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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] |
Bible Question: Should the time table of the creation of the world as written in Genesis be taken literally? Science has proven that evolution is a fact. (This is not to say that science has proven that man evolved from any other animal.) This raises the question of how old the earth is. I'm sure everyone has seen the remains of animals that have been dead for countless years and have seen how they compare to animals now so I won't go into that. Is it possible that the accounts in Genisis are not set on the same time table that we think of? I understand that 1 year to God is not the same as 1 year to man and I understand that God is not regulated by time as we are. With that being the case is it possible that the earth is much older than we believe it is? |
Bible Answer: Ps. 119:130 “The opening of thy words giveth light; It giveth understanding unto the simple.” Being of infinite wisdom and power, who was himself before all time and all worlds, in the entrance into God's word gives this light.(both the physical and the "light" of understanding). The first verse of the Bible gives us a surer and better, a more satisfying and useful, knowledge of the origin of our universe, than all the volumes of the philosophers. It tells us in this self same verse that God created “light” by simply saying “heavens” because the “stars” are the major portion of this “heavens”. Creationists are wrong when they say “light” was created in a 24-hour period, say on the first day, or perhaps the 4th day? They too often say that the entire universe was created in six literal 24-hour days some 6,000 years ago. With teachings like this, they misrepresent the Bible, which says that God created the heavens and the earth “in the beginning”—at some unstated point (perhaps billions of years ago) before the more specific "creative days” began. (Genesis 1:1) Significantly, the Genesis account shows that the expression “day” is used in a flexible sense. At Genesis 2:4, the entire period of six days described in the preceding chapter is spoken of as only one day. Logically, these were, not literal days of 24 hours, but long periods of time. Each of these epochs evidently lasted thousands of years. |