KBM Was Everything Created In Six Days?
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Today, we are going to begin a new series of lesson on what is typically called apologetics. Apologetics simply means that we are going to be studying some things that people have argued against concerning the bible from the outside world. So it seems most appropriate to me, since we are just now starting out in this sermon to begin with the “book of beginnings” also known as the book of Genesis. One of the great debates that has become common today concerning the bible, both in the world and even in the church, is whether or not God created everything as Genesis 1 describes. By that I mean, ever since Charles Darwin hypothesized about evolution there has been a massive push to prove him right or at least the idea that God did not create everything as is said in the bible.
Charles Darwin’s theory on evolution by natural selection suggests that species change over time through a gradual accumulation of traits passed from one generation to the next, that always enhance the survival and reproduction of the thing being evolved. This is always for “one species” to evolve into a “completely different species.” Such as a monkey becoming a human and so on.
Now to be transparent, there are those that believe this theory of evolution, but instead of believing it is by cosmic accident they believe God created this process. Those that believe God did this are called theistic evolutionist.
Because you must have this change over long periods of time, this is why you see so many scientist and those that believe in this theory saying the earth is billions of years old. For “macro evolution” or the jumping from one species to the next to occur you must have at the minimum billions, if not trillions, of years for this to be accomplished. So the question that we must ask and answer is, “was everything created in six days” like the bible says or is there some secrete meaning in Genesis 1 that no one saw from this chapter until more modern times. The truth is there is a really easy answer to this question, so let’s begin with the easy today and then we will dive into the more “complex” over the next couple of weeks.
Let’s being by looking at what God said after each day mentioned in the creation account.
5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
8 And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Now, we are going to get a little bit technical here, but I will do my best to make it as simple as possible. The Old Testament is mostly written in the Hebrew language. The book of Genesis is no different in that Moses was the one inspired by God to write the first five books of the Old Testament, and the reason it is written in Hebrew. The Hebrew word we find for “day” in each of those verse we looked at is “yom.”
This word has several meanings, as it is found 2269 times in the OT, but how it is used determines it’s meaning. You and I have the same thing with the word “day” as well.
If I say, “back in my day” I’m talking about a point in my past history but not a specific point.
If I say, “back on my 16th birthday,” now I’m talking about a specific day in my past.
If I say, “some day” I’m not talking about some point in my future but it is not a specific day.
Lastly, if I say, “that report took me three days to complete,” you know I’m talking about three different “24 hour periods of time.”
No if you noticed, every time there is a “number” or some “specific designation” with the word day it is is dealing with a specific twenty-four hour day.
In Hebrew there is no difference. Every time out of those 2269 times it is found in the OT and a number or “evening” or “morning” or “both” are found it is talking about 24 hour days.
17 The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
3 You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days.
16 For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.
13 The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening.
Arthur C. Custance, a Canadian anthropologist, sent a letter to Hebrew scholars in nine leading universities. He sent them each the same question, “Do you understand the Hebrew word yom, as used in Genesis 1, accompanied by a numerical, to be properly translated as: (a) a day as commonly understood, or (b) an age, or (c) an age or day without preference for either?”
Seven of the nine responded and each and everyone of them said “(a) a day commonly understood.”
If this wasn’t enough, God himself made this clear when he established the keeping of the Sabbath Day for the Hebrew people in Exodus 20:11.
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Was everything created in six literal days? Yes, and the book of Genesis makes this abundantly clear.
