Recently, I watched a video from a well-known person who debates theological positions versus Christians and non-Christians alike. He was making the claim that the days of Genesis couldn’t be trusted to be 6 literal 24-hour days and that the age of the earth had to be very, very old. I have also had a good amount of friends and Christians asking me or telling me that it isn’t a big deal how old the earth is or how long it took God to create the creation in the Genesis account. And to that I would say, great, so God created in 6-literal 24 hour days and rested on the 7th day (Genesis 1:1-2:3). Many people then say something like, “What I mean is, why couldn’t the ‘days’ in Genesis be long ages or periods of time longer than a day?” To that I ask, “Do you believe God Almighty or not?"
Most people at this time say something like, “Well, God didn’t write Genesis.” To which I say, “If God did tell us how many days it took Him, while our time was moving and we know God was inside of time when He told us would you believe Him then?” Most revert back to saying the creation account in Genesis could have been long periods of time.
So, I will reiterate again, if Almighty God, Creator of heaven and earth, did tell us, while our time was moving so human kind knew what a day was, and He told us while inside of our time, would you believe Almighty God then? If God is a holy and just God, who cannot lie like the Bible claims (Numbers 23:19), would you believe Him? Most people who claim to follow Jesus at this point say, “Yes.” Then they follow it up with, “but Genesis doesn’t count,” or something like that.
My reply is then that I’m not going to bring you to Genesis. I am going to bring you to the book of Exodus, the Ten Commandments as a matter of fact. Before we go to the book of Exodus, though, let’s make certain of who wrote the Ten Commandments. The answer to our question is found in Deuteronomy 9:10. As you can see, God Himself wrote these Commandments with His very own finger. Moses did not chisel them out, as some believe. God wrote them down and then gave them to Moses while he was on the mountain. This is very important to see. Not only is Moses on the mountain, but God Almighty is there as well. They are both on the earth at the same time and in virtually the same place, both Moses and God. Why is this important? Because God cannot lie. Human beings, by this time, know what a day is. The earth has been rotating on its axis for quite some time and has been making trips around the sun. Humans know what a day, a week, and a year are. They have been living it out for a long time.
I would guess most of us can agree that this is true, unless you’re just wanting to be disagreeable. Again, if this is true, in Exodus 20:11, why wouldn’t God write down how long it really took Him to create the Creation? This would be the perfect time for God Himself to correct the misunderstanding about the time it took to create during the creation week, wouldn’t it?
Instead He wrote, with His very own finger, “For in six days God created the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them...” Pretty straight forward, don’t you think? Unless you just don’t want to believe the One that was there since before time even began.
You see, you have a choice. You can believe fallible humans and their ways or you can believe an infallible Almighty God who does not lie. The choice is yours.
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I will add here, that in Exodus 20:11, God was not merely writing down the Ten Commandments on stone tablets, he was speaking them out loud to the entire congregation. It was AFTER this, that Moses was sent up to the mountain alone to get the rest of the Law. So this wasn't Moses telling the people about this verse. It was God himself speaking in language every person could understand. It wasn't vague or ambiguous.
Exodus 31:17 confirms this teaching. The Bible couldn't have been much clearer to state in Genesis and state twice in Exodus that God created the universe and rested all in one normal week. Any teaching aside from this is humanistic in origins and is trying to marry Christianity with humanism. This, of course, is always a bad idea.
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