BIBLICAL

CREATION TRUTH

A TREATISE ON SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM

Affirming a Radical Evangelically-Based
Biblical Theology of Creation
Covering Three Distinct Creation Epochs

JOAOZINHO da S. F. A. MARTINS

Copyright @ 2012 by Joaozinho da S. F. A. Martins

BIBLICAL CREATION TRUTH
A TREATISE ON SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM

Affirming a Radical Evangelically-Based Biblical Theology of Creation

By JOAOZINHO da S. F. A. MARTINS

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All Scripture quotations in this treatise, except those noted otherwise, are
taken from the Authorized King James Version and the New Darby Version.
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PREFATORY NOTE
Biblical Creation Truth, as propounded in this maiden treatise, differs from
the traditional and the more recent controversial theories of creationism. The early
Church proponents and the subsequent adherents of the traditional six-day creationism
as well as the proponents of the contemporary theories of creationism have overlooked
that Genesis 1:1 is, in fact, a distinct and an independent creation account in itself
exclusive of the works of the six days of Genesis 1:3-31. Nor it includes Genesis 1:2.
Given the prevailing failure to differentiate and separate the creation account of
Genesis1:1 from that of Genesis 1:3-31 it has been wrongly believed that the heavens
and earth of Genesis 1:1 and chaos of Genesis 1:2 as Gods activity of the first day!
Contrary to the prevailing confusing theories of creation, the primeval heavens
and earth of Genesis 1:1 undoubtedly, had to be and therefore were actually perfect
(Deuteronomy 32:4) and beautiful (Ecclesiastes 3:11).The primeval earth was not chaotic
covered with waters and darkness all over! Genesis 1:1, in just one short blessed
sentence, covers within its grasp a creation account encompassing the totality of a
perfect and beautiful creation. This fact is corroborated by WISDOM who witnessed the
creation of perfect primeval heavens and earth (Proverbs 8:27-31).
Notwithstanding faulty interpretations made within the framework of traditional
creation concepts, in no way does Proverbs 8:27-31 parallel with Gods phased works
in the realm of time (Genesis 1:3-31) but actually complement Genesis 1:1with additional
details, proving it to be in the dateless past. Next, Proverbs 8:27- 31 does not mention
anything about chaos on the primeval earth. Accordingly, the chaos of Genesis 1:2 must
be a later occurrence. Moreover, Proverbs 8:31 when read with Proverbs 8:26c and,
accordingly, when the same are interpreted contextually in relation to each other prove
that the original earth of Genesis 1:1was not empty or void but inhabited with life! One
may also confidently state that there were pre-adamic men in whom Gods Wisdom
delighted (Proverbs 8:31). This could not be true of any men since the fall of Adam!
Undoubtedly, the traditional-historical Church belief of a Creation in Six Days,
some six to ten thousand years back, is hermeneutically defective. As such, a faulty
interpretation of Genesis 1:1, 1:2, 1:3-31 and Exodus 20:11 or 31:17 lies behind the socalled battle for a true view of the beginning. If these Scriptures were objectively
interpreted taking into account Genesis 2:4 relating to beginnings, it would be clear that
there were two historical beginnings of Gods creative works; one, in the eternity past
(Genesis 1:1, cf. 2:4a) and the other, in the realm of time (Genesis 1:3-31, cf. 2:4b).
Its time we admit our failure to consider all the Scriptures given here a little and
there a little and rightly divide the Word of Truth relating to creation and interpret the
biblical creation accounts appropriately! And next, with realistic faith, come to grips with
the revealed Biblical Creation Truth for His Names sake, even as we look forward to
the creation of new heavens and a new earth in the eternity future (2 Peter 3:13)!

~~ Joaozinho da S. F. A. Martins

Keep that which is committed to thy trust,

Avoiding profane and vain babblings,
And oppositions of science falsely so called:
Which some professing have erred concerning the faith.
Grace be with thee. Amen
{1Timothy 6: 20-21}
{Authorized (King James) Version (1769)}

DEDICATION
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DEDICATED
TO THE GREATER GLORY OF THE TRIUNE GOD
THE INTELLIGENT DESIGNER, CREATOR AND SUSTAINER OF
ALL MATTER AND LIFE

To
My Darling Mother

Jane Almeida Martins

My Only Sister

Ave Ana Maria Martins

My Only Niece

Mariella Miriam Martins

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Psalms 19:1-6

The heavens declare the glory of God;

And the firmament shows his handiwork.
Day unto day utters speech and night unto night shows knowledge.
There is neither speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth
And their words to the end of the world.
In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
And rejoices as a strong man to run a race?
His going forth is from the end of the heaven,
And his circuit unto the ends of it:
And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

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God Creates -- God is Delighted -- God Redeems

Creation is Gods Gift;
From tiny organisms crawling on the ground
To the planets in the sky,
Everything is created by God and governed by a plan.
Submission to this plan is important to everyone and everything.
God created human beings in order to fulfill this plan;
He created them in His own image and likeness
And adorned them with divine qualities;
He made them man and woman
So that they could better
Cooperate in this mighty plan.
To enhance this stewardship, He sent His only Son;
Having established a relationship with Creation,
He carried forward His saving mission,
And finally entrusted it to humanity.
For this purpose,
He founded a community, the Church.

Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao

Pastoral Letter: 2011-2012
COVENANT BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS AND CREATION:
DIVINE LOVES MANIFESTATION

No. CP-Past/132/2011, Archbishops House, GOA, INDIA

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For Christian Humanism,
-Faithful in this to the most firmly established Theology of the IncarnationThere is no real independence or discordance but a logical subordination
Between the Genesis of Humanity in the World
And the Genesis of Christ, through His Church, in Humanity.

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Lord Jesus, You are the Centre

Towards which all things are moving:
If it be possible, make a place for us all
In the company of those elect and holy ones
Whom your loving care has liberated one by one
From the chaos of our present existence and who now
Are being slowly incorporated into You in the unity of the new earth.
Teilhard de Perre Chardin
Hymn of the Universe

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Our view of Creation
Is the necessary starting point
For
Our entire World-View.
In fact, so vital is the issue
That Francis Schaeffer once remarked
That
If he had only an hour to spend with an unbeliever,
He would spend the first forty-five minutes
Talking about Creation
And what it means for Humanity
To bear the Image of God
And
Then he would use
The last fifteen minutes to explain
The Way of Salvation

John MacArthur, Jr.

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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
ATHEISTIC EVOLUTION
V/s
BIBLICAL CREATION TRUTH

PART TWO
BASIC FACTS OF CREATION
REVIEWING SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM

PART THREE
EPOCHS OR PHASES
OF
TRUE SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM

EPILOGUE
THE WAY OF SALVATION
MANS NEW CREATION IN CHRIST

Sweet God
God, you are my Creator
and of all things I see
I thank you for this beautiful world
that you have given me.
I thank you for the birds that fly
and for all the fish that swim
For the trees that give us fruit and food
and for our parents who try
to make us very good.
And most of all I thank you Lord
for my loved ones you have sent
And now I dont even know
how to pay your rent.
Ronda Martins
(Age: 12 years)
BLOSSOMS

A collection of poems
@1999
Caranzalem, Goa, India

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Study to show thyself approved unto God,
A workman that needed not to be ashamed,
Rightly dividing the word of truth.
But shun profane and vain babblings:
For they will increase unto more ungodliness.
(2 Timothy 2:15-16)

PART ONE
Atheistic Pagan
THEORY OF EVOLUTION
(SATANIC EVOLUTIONISM)
V/s
BIBLICAL CREATION TRUTH
(TRUE SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM)
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Bibles Authority v/s Mans Fallible Guesses?
Is It Science v/s Faith?
Or Is It Bible and True Science?
Bible & Science v/s Evolution
Debunking the Atheistic
Pagan Myth of Evolution

PART TWO
BASIC FACTS OF CREATION
REVIEWING SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM

In The ETERNITY Past

...In The Realm of TIME
...In The ETERNITY Future

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Creation of Invisible Things

Physical Creation
Creation Chaos Creative Six-Day Renewal
Biblical Creation Truth
V/s Traditional Six-Day Creationism
Biblical Creation Truth
V/s Protestant Theistic Evolution
And the Catholic Moderate Doctrine of Evolution

PART THREE
PHASES of SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM
Phase One: CREATION - IN THE ETERNITY PAST
Creation of the Original Heavens and Earth
Lucifers Rule on Earth
Primeval Celestial Conflict
Chaos on Earth
Biblical Pre-Adamite Theology
Phase Two: CREATION - IN THE REALM OF TIME
Sequel to Lucifers Rebellion: Creative Six-Day Renewal
Biblical Six-Day Creationism
(Gods Second Phase of Creative Acts)
Creation of Sabbath
Origin of the Seven-Day Week
A Literal 24-Hour-Seven-Day Week
Phase Three: CREATION - IN THE ETERNITY FUTURE
Final Celestial Conflict and Chaos on Earth
Re-Creation of New Heavens and a New Earth

EPILOGUE

THE WAY OF SALVATION

MANS NEW CREATION IN CHRIST

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Obviously, this maiden treatise falls short of scholarly standards that
characterize a large number of modern professional-theological works as in
secular publications. However, As Christians are diverse in temperament
and background, their manner and methods of communication will likewise
be varied. We should accept this diversity as a blessing, knowing that God
can both bless and use all of usUnfortunately, the world of Christian
ministry is swamped by copyrighted methods and products (as well as by
secular scholarly standards), that often do not fit the personality, (theological
background) and gifts of the communicator who attempts to use them. 1
I have no regrets about any academic deficits in this maiden treatise.
Nor, do I seek to justify my failure to strictly adhere to any conventional
scholarly secular standards. It was of prime concern to me to communicate
with full conviction, but in all simplicity, the Biblical Creation Truth relating
to pre-historical, historical and prophesied future works of Creation. This
aspect has been somehow overlooked by the modern adherents of the
Traditional Six-day Creationism and by Young Earth Creationists. So also, it
has been equally ignored by the so-called theistic evolutionists and others.
Admittedly, as a maiden theological work with controversial material,
this treatise is bound to be undoubtedly fallible. As such, any theological
inferences or conclusions in this maiden work that are found to be biblically
untenable are my own responsibility. The same are open to unbiased
biblically-based feedback and unreservedly subject to correction with the
Sword of the Spirit even, the very sure and authoritative truth of Gods
Word, which is forever settled in the heavens (Psalms 119:89).
Accordingly, a revised version (hermeneutical spiral) of this maiden work
will be published in due course of time, God enabling me and making it all
possible according to the riches of His Grace and that, for His own pleasure.
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1: Vivo Soggaard, Media in Church and Mission: Communicating the Gospel,

Theological Book Trust, Bangalore, India; 1993, p. 21

In compiling relevant material for this book, various works have been
referred to and quoted herein to reprove the faulty Traditional Six-Day
Creationism as well as to refute the atheistic evolutionary concepts that are
appealing to Theistic Evolutionists. My due apologies to all the Authors and
Publishers from whose copyrighted works Ive quoted freely without any
written permission. This lapse was unavoidable because of the technicalities
involved. Still, am willing to face all the legal consequences resulting from
any probable infringement of rights of those concerned. Anyway, I am very
much indebted to all those from whose works Ive quoted without obtaining
any prior written permission to reprint previously published material relating
to Biblical Creation Truth.
Copyright regulations are unduly enforced to restrict any reproduction
of published Biblical Truth. Nevertheless, Gods TRUTH should be freely
available (Matthew 10:8b) to all of His Children not only for personal
growth but also for free reproduction and dissemination (1Corinthians
2:12b, 13). It is encouraging to note that some of the Books published by the
Kingston Bible Trust, UK have no copyright on them making it possible to
reproduce edifying material from the same for the benefit of Christians.
Gods Word was never meant to be kept bound. So also Biblical Truth
derived from the same eternal Word of God should not be unduly curbed by
adopting secular laws and or copyright regulations. Published Biblical Truth
should be necessarily in the public domain for its free reproduction and
dissemination. However, this is only my personal opinion; it should not
cause any soul committed to abiding by secular principles to stumble.
I consider it a very rare spiritual privilege to make Biblical Truth
freely available to anyone who needs it. And that, to Gods Glory (2
Corinthians 9: 9-15) even if it involves stealing Gods truth (2 Corinthians
11:7-8) previously published by those gifted to understand it. Those who
understand biblical truth are commissioned to freely share it with others.
However, under the protection of copyright laws reprinting of published
truth even for any free distribution for evangelism is very much prohibited.
But then, no legitimate claims can confidently be made by any one for
originality seeing that God is the Source of all Biblical Truth. Copyright
prevents free and wide access to any previously published biblical truth.
Thus it discourages reproduction of biblical truth by those who would want

to reprint it so as to share the same with others (1 Corinthians 9:18).

By all means, the material in this publication is in the public domain.
As such, it may be reproduced, in whole or in part, for free circulation in
spite of the copyrighted material in it. Copyrighted material having as its
original source the Biblical Truth is reproduced with the understanding that
any copyrighted claim on the same will be graciously waived by those
concerned. Of course, we are called upon to be wise and responsible
stewards of Gods riches of biblical truth given to us freely. As such, in our
zeal to disseminate the Truth freely we need to be careful at the same time to
see to it that we do not cast precious priceless pearls before the swine.
I am very much grateful to God, above all the others, for His
guidance in this maiden work. Equally I am thankful to Him for graciously
stirring the hearts of those few concerned to re-examine and subsequently
give up the traditional six-day creationism in the face of geological evidence
and biblical truth relating to the Historical Science of Creation. Their
commitment to biblical creation truth in spite of being labeled as heretics
has emboldened my own convictions. It is my fervent prayer to God that the
material in this book will be profitable to those willing to re-examine the
traditional belief of a creation of cosmos in six days and, accordingly,
without any prejudice review, recover, and reclaim to Gods Glory the True
Scriptural Creationism by ignoring age-related unbiblical issues.
I am deeply indebted and very much grateful to Jack W. Langford,
USA (www.separationtruth.org), for taking the time and effort to go through
my lengthy manuscript and make appropriate profitable suggestions. I am
also much grateful to Malcolm Withell and Mark Lemon, both of UK, for
encouraging me to reproduce material from the books written and published
by the erstwhile divines and reprinted by the Kingston Bible Trust, UK. The
edifying material in these books (see Appendices) contains sound
theological instruction relating to Gods works of creation which is certainly
compatible with and is supplementary to the material in this treatise.
My sincere thanks to my close friend Suraj DaCosta for his support
and encouragement throughout. His concern has enhanced my commitment
to this maiden work all along. I am also much thankful to Marjorie Nancy,
Kamthian Vaiphei and Rodwin Rodrigues for their support and prayers for
the success of this work. I want to express my deep appreciation for Naome
Mhay Bernales and her church-family in the Philippines for their sincere
prayers. Moreover, Naomes emotionally edifying and caring relationship

which I really cherish is invaluable in my own spiritual growth.

Special gratitude goes to my brother Fr. Carmo das Chagas Martins
whose books from his personal library are of much help to me. Some of
these books dealing with the subject matter relating to my treatise
contributed much to my understanding and insightful growth. I also owe my
deep thanks to my other close family members for bearing with me as I took
time away from them to get this work completed.
Finally, for a very fruitful self-publishing experience, I wish to thank
the concerned staff at Xulon Press, Florida, USA. In particular, I owe special
thanks to Cari Caryl, my Publishing Consultant. Her online encouragement
boosted my confidence so as to finally opt for the services of Xulon Press
when other options seemed to be equally plausible. Further, I am thankful to
Karla Castellon for her sincere devotedness and commitment to get this
book published and become a reality a dream finally fulfilled and
materialized.
The Lord JESUS, even our Master and Teacher, to whose care the
fruitful outcome of this work is committed, may graciously bless all those
who have personally contributed their mite for its success. And, may He
equally bless all those who have to spiritually benefit from this work.
May God Almighty be always pleased to add His special blessing to
every inspired exposition of His Word and to its ongoing Ministry for His
Names sake. And, may the blessed fruitful effect of His Living Word be
richly produced in our lives to His praise, honor, and glory!

Orlim, Goa, India

19th February, 2012

Joaozinho da S. F. A. Martins

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INTRODUCTION
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We boldly profess, at times, to be sincere Bible-Believing Christians

genuinely committed to searching the Scriptures to prove all things and
hold fast that which is good and true (1Thessalonians 5:21). Yet, very
often, we somehow choose to remain enslaved to erroneous traditional
church beliefs even when the same are found to contradict the plain
Scriptural teaching. By all means, Tradition and Dogmas reign supreme in
our hearts and minds influencing thereby our convictions and beliefs just as
it was in the bygone dark Middle Ages.
In the process, we end up behaving like religious fanatics. And then,
we make it our Mission to criticize those who actually preach sound Biblical
Truth. We unjustly label such, given our inherent prejudice, as heretics
because what is preached by them seems to have no supportable base in
church history; or, because what is taught by them is found to contradict our
traditional doctrines and hide-bound beliefs and concepts.
Nevertheless, not withstanding our holy bias, The truth or untruth of
any doctrine does not depend on whether or not it was ever taught in church
history. Its truthfulness depends solely on whether or not it is taught in the
Bible. Now, admittedly, a teaching that no one has ever before heard about
might be suspect, but the Bible, not church history, is the standard against
which all teachings must be measured.1 (Italics, underline or bold type for
emphasis are mine throughout, except where as specified to be otherwise).

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1: Charles C. Ryrie, Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding
Biblical Truth, Moody Press, Chicago, USA 1999; p. 91.

At one time, in the history of professing Christianity, it was assumed

by some that the earth was flat 2. It was also believed that the earth was the
centre of the solar system in keeping with Ptolemys earth-centered model
of the cosmos 3. But then, Copernicus and later on Galileo proposed that a
spherical earth revolved around the sun along with some other planets.
Eventually, based on discoveries that seemed to support the sun-centered
model of the cosmos, Galileo published in 1632 his first scientific
masterpiece entitled Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems 4
Galileos views, however, did upset the belief in the earth-centered
model resulting in a serious conflict between Science and the Roman
Catholic Church, at the time. Accordingly, In 1633, the Inquisition found
Galileo guilty of the charge (of heresy), forced him to recant and sentenced
him to life imprisonment. 5 Eventually, the Church came to terms with
Galileos views. So, In 1971, in the face of the optical proof of the fact that
the earth revolves round the sun, Benedict XIV had the Holy Office grant an
imprimatur to the first edition of The Complete Works of Galileo. 6 Next,
Pope John Paul II declared in1979 that the Church may have been mistaken
in condemning Galileo 7 and instructed a church commission to study the
case. Finally, in 1983 the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged that
Galileo should not have been condemned 8 and subsequently, Pope John
Paul II apologized in general on March 13, 2000 for the then sins of the
church 9, 10 as well as for condemning Galileo, Martin Luther and others.
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2: Jeffrey B. Russell, The Myth of the Flat Earth, American Scientific Affiliation
Conference, 1997
3: Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The (Elusive) Theory of Everything,
Scientific American, India, October 2010, p.50.
4: World Book Encyclopedia, 1992, Vol.8, p.13-14; 5: ibid, p.13-14
6: Luigi Accattoli, WHEN A POPE ASKS FORGIVENESS, The Mea Culpas of John
Paul II, (Translated by Jordan Aumaann), Alba House, New York, 1998, p. 140, (2005
reprint)
7: World Book Encyclopedia, op. cit, p.13-14; 8: ibid, p.13-14.

9: Online News Hour: A Papal Apology, March 13, 2000;

(www. pbs. org / newshour / bb / religion /jan-june00 /apology 3_13);
10: www.pbs.org/world/2000/mar/13/catholicism.religion

