
C. Holy Spirit - The third person of the Godhead.
1. The Holy Spirit is laying the foundation of His future work in the
creation.
2. Although there is no life, the Holy Spirit is placing the potential
that will be revealed when there is life.
3. Job 26:13 - By His Spirit, He hath garnished (splendor) the heavens.
4. Job 27:3 - The Spirit of God is in my nostrils.
5. Psalms 33:6 - Made host of heaven by breath of mouth.
6. Psalms 104:30 - Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created.
7. Isaiah 34:16 – The Spirit of God causes prophecies to come to pass.
8. Isaiah 61:1 – The Spirit of Lord caused Isaiah to do God’s will so
the will of God would be accomplished in other people.
9. Isaiah 63:11 - The Holy Spirit led Israel to follow Moses. (Satan’s
Unholy Spirit caused them not to follow Moses.)
II. The beginning – the beginning of created things, not the beginning of
God.
A. Created - made out of nothing.
B. Heaven and Earth - why not "universe"? The Hebrew has no word
for "universe" other than the word "the all". This teaches
us there is actually two parts in the creation. (1) the heavens and (2) the
earth.
1. Heavens - the upper regions.
2. Earth - that which is lower.
III. The earth was without form.
A. There was no fixed shape to it, but the outline of the earth was
moveable, and uninhabitable.
1. Without form - ruin or vacancy - a worthless thing
2. Void - emptiness - to be empty
3. The word "earth" doesn’t mean just dirt, but plants and
the things on earth when God created it.
B. Darkness upon the face of the deep indicates an absence of light.
1. Psalms 107:24 reveals that God has a desire that man would see his
wonders in the waters.
2. Isaiah 51:10 declares that God dried up the waters of the great deep
(the Red Sea).
a. Drying up the Red Sea reveals some of the power of God.
b. This scripture makes it abundantly clear that the Egyptian army was
not drowned in 6" of water, as some "experts" declare.
3. II Corinthians 11:25 - Paul shipwrecked "in the deep".
C. The Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.
1. This is a vibrant moving, and a protective hovering.
2. This shows what happens in the natural realm if God doesn’t do
anything. Note: Lost people are in darkness without God.
3. This shows two divisions in this world:
a. Material (physical) - the devil’s dominion (Eph. 2:1-3)
b. Spiritual - These are operational at the same time on the same
object, pulling in different directions.
D. These verses do not show an incomplete work, as far as God is concerned,
anymore than the life of a saved person is incomplete, as far as God is
concerned. God has some work to do on us just as He had some work to do on the
creation.
E. What God does with the remainder (the heavens) is His own business.
1. If He had wanted us to know about these things, I’m sure He would
have told us.
2. Let us not be worried, or in the least concerned about life on other
planets, or UFO’s or "E. T."
3. Our job is to reach the lost on this earth, (Matthew 28:19, 20), not
be thinking about endless genealogies of what is happening on another
planet.
F. Note the use of the word "and" (…the earth was without
form and void…)
1. The word "and" is used four times in verse 2
2. The word "and" appears at the beginning of every verse
except verse 27. This shows continuity in the creation.
3. The earth was also void – or empty. There was nothing at all in it,
about it, or to it.
4. Darkness (that which is without light or vision) was upon the face of
the deep.
5. Deep means – The deep place where the water was, because there was
no land.
II. The creation of light.
A. Probably also "heat".
1. Verse 11. On the 3rd day, God created plant life.
2. We know plants need heat, as well as light.
3. The sun and moon were created on the 4th day, after light and
"heat".
B. A separation of light and darkness; actually a division between light and
darkness.
1. Light (and probably heat) created without use of sun.
2. On 4th day (v. 14-19), God established the duty and dominion of sun and
moon.
3. God said light is good, but didn’t say darkness was good.
C. God divided light from darkness.
1. It is always good to divide light from darkness.
a. I Samuel 17:3 – The Philistines and Israel are separated by a
valley.
b. II Corinthians 6:17 – Paul urges believers to come out from among
the wicked and be separate.
c. Revelation 18:4 – Christ commands his people to "…Come out
of her (false churches) my people…
d. Satan desires a mixture of good and evil so he can more easily deceive
believers.
e. Matthew 7:15-20 - Wolves are in sheep clothing. Sheep are never in
wolves clothing.
f. The entire book of Jude concerns evil people in God’s churches
trying to get a following for themselves.
