To begin the third lesson, it is necessary to go back to Genesis1:1. It is the thesis statement for all of life and contains everything that God did in the remainder of the Bible, all stated in ten words. But the evolutionists would have you believe that from verse two on through 31 took millions upon millions of years to perfect even if there is a god of some kind out there, but it certainly can’t be the God of verse one, since in their words, believers can’t prove he exists.

The evolutionists play word games to disprove creation. Chapter One of Genesis tells us that God created everything in six days and rested on the seventh. To bolster the argument for evolution, the word day is made into millions of years or indeterminate periods of time. Both the words of the Hebrew and Koine Greek languages are very specific in meaning. The meaning is both denotative (dictionary) and contextual and it is necessary to understand the context in each case of use, but in no way does the context alter the basic meaning of the word. A context most often gives a shade of meaning but doesn’t change the basics of the word. Such is the use of the word day in Genesis and throughout the Bible, which means a 24-hour period. It also can mean a period of time (days as last days) made up of 24-hour periods called days.

In Genesis 1:5, the word day is used for the first time, as is the word night. It is important to learn the meaning of the two words; and how they are united into one day, a 24 hour period that evolutionists claim isn’t true. Even some Christians doubt that it means 24 hours. But why would the writer of Genesis give a meaning of other than 24 hours to the word in Genesis when he used the Hebrew words that were the content of the common language they used each day? 

Light was called Day (possibly a 12 hour period) and the darkness Night (another 12 hour period) but the writer then tells us (verse 5) that the evening and the morning were the first day.  There is no reason to believe the word means other than 24 hours since the two terms evening and morning unite to make a one day, a 24 hour  period. When that day period of time began and ended wasn’t of importance to the writer. Except as noted by the context, the word day means a 24 hour period throughout the Bible, both in Hebrew and Koine Greek. Even when used to mean an age or as in this day and age or that day, it refers to an indeterminate period of time made up of 24 hour segments.

 Each time God said, “Let” with the words following in verses 3-26, it means that God willed, demanded and spoke the creation into existence. In every instance of the words speak, spoken or spake as found in the KJV, they mean to utter words with a voice in an understandable manner using language the hearer understood.  Along with speaking, the word called (verse 5 and elsewhere) means to name, pronounce, and other meanings that denotes forms or manner of speaking.

It is obvious that God didn’t take millions of years to create anything nor did he use evolution to make things. Gods Word is powerful and when he spoke the Creation came into being. He didn’t need the foolishness of evolution that falsely turns a day into millions of years.

© 03-3-2010 DEC

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