Genesis 1:11& 13 state, “And God said, Let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb yielding seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the evening and the morning were the
third day.
The first chapter of the Book of Beginnings gives us a clear record of
all the growing things created on the third day of creation. On the next day God created the sun and the
moon so that his creation would have the lights to sustain photosynthesis which
is essential to sustenance and growth of all the plant life He had created the
day before.
Those who believe that each day was at least a thousand or perhaps a
million years apart have a hard time explaining scientifically how all those
plants lived at least a thousand years without light. I guess they have faith that God suspended
his laws of nature so that all those green things could exist until a thousand
years or a million years had passed.
Christian musicians often get sucked into this non-literal view of an
inaccurate Genesis record which leaves them ripe for all kinds of exotic
hypotheses about a theistic evolution.
When one considers something in the Bible to be non-literal then he or
she needs to have a concrete reason why it is non-literal.
Why should we care? One of the
reasons we should care is that if one starts to consider, without concrete
logical reasoning, that the Bible record does not mean what it says—then there
is no stopping place in such faulty reasoning.
We should remember that the Word clearly asserts that the evening and
the morning consisted of one day. Those
who purport that a day is as a thousand years with the Lord are forgetting that
we have no reason to assert that when the Word states” the evening and the
morning were the third day” that it is in any way referring to a thousand
years. We will continue this discussion
tomorrow
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