When both gods imagined “Earth” land formed from the darkness. They thought of trees, plants, mountains and valleys, water and sky. All of which appeared from the darkness. Thus Earth was formed.
In the beginning there was nothing. The world at first was an endless space and the earth was unfinished. This is how many creation stories begin. The creation of the world is something many try to decipher. People create myths and legends about the first days of the vast universe and anything that pertains it.
The Genesis Creation Story is from a Hebrew creation myth (Judaism/Christianity). The first story goes like this, Elohim “god” creates a heaven and an earth is 6 days. The second story is Yahwen “god” creates Adam from dust and puts him in the Garden of Eden, where he watches out for the animals. Then Adam creates Eve.
You interpret that the first day recorded in the Book of Genesis could be of indeterminate length… it could have been thirty hours! Or a month! Or a year! Or a hundred years! Or ten million years”
Genesis Creation Sermon VI: And God Created All the Beasts of the Earth (fig.1) by Jacob Lawrence was created in 1989. This painting is the 6th in a series entitled Eight Studies for the Book of Genesis. In this painting Lawrence depicts a church service where the congregation is being taught by the pastor about the 6th day of creation and the biblical verse Genesis 1:24-25. The viewer goes straight to the pastor who is in the
Benchmark Assignment: Gospel Essentials “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1: l, New International Version). This is where it all began. God’s perfect Creation included night and day, sky and land and sea, the moon and the stars, all the birds and fish and animals, and humankind. Man quickly messed it up and the Fall hit hard. No more was humanity right with God.
In The Navajo Creation Story Diné Bahane writes that the Gods visited for four days straight and that, the Black Body stayed on the fourth day to explain to the insect people that the Holy People were not happy with them and they did not understand them. He also explained to the insect people that they were to be recreated more in the image of the Holy People. On the twelfth day after the inspect people were clean the Holy People returned bringing with them a sacred buckskin and two ears of corn, one white and one yellow and from a ceremony performed by the Holy People the first man and the first woman were born. In contrast to Diné Bahane Navajo Creation, the Bible states that God alone created the heavens, the earth, and mankind. God
You interpret that the first day recorded in the Book of Genesis could be of indeterminate length. BRADY (Wriggling): I mean to state that the day referred to is not necessarily a twenty-four-hour day. DRUMMOND: It could have been thirty hours! Or a month of a week!
The second day God separated water into the sea and the sky. The third day God created land and plants. On the fourth day God created the sun and moon, along with the stars. On the fifth day, the Lord created fish and birds. On the sixth day, God created animals and humans.
Young earth creationists believe that God created the universe in six literal 24-hour days. These six literal days are shown to the human race as read from
24-hour: According to to the 24-Hour viewpoint, the 7 days referred to in Genesis 1 are normal days on the calendar. They argue that it’s clear/obvious that God meant normal, 24 hour, days because the days written in the first chapter are numbered. Also, using the fourth commandment, people who are for the 24-hour viewpoint would argue that since Moses refers to the 7th day, also known as the Sabbath, as a normal day must mean that in Genesis 1, Moses is referring the days as normal. Although these beliefs may seem simple and straightforward, I don’t believe that the specific time spent on each stage of creation is important to know. In my opinion, this viewpoint is taking God’s passage in a scientific way.
The Bible describes it; ‘….the earth was without form and void… and darkness was upon the face of the deep’ (NKJVGenesis 1:2) and a similar claim is made in Hesiod’s Theogony which alleges that in the beginning there was only confusion of Chaos and unbroken darkness.
The “gap” or reconstruction theory states that there is a narrative “gap” between “Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. The Geological era theory, which became popular in the nineteenth century, argues that the six “days” of Genesis 1 are actually six “eras” of undefined length. The literal or “twenty-four-hour-day” theory is the most long-lived theory and has the idea that the world was created in six twenty-four hour days, with each day representing one linear phase in the chronology of the creation. The framework theory argues that the seven-day structure of Genesis 1 was a literal week being used as a literary device. I think the literal “twenty-four-hour-day” theory is the best interpretation of Genesis 1-3 because this is what the Bible says.
In the context of biblical world view, the description of the natural world begins in the first lines of the Bible “In the beginning, God created the
Six days doesn’t seem that long, but we can only imagine how much time he spent thinking about what he was going to make earth like and what he was going to put on it. All of these theories are so crazy I can only imagine how much time people spent thinking of these crazy weird theories, for them to not even be true. With all the time these people have spent trying to think of fake theories, imagine what they could have been doing with their lives instead. The earth is one thing that everyone wonders who created it? or how it got here?
