This site is for thoughtful Christians learning how to answer the hard questions people are asking today
PURPOSE:Helping Christians engage in intelligent conversations with doubters and unbelievers
Did God create everything in six 24-hour days?
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COMBINE INSIGHTS
Here's where we combine the eight Insights to get an informed biblical answer
God is Creator, but we don't know details about His methods and timing
Genesis 1:1-2 says that, at first, the earth was formless, empty, and dark. Now it has form, content, and light. We know from the Bible that the earth was NOT created instantly in its present form. Enormous changes have occurred over time in the earth's structure and content.
This Bible study does not raise any questions about whether or not God created the world. The world didn't happen from nothing by itself by chance. God created the world according to a divine design plan!
The only questions discussed here are about God's methods and timing, which do not in any way alter the New Testament gospel message. The questions are raised by doubters and unbelievers, and they deserve intelligent answers from Christians. The wrong interpretation of a single Hebrew word (yō·wm) – and the refusal of most Christians even to talk about it – is repelling people from the gospel message.
An informed interpretation of the word yō·wm reconciles God's Word (Bible) with God's World (science) and removes a huge barrier to faith.
A better understanding of the earth's age does not alter the Bible
Many Christians think that any interpretation of 'day' which means more than 24-hours is altering the Bible. It rarely occurs to them that maybe it's the traditional interpretation that's done the altering and that a re-interpretation of 'day' is needed for the true meaning.
Many Christians seem to think that if God takes more time, He is less powerful. With God, time has nothing to do with either capacity for work or quality of work.
It's not heresy to re-interpret a word (yō·wm) in the original Hebrew text based on better evidence from scholarship, science, and our own common sense understanding of the actual world in which we live.
Failure to fully acknowledge God's amazing unfolding design over time diminishes His creation and dishonors Him.
The Bible does not preclude long 'days'
This study shows that the Bible does not compel a six-day interpretation. One person studying the Bible can conclude that God created the universe in six 24-hour days. Another person studying the Bible can conclude that God created the universe over billions of years.
The Bible's description of creation is broad enough to accommodate both interpretations. The important thing is that GOD DID IT!
This site takes the view that God created the world in stages over a very long period of time. This view is preferable because it is confirmed by all modern knowledge and eliminates push-back from unbelievers.
Conversations with unbelievers should make it clear that one does not have to believe in six-day creation to be a Christian.
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This site is a literal God send! I've been struggling with reconciliation of what scripture says and what I've been taught through various denominations and their individual traditions. I'm so grateful, honestly, to have permission to think critically and to allow the Holy Spirit to teach me directly.
You should just go away. You are preaching heresy.
I love this web site. I have always wanted to know more about what the Bible means. Please, please keep expanding this site.
Very interesting
Very interesting please keep me posted
I have read all with an open mind. I heard bits and pieces of theory but never this much evidence.
I really enjoy your site.
Found this to be very helpful. Answered my questions.
This is a fantastic article , thank you
I agree there had to have been other people before Adam. The sons had children, with whom? Certainly not with their own mother or the gene pool would have died out.
I am excited to have found this site when I was seeking the truth about Bible timelines. I have been forced to justify my beliefs by a pastor who has a very fundamental belief in God's seven days of creation.
Thank you
Thank you for the work that goes into this site, and please keep the good material coming.
I want to learn it all.
Came across this site and it's fantastic and so relevant.
I appreciate your thorough investigation into the Word of God.
I am a Christian, and I have always been a “young earth” proponent. My son, also a Christian, is an “old earth” proponent, and we have debated this topic. After reading the content of this website thoroughly, I am willing to reconsider my position.
Amen Amen Amen!!!
Not bad, I'll have to check the Hebrew to double-triple check, for this kind of study the KJ is almost useless.
Interesting and thought provoking, following a line of thinking that has interested me for years. To question traditional interpretation doesn't detract from the validity and power of scripture but reinforces it. Jesus was rejected by the religious experts of His day because He didn't fit the traditional interpreting of scripture. We still have much to learn.
As much nonsense and stupidity as I have heard since big bang or evolution.
The big bang is a theory. God is a fact.
Trying to reinterpret the Bible according to man’s interpretations that are based on unprovable assumptions destroys the authority of the Bible. God was there. Man was not.
I am eagerly awaiting more topics.
God created everything that was created in six literal days.
This sounds interesting.
I am a person that right now I don't practice any religion whatsoever. Very interesting, thank you
Thank you for this.It helps me understand my youngest grandchild(age 31). Also this affirms my teaching as a science teacher and pastor.
I want more information and I want bible study
You are absolutely wrong
False teaching. Repent
So interesting. Thanks for sharing. Keep them coming. Enjoy reading them so much.
I applaud you on your studies and have to say that I do not disagree with what I have read. You seemed to have covered this subject very thoroughly.
Don't know, don't need to know. It'll all be revealed by & by.
Good points
I love the premise of this site and its focus on engaging the modern doubter or unbeliever, and can't wait to see the new material that is planned.
Loved it. Been saying it for years but nobody listened.
