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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Subject: How old is the earth scripturally? |
Bible Note: There is an old quote that says, "When the common sense of Scripture makes perfect sense, seek no other sense." That is the sense in which we should take the events of the first eleven chapters of Genesis. The Bible presents these chapters in narrative form. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...And there was evening and there was morning one day." The Bible says that God created the world in six days. In Hebrew, the word day is yom. Except when accompanied with a qualifying word, yom always refers to one literal 24-hour day. For instance, Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, not the Age of Atonement. Two verses are often used to suggest that a day equals an age of approximately one thousand years: Psalm 90:4; 2 Peter 3:8. However, these verses do not suggest the Day Age theory. They are only used to support. The proper context does not refer to lenght of creation. In Psalms it illustrates the fact that God has never abandoned Israel, and has always been faithful to them. In 2 Peter it illustrates the fact that God works on a different time-table than us. He fulfills his promised at the best possible time,even thought we may not recognize this. Theories which attempt to say that a "day" is equivalent to an "age" are attempting to reconcile so-called scientific evidence with Scriptures. This is a dangerous practice. Scripture must always be held in the highest esteem, far above the esteem we grant to science or history. What it comes down to is, will you believe main-stream science or the Word of God. A sidenote, there is no real evidence for macroevolution (change from one species to another). All the evidence we have interpreted properly and without bias indicates a young earth that was created not evolved. In Christ, Koinekid "Upholding Scriptural Integrity, Accuracy, and Immutability" |