Genesis 1:1, In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth.
1:2, The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the
deep; and the Spirit of God was
moving
over
the face of the
waters.
1:3, And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was
light.
1:4,
And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the
darkness.
1:5, God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
1:6, And
God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it
separate the waters from the
waters.
1:7, And
God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which
were
above
the firmament. And it was
so.
1:8, And
God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and
there was morning, a second day.
1:9, And
God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place,
and let the dry land appear." And it was
so."
1:10, God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered
together he called Seas. And God saw that it was
good."
1:11, And God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants
yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their
seed,
each
according to its kind, upon the earth." And it was
so.
1:12,
The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own
kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed,
each according to its kind. And God saw that it was
good.
1:13, And there was evening and there was morning, a
third day.
1:14, And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens
to separate the day from the night; and let them be for
signs
and for seasons and for days and years,
1:15 and let
them be lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth."
And it was so.
1:16 And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars
also.
1:17
And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the
earth,
1:18, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light
from the darkness. And God saw that it was
good.
1:19, And there was evening and there was morning, a
fourth day.
1:20, And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living
creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the
heavens."
1:21, So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that
moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their
kinds,
and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it
was good.
1:22, And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the
waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the
earth."
1:23, And there was evening and there was morning, a
fifth day.
1:24, And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according
to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth
according to their kinds." And it was
so.
1:25.
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle
according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon
the
ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was
good.
1:26, Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
birds
of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creeps upon the
earth."
1:27, So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created
him; male and female he created
them.
1:28, And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the
fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that
moves upon the
earth."
1:29, And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed
which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its
fruit; you shall have them for
food.
1:30, And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and
to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath
of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was
so.
1:31,
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
So here you have it, only 6 days for all of creation,
for each verse emphatically says 'there was evening and
there was morning' for each of the 6 days,
and a day only
has 24 hours. So the Bible cannot be wrong. It is God's word and God cannot
lie.
Exodus 20:11, for in six days the LORD
made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and
rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed
it.
Science cannot be lying either. For one reason, there are fossil
records going way back in time for many millions of years.
So does this
stalemate leave us in a quandary with no way out?
Father Dwyer of whom I
have spoken many times in my writings taught us well.
One of his gems
was,"There are no errors in the Bible, only APPARENT errors".
Maybe Holy Scripture will give us a clue to find our way out of this
enigma.
Aha, here is an important clue from Holy Scripture:
Psalms 90:4, For a thousand years in thy sight are but as
yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the
night.
That was one from the Old Testament and here is yet another one from
the New Testament
2Peter 3:8, But do not ignore this one FACT, beloved, that
with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand
years as one day.
WOW! Doesn't the Bible in both testaments teach us that each of the six days of Genesis 1 could be both 24 hour days and many years each?
In Einsteins theory of relativity, a part of it is about the
expanding universe.Well how about all of these Bible verses that mention God who
is stretching out the heavens?
Isn't that expanding the universe?::
Isa 40:22, 42:5; 44:24, 45:12, 51:13. Psa 104:2, Jer 10:12,
51:15. Job 9;8, Zech 12:1. The heavens rolled up as a scroll, Isa 34:4, Rev
6:14.
Now let us see what science has to say regarding an answer to our enigma
hidden in a quandry for many many years.
Have you noticed that in many
centuries there is one outstanding genius that makes great strides in our human
knowledge of the world we live in?
I can think of Galileo in the 16th century, Newton in the17th
century, Einstein in the 19th and 20th centuries. Newton, once asked by
someone how he did so well,
replied that he was standing on the shoulders of
giants. Albert Einstein presented his theory of relativity in 1915 and
scientists are still analyzing it today.
It has to do with the expansion of
the universe and the speed of light and especially time as it changes with
certain parameters and blends in with the time
in Genesis. It is rather
complex for a lay person but I wish to give you a url for Dr Gerald Schroeder
who does a great job in explaining Einsteins Theory of
Relativity and
how it blends in with Holy Scripture in Genesis: Dr
Gerald Schroeder It is about an hour long audio mp3, and is very
interesting.
Here is another very interesting website in text, written
by Dr Schroeder: http://www.geraldschroeder.com/AgeUniverse.aspx
Here are a few helpful notes regarding Dr Schroeder's message that
I received from my friend Dr Brent Maundy:
"I was able to pick up what I
in fact had always suspected. That both the Bible and Science were correct and
the reconciliation was due to the fact that time was "stretched" because of the
universe expansion. It is the only way to logically reconcile the two apparent
contradictions. We know that time on the moon and Mars and places far away are
different, so it depends on your perspective. Hence I never really saw a
contradiction. The keys for the regular Bible believer apart from faith in God's
word (the Bible) as sovereign is to gain an appreciation for Einstein's theory
of relativity and what is qualitatively known as time dilation. That is time
does not pass at the same rate for everyone. A fast moving observer would
measure time passing more slowly than someone who is moving relatively slower or
stationary. Time began at the big bang 15 Billion years ago as a point. The
earth was in the process of being formed. Looking back then at the big bang
moment, it would have taken 15 billion years to observe the universe at its
present age, but the account in Genesis describes man appearing on earth much
later and to him, his time is slow relative to the start of the universe because
the earth is moving much faster than he is even though he can't see or feel the
earth moving. I hope that makes sense.
Further to what I said to help explain the time dilation phenomena just think the earth is moving about 30 km/s around the Sun, and spinning on its axis about 0.5 km/s. The Sun is orbiting the centre of our Galaxy, the Milky way about 200-250 km/s and we as in part of the Milky way are moving at 2.1 million km/hour=583 km/s away from the centre of the big bang. It is all this relative motion, which explains why 13.8 billion light years == 6000 years. Of course its not as simple as that because there is relative motion, but that is the gist of time dilation.
Here is a little tidbit from Wikipedia on Time dilation: “In the theory of relativity, time dilation is a difference of elapsed time between two events as measured by observers either moving relative to each other or differently situated from a gravitational mass or masses.
A clock at rest with respect to one observer may be measured to tick at a different rate when compared to a second observer's clock. This effect arises neither from technical aspects of the clocks nor from the propagation time of signals, but from the nature of spacetime."
Compiled by Bob Stanley
November 30, 2016