D. God, not Adam, named the day.
1. 1st day - (yom) - a 12 hour part of a day which is light.
2. Night - (layelah) - a 12 hour part of the day which is dark.
3. Day - (yom) must mean 24 hours. The term never refers to a period of
unknown length (as in the day-age theory).
a. Day of the Lord - Matthew 24:36 - the time of His coming in judgment,
often including blessings for the righteous.
b. Naming of the day (24 hour period) by God can’t be doubted. God
named the following things and we still call them the same thing and know
exactly what they are:
1.) v. 8 - God called the firmament "heaven".
2.) God called the dry land "earth" and the gathering
together of waters He called "seas".
3.) The Bible doesn’t say that God named Adam, but we know He did.
4.) We haven’t changed Adam’s name or the meaning of his name.
5.) So why should we change the word "day", or the meaning of
the word?
c. Matthew 24:36 uses the word "day" as opposed to "hour
of the Lord".
1.) Day of the Lord probably refers to 1,000 year reign as described in
II Peter 3:8.
2.) The hour of the Lord probably refers to the suddenness of His
return.
4. Evening and morning – According to Leviticus 23:32, the Jewish day
began at the setting of the sun.
a. The length of the 1st day (24 hours) created without the revolutions
of the earth around the sun.
b. The sun and moon and such are merely measuring devices, not the cause
of the day being 24 hours long.
c. The fact that after the measuring devices are created (on the 4th day)
that they fall in agreement with the length of the 1st day shows us that
they are regulated by the hand of God, not God regulated by them.
1.) Isaiah 38:7, 8 - In the days of Hezekiah, God turned back the sun
dial 10 degrees to prove Hezekiah would live.
2.) Matthew 24:22 - days shortened in tribulation.
3.) Revelation 8:12 - evidently a 16-hour day.
Day Two
Genesis 1:6-8 – And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of
the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the
firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters
which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament
Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
I. "Firmament" is apparently an expanse called heaven, which is
our atmosphere.
A. There are three heavens;
1. Genesis 1:20 - The birds fly in the first heaven (Atmosphere)
2. Genesis 1:14, 15, 17 - The sun, moon, and stars, are in the second
heaven.
3. The third heaven is where God dwells:
a. Ezekiel 1:26 - above the firmament is the throne of God.
b. Revelation 4:2 - The throne of God is in the heaven.
c. II Corinthians 12:1-4 - The dwelling place of God, where Paul
went, was the third heaven.
B. Purpose of the firmament:
1. To divide the waters from the waters (v. 6)
a. It was apparently "foggy" all the 1st day
b. The physical laws concerning clouds are established at this point.
2. To preserve life:
a. Genesis 5 - notice that before the flood, men lived about 800 or
900 years. These are actual years, not another measurement of some kind.
b. Genesis 11:10-32 - notice that after the flood men lived about 300
or 400 years.
c. Genesis 10:25 - notice that Peleg was born, the earth was divided,
(continents separated). At this time, men began to live even shorter.
d. The overall reason men began to die sooner is SIN.
1.) Exactly how the shorter life span came to pass, we cannot tell
for sure, but by looking at the scripture, we can tell that something
happened at the flood to cause this.
2.) Some believe this is because the earth changed its axis causing
not only a change in climate, but also a difference in the way the sun’s
rays hit the earth.
3.) We know the harm a young person does to his skin by getting a
"good" a tan.
4.) Medical science has pretty well proved that too much sun causes
cancer.
3. Stabilize the climate.
a. Genesis 10:25 - 99 years after the flood (in the days of Peleg),
the earth was divided.
b. At that same time, there supposedly was a drastic change in
climate, whereas before the flood, the climate was fairly stable, after
the flood, the climate made drastic changes, such as we see in the world
now.
4. Keep the earth and ocean even - by equally distributing the water:
a. Above the firmament
b. Below the firmament
c. Under the earth.
