Did God Create the Universe in 6 Literal Days?

Does Genesis 1 teach that God created the universe in six literal days? Yes, it's the only way to read Genesis. After the first day of creation, Genesis 1 .5 says, and there was evening and there was morning the first day.

Same goes for the second day and the third and so on. Pretty straightforward. Some have argued that Genesis 1 is not about how God created, but that He created. But Genesis tells us how also. God said, let there be, and there was, speaking all things into existence, and it was good.

At the end of six days, He rested from His creation. If all things came to be through natural processes, there's no end to creation. But the creation story has a definite beginning and conclusion over six days.

Creation, Death, and the Fall

This is the only understanding congruent with the rest of Scripture. Romans 5 .12 says that death came into the world because of sin. Before Adam's sin, there was no death, destruction, or decay. Consequences of sin.

They could not have been going on for millions of years before Adam. Well, then science and the Bible don't agree, because science unquestionably says that the Earth is billions of years old. Yeah, no, it doesn't.

Science doesn't say anything. Scientists do, believing in uniformitarianism. That the processes we observe today are exactly as they always have been. The Bible says otherwise, for they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens that existed long ago and the Earth was formed out of water and through water by the Word of God, and that by means of these, the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.

Creation by the Word of God

Hebrews 11 .3 says, by faith we understand that the universe was created by the Word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible, when we understand the text.