Obviously, it is very, very difficult and overwhelmingly painful, given

our prejudice to unlearn biblical and or scientific errors and replace the
same with truth! Nevertheless, as stated by Pope John Paul II, We cannot
but deplore certain attitudes (not unknown among Christians) deriving from
a shortsighted view of the rightful autonomy of science: they have
occasioned conflict and controversy and have misled many into thinking that
faith and science are opposed. 11
However, when things as they appear are viewed according to the
recently formulated theoretical Model-Dependent Realism 12, the Roman
Catholic Church was not unrealistic in insisting to maintain and hold on to
Ptolemys earth-centered model! Even as, in 1893 Pope Leo XIII stated in
his encyclical Providentissimus Deus, the ancients wrote and believed about
things as things appeared to them and ___ described and dealt with
things in more or less figurative language, or in terms which were
commonly used at the time and which in many instances are in daily use to
this day even with the most eminent men of science. 13
In a similar vein, Galileo, convinced as he was by his observations,
was not guilty of heresy for endorsing Copernican revolution by adopting
the sun-centered model, thereby finally dissociating faith from an age-old
Ptolemaic cosmology! Because, in tune with the scientific model of
Phenomenological: Language of Appearances, the same physical
situation can be modeled in different ways to describe the universe we
may have to employ different theoriesEach theory may have its own
version of reality; but according to model-dependent realism, that diversity
is acceptable, and none of the versions can be said to be more real than the
other.14
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11: Luigi Accattoli, WHEN A POPE ASKS FORGIVENESS, op. cit. p.126
12: See Article by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, op.cit. p. 49-51, for details.
13: Quoted by Hans Wijngaards in Historicity in the Old Testament, Theological

Publications in India, Bangalore, 1971, p.82

14: Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, op.cit. p. 51.

Obviously, to any unaided observer on earth with his or her naked eyes
the round earth appears flat and stationary and the sun appears to rise and
move from the East, and set in the West. Such subjective inferences based on
appearances are realistic and acceptable within the framework of ModelDependent Realism. Still, the Bible states that the earth is circular (Isaiah
40:22), and not flat; and that, the sun (Psalms 19:6), and the stellar heavens
(Job 22:14) have their circuits (or, circular movements)!
Even though the Bible contains culturally loaded statements based on
the logic of appearances which seem to contradict the scientific spirit of our
times yet the Scriptures do not err nor contradict true Science. The problem
at the heart of any debate even now as it was then concerns biblical
hermeneutics. Paradoxically, Galileo, a sincere believer, showed himself to
be more perceptive in this regard than the theologians who opposed him. 15
For, he stated: If Scripture cannot err, certain of its interpreters and
commentators can and do so in many ways. 16
Atheistic Evolutionary Myths
V/s Biblical Language of Appearances
In the course of time, the traditional Roman Catholic and Protestant
doctrine of Six-day Creationism or the belief of a creation of the cosmos
in six days, some six to ten thousand years ago which is based on a more
or less literal interpretation of the Genesis 1 account of Creation 17 got
openly challenged and very much shaken by Charles Darwins publication
On the Origin of Species, some 150 years back. In his pretty controversial
publication, Darwin proposed that life on earth began hundreds of millions
of years ago and developed by evolution through natural selection --- a
stark contradiction of the Christian fundamentalist view that God created
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everything
in
six
literal
twenty-four-hour
days.
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15: Luigi Accattoli, op. cit. p. 133; 16: ibid, p.133

17: Creation and Evolution? Christian Odyssey, Grace Communion International, March
2009, Volume 6, No.1, Ca., US, p. 5.
Also available on the Internet at: www.christianodyssey.org
18: ibid, p. 5

Of late, atheistic theories claim that our complex universe has

evolved, say, from a soup of hydrogen atoms; or that, it came into being
in one big bang; or, by inflation of tiny microscopic pockets of spacetime giving rise to self-reproducing inflationary universes and so on, ad
nauseam. Unfortunately, the theories rather guesses keep on mutating and
novel theories evolve, ad infinitum. So now we are told that, According to
the prevailing cosmological theory, our universe spawned from a
microscopic region of a primordial vacuum in a burst of exponential
expansions called inflation. 19
The vague atheistic theories are adorned with a scientific garb which
only the scientifically attuned but spiritually closed minds willingly accept.
Some atheistic scientists, however, very well know that the diverse Theories
of Evolution are absurd; nevertheless, they blindly accept the same rather
than submit to Gods authority and accept Him as the Creator of all that is.
But then, to confront the pseudo-scientific community with the inspired
Divine Language of Appearances constituting Biblical Creation Truth is to
make oneself look foolish, ignorant or hostile 20 if not downright antiscientific!
Surprisingly, Darwinism is gaining wider acceptance 21 even amongst
the Christians at a time when it keeps changing and mutant versions of the
same and related theories of evolution make their subtle appearance, each
contradicting the other. In a way, as of now, in spite of lack of evidence --many major Christian denominations have come to terms with Charles
Darwins theory, in one way or another. The Church of England has
officially apologized to him for the decades of misrepresentation. 22
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19: Mariette DiChristina, Life Quest, Editorial, Scientific American India, Jan. 2010, p.4;
20: Christian Odyssey, op. cit. p. 5.
21: Timothy G. Strandish, Why Darwins Triumph? Signs of the Times, May-June 2010,
Seventh Day Adventist Publication, Australia.

