THE CREATIONIST’S QUANDARY!
I firmly believe that this earth was re-created in seven literal days. After all the sacred record does state that these “days” had a morning and an evening. It says God hallowed the seventh day – the sabbath. It, too, had a morning and an evening. We don’t keep holy a thousand year period of time. We keep holy the time God MADE holy, the seventh day – a 24 hour period of time. At least we are commanded to keep that period of time holy, reserved for fellowship with our Creator and fellow believers. I say the earth was RE-created in Genesis One due to the wording of the opening verses of that chapter as well as several other scripture passages that provide greater more in-depth revelation regarding this topic.
When, in verse 1 of Genesis 1, it says, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”, we are given no indication in the text as to WHEN the beginning was. I believe, and I am not alone in this belief, that beginning point of creation of the physical world could date back millions, yes, even billions of years! If someone tells you the coat they are wearing is brand new, manufactured only the week before and purchased at a factory outlet store, yet you notice the elbows are worn and threadbare and that the cut and design of the coat was of a style worn a good twenty to thirty years before, then you realize the wearer of the coat is a kook, a liar, mistaken, under the influence of some controlled substance, has been licking frogs, or something. You realize the coat just has to be older than the wearer claims. So, too, with this universe, when you calculate a star’s distance and the speed of light, and realize the light from that star that you now see had to have left that star millions of years ago, then you gotta admit the six thousand year age for the universe has its problems. A lot of them.
More than one Hebrew scholar has contended that the King James rendering of verse 2 in Genesis 1 is not quite accurate, and that verse should be worded: “And the earth BECAME chaotic and confused, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” These same scholars have proposed the idea that it was at this juncture of time that Lucifer rebelled and a titanic battle ensued wrecking and ruining an earlier creation. Several Bible passages lend weight to this argument. More Bible students need to begin reading their Bibles slowly and carefully, realizing that being human they might be wrong in some of what they believe.
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley