THE CREATION THEORY

Creation comes from Hebrew word "Bara" - to create, which means to bring into being.
See Heb 11:3. All other places, MADE and MAKE are used.
Genesis 1:1 the creation account was brought into existence.

However, scholars proved that the creation account is divided into two major part:-

- Single creation account
- Double creation account

The double creation theory is quite voluminous, while we will only be accentuating on the single creation account.

The subject matter will be anchored by the creation day theory.



THE CREATION DAY THEORY

Claim: The world was not created in 7 days.

Proof: The day is the 24 hours period between two successive risings of the sun.
The word day is used in scripture in three to four ways:-

- The part of the solar day of twenty four hours which is light (the earth is moving round the sun).
- A period of twenty four hours: Matt 17:1, Gen 1:15.
- A time set apart for some distinctive purpose as day of atonement (Lev 23:27) and a longer period of time (II Pet. 3:8-10).

Some bible scholars have coined a term "Creative Week" timing of God instead of a 24 hours creative day.
These scholars could not understand how it was possible for God to create all these things and the developments that took place within six days.
The creative day is ap period of time equivalent to geologic era. The days referred to in Genesis were not interval days but figurative.

Day is a long period of time e.g, the day of the Lord Zach 12:14, Psalm 90:4, II Pet. 3:8-10 One day before the Lord is like a thousand years. It was supported that the heavens and the earth have already been created long time ago. Thd Bible says that just because of satan's rebellion, God disorganised date of heaven and earth. The one in Gen. 1:1 is believed as re-creation.

The day of Gen. 1:1 cannot be 24 hours but a longer period because there was no sun until the fourth day. It was believed that the sun is a sign just to calculate the day since the day of its creation but once there is no sun for 3 days , how do they then calculate the 24 hours as a day? How was the creation in the first 3 days possible, since there wasn't sun until the fourth day?


I want Bible scholars and theologians on Nairaland to answer the question.
Not for christian please, because it is an extra biblical fact.


Merry Christmas.

HCpaul:
Creation comes from Hebrew word "Bara" - to create, which means to bring into being.

Creation comes from Igbo word "Okike" meaning to create.

HCpaul:
THE CREATION THEORY

Creation comes from Hebrew word "Bara" - to create, which means to bring into being.
See Heb 11:3. All other places, MADE and MAKE are used.
Genesis 1:1 the creation account was brought into existence.

However, scholars proved that the creation account is divided into two major part:-

- Single creation account
- Double creation account

The double creation theory is quite voluminous, while we will only be accentuating on the single creation account.

The subject matter will be anchored by the creation day theory.



THE CREATION DAY THEORY

Claim: The world was not created in 7 days.

Proof: The day is the 24 hours period between two successive risings of the sun.
The word day is used in scripture in three to four ways:-

- The part of the solar day of twenty four hours which is light (the earth is moving round the sun).
- A period of twenty four hours: Matt 17:1, Gen 1:15.
- A time set apart for some distinctive purpose as day of atonement (Lev 23:27) and a longer period of time (II Pet. 3:8-10).

Some bible scholars have coined a term "Creative Week" timing of God instead of a 24 hours creative day.
These scholars could not understand how it was possible for God to create all these things and the developments that took place within six days.
The creative day is ap period of time equivalent to geologic era. The days referred to in Genesis were not interval days but figurative.

Day is a long period of time e.g, the day of the Lord Zach 12:14, Psalm 90:4, II Pet. 3:8-10 One day before the Lord is like a thousand years. It was supported that the heavens and the earth have already been created long time ago. Thd Bible says that just because of satan's rebellion, God disorganised date of heaven and earth. The one in Gen. 1:1 is believed as re-creation.

The day of Gen. 1:1 cannot be 24 hours but a longer period because there was no sun until the fourth day. It was believed that the sun is a sign just to calculate the day since the day of its creation but once there is no sun for 3 days , how do they then calculate the 24 hours as a day? How was the creation in the first 3 days possible, since there wasn't sun until the fourth day?



I want Bible scholars and theologians on Nairaland to answer the question.
Not for christian please, because it is an extra biblical fact.


Merry Christmas.

How did you arrive at that assumption at the bold?

God does not need the sun to know when the earth has made one complete rotation on its axis. Which is what defines one day.

A complete rotation on the earth's axis is what makes one day, whether there was sun or no sun.

So the fact that there was no sun until day three doesn't mean the day was still not the same lenght of 24hours.

See this;

Genesis 1v3 -And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

v4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

v5  And God called the light DAY, and the darkness he called NIGHT. And the EVENING AND MORNING were the first day.

Day and night, morning and evening were all created on day one; they pre-existed the sun. Meaning scripturally, the rotation of the earth on its axis is what makes one day (morning and evening) -not the sun.

And the earth's rotation on its axis is still 24hours. Sun or no sun does not make the rotation longer or shorter than 24hours.

If we know how great God is, and how powerful His word is, we will not be arguing about whether it is true He made the world in just seven days.

Infact He could have made the earth and everything in it in one single day. He just made them in seven to set a precedence of time and order, work and rest for man.

Let's stick to the word. God created the world in seven literal days. And it should not be a matter of debate for believers who know how powerful their God is, and who hold the scriptures in authority as the word of God.

One will need to come up with extra-scriptural assumptions to claim that God didn't create the earth in one literal week (seven literal days).

Shalom

**Lemme watch drama unfold**

What was the light before the sun? And where is this light after the sun? How could there be day and evening without the sun?

Conclusion: The writer was ignorant, confused and was never inspired by any Creator of the universe, if one exists.