22: Christian Odyssey, op. cit, p.6

Much earlier, Pope John Paul II, in his (October 22, 1996) Message to
the Pontifical Academy of Sciences stated: In his encyclical Humani
Generis (1950), my predecessor Pius XII had already stated that there was
no opposition between evolution and the doctrine of the faith about man and
his vocation, Today, almost half a century after the publication of the
encyclical, new knowledge has led to the recognition of the theory of
evolution as more than a hypothesis. [.... la thorie de l'volution plus
qu'une hypothse.] It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been
progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in
various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated,
of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a
significant argument in favor of this theory. 23
Darwinism, neo-Darwinism and related theories of evolution attempt
to explain but in vain, the origin of matter and life so as to do away with
any belief in a Creator God. As a matter of fact, the educational system
worldwide in almost all the fields of higher learning is entirely centered
around evolutionism the atheistic philosophy that denies the possibility
(rather, the reality) of a Creator. 24
As is always the case, Mans natural mind leaves God out, and
wearies itself in endless speculations. 25 But, faith brings Him in, and
everything is simple. No one need be afraid that discoveries of geology, or
any other science, will ever shake the truth of Genesis 1. It is Gods record,
and all true science will be found in harmony with it. Any theory which
definitely conflicts with the Biblical account of creation is certainly wrong
25
and therefore, such unbiblical theories should be rejected outright. .we
need to recognize that there are many strong creationists, not only among
lay Catholics, but also among Catholic scientists as well. We could mention
Dr. Guy Berthault of France, for example, whose studies on sedimentation
have been profoundly significant in refuting geological uniformitarianism.
Two Italian creationists, Dr. Roberto Fondi (paleontologist) and Dr.
Giuseppe Sermonti (geneticist) have published important scientific books
and papers refuting evolution. There are many others. 26
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23: Luigi Accattoli, WHEN A POPE ASKS FORGIVENESS, op. cit., p. 137
24: Dennis Gordon, Christian Odyssey, op. cit. p. 7.
25: Charles A. Coates, An Outline of the Book of Genesis; Kingston Bible Trust, UK;

1991, p. 2.
26: Henry M. Morris, Evolution and the Pope, www.scienceofcreation.org

As a matter of fact, millions of Christians still firmly reject

evolution in favor of an explanation (mainly, the traditional six-day
creationism) based on a more or less literal interpretation of the Genesis 1
account of Creation. 27 However, the traditional six-day creationism is a
product of faulty interpretation of Genesis 1. It definitely falls short of a
hermeneutic that is in harmony with the creation accounts in Genesis 1.
Here, Genesis 1:1 and 2 are wrongly interpreted by mixing up the same with
the true biblical six-day creationism in Genesis1:3-31 which is actually an
independent and exclusive creation account, in itself.
Alternatively, to counteract the threat of billions of years challenging
the belief that God created everything in six days some six to ten thousand
years ago, various attempts have been made to accommodate the dubious
long ages. Accordingly, diverse theories to account for the speculated long
ages have been put forth by way of compromise. Some of the theories,
amongst others, include:
(1) The Gap Theory the belief that there is a gap of indeterminate
time between the first and the second verse of Genesis 1 (2) Progressive
Creation wherein God supposedly intervened in the processes of death and
struggle to create millions of species at various times over millions of years
(3) Theistic Evolution wherein God supposedly directed the evolutionary
process of millions of years, or just set it up and run. 28
Theistic Evolutionists, Day-Age Creationists and Progressive
Creationists presume a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 flies in the face of
scientific research 29 and that, for many, it defies common sense. 30 So,
guided by their unreliable common sense, they speculate that the so-called
development of species over vast periods of time tells us that God either
created some form of evolutionary process in the beginning or continually
created new species by fiat over billions of years. In either case, creation
was no cosmic accident. 31
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27: Creation and Evolution, op. cit. p.52
28: Ken Ham, http://www.answersingenesis.org /articles/nab/could-god-have-created-insix-days
29: Creation and Evolution? Op. cit. p. 6;

30: ibid, p. 6. 31: ibid, p. 6

They presume that In the beginning God created big bang which
next exploded into space-mass-time universe poetically referred to as
heavens and earth by Moses in Genesis 1:1. And that, next on earth God
created some form of (biological) evolutionary process giving rise to male
and female homos sapiens of which one pair He named as Adam and Eve;
or else, if our fine-tuned common sense permits us we may confidently
believe that God continually created new species by fiat over billions of
years finally creating the human species, both male and female, out of
which perhaps He randomly chose a male and a female and named them as
Adam and Eve some six to ten thousand years ago. As such, Christs
genealogy should then be traced to simple single-celled sinless life.
Next, we are told that the so-called scientifically accepted facts,
show that evolution is the most likely explanation for the development of
species 32 including the human species. The biased and totally ignorant
traditional six-day creationists are now asked to come to terms with these
facts or else, boldly offer a proven, rigorous and valid scientific alternative
to evolution 33 to account for the arrival and the existence of human life.
Admittedly, the so-called battle between the Bible and Science is a
logical consequence of adopting a defective hermeneutic that contradicts
biblical and natural revelation. Actually, it is a battle between Science and
the Traditional Six-Day Creationism concerning the origins and the diverse
ages of the earth and of the universe and related aspects. Such a meaningless
battle could have been fore-stalled if the biblical creation accounts and
related scientific facts were accurately interpreted. Accordingly, vulnerable
Christians would not then be simply prone to allowing modern vague
theories to replace the Genesis account of creation thereby seriously
erring concerning the faith.
Theistic Evolutionists, Progressive Creationists and others have
hopelessly compromised with the biblical truth of Creation in Genesis 1-2.
They refuse to interpret the same literally based on the analogy of faith.
Instead, they have embraced the atheistic theories of evolution by blind
faith. Subsequently, many nominal and even committed Christians, instead
of interpreting the creation accounts literally and accept the same by
realistic faith, have accepted the vague atheistic concepts by blind faith.
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32: Creation and Evolution? Op. cit. p. 6;

33: ibid, p. 6.

