Young Earth -- It's Not the Issue — Ken Ham

The Conference's Scientific Sessions and the Importance of Biblical History

In this particular session, it's called Young Earth, It's Not the Issue, and I wanted to set the scene for the rest of what we're doing here today. Because as you know from your program, and I'll just have a quick look at the program here, we have Dr. Jonathan Sarfley talking on rocks, fossils and the age of the earth.

We have Dr. Russell Humphreys, who's talking on radioisotopes and the young world. We also have a session by Dr. John Baumgartner on catastrophic plate tectonics. And then tomorrow we have various sessions dealing with the age of the earth as well.

Obviously as you look through our program, you see that the age of the earth is a major issue. We're dealing with it on the basis of astronomy, biology, geology and so on. And I wanted to share with you why I believe that that is such a crucial issue this morning and why we need to deal with that in detail.

And sort of set the scene for a lot of the fairly heavy scientific lectures that you're about to hear and be challenged with. I want to start off with a verse, a scripture from John, that makes sense when you're talking about Genesis.

John chapter 3 and verse 12. Jesus said this, if I've told you earthly things and you believe not, how shall you believe if I tell you of heavenly things? I want to apply that in a particular way here this morning.

Biblical Authority in Geology, Biology, and Astronomy

Let me ask you a question, does the Bible touch on geology, yes or no? Yes it does, doesn't it? It talks about a global flood, that would sure affect geology, wouldn't it? Does the Bible touch on biology?

Sure it does, God made distinct kinds of animals and plants. Adam named animals, says taxonomy for instance. Yes the Bible touches on biology. Does the Bible touch on astronomy? Yes, the sun, moon and stars and of course the long day of Joshua and all sorts of aspects of astronomy.

So here's my question to you, where the Bible touches on biology, geology and astronomy, can we trust what it says? Because if you can't trust what the Bible says in biology, geology and astronomy, how can you trust its message of morality and salvation which is dependent upon the geology, biology and astronomy being true?

So you think about it, Jesus Christ, the son of God, became a man, a descendant of a man called Noah, who was on a boat with biology on board the boat, with geology going on outside the boat, who's a descendant of a man called Adam, who was made from dust, who was told to name animals, who was told about fruit on a tree and so on, who was to return to dust because he rebelled against God, who was given the sun, moon and stars for signs and for seasons.

Where does the Bible ever separate the geology, biology, astronomy, anthropology, etc. from the morality and salvation? It doesn't, does it? It all goes together. Because you see, what we've got to understand is that the Bible is not just a book of religion and that is what I fear has happened in a lot of our churches today and that is that many people look on the Bible as a book of religion, it's a book about salvation, but it's much more than that, the Bible is a book of history, isn't it?

Real history that begins in the book of Genesis. That's why I'm so amazed as I travel around the world and I find these Christian leaders or pastors, you've heard Dr. John Wickham talk about the fact the majority of theologians compromise when it comes to the book of Genesis and I have them tell me things like, oh well, it's obvious that Genesis is, you know, 1 to 11 anyway, is not real history and they don't really teach Genesis as real history.

In fact, some of them said to me, Genesis is just a metaphor. Have you heard that before, that Genesis is just a metaphor? It amazes me. Have you ever seen those genealogies in the Bible? You know, those passages you like to read before you go to sleep, so and so begat so and so begat so and so, great bedtime reading by the way.

But why are they there? You know why they're there? To show that Jesus Christ became a descendant of the first man, Adam. He became one of us. I mean, when you read those genealogies in the New Testament, you see them in Chronicles, for instance, and back there to Genesis, what do you notice?

You know, this person goes back to this person, to this real person, to this real person, they go all the way back, this real person, to this real person, to this real person, all the way back to a metaphor.

Have you noticed that as you read through the Bible? Have you ever wondered what a descendant of a metaphor really looks like? Look at your neighbor. There you are, a descendant of a metaphor. Is that what Paul says in Romans 5?

By one metaphor, sin into the world and death by sin. Doesn't make any sense, does it? No, when you read through those genealogies, you notice this person goes back to this person, to this person, back to a real man, Adam, in history, of whom we're all descendants.

I mean, if Adam wasn't a real man in history of whom we are all descendants, then who are we? Why are we sinners? I had a girl come to me not long ago and she said, my sister, you know, believes in Abraham and so on, but she says she doesn't believe in a literal Adam.

