I believe in a literal 6 day "CREATION". Do you agree?

Question

Isaiah 45:18

"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."

Source: HOLY BIBLE (King James Version)

Answer 1

Yes I do believe so.

People can argue about the days or how long creation took or how old the earth is. But "thus saith the Lord..." means He did it, how the bible says it.

Answer 2

Science and religion do not have to conflict because they deal with two entirely different subjects. Religion deals with that which is beyond physical, by definition: Faith.

Science deals with the physical. The methodology that makes predictions based on observations, then attempts to prove or disprove the predictions is "science."

I don't really see a conflict until the either starts mixing into the realm of the other.

Frankly, I'll never know whether creation stories are fact, and in this life, neither will you. You will take them on faith, but I will reserve judgment until I've seen more measurements.

However, for the sake of argument, even if I am totally wrong about it not mattering much, and you are totally right that the whole shooting match was God's handiwork, don't you think it is a bit out of place for you to determine how exactly God does His own job? Six days on earth? Six days of the Sun? Six days on Jupiter? Six days of the solar system? Six days of the galaxy? Six days of this star cluster? Do you see where I'm going with this?

God, by definition, is more than you or I can understand. That would be his nature, just as it is our nature to be human. There are going to be mysteries associated with the existence of a deity.

By the way, you quoted the Bible as your source. It is one of my favorites, and the only one I've read all the way through, twice. It is a translation ordered by King James of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth. Some speculate that Shakespeare may have had a hand in polishing some passages. It is a book filled with poetry and wonder. Accept that it may not be the field manual that you think it is, and that it is STILL a wonderful document.

Answer 3

Yes. If you carefully read Genesis chapter 1 from verses 1 to 5, you notice that God separated the light from darkness in verse 4. So that in verse 5, it is written: "God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day."

A litteral interpretation of what is called a day and a night has to be adopted because it says that the evening and the morning were the first day. It is to be noted that a day for Moses was not like we have it today (ending at midnight), but from sunset to sunset, which means evening and morning.

So a longer period than a 24hours day is not possible.

As for science, there are no contradictions between God and nature since God is the author of it. I think we have a lot to learn on nature by scientific research. As human, we can only try to understand this creation and we learn a little bit more every day.

Science is a work in progress. Well known theories are often taken as a proven fact but we forget that science is based on hypothesis and assumptions. Take the evolution theory for instance, in our world it is more considered the "law of evolution" than the "theory of evolution". The danger is to forget the limitations of science.

If we could put the world in a closed environment and control every factor, than we could isolate each factors with each other to come up with a solid conclusion. This is impossible with our world because there are too much variables. The problem with modern science is that we assume a lot of things which we cannot be proven. For instance, take the theory of the big bang. People say that the age of the earth is calculated in terms of billion of years and that it is a proven fact based on technology such as carbon 14. Don't take me wrong, there is much value to carbon 14, but it is a conclusion that can be easily undermined.

First, that theory assumes that the earth since its creation evolved in a constant manner since the beginning, a fact that we absolutely do not know. Second, we were not there in the beginning, so we do not know what the year "zero" really is.

Therefore it is very possible to assume that the earth was actually formed in a state that is pretty close to what we know today, just as most of the scientists believe that it was formed from the big bang and evolved. Perhaps, the earth was just formed "old" as we know it today so that if you analyze it with carbon 14, than it would show it as very old, but is in reality very young.

Certitudes are no longer certitudes than. It all started with the "theory" that we evolved and that evolution takes billions of year to occur. Yet, this is another assumption since that has never been seen by the eye of man. If you go along that line of evolution, than your ending conclusion is already set up since you cannot conclude anything else that the earth is billions of years old.

The account of the Bible concerning its creation in 6 days is therefore a very worthwhile explanation.

Answer 4

i'm a Christian. To God an afternoon is as one thousand years and one thousand years is as an afternoon, so it could have been hundreds of years. I even have self assurance interior the "hollow thought" between Genesis a million:a million-2, wherein era, the prehistoric animals and fossils we hit upon as we communicate would have roamed the earth. The verse says "Now the earth replaced into formless and void and darkness fell upon the face of the deep." The "now" shows it wasn't formless and void till now. Have an excellent day!

Answer 5

Heavens no! There is too much proof that the earth is millions (even Billions) of years old. There is no proof in the 6 day theory, except to say, each day must have been millions of years long. Time is relative.

Answer 6

I believe in God's Word and I believe that God explained it exactly right, and exactly how He wanted to in Genesis.

So yes, I agree, God's Word is the Absolute Truth and the Final Authority. Everything was created in 6 days just as God said it did.

Answer 7

I agree. God bless.

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Answer 8

Yes completely agree

Answer 9

Yes indeed I do. I believe that God created the world and everything in it in 6 days and then He rested.

Answer 10

I agree. This is the one belief system that requires the absolute least personal thought. What could be easier than that?