5. Genesis 10:25 - 99 years after the flood, the inequality of
distribution between the water and land caused the land to divide itself.
a. This has been described like a tire out of balance.
b. If all the land were on one side of the earth (as it seemed to be)
and all the water on the other side of the earth, this would cause the
earth to be "out of balance".
II. Conclusion:
A. Deuteronomy 11:10, 11 - Compare Egypt (the earth) and Canaan (heaven)
B. Watered Egypt by foot - a mechanical device.
C. Watered by heaven - by God.
Day Three
Genesis 1:9-13 – And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters
called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his
kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth
brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree
yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it
was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day.
I. Verses 9 and 10 – The waters are gathered together in one place: there
is only one sea and one landmass. The land mass did not break apart for 1755
years, 99 years after the flood in the life of Peleg - Genesis 10:25.
A. Waters under the firmament - the Bible principle of "scripture
interpreting scripture" II Peter 1:20.
B. This is different from the flood in Noah’s day: the flood is
disruptive, but the creation is organizational.
II. Verses 11 and 12 - The earth (dry land) is called to produce.
A. Grass, herb and fruit tree.
1. Grass, herb yielding seed - having a seed outside of itself, with no
fruit. Yet this is a type of food, for cows and horses eat the grass
itself. Also they eat the seeds.
2. Fruit tree - all others are fruit trees, with the seed inside the
fruit, as apples and oranges.
a. Some of the fruit is not good for human consumption (pine cones),
but it’s fruit nevertheless.
b. Probably created with fruit already ripe - for beasts (created on
the 4th and 5th day) and man (created on the 6th day).
c. Remember that the grass and herb is also created for the food of
the animals.
B. After its kind – there is no changing from one kind of tree or fruit
to another kind. You can graft an apple tree branch onto a peach tree and
grow apples on that branch of the peach tree, but you won’t get 1/2 peach
and 1/2 apple.
C. Evolution teaches production by chromosome mutations.
1. Define Chromosomes:
a. Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary defines chromosomes as carrying
the genes that convey hereditary characteristics, and are constant in
number for each species.
b. Encyclopedia International defines chromosomes as being found in
pairs. The number of chromosomes in a cell is constant for any
particular species.
2. But -- The mutations of chromosomes is the very heart of evolution.
a. Medical science told me (1982) that a child could not live 3 days
with just one chromosome too many.
b. Mutations of chromosomes are degenerative.
Day Four
Genesis 1:14-19 – And 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: And let them be for lights in the firmament of
the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great
lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and
to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the
evening and the morning were the fourth day.
I. Creation on this day is divided into two parts.
A. Verses 14-15 - the command to create.
B. Verses 16-19 - the acting on that command.
II. Creation of:
A. Sun - Greater light.
B. Moon - Lesser light.
C. Stars.
D. None of these are to be worshipped.
1. Heathens worship anything except the true God.
2. There are many sun and moon worshippers even in this
"enlightened" day.
3. Deuteronomy 17:3 remarks that stars are worshipped through the
Zodiac.
III. Purpose of the lights – Verse 14
A. Divide day from night.
1. Before the fourth day, God made light without the sun and made the
day-night interval without a physical measuring device.
2. Now God has made a physical device and turned the source of light,
heat, and measurement over to it. God still retains control of these
lights:
a. Joshua 20:9 - God commanded the sun to stand still for about a
whole day.
b. II Kings 20:9 - Sun going backward 10 degrees in days of Hezekiah.
3. Verse 15 - These are lights made for the benefit of the earth only.
This is the only place God made for man to dwell.
4. Verse 16 – The greater light - (sun) - rules the day.
5. There is only one source of light and heat.
6. The lesser light - (moon) - rules night – The moon is a reflector
of light of sun.
B. Signs
1. Never for signs of Zodiac or fortune telling (planting your garden).
2. Always to let us know a certain thing is true.
a. Acts 28:13 declares that men can get their bearings at sea.
b. In Matthew 16:3-4 Jesus stated there were signs in the heavens to
determining the weather.
c. Psalms 8 and 19 tells us these heavenly signs reveal there is a
God.
d. Matthew 2:2 speaks of the star of Christ in the east.
e. Matthew 24:3, 24, 30; Luke 21:5, 11, 15; Revelation 15:1 and many
other passages gives the signs of the end of the world.
C. Seasons.
1. Probably the seasons before the flood not as dramatic in temperature
change as we have now.
2. It may be that the earth shifted on its axis and caused the varying
temperature changes we have now.
D. Days - the time it takes the earth to make one complete revolution of
its axis.
E. Years - one complete revolution of the earth around the sun.
1. From vernal equinox to vernal equinox.
2. The fact of days and years as measured by God is important for
without this measurement, we’d be unable to determine the length of time
of prophetic events.
Day Five
Genesis 1:20-23 – And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly
the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the
open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living
creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And
God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the
seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning
were the fifth day.
I. Day 5 and 6 - creation of four kinds of flesh - I Corinthians 15:39.
A. man
B. beast
C. fish and
D. fowl.
II. Day 5 is made up of two events:
A. creation of water life
B. creation of fowls
III. This is a whole new type of life, which breathes and moves, not like
plants.
A. Bring forth abundantly - swarm (like a school of fish - this is a
descriptive term.) (Verb) there are many of these, but the waters are not
"full".
1. Moving - teeming things
2. Creature - a swarming creature (noun). The waters are not the source
of life of fish and fowls, as evolution teaches.
B. Fowl - birds
C. Whale - sea monster - "Tennim" also translated
"dragon".
IV. This is the first blessing by God.
A. Not just one pair, but swarms (V.20)
B. Not just a wish of well being, but a command they will be able to
fulfill by God’s help.
Day Six
Genesis 1:24-31 – And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth
after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his
kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth
after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26 And God said, Let us make man
in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God
created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said, Behold, I have given
you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every
tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for
meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to
every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given
every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that he had
made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the
sixth day.
I. Day 6 - Two creations occurred on this day.
A. God created the beasts of the earth.
B. God created man and woman.
II. Compare the creation of man and the creation of animals.
A. There is a difference, even though both are created on day 6.
B. The words "bring forth" means to cause to go out and relates
to Genesis 1:11, which refers to the works of the 3rd day.
III. There are three classes of beasts.
A. Cattle - domestic animals (behemah)
B. creeping thing - (remes) small animals, insects, so forth.
C. beasts of the earth (chaiyah, cheva) wild beasts of the earth.
IV. God made man.
A. God created Adam first, then created the woman from the rib of Adam.
1. "Them" is a plural word indicating not only that Adam and
his helpmeet will have control, but also that humans will have perpetual
control over the earth.
a. The thought of perpetual human control of the world is repeated to
Noah in Genesis 9:1-7.
b. The idea of environmentalists that limit human control of this world
is wrong.
2. The creation of humans was different than the creation of animals.
B. "…let them have dominion…" means to rule, or tread
down.
1. This apparently doesn’t include "fear".
2. Animals being afraid of humans is noted in Genesis 9:2.
3. This shows that man is created on a much higher plane than the
animals.
4. All things are under the control of man.
a. Dominion includes four kinds of flesh: fish, fowl, cattle, and
creeping things.
b. All the earth is under the dominion of human, which includes all
plants, chemistry, electricity, physiology, etc.,
c. I believe this also includes man’s will.
1.) Adam had true "free will" - He had a choice whether to
sin or not.
2.) Today man’s will is bound by sin.
3.) Today, all are born sinners; we have no choice.
4.) If God did not choose us to salvation, we would never choose it.
5. Man also has control over the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and
Evil".
a. This is not a bad tree, but a good tree.
b. The "Tree" is a sign for Adam to see God’s sovereignty
over the entire creation, which includes Adam.
c. The "Tree" is a sign for Adam to see that he is able to
disobey God. It actually teaches Adam about the grace of God, for by grace
is Adam to look to God to be kept by God.
C. God did not create swarms of humans, as he did in verse 20, but
commanded humans to fill the earth.
1. In Genesis 1:20, God told Adam to fill the earth, but stated the
waters were to bring forth the moving creature.
2. In Genesis 1:24, God commanded the earth to bring forth the living
creature after its kind.
3. The reproduction of humans is different than the reproduction of
animals.
D. Eccl. 7:29 - God made man upright:
1. Adam stood upright in order that he might better see God and His
creation.
a. Contrast that God made animals looking down to the ground.
b. Animals have no conception of God, although they have good
"reasoning" concerning this earth.
