Posted on 02/24/2015 3:58:46 PM PST by RaceBannon
WHAT DOES GOD SAY?
EXODUS 20:11"For in ______ ___________ the LORD _____________ heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is."
Why do some people say that these 6 days were really ages?
Evolutionary scientists BELIEVE that life in its present form (including men, monkeys, giraffes, kangaroos, birds, fish, plants and all life as we know it today) is the product of an evolutionary process that has lasted about 4 BILLION YEARS (more or less, depending on the latest theories)! That is a very long time!
For the evolutionists it would be appropriate like to RE-WRITE Exodus 20:11 as follows:
"For in 4,000,000,000 years there evolved the heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is."
How many DAYS is 4,000,000,000 years? How many days are there in one year? __________ DAYS
4,000,000,000 YEARS (the time needed for evolution)
X 365 DAYS (number of days in a year)
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1,460,000,000,000 DAYS
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1 TRILLION, 460 BILLION DAYS!!!
God God says in Exodus 20:11 that it took _____________ DAYS to create the world and all of its life forms. |
EVOLUTIONISTS Evolutionists say in their science books that it took ___________________________ DAYS for life to evolve to its present form. |
WHAT A DIFFERENCE! It is amazing and wonderful what our GREAT GOD can do in just six days! It is sad and pitiful that the god of the evolutionists (the god of chance) needs so much time to get his work done! But the evolutionists believe that if you have enough TIME, anything is possible! They believe in this simple formula:
PLENTY OF TIME + PLENTY OF CHANCE (lots of luck!) = AMAZING RESULTS (plants, fish, birds, reptiles, mammals, people, etc.) |
Lets see if this is really true:
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If you were to carefully drop the blocks out of an airplane, do you think they would fall on the ground in just the right way to spell your name? If you repeated this experiment 50 times each day, do you think the blocks would ever fall in the right way and in the right order? If we depend on luck and chance, do things normally fall into order or into disorder? ____________________
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The evolutionists admit that evolution seems impossible and that the chances against it ever happening are great, but they claim that if you have enough TIME, anything is possible:
The odds against the right molecules being in the right place at the right time (to form the first living cell) are staggering. Yet, as science measures it, so is the TIME SCALE on which nature works. Indeed, what seems an impossible occurrence at any one moment would, given untold eons (ages), become a certainty. (National Geographic Magazine, September 1976, page 390)
Time is in fact the hero of the plot. The time with which we have to deal is of the order of two billion years. What we regard as impossible on the basis of human experience is meaningless here. Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs the miracles. (Scientific American "The Origin of Life," August 1954, p.48)
Evolutionists believe that "with time all things are possible!" And the evolutionists believe that 4,000,000,00 years is enough time for all life on this planet to reach its present form, and all by chance!
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Lets think about this. If each of these "AGES" were of equal length, then how long would each "day-age" be?
4,000,000,000 years
divided by 6 days
= 666,666,666 years (in each "day-age")
Each "DAY-AGE" would be more than 666 MILLION YEARS! That is a very long day!
Were the days of creation really long periods of time? Were these days really AGES?
Before we answer this, we must first realize that the word "DAY" is sometimes used to describe a long period of time. Here are some examples:
(TIME = 1 YEAR) + (TIMES = 2 YEARS) + (½TIME = ½YEAR)
which makes a total of ___________ years
From these examples we see that it is possible to use the word "day" to describe a long period of time. The word "day" can also be used to describe a 12 hour period of time: "The sky was clear and the sun was shining all day!" Most of the time, however, we use the word "day" to describe a 24 hour period (scientifically defined as the time that the earth spins once on its axis). We might say, "There are seven days in every week." Here we are obviously referring to normal 24 hour days. The important question for us to ask is this: How is the word "day" used in Genesis Chapter 1?
God has carefully defined the word "day" by the expression "evening and morning." "And the _______________________ and the ________________________ were the first ________" (Genesis 1:5 and see verses 8,13,19,23,31).
There is something that every day contains: AN EVENING AND A MORNING!! How many days are represented below?
