I want to share with you the reason I am dogmatic about the creation of the earth. I am very adamant that the earth was created in six literal days. I believe that the Bible is very clear that God started creating on Sunday and that Adam was created on the next Friday. Just to be clear, I believe that God took 144 hours to start and finish the creative process.
I believe that the biblical account of creation is critical to the faith and trust that I can put into the Scriptures. If I cannot believe what the Bible says about creation and the way it says the world was made then how can I ever trust that God loves me and sent His Son the die for my sins? How can I believe any of the other things the Bible says are true? If the Bible at its beginning isn’t truthful then how can I trust the ending, where we are in heaven with God? If I don’t believe that God created the world and that He created me than I do not and cannot believe the Bible is very word of God.
I also do not believe that the Bible was given to us to bring confusion to our faith. If I am to follow the logic of Christians who want to reject the manner that the Bible says the world was created, then I am going to be confused. Let give you an example, if God didn’t create the world in six days then why does the Bible say He did? And if the word day doesn’t mean day then why would God use terms that would only serve to confuse and cause me to doubt? As far as I can see, confusion is the method that the enemy uses. It was his first tool – God gave Adam and Eve one rule in the garden. Don’t eat of one particular tree. And everything was fine until Satan decided to bring confusion. The very first words out of the Devil’s mouth were, “did God really say, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" You see, confusion is Satan’s tool and that leads to sin. God is a God of order not of confusion. He has no intention of tricking us by bringing confusion. So I choose to believe that when the Bible says days that it really means what it sounds like it means – days.
Lastly, I believe in six twenty-four hour days, because not to opens the door, be it ever so slightly, to the idea that the world was created through the evolutionary process. And the reason I must, as a believer reject that is because the sole purpose of the concept of evolution is to deny the existence of God. Creation is proof of God and it gives me the assurance that God loves me (after all He created me) and it gives me true purpose to why I am here. I was created by Him and for Him – that’s a great plan!