And I said, well, you know, where did she come from? Ask her where she came from. Ask her who she's a descendant of. Ask her why she's a sinner. I mean, why did Jesus die on a cross? Ask her why Jesus is called the last Adam.

See, they don't have answers to those questions unless Genesis 1 -11 is real history and have no foundation for understanding the gospel. See, that's why I call the Bible the history book of the universe because that's what it is and that's what I teach children.

The Bible as a History Book, Not Merely a Religious Text

This is something I think that is missing from our churches today. We teach the Bible as a book of stories. We teach the Bible as a book of religion, a book about salvation, but we've lost the fact that the Bible is a book of history, real history.

History that includes geology, biology, astronomy, anthropology. History that you can trust. Now, it's true that the Bible is not exhaustive science textbook on geology, biology, astronomy, and so on.

I had one student once at university who said to me, but the Bible is not a science textbook. And I said, you're right about that, and I am sure glad about that because science textbooks change every year.

The Bible is a science textbook. It'll be changing every year. But where the Bible touches on science, can we trust it? Absolutely, you're going to see that and have that confirmed over and over again during this particular conference where the Bible touches on geology, biology, astronomy.

And see, the Bible doesn't give us all those equations in chemistry and those equations in regard to relativity that Dr. Russ Humphreys is going to talk to you about. The Bible doesn't give you all those equations and all the detailed information in geology or the ice ages as Mike Ord is going to be talking to you about also.

The Bible doesn't give you all of those details, but do you know what it does give you? It gives you the big picture in geology, the big picture in astronomy, the big picture in biology and anthropology that enables you to have on those glasses that we talked about and that Dr. Wickham talked about so that you can then have the right approach to the world and to science and so on.

And this is the history that the Bible reveals to us. In fact, this is the basis of our creation museum that we're going to be constructing not far from here. A walk through biblical history through creation in six days and perfect creation, marred by sin, death as a consequence, the flood of Noah's day.

And when you accept those events, then you start to say, well, if there really was a global flood, what would you expect to find? Well, you know, billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth.

And what do you find? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. Wow, what a coincidence. And you go through it. Confusion, the Tower of Babel. Ah, that's interesting.

Different languages. So, therefore, you'd expect maybe to find some evidence in today's world that all people go back to, you know, one group of people that go back to one man and one woman Adam. It's interesting how we see all sorts of intriguing correlations there.

Flood legends around the world, very similar to the Genesis account, indicating they've been handed down and changed. But the real record in the Bible and some of the interesting studies in genetics, even in the secular world, where they're saying we all go back to one woman.

They don't believe, of course, it was the biblical Eve. But nonetheless, here we have this history. And see, here's the point. All these things here, Jesus Christ steps into history, becomes a man, dies on a cross, raised from the dead.

We're at this point in history here, aren't we? Waiting for the consummation, the new heavens and new earth. Of course, the older you are, the more you want this, as you know. And see, all these events have already occurred.

You know the thrilling thing about being a Christian and one who trusts the Bible? You know, I often feel sorry for those who don't believe in God's Word and who are evolutionists and so on. They don't have someone who was there, who knows what happened, who told them.

We do. Isn't that exciting? We know someone who's always been there, who knows everything, who told us what happened. We've got the key to understand what this world is all about. And see, in that regard, we should realize as a Christian that the Bible is actually foundational to all of our thinking.

We don't take ideas to the Bible. We start with the Bible, a revelation from God. We know the events of history that have occurred to give us the big picture in geology, the big picture in biology, the big picture in astronomy, the big picture in anthropology, the big picture of history, to go out there and therefore have the right framework into which to put the science and so on to understand what this universe is all about.

That's why it's so exciting being a Christian. You're going to see that happen over the next few days. See, that's why I said to you last night, when people asked me the question, how do you fit dinosaurs into the Bible, what did I say the answer was?

Interpreting Scientific Evidence Through Biblical History

You don't, that's right. Because you don't try to take man's interpretation of the evidence and fit it into the Bible. See, we've been trained in an education system where, oh, we look at the evidence and listen to what man is saying and somehow you take that and you fit it into the Bible.

No, what man is doing is interpreting the evidence on a whole different basis. And then you try to fit that to the Bible, some book of religion or morality, but not a real book of history. And Christians say, well, we don't know what to do with dinosaurs.

