Saturday, 27 June 2009

• Does anyone believe in a literal six day creation anymore?

  Does anyone believe in a literal 6 day creation anymore?
  
  
  
  I hear all the time "christians" saying that I am a fool to believe in creation as it is written in the bible. That I am an  Anti-Science, uninformed little sheep, who is nothing better than a little yes man who agrees with everything that my pastor or denomination or study group believes. They tell me to do a little research and I will see.
  
  This is what I really see....
  
  Christianity is and must continue to be totally committed to the special creation as described in Genesis, and Christianity must fight with its full might against the theory of evolution. And here is why.
  
  
  The Genesis creation account was to be taken literal.....
  The creation account does not contain information or invocation in any of the forms of Hebrew poetry, in either overt or covert form, and Hebrew scholars of substance are in agreement of this fact.
  
  The creation account is not a parable because all parables are introduced it with a simile to make it clear to the reader or hearer that it is a parable.
  
  Where does that leave us? How about Historic account?
  
  Genesis was written by Moses.
  
  This does not preclude the possibility that Moses had access to patriarchal records, preserved by being written on clay tablets and handed down from father to son via the line of Adam—Seth—Noah—Shem—Abraham—Isaac—Jacob, etc., as there are 11 verses in Genesis which read, 'These are the generations [Hebrew: toledoth = 'origins' or by extension 'record of the origins'] of…' As these statements all come after the events they describe, and the events recorded all took place before rather than after the death of the individuals so named, they may very well be subscripts or closing signatures, i.e. colophons, rather than superscripts or headings. If this is so, the most likely explanation of them is that Adam, Noah, Shem, and the others each wrote down an account of the events which occurred in his lifetime, and Moses, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, selected and compiled these, along with his own comments, into the book we now know as Genesis
  
  Chapters 12-50 of Genesis were very clearly written as authentic history, as they describe the lives of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and his 12 sons who were the ancestral heads of the 12 tribes of Israel. The Jewish people, from earliest biblical times to the present day, have always regarded this portion of Genesis as the true record of their nation's history.
  
  But our main concern is the first 11 chapters of Genesis. These chapters have incurred the most criticism from modern scholars, scientists, and skeptics.
  
  So if we are to believe that Adam wrote the creation account then Adam was reveiled the creation account from YHWH because Adam was not created until the 6th day. This view is reinforced by the words, "These are the generations ofthe heavens and of the earth when they were created…" in Genesis 2:4
  
  The details of Day 7, the rest day, are included before this in Genesis 2:2-3, thereby completing (as we might expect) the record of a full seven-day week, before this subscript or closing signature appears.
  
  Then follow the events of Genesis 2:4-5:1. This section tells us about Adam, his wife Eve, and their sons, and reads very much like a personal account of what Adam knew, saw, and experienced concerning the Garden of Eden, and the creation of Eve (chapter 2), their rebellion against God (chapter 3), and the deeds of their descendants (chapter 4 to 5:1), This section ends with the words, “This is the book of the generations of Adam.”
  
  Adam was created a mature man, endowed with all the DNA, knowledge and skill he needed to perform all the tasks assigned him by YHWH. No cave-man here! Adam knew enough horticulture "to dress and to keep" the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:15), and ample intelligence to recognize and name the distinct kinds of animals (Genesis 2:19). He (and Eve) could converse with God without ever having learned an alphabet, and there is no reason to suppose that he was not fully skilled in writing also
  
  
  Why am I so adamant about this? Because if you cut out creation as written in the Bible and replace it with a form such as evolution you will eventually cut out Yahshua (Jesus) our Messiah.
  
  Romans says
  
  Here is how it works: it was through one individual that sin entered the world, and through sin, death; and in this way death passed through to the whole human race, inasmuch as everyone sinned.
  (Romans 5:12)
  
  the whole justification of Jesus' life and death is predicated on the existence of Adam and the forbidden fruit he and Eve ate. Without the yetzer hara (evil inclination) because of Adams fall, who needs to be redeemed? Without Adam's fall into a life of constant sin terminated by death, what purpose is there to Christianity? None.
  
  Without Adam, without the yetzer hara(evil inclination), without sin,  Yahshua (Jesus) the Messiah is reduced to a man with a mission on a wrong planet!
  
  It is so important that we as Christians be consistent in our thinking. We must accept all of the Bible as God's Word.
  
  Yahshua was not merely a man with a mission on the wrong planet. He was truly God incarnate of a love mission to the right planet. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).
  
  If we cannot believe in the truth of the creation account...what does that say for the rest of God's Word?
  
  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
  (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
  
  Here is a video to support more of what I am saying
  
  
  
  
  

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