E-M-E-M-E-M-E-M-E-M-E-M
_________ DAYS
Daniel 8:14 (according to the Hebrew text) says "Unto 2,300 evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." How many days is this? _________ DAYS. See also Daniel 8:26.
Every 24 hour day has an evening and a morning. Does an AGE have an evening and a morning? _______ (a long period of time would have many, many evenings and mornings!) An age may have a beginning and an ending, but it does not have just one evening and morning!!
God also defines the word "day" by putting a NUMBER before it: "And the evening and the morning were the ______________ day" (Genesis 1:5). God tells us exactly what day it was. It was the FIRST DAY. See also Genesis 1:8,13,19,23,31 and Exodus 20:11 ("SIX days").
When a number comes before the word "day," it almost always refers to a literal 24 hour day. Compare Numbers 7:12,18,24,30,36,42,48, etc. Let us consider these examples:
In Genesis 1:5 God has told us what happened on "the ___________ _______." What kind of a day was this first day? Was it an age? In verse 5 God has said that this first day was made up of a period of light called ________ and a period of darkness called ______________. So we know that this first day was a day-night period. DAY 1 of the CREATION WEEK was a period of 12 HOURS OF LIGHT and 12 HOURS OF DARKNESS.
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How many days are represented above? ________
Every 24 hour day has a DAY (period of light) and a NIGHT (period of darkness). Does an AGE have a DAY and a NIGHT? _________ (An age has many, many days and nights!)
Genesis 1:15-19 describes the fourth day of creation. In these verses the word "day" or "days" is used 5 times. Please match the following:
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The seventh day was a 24 hour day also (Genesis 2:1-3). On what day were Adam and Eve created (Genesis 1:26-31)? ____________________ Did God curse the earth on the seventh day, the day which He blessed (see Genesis 3:17-19 and Genesis 2:3)? ____ Did Adam and Eve live beyond the seventh day? _______ How old was Adam when he died (Genesis 5:4-5)? __________________ The seventh day was not a long age lasting thousands or millions of years. It was a 24 hour day just like the first six days.
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
The fourth commandment is found in Exodus 20:8-11 and in these verses the word "day" or "days" is used 6 times. To see how the word "day(s)" is used in these verses, please do the matching problem found at the top of page 35:
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Notice in Exodus 20:11 that the number _______ is placed before the word "days" (see pages 32-33). Your friend might say to you, "I worked on a paper for school and it took me six days to finish!" Do you think your friend meant days or ages? ______ (When you are doing schoolwork, it may seem like ages but it is really only days!) How long did it take God to finish His work of creation (Exodus 20:11)? _____________________ Do you think these were 24 hour days? ________
In these verses we learn that Gods WORKING AND RESTING was to serve as a pattern for Israels WORKING AND RESTING. God told the children of Israel that He wanted them to work six days (Sunday through Friday) and rest on the seventh day (Saturday) because this was exactly what God did when He created the heavens and earth (Exodus 20:11).
If the days of creation were ages, then the WORK DAYS for the children of Israel must also be ages (if we are to be consistent). Can you imagine a hard working Israeli man coming home after a days work and collapsing in his wifes arms, saying, "My dear wife, what a long and hard day of work I had! Today I worked 500 million years and I am really tired!! I cant wait for the Sabbath to come so that I can rest!"
Of course, this would be ridiculous! This is what happens when a person tries to make DAYS mean AGES. It becomes silly. On the following page we will learn that DAYS (PLURAL) can never be ages.
In Exodus 20:11 we are told that the LORD made everything in six days. The word "DAYS" is plural. When the word "day" is used in the plural (DAYS), it almost always refers to literal 24 hour days. The word "day" (singular) can be used of a period of time that is longer than 24 hours: "the day of the LORD" "The day of grace" "the day of trouble" "the day of modern science" etc. (see pages 31-32), but the moment a person speaks about DAYS (plural), he is talking about 24 hour days. Consider these examples:
We have already seen that the word "day" can be used to describe a 12 hour period of light (Genesis 1:5,14,16,18). The word "day" can also be used of a longer period of time (2 Peter 3:8-10; Jeremiah 30:7). But most of the time when we use the word "day" we are speaking of a 24 hour day. This is the normal and basic meaning of the word "day."
When we study the Bible we always should understand a word in its literal, normal, natural and basic meaning unless this meaning does not make sense. Here is our ruleIf the basic sense makes good sense, then seek no other sense, lest it result in nonsense.
Here are some examples:
Note: Roman Catholics have misunderstood this verse because they wrongly understand "blood" according to its basic meaning, and thus when they take the MASS they believe that the juice of the grape becomes the actual blood of Christ. Compare John 6:54 with John 6:40 where we see that eating His flesh and drinking His blood is equivalent to believing on Him.
Should we understand the days of creation to be literal 24 hour days (this is the basic meaning of the word)? Does this make good sense or does this make nonsense? Consider these questions:
The only reason some people think they need to make the six days of creation long periods of time (ages) is because they feel they need to give the "god" of the evolutionists enough time to do his work. The god of chance needs plenty of time (see page 30)! He could never have done it in six days! In fact it is doubtful that he could have done it even if he had 6 quadrillion days (6,000,000,000,000,000)!
Moses was the man God used to write the book of Genesis (Luke 24:27,44). Whenever you study the Bible you must ask yourself this important question: How did the original writer (in this case Moses) and the original listeners (the children of Israel) understand what was written?
Do you think Moses understood the days of creation to be long ages of time? Would the people who lived in the time of Moses have thought of these days as normal 24 hour days? Did they have any reason to think of these days as ages?
Moses and the people of his day believed that God began His work of creation on Sunday, created man on Friday and rested on Saturday. Do you believe what Moses believed?
Darwin's Unbelief in God's Revealed Truth What did Darwin believe about the Old Testament in general and the book of Genesis in particular? In his autobiography Darwin wrote: "Whilst on board the Beagle...I had gradually come, by this time, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world...was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindus, or the beliefs of any barbarian." What did Darwin believe about Bible miracles (and certainly CREATION is the greatest Bible miracle). In his autobiography Darwin wrote: By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be [required] to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported . . . that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us . . . disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete." What did the Lord Jesus teach about those who do not believe what Moses wrote? "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me" (John 5:46). "If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead" (Luke 16:31). |
Some people believe that if you make the days of creation ages (long periods of time), then Genesis chapter 1 teaches the same as evolution. They believe that the order of events in Genesis 1 is the same order of events as given by the evolutionists. Let us see if this is really true:
But God says the sun was made on DAY ______ and the earth was made on DAY _____. Therefore the earth is _______ days older than the sun! Was there LIGHT even before the sun was made? _______ On what day was this LIGHT created? DAY _____
But God says life in the ocean appeared on DAY _______ and life on land first appeared on DAY ______ (plant life). Thus, life on land appeared _____ DAYS before life appeared in the oceans (marine life).
But God says that birds were made on DAY ______ and land animals (which would included land reptiles) were not made until DAY ______. Birds are _____ DAY older than reptiles! Could birds have evolved from reptiles? ______ Certainly reptiles did not evolve from birds! (Not even the evolutionists would say this!). The Bible says God made the birds and God made the reptiles. Reptiles did not precede birds by hundreds of thousands of years.
"Every thinking person knows that birds were created before reptiles, because that is what God has told us in His Word."
But God says that whales and other great monsters of the sea were created on DAY _____ and land mammals were not made until DAY _____. Which came first, the whale or the pig? _________________ Do you think the whale has evolved from pig-like animals? ________ Therefore whales are ______ DAY older than land mammals! For a land mammal to become a whale he would need to return to the water, lose his hair and grow about 50 times as big! Do you think this really happened? ______ A large elephant (the largest land mammal) weighs about 7 tons! A blue whale (the largest kind of whale) weighs about 150 tons! The whale did not evolve by chance; it was created by God!
But God says that insects (creeping things) were not created until DAY _____ and plant life appeared on DAY ______. This means that plant life appeared _______ DAYS before insects. Do you think plants and flowers could survive for 3 ages without insects? ______ Do you think plants and flowers could survive for 3 days without insects? _____
"I was on time! The all-wise Creator created me at just the right timeon the sixth day of the creation week! Thats when I started making honey!!"
But God says that men and apes were both created on DAY _______.
