For a university course, I need to discuss worldviews with someone that does not believe what I believe. I believe that God created the world in 6 literal days. Would anyone who believes differently mind telling me what you believe about the creation account and why?
I believe in creation account differently ( no evolution though) But, I'm more detailed with what I believe.( considering more scripture )
Gen 1:1 says the heaven and earth was created in the beginning. ( but dose not when the beaning was )
For that reason, I believe the earth is billions of years old.
In verse 2 reading the surface the English , it appears that it just "was", that way void and without form.
But we can read Isaiah 45:18, God says, He did Not create the world void or without form.
When verse 2 is looked at from the Hebrew it was taken: it reads there was a literal destruction to the surface of the earth, that it ' became ', void and without form, sometime after verse one.
There is a destruction recorded in Jeremiah 4:22-28. Here we can read there was a destruction to the earth, but that there was No man left; not even aboard and ark. And there were no cities.
From Genesis 1 starting at the end of verse two ( And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. ) and to verse 8.
We see waters receding, and dry land appearing.
Peter has some valuabel insight into Genesis . In 2nd Peter chapter 3. Peter says, the world age ( greek ) was destoryed, by water.
2 Peter 3:
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: ( the first. )
The second which we are currently still in, would be what followed, and is the time Noah's flood took place.
So we have two floods recorded in the Bible. And first world wide flood of the first world ( age ) Recorded here, and in Gen 1:2 , and Jeremiah 4 etc). And a second flood, of the second earth ( age ) of Genesis 6.
When we read of each day in Genesis 1 is speaking of a rejuvenating of the surface of the earth, where by, it can be habitable again. Peter also gave farther teachings about Genesis . He says that each day to God is a thousand years to man, and vice versa:
2Peter3:
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
And I certainly don't want to be ignorant of that.
So each day God was rejuvenating the earth, and creating life upon it: took about 6,000 years. ( when we tack on time that has passed since then, I think we get over 10,000 years ago.
So we can say, that man in flesh, has lived on earth for over 6,000 years. But the earth its' self is billions of years in age.
He created man in the sixth day in v 26. In the Hebrew it reads Elohim ( not God ), man without a article = mankind. He has hunters of fish, and animals etc. But there is no mention of a tiller of soil here.
Then in verse 27,God says In his own image, in the Hebrew accent ( Pasek ), places the emphasis on God. ''man'' in verse 27 has a article and a demonstrative Hebrew 'eth, to indicate that "the man Adam" created in 2:7; is here ( 1:27 ) a statement of what He purposed to do , later ( 2:7 ).
When you read the Hebrew for man in 2:7 it reads 'eth-' Ha'adham ( with article particle = "this same man Adam " ) Through who Christ would come. There would be a man, made in the image of God, and that is realized through Christ ( John 1:14 ).
It's written here now, we have a tiller of the soil in Genesis 2:7 But it was not the case as it says in Genesis 2:5 .
That's the creation best I can understand it at this point. I didn't get into all the details but this covers the basics a little. It offers a good foundation .