As should be obvious, Theistic Evolutionists confidently believe that

the true God is a Creator of Evolution 34 who, they think, has created and
set in motion a macro-evolutionary process to bring the complex universe
and life forms into existence in the course of billions of years. In doing so,
they worship an Unknown God of Evolution. They have no difficulty
with, say, the concept of biological evolution, arguing that God fully gifted
the creation with the ability to be and to become 35 which is not only
contrary to Romans 8:20-22 but also contrary to Carnots laws of
thermodynamics.
Next, Theistic Evolutionists --- in stark contrast to what is stated in
Psalms 104:2b, Isaiah 40:22b as to how and how fast of the original
creation and in Genesis 1:31-2:1 as to how long of the six day recreation--- are of the opinion that The Bible only says that God created all
things that exist; it does not speak to the question of the manner of the
creative process or how long the creative process took or whether it is
continuing even today. 36 Their basic presupposition underlying their weird
Creation-Evolution Unbiblical Theology is that Genesis 1 is about the Who
of creation, not the How 37
However, biblical revelation relating to creation communicated
through the language of appearances was never meant to provide specific
scientific details. The exact manner of the How of Creation--- which is
actually even scientifically unknowable (Ecclesiastes 3:11; Job 37:23) and
therefore, a divine mystery vindicating the Absoluteness and Sovereignty
of God--- is left by the theistic evolutionists to atheistic scientists to explain
who are but experts in guessing, propounding unfounded theories.
Atheistic theories are adopted by the theistic evolutionists to formulate
and reformulate their composite theory of Theistic Evolution. They dont
deny the evidence from science that indicates a long history of life on this
planet 38 ending up in The Descent of Man from some Common
Ancestor. On the other hand, some zealous Catholic theologians postulate
Moderate Doctrine of Evolution 39 to accommodate evolutionary concepts
contrary to biblical views relating to creation.
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34: Creation and Evolution? Op. cit; p. 5; 35, 36: ibid, p.5; 37: ibid, p.5; 38: ibid; p.8
39: Michael Schmaus, DOGMA
NY, USA, 1969, p.125.

Volume 2: God and Creation, Sheed and Ward, Inc,

Obviously, theistic evolutionists have been duped into believing

evolution is a scientific fact. They falsely claim God is its Creator. In a way,
they indirectly deny the Creator God the power to create instantly by fiat;
Who in fact did create the original heavens and earth as a perfect universe
instantly by fiat, in the dateless past (Genesis 1:1). God did not create the
universe and life by creating and setting in motion any evolutionary process;
nor did God create the entire original perfect universe during the course of
six days, some six to ten thousand years back.
Undoubtedly, the common prevalent belief of a Creation in Six Days
some six to ten thousand years back is based upon a faulty interpretation of
Genesis 1.The early proponents of the traditional six-day creationism have
overlooked the fact that Genesis 1:1 is actually a distinct and independent
creation account different from that of the work of the six days of Genesis
1:3-31. As a consequence of persistent pervasive failure to distinguish and
differentiate between the two creation accounts in Genesis 1:1 and 1:3-31 it
has been erroneously believed all along that God created the original
heavens and the earth recorded in Genesis 1:1, during the phased work of
the six-days. Never!
Traditional Six-day/Young-Earth Creationism is a by-product of
superficial interpretation resulting from a failure to rightly divide the Word
of Truth relating to Creation! Its high time, modern adherents of the
traditional six-day creationism admit their failure. They need to consider all
the Scriptures given line upon line, --- here a little and there a little and
divide the Word of Truth relating to creation accounts and interpret the same
accurately. Subsequently, they need to correct their Theology of Creation
instead of persistently clinging on to hide-bound concepts!
Towards Re-Evaluating
Traditional Six -Day Creationism
Whether we agree with it or not, the heavens and earth that were
created In the Beginning (Genesis 1:1) had to be perfect (Deuteronomy
32:4) and complete. As such, Genesis 1:1 in just one blessed sentence covers
within its grasp a creation account that actually encompasses the totality of
all original perfect creation. It is next exhaustively covered by Natural or
General Revelation subsequent to its restoration (Genesis 1:3-31) from a
later chaos of Genesis 1:2 some six thousand years back.

