Creation: A Literal Seven-Day Event

CREATION WAS A LITERAL SEVEN-DAY EVENT

JUSTIN CAMPBELL

BIB101 OLD TESTAMENT SURVEY

17 OCTOBER 2014

OUTLINE

Thesis: Despite the controversy the Bible gives proof that creation was a literal seven-day event.

Reasons people believe it is a figurative event.

Confusion of words meanings.

It is not scientifically explained.

Specifically how did God create everything?

Where did water come from?

Day 6

Reasons why people know it is a literal event.

Presupposition.

God is the creator.

It is necessary.

It would undermine the message of the cross.

It proves the age of the Earth.

The word YOM

It would contradict the Bible

Sin would have existed before the rebellion of Adam and Eve

Why six days?

A pattern for man.

Adams age.

While this does not prove anything, we should be aware that we will never understand God because we are not God. With that being said we should not question everything, that is what faith is for. The next reason for believers to believe in the literal 24-hour event is that it is necessary. It is necessary because if it wasn 't it would undermine the message of the cross. Creation being 24 hours also helps prove the age of the Earth. If the days of creation were not 24 hours there would be no way to tell how old the Earth is. This helps Christians when it comes to the fossil record theories. We know that fossils were made after Adam rebelled. If they happened before then this means the Bible would have a contradiction. We know sin did not exist before Adam and Eve rebelled against God. Therefore we know that fossils were not made until after the fall of man, because death did not exist before the fall of man. The word Yom proves that the days were only 24 hours. “Respected Hebrew dictionaries, like the Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon, give a number of meanings for the word yom depending upon context. One of the passages they give for yom‘s meaning an ordinary day happens to be Genesis chapter 1. The reason is obvious. Every time the word yom is used with a number, or with the phrase “evening and morning’, anywhere in the Old Testament, it always means an ordinary day. In Genesis chapter 1, for each of the six days of creation, the Hebrew word yom is used with a number and the phrase, “evening and morning’. There is no doubt that the writer is being emphatic that these are ordinary days.” This article piece explains the word Yom. Everywhere in the Bible in the same context means a literal