2. Adam is to seek his happiness by looking to God, while animals find
happiness from the earth.
E. The "Change" in the dominion of Adam’s rule:
1. When Adam followed his wife and partook of the Tree of Knowledge of
Good and Evil, he was:
a. Disobeying God’s only law
b. Denying God’s sovereignty over him.
c. Trying to establish his own righteousness and dominion over God and
His laws.
2. Romans 10:3 – It is likely Adam didn’t really understand the
righteousness of God, therefore he went about to establish his own
righteousness.
a. Compare to Romans 1.
b. Note the end of unrighteousness in Rom 1:32.
F. Who is God counseling with?
1. Not counseling with the angels. - God never counsels with angels. He
talks with them as in Job 1 and 2
2. Isaiah 6:8 - "Whom shall I send?" God speaking with Himself.
G. Man is created in image of God, not in the image of angels.
1. "In our image, after our likeness".
a. Man is closely patterned after his maker.
b. Sets man apart from animals, as they are not patterned after God.
All these physical features are absent in animals.
c. Man’s bearing (standing upright) which allows him to direct his
gaze upward.
d. Animals look down to the ground.
e. A capacity for varying facial expressions.
f. A sense of shame or embarrassment - blushing.
g. Man is given speech, especially Romans 8:26,27, which speaks of
spiritual communication with God.
2. Genesis 5:1 - Adam created in likeness of God.
a. "Image" - (tselem) - to carve or cut off - a concreted.
similarity to God.
b. "Likeness" - (demuth) - a more abstract similarity to God.
3. Genesis 5:3 - Seth begotten by Adam in his (Adam’s) likeness.
H. Comparing God’s body and man’s body (image)
1. We can hardly say that man’s body is patterned after God’s body,
because God doesn’t have a physical body. He is Spirit - John 4:24.
2. But it is a suitable receptacle for the spirit of man and of the
Spirit of God.
3. When we’re saved, the Spirit of God inhabits our bodies.
4. Many times God and angels chose to appear in human form.
a. Judges 13:2-6 - An angel looking like a "man of God"
talked to Samson’s mother.
b. Genesis 19 - two angels appear before Lot. The men of Sodom and
Gomorrah thought they were men.
5. These things men and God are said to have in common: eyes, hands,
fingers, feeling, feet, hair, heart, ear, etc.,
I. Comparing God’s body and man’s body, or likeness.
1. Man is immortal - like God (at least in living forever - someplace).
2. Animals aren’t immortal.
3. Intellectual - man has the ability to reason and know there is a God.
a. Romans 1:18-20 reveals that man has an internal knowledge of God.
b. Animals do not have any knowledge of God.
4. Man is spiritually inclined to morals, animals aren’t.
5. We know adultery is wrong.
6. Animals don’t believe in marriage, much less adultery.
J. Saved people strive to be more like God.
1. Phil 2:6, 7 - Christ in form of God before He came into the world.
2. Col. 1:15 - Jesus is image of invisible of God.
3. Col. 3:10 - new man renewed in knowledge after image of God.
4. Eph. 4:24 - put on new man, created in righteousness and true
Holiness.
V. The completion of the act of creating man, and his helpmeet: male and
female.
A. A fuller explanation of God creating male and female is given in Genesis
2:18-25.
1. All of Genesis 2:7-25 happens on the 6th day.
2. Genesis 1:24-25 reveals that the creation of living creatures, cattle,
and every creeping thing also occurred on the sixth day.
B. Genesis 2:7-25 is included in Genesis 1:17.
1. This is a basic Bible principle.
2. Many times a scripture is given which includes many other scriptures.
3. Later there will be passages that will explain the verse.
a. Daniel 12:2 includes at least 1007 years: the separation between the
1st and 2nd resurrection, as revealed by comparing Revelation 20:5 and
20:12.
b. Compare Luke 4:16-20, where Christ quotes Isaiah 61:1, 2. Note that
Christ stopped reading in the middle of the verse. There is a lot of
difference between preaching the gospel and the day of vengeance of God.
C. God created only one couple, the man and the woman.
1. The scripture seems to indicate that God created more than one
"couple" for the animals and more than one plant.
