“In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.” This premise is essential in the understanding of Creation from a Biblical perspective. Without the belief of God as creator, the entire purpose of creation, much less the Bible and the redemption story is negated. The belief in God as the sole creator of the universe is indispensable for this world view. As the story of creation progresses, there becomes much conflict within the itself as different classes of though are created to help try explain creation in terms of their own understanding of what is the best way to interpret the timeline and what really happened in creation. The Literalist View is the best perspective to take in order to fully understand. The Literalist View,
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To avail these different gives proper understanding as it was written from the writers who were writing the book of Genesis through the work of the Holy Spirit. Throughout the Old Testament, the work Yom is used quite often, as there are several different meanings of the word. However, out of the thirteen Hebrew words used to mean time, Yom is one of only two words that has a short time meaning (answersingenesis.org). While the word short is relative to the context, Yom does not mean hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years. It is short, a period of time that can become tangible to a human. As the word, Yom, is used throughout much of the Old Testament, the word can change definitions, this is necessary to properly analyze the context in which Yom sits in the creation story to understand the relative timing that creation sits. When looking at other instances of understanding time throughout the Old Testament, it it important to note to oneself that when ever Yom is followed by a specific number, the definition of the word never changes . It becomes a systematic equation where Yom, with the addition with a numerical value, comes to represent a specific time period that cannot change course throughout the language of Hebrew, in which it has been written. Yom, plus a number, gives the time period of twenty four hour …show more content…
Time is not relational to the sun, it is relational to the rotation of the Earth caused by the tilt on the axis (answersingenesis.org). This would mean that from the beginning, the Earth was on a spin cycle due to gravity, causing time to exit, even if it had not been created yet. This would mean time would stay content for as long as Earth spun properly. Furthermore, God created days (answersingenesis.org). This is seen within the first five verses of Genesis. That would mean for him to create days, the time would have to have been the same, for there would be no reason for God to change time (gci.org). If God had changed time, then the functionality of everything else would be shifted, as time could constantly be changing. Furthermore, Genesis was written in a perspective of man (gci.org). This would cause the words to be written with a denotation in which those who would read the book later would understand. There could be no possibility for man to write books in a way for no one to understand. This is not the character of God, He wants to give us understanding. Problems with this perspective start to occur scientifically when examined under this lens. For the literalist perspective to occur, God would have had to make the Earth fully functioning on the days each item was created. The trees would have to already have fruit, the cows
To avail these different gives proper understanding as it was written from the writers who were writing the book of Genesis through the work of the Holy Spirit. Throughout the Old Testament, the work Yom is used quite often, as there are several different meanings of the word. However, out of the thirteen Hebrew words used to mean time, Yom is one of only two words that has a short time meaning (answersingenesis.org). While the word short is relative to the context, Yom does not mean hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years. It is short, a period of time that can become tangible to a human. As the word, Yom, is used throughout much of the Old Testament, the word can change definitions, this is necessary to properly analyze the context in which Yom sits in the creation story to understand the relative timing that creation sits. When looking at other instances of understanding time throughout the Old Testament, it it important to note to oneself that when ever Yom is followed by a specific number, the definition of the word never changes . It becomes a systematic equation where Yom, with the addition with a numerical value, comes to represent a specific time period that cannot change course throughout the language of Hebrew, in which it has been written. Yom, plus a number, gives the time period of twenty four hour …show more content…
Time is not relational to the sun, it is relational to the rotation of the Earth caused by the tilt on the axis (answersingenesis.org). This would mean that from the beginning, the Earth was on a spin cycle due to gravity, causing time to exit, even if it had not been created yet. This would mean time would stay content for as long as Earth spun properly. Furthermore, God created days (answersingenesis.org). This is seen within the first five verses of Genesis. That would mean for him to create days, the time would have to have been the same, for there would be no reason for God to change time (gci.org). If God had changed time, then the functionality of everything else would be shifted, as time could constantly be changing. Furthermore, Genesis was written in a perspective of man (gci.org). This would cause the words to be written with a denotation in which those who would read the book later would understand. There could be no possibility for man to write books in a way for no one to understand. This is not the character of God, He wants to give us understanding. Problems with this perspective start to occur scientifically when examined under this lens. For the literalist perspective to occur, God would have had to make the Earth fully functioning on the days each item was created. The trees would have to already have fruit, the cows