Do faraway stars prove that the universe is billions of years old? Doesn’t that conflict with the Bible? Has the speed of light always been the fastest thing in the universe? It is possible that the speed of light is not truly known? Was it always a constant, or could it have been briefly faster than it was now?
Continue readingThere is symmetry between days 1-3 and days 4-6 of creation week. Genesis 1:1 is the initialization of the story of creation. Genesis 1:2 describes the initial state of the cosmos as without form and void. In Hebrew this is tohu va-bohu (תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ). Tohu means “lacking form and purpose, unordered, desolate”, and Bohu means “empty, uninhabited, wasteland”. The first three days were the solution to tohu by bringing organization to the unorganized, and the second set of three days was the solution to bohu, filling the organized spaces with inhabitants.
Continue readingDid God make everything in six days? Are the days of creation equal to thousands of years? The Hebrew word for “day” is “Yom” (יוֹם), and it consistently means a literal day throughout the Bible, so it never equals anything else. The word “Yom” doesn’t change meaning in Gen 1:14 when the sun, moon, and stars were created on day four. Some believers interpret the days as thousands of years, while others suggest that each day is equivalent to two billion years. They are trying to syncretize the Bible with naturalism, which is a secular alternative to creation that denies God’s creative supernatural ability. Scripture doesn’t fit with the billions of years model. One would have to say the Earth took billions of years to rotate back then and then sped up to 24 hours sometime afterward. Is that even compatible with what the biblical authors believed?
Continue readingTheistic evolution aims to reconcile the biblical account of creation with secular perspectives on human origins. Unfortunately, theological evolution denies the biblical concept of God being immutable, and the sufficiency of Theistic evolution seeks to reconcile the biblical creation story with secular views on human origins. Theological evolution denies the biblical concept of God being immutable and denies the sufficiency of scripture. Naturalists use the idea of macro-evolution to obviate God, so including God is to them both unnecessary and contradictory to their beliefs. Naturalism says that the Bible’s limited age for the earth is incorrect and that it took millions of years for everything to form from nothing. No naturalist would agree that the Bible is true, but saying that the days of creation are allegories for millions of years would be seen as a cop-out for Christians from believing what the Bible teaches.
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