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Creation Week Symmetry

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There 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.

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Literal Days of Creation

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Did 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?

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