Why Six Days? (Six Days of Creation, Literal Days or Era's.

Koinonia House ^ | 11/15/2003 | Dr. Chuck Missler

[bondserv]

The Book of Genesis presents a disturbing problem for many Bible-believing Christians. Did God really create the heaven and the earth in just six 24-hour days? How does a serious student of the Torah - the five books of Moses - reconcile the Genesis account with the "billions of years" encountered in the dictums of astronomy, geology, et al?

[bondserv]

Ping!

[Just mythoughts]

So do you think our Heavenly Father knew that so many Christians would have a disturbing problem with that book of Genesis?

Maybe the problem is reading without understanding. No where does it say how old the heavens or earth are.

1 day for the Heavenly Father is described as a thousand years for man.

[general_re]

A little logical sleight of hand...

And there are really only two world-views: either everything - including you - is the result of some kind of cosmic accident, or this is all the result of a deliberate design by a Designer.

Oh, but what he wants you to believe is far more specific than that, isn't it? Either everything - including you - is the result of some kind of cosmic accident, or the book of Genesis is absolutely literally true, right down to the six literal twenty-four hour days, as we ordinarily understand "days" to mean. And I'll lay money down right now that most people will reject that out of hand as a false dichotomy. There is a middle ground, inhabited by far more people than you will find on either end of that supposedly binary choice.

[AZLiberty]

I hate to say it, but it all depends on what the meaning of the word "day" is. If your beliefs (or metaphorical license) can bend the meaning of "day" to mean billions of years, then the creation story sort of works. But science says it "really" took billions of years.

[LiteKeeper]

YEC SPOTREP

[Old Professer]

There are four basic questions that confront all of us: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going when I die?

There are only three:

When's dinner? What is it? Where do I sleep?

[dmanLA]

Excellent article.

I truly believe that as true science advances (not science-like beliefs), it will point to Him.

Actually, all you have to do is look at the machine you are inhabiting. Did it happen by accident? It is a statistical impossibility.

[bluejay]

I know very little about bible and even less about physics. I am just curious why Lord would express himself in terms of rotation of planet Earth? It is very difficult for me to believe that the six days of creation talk about time in terms of rotation of a single planet around it's axis.

[rebel85]

Science is all man-made; given enough rope man will always kill himself because of the sin nature. If Satan can cause the slightest doubt in the Bible, he has won. Why can the world not have been created in 6 days (literal days); it is only recently that this is doubted more, as man has become "smarter" and become more like gods.
If you cannot believe the literal words in Genesis; how can you believe the literal words of a virgin birth and the literal words of a resurrected Saviour--just what the devil wants you to question. If you question the last 2, you will get to ponder these questions with him (Satan) for eternity...just something to think about for now

[bondserv]

We are such a prize that He chose to become a MAN in order to save us. The Son of God, second person of the triune Godhead, lived on earth for 33 years.

[bondserv]

Well said.

[WackyKat]

There are four basic questions that confront all of us

1) What happened to Chuck Missler's brain?

2) Why does anyone listen to his tomfoolery?

3) Does anyone actually buy the tapes and books hawked by this ignoramus?

4) What is that weird weed that's taking over my backyard?

[Just mythoughts]

Best way to have day and night. It is WRITTEN 1 day with the LORD is as a "THOUSAND YEARS" with man.

[bondserv]

So you go with a 12,000 year old universe?

[MissAmericanPie]

Genesis is very clear, everything was created mature. The egg was in the chicken, the fruit was on the tree, and Adam did not have a childhood.

[Diddley]

[5]
I hate to say it, but it all depends on what the meaning of the word "day" is.

Yup. I'm curious.
How long were each of the first two days? There was no sun until the third day.

Genesis:
1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. 1: 14 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:

[WackyKat]

If Genesis is so clear, why does it recite two different, contradictory versions of the Creation?

[TheAngryClam]

Surprisingly, there are some cosmologists that are (again) beginning to suspect that the universe may be geocentric after all!

The lunatics apparently have begun running the asylum.

[Just mythoughts]

Not the universe, we are not told how old the universe is, what we are told is "HOW" long a day with the Lord is compared to a day with man.

That makes that future "LORD"S DAY a thousand years.

So science tells us this earth is far older than 12,000 + years old. What science has not and can not say is "WHEN" man in the "FLESH" was created. There were 8 days of creation, and we do not know exactly when that date began.

"Man" in the flesh is at least 6,000 and I have no difficulty accepting it might be up to around 12,000. This number does not change the "WHY" of "man in the flesh".

The "TIME" does not change the "WHY", and it is what science has proven that makes what many Christans believe look "ignorant".