2. According to Genesis 2:17, God made man first, but he didn’t do so
with the animals.
3. Genesis 2:21,22 states that God made the helpmeet from the rib of
Adam, therefore God made the helpmeet second.
4. Many people don’t believe woman was made from the rib of Adam
because today men and women both have the same number of ribs.
a. Woman was made from the rib of Adam - not from every man.
b. Every man has the same number of ribs as Adam, but Adam had one less
rib.
5. The woman was not created from the head of Adam, revealing she is not
to rule the man. God is - I Corinthians 11:3.
6. The woman was not created from the foot of Adam - she’s not to be
stepped on by man.
7. The woman is a man’s helpmeet (a help that is suitable).
8. Before the fall, the woman is man’s equal.
a. She lost this position in the fall.
b. Genesis 3:16 - woman is to be ruled by her husband, which is part of
the curse.
c. The entire curse is good, even though we might think the curse is
bad.
9. Eph. 5:22-24 - All women have a desire, which God put in them, to
submit themselves to their own husbands.
a. The modern feminists movement is nothing more than a satanic attempt
to remove the curse God put on woman.
b. Godly women understand satanic attacks and willingly submit
themselves to their own husbands.
D. Adam names the helpmeet "woman", not Eve".
1. Compare Genesis 2:23 and 3:20, which states that Adam changed his wife’s
name from woman to Eve because he understood the redeemer would come through
her.
2. After Adam is saved, he named the woman "Eve". The reason is
given in Genesis 3:20 - He was looking for the Saviour.
E. Verse 28 reveals that sex in not the cause of sin.
1. Reproduction is a command of God, not the cause of sin.
2. Hebrews 13:4 states, Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed
undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
3. Genesis 2:24, 25 reveals that God instituted marriage.
4. One of the purposes of marriage is to reproduce the human race.
a. The word "replenish" doesn’t mean "to fill up
again", as the modern use of the word indicates.
b. The word "replenish" means "fill up".
c. Adherents of the "Gap Theory" believe
"replenish" means "to fill up again."
VI. The food that God supplies.
A. Food for humans, a vegetarian diet, is described in verse 29.
1. Herb bearing seed
2. Fruit of tree - with the exception of Tree of Knowledge of Good and
Evil (Genesis 2:16, 17)
3. The dominion of man over animals did not at first include the eating
of them.
a. This came later, as described in Genesis 9:3.
b. Some men, of the Cain line, could have disobeyed God and ate meat.
c. They disobeyed every other command of God, why would this one be any
different?
4. God providing food should:
a. Make us humble
1.) Matthew 6:26, 31 - God still feeds the animals.
2.) Exodus 16:4 - Israel had manna from God.
3.) Num. 11:6 - Israel got tired of God’s food.
4.) Genesis 3:7 - Adam and woman got tired of God’s provided food
and decided to disobey God and do things their way.
b. Makes us satisfied.
1.) God saw the necessities of the body.
2.) According to Matthew 6:31, if we put God first, he will provide
those things we need.
3.) Philippians 4:10-12 states that Paul was content in whatsoever
state he finds himself in.
B. In the beginning animals, like humans, ate only herbs.
1. Isaiah 11:1-9 reveals that before sin, animals were like they will be
during the millennium, vegetarian.
2. After sin, Animals begin to eat one another.
3. Today birds eat seeds and fruit of trees (apples, cherries), but they
also eat worms, and bugs.
4. Bugs eat anything in sight, especially if it’s in your garden or
orchard.
VII. God saw everything He had made.
A. He still does.
1. Psalms 139:1-16 - David’s being revealed to God.
2. Jeremiah 1:4-10 - God saw Jeremiah before he was born.
3. Acts 15:18 - known unto God are all his works from the beginning of
the world.
B. God reviewed His works - we ought to review our works also.
1. He pronounced it good after He had seen it all.
2. Teaches us not to answer a matter until we hear it all.
3. We should always examine our own works, don’t just assume they’re
good.
a. II Timothy 4:6-8 - Paul looked at his works and declared them
"good" before God.
b. We should be able, by the grace and mercy of God, to look at our own
works and declare them good.
c. The ultimate approval, of course, of if God says to us, "Well
done, thou good and faithful servant."
