Are the seven days of creation literal or figurative? What is the meaning of “day” in Genesis? Hours or eons? On the first day, God created the entire universe. On the second day, God separated the waters above the earth from the waters on the surface of the earth. On the third day, God formed the land out of the seas. Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”, and it was so (Genesis 1:11). And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good (Genesis 1:12). The first passage states that the earth “sprouted” vegetation