We don't know what to do with the Grand Canyon. We don't know how to understand light from the furthest star. We don't know what to do with the Ice Age. Do you know why? Because you're taking man's interpretation of the evidence and trying to fit it to the Bible.

But when you use the Bible as foundation of all your thinking and take that big picture of history out to the evidence and you look at real science in the present as you're going to see from the work of Dr. Humphreys and Dr. Baumgartner and Dr. Gitt and others over the next few days, wow, you say, what confirmation that that is the right foundation.

Of course, we know it is anyway. But see, you know where I believe this problem shows up? It shows up in our churches and Sunday schools. Because you see, if we're honest, and some of you have heard me say this before, I believe a lot of our Sunday school material, a lot of our Bible study material, I believe a lot of it is missing the mark.

In fact, I think some of it is almost a waste of time. Why? You know what we tend to do? Take our Sunday school literature. By and large, what does Sunday school literature do? Teach Bible stories, Bible stories, Bible stories, Jonah and the Great Fish, Feeding of the Five Thousand, Paul's Missionary Journeys, Jesus on the Cross, Adam and Eve, Noah and the Ark, and you say, don't you believe all those things?

Absolutely. What's wrong with that? You know what's wrong with it? It's the way it's taught. Because you see, what happens is you teach these stories in Sunday school. But let me ask you this question.

If you were to talk to Mrs. Brown, you know, maybe she's been teaching Sunday school for 140 years, and you say, Mrs. Brown, you've been teaching Sunday school for a long time. Yeah. Oh, yes. Tell me, in Sunday school, do you teach geology, biology, astronomy, anthropology?

What do you think Mrs. Brown's answer is going to be? No. No, no, you don't teach that in Sunday school. Oh, why not? Oh, in Sunday school, you teach about Jesus. Oh, I see. So, where do you learn about geology, biology, astronomy?

Oh, that's what you learn at school. Oh, I understand. The kids learn the Bible stories in church, but they learn real history in school, and the real history they learn is the history that contradicts what the Bible says, so eventually the Bible stories aren't true either.

Is that right, Mrs. Brown? Do you see the problem? You know, in this ministry, I've been in this ministry for 30 years. Well, it started in a sort of embryonic sense 30 years ago in Australia for me. But what I've noticed is this.

As I've traveled around, whether I'm on Christian radio talk shows, and I get on some almost every week, people have asked the same questions from the secular and Christian world by and large, by the way, but the same sorts of questions over and over and over again.

I can often get on a talk show, and the host will say, what questions do you think will be asked today? Oh, let me tell you. Because you know why? When you're out there in the world, people call up and they ask questions.

So, where did the Bible come from, and who put the Bible together, and where did Cain get his wife, and how did Noah get all the animals on the ark, and who was Cain's wife anyway, and what about carbon dating, and who did Cain marry, and what do you do with the dinosaurs, and who was Cain's wife anyway, and what about the races of people, and what about the days of creation, and what about the gap theory, and who did Cain marry?

And so, by the way, does anyone know the most asked question I've ever been asked? It's embarrassing. I talk more about Cain's wife than my own wife. But you see, but do you know why people ask that question?

That was in the movie Contact. You know, Carl Sagan wrote the book Contact, the movie based on that particular book, and you have this person asking their Sunday school teacher questions, like, where did Cain get his wife?

The Sunday school teacher can't give the answer. See, Christians don't have answers. They can't defend their history. It was asked at the Scopes trial of William Jennings Bryan by the ACLU lawyer Clarence Durrell.

Where did Cain get his wife? He couldn't answer the question. Do you know why he was asked the question? Defend your history. You believe you go back to one man and one woman? Defend your history. Where did God come from?

How do you know there's a God? How do you know the Bible's true? See, they're the questions that the world is asking. You know what we do in our churches? We teach Bible stories. You know what we've lost?

We've lost the connection of the Bible to the real world. And see, I believe that this happened back in the 1700s, 1800s. In fact, one of our new speakers, Dr. Terry Mortensen, who's done a PhD in the history of science, has a lot of information on this, and we're going to be publishing a book by him dealing with all of this.

But I believe what happened was back in the 1700s, 1800s, the idea of millions of years started to be popularized. And as the idea of millions of years started to be popularized, the church retreated, wasn't sure what to do with the millions of years.

What do you do with a Bible here that says six days and a global flood? And yet now they're saying that all these layers of rock with fossils basically came over millions of years. And so the church disconnected the Bible from the real world.