4. The Bible states that all the works of God (except the 2nd day) was
good.
a. Day one – Genesis 1:4 – God said the light was good.
b. Day two – Genesis 1:6-8 – God did not say the creation on this
day was good, but that doesn’t mean he thought it was bad, as he said in
Genesis 1:31 that all his creation was very good.
c. Day three – Genesis 1:10 – God called the dry land good.
d. Day four – Genesis 1:12 – God called the creation of plants
good.
e. Day five – Genesis 1:18 – God called the creation of the planets
good.
f. Day six – Genesis 1:21 – God called the creation of the animals
good.
g. Day six – Genesis 1:31 – God declared all his creation was very
good.
h. Therefore all the works of the six days was very good.
C. When God looked on the creation and declared it "very good",
did he include the angels?
1. Genesis 2:1 – Some would say the host of heaven, properly put in
context would seem to mean only those inhabitants of heaven (planets and
stars, etc;) created on the 4th day, and those of the earth (animals and
humans).
a. It seems more proper, however, to conclude that the entire
inhabitants of heaven and earth are included.
b. The host of heaven and earth would also include all the laws of
science are properly functioning.
2. There is no sin, nor "scar of sin" on the creation.
a. Believers in the "gap theory" believe Satan was cast out
of heaven to the earth where he completely destroyed the
"pre-Adamic" earth and all creatures.
b. This would mean that there is a "scar of sin" that Christ
had to "cover up" in his "recreation".
c. This would mean that there was sin on the earth before Genesis
3:1-6.
d. This sin was not caused by man’s disobedience, but man was
the victim of sin.
3. What happened to the "pre-Adamic" race?
a. They were not looking for a Saviour, who is promised in Genesis
3:15.
b. Did they go the heaven, or hell, or no place at all?
c. Most believers in the Gap Theory believe Revelation 20:13, which
speaks of the sea giving up the dead, refers to a "pre-Adamic"
race.
d. Therefore Revelation 20:13 speaks of a resurrection of lost people.
e. Many gap theorists believe the "pre-Adamic" race ruins are
buried in the deepest oceans.
4. The truth is that there is no such thing as a "pre-Adamic"
race.
a. If "science" hadn’t come up with the theory of evolution
that involves many billions of years to account for the creation of the
universe and its inhabitants, there would be no thought of a
"pre-Adamic" race.
b. The believers of a "pre-Adamic" race are trying to
reconcile the Bible with so-called "science".
5. There is no Scriptural evidence that Satan’s fall in heaven produced
a cataclysm on earth.
a. Satan was only "cast to the earth" Ezekiel 28:17 after
his rebellion and fall, and thus he had no connection with the earth when
it was first created.
b. In fact, God’s estimate of "everything" in the earth at
that time included the angels, even Lucifer!
c. Quite probably this fall and expulsion to the earth occurred
sometime between Genesis 1:31, when all things were still
"good", and Genesis 3:1, when he appeared to Eve, in the body of
a serpent.
d. How long {or short} this period may have been the Scriptures do not
say.
e. It is very likely, however that the time was very short.
f. It is reasonable that Adam and his wife had not come together in a
conjugal relationship when the woman was deceived and Adam fell because
the Bible records in Genesis 4:1 that Adam did not know his wife until after
they left the Garden of Eden.
g. If Adam and his wife had had come together before sin entered the
world, there is a "chance" they would produce the perfect child,
without any sin, and able to live eternally on the present earth.
6. The first appearance of evil in the Bible is Genesis 3:1, when Satan
possessed the body of the serpent to deceive the woman and Adam.
Day Seven
I. God rested on day seven from all his works, and commands us to rest from
the labor of this world by worshipping him.
II. Exodus 20:9-11 is the 4th commandment.
A. Since God worked six days and rested on the 7th day, man ought to also
work six days and rest on the 7th.
B. The Bible teaches that man should not be involved in the world more
than six days at a time; on the 7th day every man be involved with Spiritual
things.