But God says that life (vegetation) appeared on DAY _____ and the sun was not made until DAY ______. It is possible for life to begin without the sun but can life begin without the CREATOR? ______ Who is the source of life, the sun or the CREATOR (see Acts 17:28)? _______ Life owes its existence not to the SUN but to the SON OF GOD (see John 1:3 and Colossians 1:16).
Please indicate on which DAY of creation the following were made:
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You cannot listen to both God and the evolutionists! They do not teach the same thing! If Genesis chapter 1 is true (and it is!), then evolution is false. If evolution is true, then Genesis chapter 1 is false, and the Bible is filled with errors. But the Lord Jesus said that the Word of God is ___________ (John 17:17) and we know that Gods Word is __________ from the ___________________ (Psalm 119:160). Who should you believe the CREATOR or the evolutionists? Will you put your faith in the false god of the evolutionists who needs billions of years to do his work, or will you put your faith in an Almighty Creator who can create all things in 6 DAYS?
As you observe and study the world around you, you will discover that all the true facts of science and all the true laws of science agree perfectly with the Bible and with the book of Genesis! Do you think it is possible for BOOK 1 (Gods revelation in nature) to contradict BOOK 2 (Gods revelation in His Word)? _______ (see pages 14-21). Who wrote Book 1? __________ Who wrote Book 2? _____________ God is the Author of both! This is why both books say the same thing. And both books point to the greatness of the C________________, who is blessed forever, Amen (see Romans 1:25). Sad to say, the books that the evolutionists write often do not agree with the true facts of science and they certainly do not agree with Gods Word the Bible! CHOOSE you this day! (See Joshua 24:15.) Choose the true God of creation or the false God of the evolutionists (the God of chance)!
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Revelation 13 speaks of an unholy trinity that will break His 1st four Commandments and cause the world to do the same..
Those first four commandments deal with worship..
Maybe the Sabbath is a little more important than Christians have been taught..
I too felt like you when I was a protestant.. now, I understand His Sabbath is eternal..
Just like His other commandments..
Christendom today hits all the wrong marks in revelation 13..
To bad the Hebrew roots people don’t understand that Revelation deals with the people of Israel as a nation after the ekklesia of Christ has been taken away. It’s called the time of Jacob’s trouble for a reason.
So which one of the march days was His Sabbath?
Which one does your rabbi teach?
The book of jasher with the book of Ezekiel shows no Sabbath was violated on any of those 7 days..
Your answer seems rabbinical.
That misunderstanding of prophesy will not serve you well.
Well, that means that you dont believe God when He says SIX DAYS?
Ex 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Ex 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Ex 20:10 But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the Lord thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:
Ex 20:11 For [in] six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
You and God need to have a talk...
No room for a Jesus to the gentiles for you.
Get over it ,, there are MANY instances of alliteration and storytelling in the Bible ,, doesn’t make the stories false,, Jesus himself spoke in parables to tell stories ,, what was in the parables is truth but the story itself is made up...
What part of the logic I presented is not making sense to you? Can you tell me how you measure in “days” when the story is about the formation of the universe and the creation of the arbiter of the time period called a “day” and assumed to be an Earth day (the single full rotation of the Earth) is created late in the story? You cannot measure with something that doesn’t yet exist and is undefined... Gods “days” are not our days... it’s that simple.
You can’t be that wedded to illogic. I don’t argue with crazy , so this is my last reply on the subject.
The Bible is history, written at the direction of the Holy Spirit. It isn’t a (human) science book because having people know and understand His creation wasn’t and isn’t God’s purpose for it, like it wasn’t and isn’t the purpose for our existence either. It does speak to human science, though. God is over nature, not the other way around. As such, “the evidence” around us of what’s happened in the past going back to Creation may or may not accurately suggest what actually happened, and that’s according to science, which also has its limitations and distortions.
” You cannot measure with something that doesnt yet exist and is undefined... Gods days are not our days... its that simple.”
Didn’t days already exist in God’s mind before He created the sun?
And the Genesis account is history, not figure of speech. To make it into metaphor would be to make much of the Bible inconsistent and unreliable, including its genealogies.
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