So the Bible becomes a book of religion, a book about salvation, a book of morality, something that deals with up here in your head. But the real world is what they're teaching out there in the schools, public schools and the universities and the media and so on.

So we don't have to deal with that now. You can accept that, that's fine. But as long as we believe these Bible stories here, and you know what happens? The next generation comes through and they go to those schools and they go to those universities and they read the books and so on.

They watch the television programs. They're saying, wait a minute, if this is the real history of the world, billions of years, ape men, man evolved, there never was a global flood. But the Bible says there was a global flood and the Bible says six days and the Bible says God took dust and made Adam.

Oh, I better go back to my church and my parents. Well, let me ask you a question. You know, they say Noah couldn't fit all the animals in the ark. They say there never was a global flood. They say that man evolved from apes and they're saying the world's billions of years old and they're saying that the Bible's not true and you can't trust the Bible and so on.

Tell me, what are the answers? Tell me the answers. And where did Cain get his wife if we go back to one man and one woman? What are the answers? And what does the church say? Don't worry about that. Just believe these stories.

Just believe the message that Jesus died on the cross, raised from the dead. That's the most important thing. Don't worry about that. But wait a minute, this history tells me I can't trust the Bible. Don't worry about that.

Just believe the message of salvation. And you know what many people are saying? That I can't trust that book at all. So, why should I believe any of it? It's interesting that Bruce Willis from the Die Hard series, how many of you have heard of Bruce Willis?

You watch those programs? Anyway, Bruce Willis was interviewed for a newspaper and was in a Cincinnati Enquirer and he said this, Organized religion used to hang the whole thing on one hook. If you don't do these things, if you don't act morally, you're going to burn in hell.

Unfortunately, what we know about science, anyone who thinks at all probably doesn't believe in fire and brimstone anymore, so organized religion has lost that voice to hold up their moral hand. Do you realize what he's saying?

What he's saying is this, you Christians are out there, you're holding up the Bible and you're saying, abortion's wrong, homosexual behavior is wrong, you've got to believe in Christian morality. He says, how can you do that when we know science has proved you can't trust that book?

And you know what the Christians do? Oh, don't worry about science and so on. You can believe everything that they're saying, that's all right, or you can believe most of it and it doesn't really matter anyway.

Look, the most important thing is you trust in Jesus and do what he said and abortion's wrong and homosexual behavior is wrong. Wait a minute, the history in that book is not true. You're going to hear some incredible lectures over the next few days.

You're going to hear real scientists get up and tell you that real science confirms exactly what the Bible is saying. The evidence, the real evidence, is overwhelming. You see, the church has disconnected the Bible from the real world.

You know, I personally believe that you see this showing up in statements of faith the churches have. You know what we usually have in our church statements of faith? The Bible is the supreme authority in all matters of faith and practice.

I agree with that. But you know what I believe the problem is? The Bible is not just the supreme authority in all matters of faith and practice. It is the supreme authority in all matters of faith and practice and everything it touches upon.

It is the supreme authority when it touches upon geology. It is the supreme authority when it touches upon biology. It is the supreme authority when it touches upon astronomy, but that's what we've lost from our church because we disconnected the Bible from the real world and I believe that disconnect in our modern world occurred in an enormous way in the 1700s and 1800s because God's people instead of standing upon God's Word accepted man's fallible word and Reinterpreted the scriptures and lost biblical authority and disconnected the Bible from reality.

You know Proverbs 30 verses 5 and 6 we read this every word of God is pure add thou not unto his words. And I believe this disconnect has occurred because God's people have done exactly what Adam did back in the Garden of Eden added to the Word of God Reinterpreted the Word of God on the basis of outside ideas, and that's why as I want to show you The whole issue of the six days of creation is so very very important because I believe and what I want to share with you In the remaining time I have here is that the issue of the six days of creation is the issue that really shows us the reality of What has happened in our culture why we've lost biblical authority.

Six Days of Creation as the Watershed Issue

What the real issue is concerning millions of years creation evolution. It's the six-day issue. That is that watershed issue really is. Let me share with you why. In Genesis 1 1 we read this in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Now if I preach that in church after church across the world I would hope the majority of people would say in our churches of course we believe God created. But if I read around church after church across America or other places in the world Australia or England and said but God created in six literal days just a few thousand years ago.

