Friday, December 20, 2013

Biblical evidence for Young Earth Creation - Creation Week

Genesis 1 (KJB)
1  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.
6  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.
9  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.
10  And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering
together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it
was good.
11  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.
12  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.
13  And the evening and the morning were the third day.
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:
15  And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16  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.
17  And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth,
18  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.
19  And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20  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.
24  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.
 
First of all we have in Genesis 1:1  
1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
 
Here we have the origin of  the universe with God is described as creating the heaven and the earth, which means God created space and matter and He is described as doing so at the beginning of the universe. Since the time of the universe hat to of started with the universe it shows God created the time of the universe here as well.
 
The evidence for a Young Earth begins here the key is in the repeated formula
5b  And the evening and the morning were the first day.
8b  And the evening and the morning were the second day
13  And the evening and the morning were the third day.
19  And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
23  And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
31  And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
 
The repeated formula is “and the evening and the morning were the nth day.”  Not only does the number with the word day indicate a regular Earth day, but God took the extra step of adding “evening and the morning” to make it even clearer that the intent here is an ordinary Earth day.  God being smart enough to know that we would still mess such a simple message up emphasizes it by connecting the creation week to the work/ Sabbath.  
 
Exodus 20:11 (KJB) 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.
 
Exodus 31:14-17 (KJB)
14  Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto
you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death:
for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be
cut off from among his people.
15  Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the
sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any
work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
16  Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath,
to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a
perpetual covenant.
17  It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever:
for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the
seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
 
The Six day work and sabbath are a standard week that we still run our lives by here in the 21st century some 35000 years after Moses. It is the only unit of time not based in any celestial cycle, but it is passed on the period of time God used to create the universe. At the end of this week with Adam and Eve created on day six the Earth is 7 days old.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

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