Part II
WE REJECT EVOLUTION, THE GAP THEORY, THE DAY-AGE THEORY, THEISTIC EVOLUTION,
AND EVERY OTHER THEORY OF CREATION EXCEPT THE SIX LITERAL 24-HOUR DAYS, AS
RECORDED BY GOD IN GENESIS.
I. A condensed definition of evolution is a gradual process in which
something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form.
II. The Gap Theory is defined as placing an indeterminate amount of time
between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.
A. There is no record of exactly when Satan was created by God, but when
he was created, he was very good.
1. God did not create anything that was bad.
2. The traditional meaning is that there are millions of years between
these two verses, when Satan was cast down from heaven and destroyed the
first creation.
3. If this was so, then death has come from something other than the
sin of Adam.
4. God said that the sin of Adam was what caused death to come to all
the creation.
5. Romans 5:12 - Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world,
and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned:
B. Genesis 1:31 - God said that all of His creation was very good.
1. If everything was very good, then Satan was also very good.
2. He had not yet fallen.
III. There are many different versions of what happened during this
supposed long period of time, but most versions place millions of years in
this place.
A. Most versions also place Satan’s casting out of heaven and his
coming to the earth and destroying the creation of God in this time frame.
B. We reject the Gap Theory because the Bible nowhere give any indication
of a gap between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.
C. Genesis 1:31 informs us, And God saw every thing that he had made,
and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the
sixth day.
1. God said all his creation was very good; therefore the creation was
contaminated with sin, destruction, death or ruin.
2. Sin, which causes death, came into the world in Genesis 3, therefore
Genesis chapter one and two speak of a perfect world.
IV. The Day-Age Theory holds that the six days referred to in the Genesis
account of creation are not ordinary 24-hour days, but rather are much longer
periods of thousands or millions of years.
A. The Genesis account is then interpreted as an account of the process
of cosmic evolution, providing a broad base on which any number of theories
and interpretations are built.
B. Proponents of the Day-Age Theory can be found among theistic
evolutionists and progressive creationists.
1. Thiestic evolutionists believe God initiated on earth then allowed
evolutionary principles to bring man to where he is: maybe with a little
help from God here and there.
2. Progressive creationists change the meaning of "day" in
the creation account - from a single rotation of the Earth, to a long,
indefinite period of time (perhaps hundreds of millions of years each).
C. We reject the day-age theory because the Bible defines the length of a
day.
1. Genesis 1:5 states, …And the evening and the morning were the
first day.
2. God said one evening (a time of darkness) and one morning (a time of
light) made one day.
3. The Jews count their day as beginning in the evening, as God did
when he created this world.
4. The day-age theory is nothing more than another attempt to disregard
the clear teachings of the scripture in favor of the ramblings of
changeable "science".
V. Progressive Creationists believe the day of Genesis 1 is not a day, but
long ages. They reject the fact that a day is one complete rotation of the
earth and insist a day is a long, indefinite period of time. They generally
believe the following:
A. The "Big Bang" is interpreted as God's way of producing
stars and galaxies through billions-of-years of natural processes.
B. The Earth and universe are billions of years old.
C. The days of Creation were overlapping periods of millions and billions
of years.
D. Death and bloodshed have existed from the very beginning of Creation
and were not the result of Adam's sin. Man was created after the vast
majority of earth's history of life and death had already taken place.
E. The flood of Noah was local, not global and it had little affect on
the Earth's geology which represents billions of years of history.
F. We reject the progressive creationism because:
1. God spoke the worlds into existence, he did not use the "big
bang".
2. The Bible makes it abundantly clear that the earth is approximately
6,000 years old, not millions or billions of years old.
3. God did not create a world full of death and bloodshed. Death and
bloodshed came into the world because of sin, therefore death and
bloodshed are abnormal, not normal.
4. Fossils are the result of death and quick burial, therefore fossils
give proof of a world-wide flood, not a local flood.
VI. Theistic Evolution is "atheistic evolution" with God added.
A. Atheistic evolution has matter evoluting over a long period of time
with chance, necessary mutations, combined with selection of the fittest,
and isolation.
B. In Theistic evolution God is simply added to the mixture, but God is
not the omnipotent Lord of all things, whose Word has to be taken seriously
by men, but he is integrated into the evolutionary philosophy. Hence
Theistic evolution is very dangerous for Christians.
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