I was debating the other day with some friends about Creation vs. Evolution. I get amazed at how many who are saved yet so deceived by the G-d of this world.
Mark 10:6 says, �But from the beginning of the creation, G-d �made them male and female.�� From this passage, we see that Y-shua clearly taught that the creation was young, for Adam and Eve existed �from the beginning,� not billions of years after the universe and earth came into existence. Y-shua made a similar statement in Mark 13:19 indicating that man�s sufferings started very near the beginning of creation. The parallel phrases of �from the foundation of the world� and �from the blood of Abel� in Luke 11:50�51 also indicate that Y-shua placed Abel very close to the beginning of creation, not billions of years after the beginning. His Jewish listeners would have assumed this meaning in Y-shua� words, for the first-century Jewish historian Josephus indicates that the Jews of his day believed that both the first day of creation and Adam�s creation were about 5,000 years before Christ.
In John 5:45�47, Y-shua says, �Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you�Moses, in whom you trust. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?� In this passage, Y-shua makes it clear that one must believe what Moses wrote. And one of the passages in the writings of Moses in Exodus 20:11 states: �For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.� This, of course, is the basis for our seven-day week�six days of work and one day of rest. Obviously, this passage was meant to be taken as speaking of a total of seven literal days based on the Creation Week of six literal days of work and one literal day of rest.
In fact, in Luke 13:14, in his response to Y-shua healing a person on the Sabbath, the ruler of the synagogue, who knew the law of Moses, obviously referred to this passage when he said, �There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.� The sabbath day here was considered an ordinary day, and the six days of work were considered ordinary days. This teaching is based on the Law of Moses as recorded in Exodus 20, where we find the Ten Commandments�the six-day Creation Week being the basis for the Fourth Commandment.
We should also note the way Y-shua treated as historical fact the accounts in the Old Testament, which religious and atheistic skeptics think are unbelievable mythology. These historical accounts include Adam and Eve as the first married couple (Matthew 19:3�6; Mark 10:3�9), Abel as the first prophet who was killed (Luke 11:50�51), Noah and the Flood (Matthew 24:38�39), Moses and the serpent in the wilderness (John 3:14), Moses and the manna from heaven to feed the Israelites in the wilderness (John 6:32�33, 49), the experiences of Lot and his wife (Luke 17:28�32), the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah (Matthew 10:15), the miracles of Elijah (Luke 4:25�27), and Jonah and the big fish (Matthew 12:40� 41). As New Testament scholar John Wenham has compellingly argued, Y-shua did not allegorize these accounts but took them as straightforward history, describing events that actually happened just as the Old Testament describes. Y-shua used these accounts to teach His disciples that the events of His death, Resurrection, and Second Coming would likewise certainly happen in time-space reality.
These passages taken together strongly imply that Y-shua took Genesis 1 as literal history describing creation in six 24-hour days.
Is the Biblical account of Creation true and it�s a literal six days or was Y-shua confused on His own creation??
Good question to ask the evolutionists..."Is the Biblical account of Creation true and it�s a literal six days or was Y-shua confused on His own creation??"
I'm sure evolutionists will say God was confused, and had a senior moment and got the time and days mixed up:laugh:...:nahnah:.. but God got it all right, its man who has it all worng and tries to know more than GOD about God's own work...
