The 6 (+1) Day Creation of God – Elementary for Gospel

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The Bible begins with the account of creation. God created heaven and earth in six literal days and completed His work with the seventh day, the Sabbath. Only a minority recognizes this first account as a foundational element of the entire gospel. If faith is lacking at this point, things become truly problematic.

The justified origin

WAnyone who opens the Bible and begins reading from the beginning will immediately encounter the account of creation. How it all began. That makes sense. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,” is the first sentence. As trivial as these first words may seem, there is actually so much surprise contained within them. In the original Hebrew, the sentence reads something like “Bereshit bara elohim et hashamayim ve et ha’aretz” and consists of seven compound words. All the characters (and iota) added together add up to 28. This contains the 4×7.

This is where the dilemma of the creation account begins: when faith in God’s Word is simply lacking. Viewing creation in literal seven days is not only chronologically sensible, but also provides the clear identification of the true Creator, His authority, and also His true character. If all of this is missing, the “great rest” of the Bible can only lead to a void, and the essential plan of salvation for humanity—which is the true purpose of the “good news”—is viewed as a collection of colorful narratives about the personal feelings of ancient patriarchs.

The gospel lay, so to speak, prepared in a drawer (“the mystery of God,” Revelation 10:7; Ephesians 1:9; 6:19) since ancient times. Prepared for the fall that God had long foreseen: the fall of man in the Garden of Eden due to the cunning deception of Satan, hidden behind the serpent. From that point on, the gospel, the opening of a saving way out, became relevant. If this faith is lacking, the basis for recognizing the plan of salvation as such is also lacking, let alone accepting this grace of God.

Creation Day 1

On the first day of creation, God laid the foundation for everything that would come in the days to come. He created the heavens and the earth. A barren subsoil, nothing but emptiness and desolation (“chaos”). A condition that will occur again at the end of the now approximately 6,000-year dilemma in this world. Quite contrary to the stories about a “1,000-year kingdom of peace on Earth.” There will be no life on Earth for 1,000 years. Down there “in the abyss,” everything is devastated. Only Satan and his minions now have time, completely bound, to contemplate the result of their diabolical activities (Revelation 20:2-3).

This is precisely the initial state that will be cleared up again after 1,000 years as the foundation for the new heaven and the new earth (Revelation 21).

Genesis 1:1-5:
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.“

Creation Day 2

Apparently, the sea and the atmosphere were not separate from each other. A single “watery desert” without contours. God divided this into a surface of water and the atmosphere above it.

Genesis 1:6-8:
“And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.“

Creation Day 3

Still a purely “water planet,” with nothing solid beneath its feet. On the third day of creation, God separated the water, or rather, collected it, to create the land. The solid foundation for all green things. On the same day, plants emerged on the land.

Genesis 1:9-13:
“And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day.“

Creation Day 4

On the fourth day of creation, God “switches on” an “external” light. While the light on the first day came from God himself, it was now time to provide our own sources of light. The sun, to illuminate the day and sustain what had already been created and what was yet to come, and the moon, to provide light at night. The sun serves to distinguish between day and night, or rather, to count the days. The moon, with its phases, marks each new month and thus also the years.

The stars, which adorn the firmament at night, were also added on the fourth day of creation.

Genesis 1:14-19:
“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.“

Creation Day 5

On the fifth day of creation, things truly came to life for the first time. God created not only all kinds of water creatures, but also a variety of birds.

Genesis 1:20-23:
“And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.“

Creation Day 6

God designated the sixth day of creation for the creation of all land animals. This includes species that are now long extinct and are dated by “science” to somewhere between 60 million and 240 million years ago. The problems begin in the postulated, hypothetical Cambrian era anyway. For almost all known animals, whether still existing today or already extinct, appeared almost simultaneously and at once. The so-called Cambrian Explosion is an “unexplainable” fact. Afterward, everything existed, and before that, nothing. Therefore, “just forget about it.”

Genesis 1:24-25:
“And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.“

Essentially in the second half of the sixth day of creation, God created humankind. First Adam, then his companion Eve. Created in the image of God, as man and woman (or male and female, it doesn’t change anything). It’s immediately clear that the creation account has far more to say about the creation of humankind than about the creation of the previous days.

Genesis 1:26-31:
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.“

Creation Day 7

Inseparable from the six preceding days of creation is the seventh day, the Sabbath. God established it for the completion of His creation. God blessed and sanctified this day of rest. The Creator was neither tired, nor worn out, nor exhausted. As Jesus Christ emphasized, He created the Sabbath for mankind’s sake (Mark 2:27). A day of fellowship between the Creator and His created humankind. (Info)

Genesis 2:1-3:
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.“

Human – “Crown of Creation”

Man, the “crowning glory of creation.” This makes sense to the Bible believer, since God created man in His own image and even placed the rest of the earthly creation beneath his feet:
“For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.” (Psalm 8:5-8)

If that isn’t a priority, it certainly seems like a lot of responsibility. But what humanity has actually made of it can be seen more and more impressively as time progresses. However, modern, secular science, the secret priesthood, and the caste of “atheist prophets” responsible for spreading and manifesting their faith, see things differently. What Christians call the study of the gospel, for the wearer of white coats with a ballpoint pen in their breast pocket, is spiritual science for modeling new mental constructs.

Evolutionary theory built on sand

Secular science, very often dependent on external research funding, is evidently practicing repression under the pressure of the “accepted narrative of the majority.” The evidence against the postulated theory of evolution is not just “overwhelming,” but “overwhelming.” The theory of evolution simply cannot have worked. Even less aware are the researchers that, as general atheists, they are actually adhering to a belief and defending this “Holy Grail” with all their might (Info).

The Church of Rome practices a symbiosis between secular science and the biblical creation account. This begins with the alleged Big Bang. The intellectual father of this hypothesis was Georges Lemaître, a Jesuit from Belgium. The Big Bang theory and the theory of evolution are compatible with the creation account in the Gospels, according to “papal insight,” or doctrine. However, it requires enormous intellectual effort to reconcile the two. The Bible is unmistakably clear on this point.

Literal days

Genesis 1 tells of literal days, each 24 hours long, per day of creation. The Hebrew word for this, found at the end of each day of creation, is “yohm,” meaning one literal day. It can be from sunrise to sunset, or from sunrise to the next sunrise. A symbolic interpretation as a period of time, however, requires a related context. But it says, “And the evening and the morning…” This defines the period.

Science, on the other hand, speaks of around 14.7 billion years since the “cosmic primordial boom” and the (now, one is flexible) around 2 million years since the first “ape-like” human is said to have roamed the Earth.

Compromises impossible

Humans, God’s image, according to the creation account. Monkeys and humans have the same ancestors, according to science. What a “God’s image.”

No, the theory of evolution and the creation account are not only completely incompatible (Info), but such a theory of compatibility also throws the entire gospel out the window. God’s law, sin, obedience, transgression, necessary grace, etc., at what point in “human” development according to evolution would all of this even apply? From the moment the ape ancestor left the trees and walked upright for the first time?

Believe in the Bible or in Jesuits?

Even if one were willing to compromise, the razor-sharp dividing line would still remain between scientific Roman Catholic narratives and the Bible’s account of creation. Even a compromise always results in a deviation from the original. The core question is simply, “Do I believe God’s Word, or do I believe the Jesuits?” Moreover, the existence of God can be proven with sound scientific arguments (Info).

Such a personally made compromise is also evident in confessions of belief in the miracles of Jesus Christ (healings, turning water into wine, raising from the dead, etc.), His crucifixion and resurrection from the dead, as well as His ascension into heaven, His love for humanity—but a creation in 7 literal days? Nope! Impossible, how is that possible?

Creation Sabbath

The evolutionary model of thought thus contradicts the gospel. Nothing in the plan of salvation would have any basis, let alone any meaning. This applies not only to the definition of sin and its foundation in God’s law, but also to the 7th-day Sabbath. This day, sanctified by God, is, after all, an integral part of all of God’s creation. Moreover, it was established as an unmistakable sign of the one, living Creator.

Humanity’s observance of the Sabbath is, in turn, its recognition of the true God and His authority. Whoever observes another day, on the other hand, thereby recognizes the authority that established this “substitute day” (Info).

Apostasy was announced

In an indirect, yet recognizable way, the Bible foretold a doctrine such as the theory of evolution. After all, it is a doctrine that, due to a lack of evidence, not only requires extreme faith, but also directly leads away from faith in the gospel and thus also from faith in Jesus Christ and bearing His testimony. Such a reference can be found in the course of the interpretation of the 5th trumpet in the antitype (Revelation 9:1-12). This state is supposed to last for five (prophetic) months, specifically 150 years (Info).

Charles Darwin published his work “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. This marked the end of the 150 years in 2009. This marked the beginning of the 6th trumpet and also a new, pernicious doctrine. Humans are dying a (spiritual) death en masse (7 Trumpets).

Either everything or leave it

Each person decides for themselves. Does this follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ or the “insights of reason,” which, with the rise of New Protestantism, caused one of the greatest apostasies in history?

Such a state, believing this from the Word of God but dismissing that as old stories, is like floating in a void. It is a misjudgment to ever move onto some kind of neutral ground. “Black and white thinking” truly applies here. Either one is completely in God’s territory or in that of the adversary. There is no middle ground. One can also describe this behavior, like a “wobbly-dog,” as a lukewarm state, just as it was used as a major rebuke for the last church of God, Laodicea (Info). Jesus Christ is clear about what He thinks about this:
“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” (Revelation 3:16).

Repetition of Creation – Everything New

By now, God’s creation has degenerated, impoverished, impure, and steeped in sin. There’s no patching or repairing it. Therefore, the slogan “preservation of creation” is meaningless and comes about 6,000 years too late. God doesn’t do things by halves; he does everything “very well.” Creation will be repeated. Everything will be new.

How long this process will take is not stated in the Bible. But it is very likely that God will be at work again for six days, whereby on the last day, mankind will not be recreated, but rather admitted back into the new, eternal Eden. The next day will be the Sabbath, as will every seventh day of the week (Isaiah 66:22-23). ​​This will be a time for fellowship with God and wonder at His creation.

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