Young Earth creationism
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"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters." Gen 1:1
When was "in the beginning", 6000 years ago?
I do not know, but what I do know is that God called life into existence on a "formless and void" earth. The earth probably looked much like our Mars.
How long it was there before God began creating life on it the Bible does not state. It just says that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
However, once God started creating that process took 6 literal days according to the Genesis account.
When was "in the beginning", 6000 years ago?
I do not know, but what I do know is that God called life into existence on a "formless and void" earth. The earth probably looked much like our Mars.
How long it was there before God began creating life on it the Bible does not state. It just says that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
However, once God started creating that process took 6 literal days according to the Genesis account.
How old is the earth, according to the scientist? 4.5 billion years old. Is this possible? Yes, perhaps, because we do not know the time interval between when God created the heavens & earth and life on our planet.
Again, once God began creating "life" that time frame was 6 days.
Again, once God began creating "life" that time frame was 6 days.
Now, what happened when God end creating life on planet earth?
"By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done." [Gen 2:2]
The 6th day was God's last day of creating life. After that point He was finished. His 7th-day rest was to be eternal, but the fall of mankind ended His rest.
So the 7th-day of creation points to a time when God's work of creation was sinless, immortal and perfect in every detail.
"By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done." [Gen 2:2]
The 6th day was God's last day of creating life. After that point He was finished. His 7th-day rest was to be eternal, but the fall of mankind ended His rest.
So the 7th-day of creation points to a time when God's work of creation was sinless, immortal and perfect in every detail.
If you go with the Bible, sin and therefore mortality, didn't exist before the fall of mankind. Hence God's creation was perfect.
If you go with theistic evolution, death was an everyday occurrence in this world of kill or be killed.
Which is true?
Formless and void earth?
That is not in Scripture unless you are reading into the text...
Gen 1:9-10 And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. (10) God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
All on the third day.
The bible teaches that 6 days work can be done and the seventh is a day of rest... God follows his own word, he created everything in 6 literal days.
No problem, but the earth is older than 6000 years. Therefore the time interval between God's creation of the heavens and the earth and the creation of life on this earth must have been vast periods.
If you go with theistic evolution (where God creates through evolutionary processes) then God, not fallen Lucifer, is responsible for the entrance of sin & death.
The earth, the foundation, is very old, but the creation of life is relatively young.
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Laodicea
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Exodus 20:11 KJV
(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.
According to this verse everything was created in six days including the earth. It was not here for so many years before He created life on it.
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Laodicea
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Yes God does follow His own word. If it was six time periods or the earth was here before then He did not create everything in six days. That has affects on the Sabbath of the Lord.
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Laodicea
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Older according to who? Scientists that do not believe in creation? Whose word do we believe?
The earth is millions of years old that is a fact, we all know now that the bible is just a collection of stories and poetry written by ignorant bronze age folk in the middle east who thought the earth was the centre of the universe. anyone who thinks otherwise is either brainwashed or really stupid. evidence really does show how stupid and backward religion is, if there really is a god.. why has he sat on his *behind* for all this time watching the children of the earth suffer? and the thought that an almighty god who could create a universe with ease could not forgive sin without a sacrifice to me is horrible, sin by the way was manufactured by him in the first place. LIVE YOUR LIVES PEOPLE AND LEAVE THIS SUPERNATURAL *stuff* BEHIND.
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Seems that you might be right....
Anyway, here's how the age of the earth is calculated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth