How Long Did it Take God to create the world?
The book gave me three views on how long the creation of the world took. The assignment called to argue for each one and then finally to choose the one I agree with and discuss it. I believe in the actual seven day creation.
Several other views of the length of creation have merit and are something to think about. I have to give them that. But I come from the viewpoint that when something is not supposed to be taken literal, the Bible's context and writing style scream this fact. In the first chapters of Genesis, this is not the case. The word used throughout the creation is day. An argument against this was that since there was no moon and sun in the first few days how could you measure day. That is a good point and should be looked at closer. When you look closer you see where on the very first day, God created light and dark. The scriptures specifically state that there was a morning and an evening. There was a measure of day. The sun and moon were not present but God overrode that fact with His own glory. Per the Bible on the first day the morning and evening and therefore the day was defined before any thing else was created.
In the end, it does not matter how long it took. God created it and it was done with amazing power and humor. To argue such things can fall under the foolish discussions that Paul talked about. It rarely gets anywhere and usually ends up in anger and arrogance.
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