I find your explanation very compelling and appreciate that we do need to answer questions of unbelievers, there needs to be effort in this direction. So I thank you for your efforts
awesome info keep up this good work
I have struggled with references to people before Adam, and coordinating it with science. This makes sense to me. Thank you for helping me with my dilemma.
I now have Biblical support for my belief.
Do you offer a textbook?
About time!
Very enlightening and interesting, Thank you
I ran across your website this morning. At age 50, I lead a women's Bible Study in Florida. I am at a place where I am questioning so many things about what I have been taught - traditions handed down for generations. To continue teaching is becoming challenging. I have a daughter who is also a believer but wrestles aloud with questions concerning Adam and original sin, eternal hell with eternal suffering, etc. Honestly, I think her wrestling has led me to stop and think more. So now I am seeking…
Interesting to read. Will research further.
It's constructive that science keeps indefinitely improving with better observations and verifiable facts. Immutable good scriptures should simply keep itself relevant by subtle changes in its interpretation to complement and coexist with science. Good work!
The main reason people believe that Adam was the first man is that is what someone told them. It’s man following man and not man reading the Bible for the truths that are in it.
Very informative. Keep up the good work. The world needs better understanding of God’s word.
There are too many pastors and theologians who take the simplicity of God's Word and try to make it profound when they should be taking the profoundness of God's Word and making it simple.
Yes there were people before Adam, the cave Men and the ice Age.
Very informative and interesting.
I can't wait to share this article with my grandson.
I do not believe in a Supreme Being who created us in his image and likeness as quoted in the bible
Blessings to you!!
Thank you for this! I have had many conversations about science and Christianity. I am not very smart but now I am a little smarter.
Of course there were people before Adam. Adam and Eve were created for a line through which Christ would come.
Excellent points here.
I hope this excellent presentation penetrates the evangelical church where sadly a majority of Christians believe that the Big Bang is an atheistic concept rather the Fingerprint of God that it is!
Bwahahahahaha!!! Religion, please go away and die.
Love the study
I really liked what is written and honestly agree with the reasoning. May the Almighty broaden my mind to perceive and digest these facts.
Great read very needed in this current time thank you
Not only do I thoroughly enjoy the topics you discuss but also the motivation behind their writing.
Of course. If Adam and Eve were the only humans and had children, who did the children copulate with? If it was each other, then everyone would have mental defects. The Adam & Eve story is just the beginning of the Old Testament.
Thank you for your good work.
Would like to keep you on my site for further study. You made me think.
I stumbled on your website recently, and was impressed by the scope of it and the balance evident in it.
Proof of the absurdity of ALL religions, thanks.
Enjoyed the read. I am a believer.
This is great stuff!!
I appreciate your efforts at presenting the Bible as an accurate portrayal of what science has found to be true.
This is a great Bible study, it explains everything perfectly so there is no confusion anywhere, it just helps understanding the Bible and God's word so well.
Yes, I agree there is a lot of evidence to substantiate what you say. I have often thought about this myself. Thank you for all the research you have done.
Humans were around a lot longer the 4000 bc. Thats not even as old as Sumer the first proven civilization. Evidence strongly supports that civilization may have existed long before Sumer.
Amazing! I have been studying this subject and drafting a book for about 5 years. I discovered your web site today. In those 5 years, I have come to many of the same concepts as you. Good job folks.
Very good and educational, explaining how it all connects and coincides with the Bible’s account.
Will this material be made available in print form for purchase?
O my how i wish i could find a friend would be willing to discuss the bible openly with me.
You guys are doing an incredible job of bringing science The Bible together as one truth thank you Please continue this valuable work to awaken the public that the Bible and science are truly God's truth not contradicting each other
When are you going to have more?
I found this to be extremely informative. I'd always had doubts about the "original sin" and being punished for my ancestors sins, but this explained why "original sin" doesn't really exist in a way that resonated with me. Thank you. I will definitely check this site more often.
What a great and informative article! This information is invaluable when discussing biblical concepts with others, both Christian and non-Christian.
I have believed for many years what you have written here, but who among my friends and fellow-Christians will believe me? I stand alone. It took almost two hundred years before the church—or church members—believed that the earth was not the center of the universe. Will it take that long before Christians will believe that Adam and Eve were not the first humans created?
You are very much on the right track.
Very interesting, food for thought. I have often wondered about this and have had many questions Thanks
Interesting topics. The bible is good for salvation but not for earth history
Dumbest thing I've ever read!
How great it is to have a resource to help in ministering to the sceptical. Thank you. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to upcoming studies.
You have answered so many questions for me! Thank you!
The information that I read was very informative.
This is great, I am going to read more of your topics!
Your site is full of heresy. Repent.
This makes me better understand that you need to "dig deeper" in Bible study.
I have always thought this to be true but have never heard it said! Praise God!
Not sure what to think of this bible study. If nothing else it compels you to really dig deep and think,read and pray for understanding which I think is a good thing.
Wish I could remember all this.
Does the bible really say humans will burn forever in hell or is it really more like thrown in the fire and destroyed? Ps I already know the answer!
I was just told about your website and it's so fascinating.
very well done.!!
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