Did God Really Create Everything in 7 Days?

There are those that seem to question that God could create all of what is in seven literal earth days. Why this is so unbelievable in light of God’s clear and remarkable power is beyond me. God said in his very Holy Word that he created everything in six days and rested on the seventh. There is no valid argument containing any tiny morsel of intelligence in it that can even merely postulate otherwise. It is entirely within God’s power and will that he can, and did, create all of the universe within the same span of time that we have existed from last Monday to this Sunday. Foolishness spills from the mouths of doubters who, for some reason unbeknownst to me, find it necessary to disbelieve the truth of the spoken word of God himself that clearly and unequivocally states in the most determinate of verbiage that God did create the entirety of creation in six mornings and six evenings. Henry Morris supports the truth that I have just expressed: “Adam surely would have noted the emphasis on the divine Word in God’s account of creation week. At least sixteen times he would have read of God speaking. God spoke to create, he spoke to identify, and he spoke to bless. Adam would have recognized also that the account was presented as an actual chronological history of the events of that wonderful week, with no hint whatever that God did not mean exactly what he said. Each verse in the account began with the conjunction of sequence -- “and” (Hebrew waw). There was no suggestion of allegory, or overlap, or gap, or of anything except straightforward history. The conjunction “and,” indicating chronological sequence, actually was used some sixty times in the creation narrative. The account was given in terms of the events of seven sequential days -- six days of work, one day of rest. Adam surely knew what a “day” was, but if there might be any question, God defined the word for him. ‘God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day’ (Gen. 1:5). The same terminology was used for each of the five days following, so there should be no uncertainty whatever that God intended the account to say that the creation of all things had taken place in six literal days. It would certainly have been so understood by Adam and his descendants in those early generations who first read the divine account. The fact that each day was bounded by an evening and morning, and each modified by an ordinal number, further stressed that these days were literal days. These usages would be carefully maintained by God in all the rest of Scripture”. As you can discern, the clear conviction that nestles itself into the words of both Morris and myself is that God created everything in six literal days and that stating otherwise is nothing short of ignorant fallacy. I would surmise that the basis of questioning this very explicit truth would be that mankind is trying to strip away from God some of his divine and all-encompassing power. This feeble attempt at weakening God’s image is a reflection of the very first sin wherein Adam and Eve desired to be more like God. It is natural human tendency that we desire to lower Him and thus elevate ourselves. This is a dangerous temptation and a poor basis of theological decision that leads to attempts to conform God to the “science” that we so ascribe to. God must work according to our understanding, or he does not make sense and therefore cannot be. Rather, his incomprehensibility proves his elevation beyond our understanding and should lead to its proper and designed conclusion -- the worship, wonder, and awe of the one who fearfully and wonderfully made each of us. It is my conclusion, therefore, that God created the heavens and the earth out of nothing in six literal days.

For Real, Though

I am coming to grips with the realization that Christians aren’t supposed to be happy, 
well-adjusted robots who don’t have any problems, don't deal with sadness and depression, and don't have trouble with feeling like they're not good enough. 

God created me - every part of me. He created me to be who he wanted me to be. I am made in his image, with his purpose, and in his timing. 

I have trouble with self-esteem; God shows me how much he can do with me. 
I have trouble with depression; God gives me strength to survive. 
I feel lonely; God slowly works on making me love myself. 

I’m flawed and broken and empty, but so what?! Was Jesus always happy-go-lucky? Not in the garden; and that’s not the only example. 

The problem is that I want to talk about it, but people don’t like to know your problems. They like to think that everyone’s peachy and compare their flawed self-assessments to this ideal facade that they’ve believed about everyone else. 

Why don’t we talk about who we are? I don’t because I don’t feel like anyone wants to hear it. However, I am trying. 

I was privileged this week to have a nice conversation with my roommate about real life and real feelings. I was open and honest and so was he. We were real; we connected. We weren’t just two broken people wandering the world alone trying to be perfect reflections of God, we were family. We cared about each other. That’s what I want; that’s what I’m going for.

Imago Dei

"Imago Dei" means that we were made in the image of God. Since God creates us in his image, we can see His nature reflected in us. This image is a flawed one, however. Because of the distortion of sin, we are but a poor reflection of God’s wonderful creation. By evangelizing, we are spreading the hope of redemption and new creation to those foggy mirrors. God is restoring our lives and slowly cleaning up the muck to reveal the image of perfection at the core of who we were made to be. This should drive us to go out into our communities and even further into the dark corners of the world in order to shine the light of God’s Truth, which is Jesus Christ, and to share the hope that comes with knowing that we were not only made in the image of God, but we also have a grand purpose; the glorification of Jesus Christ, and through Him, the glorification of the Father.