Would the majority agree with me. I can tell you from my experience and dr. Wickham would agree with me the answer would be absolutely not. The majority of churches majority of Christian leaders majority of theologians majority of seminary professors majority of Christian colleges will not stand on six literal days.

Why not. See I've often wondered about this. Because do you realize that the Hebrew word for day the word yom and the singular plural form is used over? 2 ,000 times in the Old Testament. You know what's fascinating the only place I find people questioning.

What it means is Genesis chapter 1. Have you ever heard people? You know question of what the word day means in Exodus Leviticus numbers Deuteronomy Joshua judges Ruth. See I had a pastor once come to me.

And he said but the word day can mean something other than ordinary day. And I said well, that's true. It can actually could have a number of different meanings, but but but its main meaning is day. He said yes, but it can mean something other than ordinary day.

I said that's true, but it can also mean day. He said but it can mean something other than ordinary day. I said look pastor tell me can the word day ever mean day if day does mean day when does day mean day and if Day doesn't mean day.

What does day mean anyway? Just like a man who called me up on Christian radio just a couple of months ago. And he said I believe a lot of what you're saying, but don't give me that stuff about six days.

I don't think the days of creation ordinary days in Genesis 1. I said ah I said tell me when does the word day mean an ordinary day, and he goes, huh I? Said well you must know because he said it doesn't mean an ordinary day in Genesis 1.

Tell me when does the word day mean an ordinary day? He didn't have a clue what I was talking about. Why is it that Genesis chapter 1 is the only place we argue about the word day? I mean if you ever been to a Bible study where for two hours.

They discuss. How long did Joshua take to march around Jericho I? Mean it wasn't a million years was it. I mean hundred thousand years. I mean how do we interpret that word that what do you think he really did you ever been to a Bible study like that?

Why is it that it's only Genesis chapter 1 you see people arguing about the word day? I mean there are places it can mean time like in the day of the Lord or Genesis 2 for in the day that the Lord Created you know the places where it means time or daylight portion of a day and so on.

But why is it Genesis 1 is the only place you see people arguing what the word day really means? You know why because as I said back in the 1700s 1800s the idea of millions a year started to be popularized and and the scientists were handing the millions of years to the Theologians and the theologians said ah somehow we got to fit the millions of years into the Bible therein lies the problem.

Somehow we've got to fit this into the Bible. Now I'm not going to deal with those dating methods because we have some tremendous experts here this weekend. We're going to deal with that. I just want to say this all dating methods devised by a man are fallible.

They are all based on assumptions. We don't know everything we haven't always been there. You know what that's why I love the book of Job. You know what Job is a very humbling book because when you think about it.

What was the answer to death and suffering? I'll tell you what it was Job 38 in verse 4 Job were you there when I made the earth and Then the rest of Job 38 39 40 41 42 Job. Do you know this do you know that do you know this?

Do you know that do you know this do you know that do you know this do you know that what about this? What about that finally what happened to paraphrase it. Job fell down in dust and ashes and said Lord.

I give up. I don't know anything. And you know what always hits me. We weren't there. We don't know everything only God knows everything only God's always been there how dare we arrogant humans. On the basis of not knowing anything compared to what God knows tell God what he means.

It's about time. We started letting God. Tell us what he said now. Here's what I want to challenge us with if you take the Bible and nothing else would you ever get the idea of millions of? Years tell me would you ever get it from here?

It's not there. But if you take the idea the Bible and add man's fallible dating methods based on Fallible assumptions and you get millions years and by the way you're going to find the majority of dating methods actually Contradict what the secular world believes, but dr. Humphreys will share that with you, but if you take those fallible dating methods.

They give the millions of years, then you've got death before sin. What do you see arising in history? Ideas like theistic evolution. God used evolution gap theory. There's a gap between genesis 1 1 and 1 2 of millions of years.

Progressive creation of of you Ross that God created over millions of years and and so on other compromised positions. But you know what's interesting. I mean I move around churches all the time and some people say oh.

We believe in the gap theory here. Oh, we believe in theistic evolution. Oh, we're progressive creationist here, and they say what are you. I said whatever the Bible says. Because all these positions have one thing in common.

You know what it is. They all tried to fit the millions of years into the Bible. They all have that in common. Add they are not to the Word of God see you know why those Genealogies are in the Bible there to show that history that connects all the way through right from Adam right down to the present.

When you think about it if you're trying to fit millions of years into the Bible. Where would you fit it? I mean you can't fit it in those genealogies because you can't make those baguettes say millions years.

So you can't fit millions of years into the baguettes. So my question is Where is the only place you can really fit millions years into the Bible if you were trying to fit millions years into the Bible?

Do you realize? It has to be before Adam. Has to be before Adam. You can't fit it in. From Adam to the present go to destroy the genealogies that is the basic reason. Motivation ultimately as to why people will not accept six literal days or why they believe in the gap theory why they they believe in Progressive creation why they believe in day age.

Ultimately the motivation and you can see it over and over again. You can have people tell me well really it was from a study of the scriptures. But as you talk to them as soon as you get them to admit that they believe in the millions of billions of years.

That's their motivation. They had to fit that into the Bible. That's why they reinterpret the six days. See. Let's have a think about about that. Because as I said in history arose all these positions because they're reinterpreting the six days because of millions of years.

So all these positions day age theistic evolution progressive creation, etc. But what I want to do is this. I want us to examine the text of Scripture. Let's try to get rid of outside influences and just work from the text God communicates to us in language.

Let us use the language and the literature in context and let that speak to us. First of all, let's understand this any word can have two or more meanings dependent upon context. Isn't that correct? For instance back in my father's day.

It took ten days to drive across the Australia out back during the day. There's the word day with three different meanings. Context is important, isn't it? Remember the Australian talking to the Texan once he said No is he Texan talking to the Australian I should say and the Texan said to the Australian You know, it takes me three days to drive across my property in my car and the Australian said yeah I had a car like that once too, mate.

So see context is important. Back in my father's day doesn't mean an ordinary day that really means what back of my father's Time right in the day that the Lord created in the time that he created. It took ten days ordinary days 24-hour days during the day the daylight portion of a day now.

The Hebrew word for day the word Yom can have two or more meanings dependent upon context you look up a good Hebrew dictionary Lexicon like brown driver Briggs it'll list a number of different meanings and and the context as to what determines What it means and so on by the way, you know the thing that's absolutely radical and surprising.

The main meaning of the word day happens to be day. I Thought you'd be surprised at that. But if you look at it carefully, here's what you find. See we're going to eliminate Genesis 1 eliminate Genesis 1 for the moment.

Outside of Genesis 1 whenever day is used with a number 410 times. It always means an ordinary day. No exception now Hugh Ross Of course brings up Hosea 6 2 where it's talking about things in a prophetic sense.

But that is there the word day is used as a figure of speech just like you would you know? When they say and the Bible says Jesus said I am the door or you know We are the sheep when you've got to have a literal door to know what it means.

You've got to have a literal sheep to know what means and in Hosea 6 2 it's got to be a literal day to understand. The figure the figure of speech that's being used there. So, of course, it's an ordinary day.

Every time day is used on the number. It means an ordinary day. Whenever the phrase evening and morning is used without the word day 38 times outside of Genesis 1 means an ordinary day. Whenever evening or morning Are used individually with the word day 23 times each always means an ordinary day.

Whenever night is used with the word day 52 times always means an ordinary day. Now let's read Genesis 1 to see if we get any hint from the language and context as to what day might mean in Genesis 1.

Night evening morning number day evening morning number day evening morning number day. I'm getting a very strong hint here about something the evening number. You get the idea. See, I believe the Hebrew writer is saying this night is an ordinary day evening in case you didn't get it.

It's an ordinary day morning in case you little thick. It's an ordinary day number in case you're really intellectually challenged. It is an ordinary day. I mean, how else could he write it means into it?

That's the best way you could write it means an ordinary day. It's overemphasized. To be honest, I wonder why God took so long. I Don't you agree God could create in six seconds. Six minutes no time at all boy for an infinite creator.

He sure strung it out to me six days. You know why he did that. That's where our week comes from. See our day comes from you know the rotation of the earth in its axis and the month between the earth and the Relationship with the moon and the year the earth and the revolution around the Sun was a seven-day week come from comes from Genesis 1.

She cause is quoted there in Exodus 20 verse 11 in six days the Lord made the heavens in the earth. He rested on the seventh. So six plus one equals seven. The seven day week has its basis in the creation week.

That's why God took six days. By the way. In six days the Lord created. Do you know the Bible says? That God actually spoke those words to Moses and he wrote them as well. And by the way in Psalm 33 it says how did God create he spoke he commanded?