Next, Genesis 1:3-31 clearly describe as to what exactly was created

and made during the first six literal days. As a matter of fact, Exodus 20:11,
31:17 aptly summarize the work of the first six days. In no way, do these
include the original creation of Genesis 1:1. The six-day-work is biblically
an additional later work that has been wrongly mixed up with the original
instant creation of the universe (Genesis 1:1) in the eternity past. As a result
of such mixing up, we face the existing confusion in creation theology.
A faulty biased interpretation of Genesis 1:1, 1:2, 1:3-31, Exodus
20:11, 31:17 lies behind the ongoing battle for a true view of the beginning
or the history of the origins. Accordingly, The supposed battle-line is thus
drawn between the Old Earthers (this group consists of anti-God
evolutionists as well as many conservative Christians) who appeal to what
they call science versus the Young Earthers who are said to be ignoring
the overwhelming supposed scientific evidence for an old Earth. 40
Obviously, the ongoing battle for a true view of the beginning is but
an inevitable consequence of misinterpretation of creation accounts and
geological findings. If the Scriptures relating to creation were properly
interpreted, the ensuing accurate understanding concerning the Science of
Creation would leave no room for any battle-line to be drawn. It is,
therefore, important and mandatory that we interpret the creation accounts
appropriately and with faith come to grips with the actual biblical creation
truth, and then next discard our erroneous beliefs.
As such, we will do well to freely choose to evaluate the traditional
belief of a creation of the cosmos in six days, some 6 to 10,000 years ago.
Next, by rightly dividing the Word of Truth, we need to reformulate our
theology of creation so as for the same to be in tune with the biblical and
natural revelation.
As otherwise, we should be confidently able to address and resolve
convincingly the embarrassing contradictions inadvertently presented by the
faithful adherents of the traditional doctrine of six-day creationism.

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40: Ken Ham, A young
www.answersingenesis.org.

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For example, instead of taking Genesis 1:1 at its face value - as a

perfect totality of all creation - Traditional Six-Day Creationists, without
any biblical proof, state It is impossible to tell what form the matter
took.! The universe at least its energy and mass began to exist in some
form, though the light-giving stars and planets had not yet taken shape.
What shape everything was in is not spelled out in explicit detail! .. But in
that first instant of creation, the space-mass-time began to exist. 41 This
assumption certainly contradicts Genesis 1:1 which describes the creation of
perfect heavens and earth and not any vague space-mass-time universe.
Traditional Six-day Creationists experience difficulty in accepting the
fact that in the beginning itself God created the heavens and earth as a
completed perfect creation and not some undefined vague space-mass-time
universe. Their difficulty lies in their failure to separate Genesis 1:1 from
Genesis 1:2 according to which the earth was without form and void, with
darkness upon the face of the deep. As such, not only the earth, but even
the vast universe is looked upon as incompletely created engulfed in total
darkness supposedly then in need of further development. This ideation is
not only contrary to the Scriptures but also to Gods character whose works
are always perfect and beautiful!
It is altogether unimaginable that God who is pure light and is the
Father of lights (James 1:17), who dwells in unapproachable light (1
Timothy 6:16), with whom light dwells (Daniel 2:22) and in whom is no
darkness at all (1 John 1:5) would ever, contrary to His character, create
heavens and earth engulfed in total darkness. It is also unimaginable that
God would create earth as a lifeless barren empty dark place to begin
with so as to work further for six days and rest.
Certainly, God did not create the original heavens and the earth the
way traditional concepts tend to depict or portray it. The original creation
was not simply some undifferentiated space-mass-time universe; nor, the
earth was a wilderness that was barren and empty. The Bible nowhere states
it as such. The original creation was complete and perfect and beautiful. For,
the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy
when once God laid the cornerstone (Job 38:4-7) thereof.
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41: John MacArthur, Jr., The Battle for the Beginning: Creation, Evolution, and the Bible,
Indian Reprint by Grace to India, Pune; 2002, p.73.

Moreover, the Wisdom of God rejoiced in the habitable part of the

primeval earth and took delight in the pre-adamic men (Proverbs 8:31). This
would not be the case if the original creation was imperfect requiring further
work for its completion. Proverbs 8:31 refers to pre-adamic life on the
primeval earth of Genesis 1:1 and not to that of Genesis 1:11-13, 20-28.
In fact, Proverbs 8:22-31is the only passage in the entire Bible that
deals with the prior planning and subsequent execution of the plan through
the creation of perfect heavens and earth as witnessed by Gods Wisdom. In
no way this unique creation passage is related to the phased works of the six
days of Genesis 1:3:31. This passage refers to an original perfect creation.
As such, to even casually assume and state God created the original
earth as described in Genesis 1:2 that is, waste and empty inundated with
waters and covered with darkness is to contradict God who says all His
works are perfect. Actually, waste, emptiness or desolation, flooding
with waters and darkness are always results of judgment and not of direct
creation. And darkness on earth has been the abode of the fallen angels ever
since they sinned (Jude 6; Job 38:8-9).
It is, therefore, unbiblical to interpret that what Genesis 1:2 states is
the actual state of the original creation. To state as such is to impugn the
character of God who is a Wise and Intelligent Designer and not a God of
disorder or chaos. Undoubtedly, the Genesis 1:2 account doesnt at all cover
the original creation of heavens and earth of Genesis1:1. It is certainly a
description of a later occurrence of a judgmental outcome. As such, the
Traditional Six-day Creationism cannot be biblically substantiated. It is built
upon misinterpretation of creation Scriptures.
The traditional six-day creationism is plagued with assumptions
which are not only contradictory but also biblically and scientifically
inaccurate. Therefore, it is not at all truly convincing. It contradicts Natural
Revelation or scientific facts and geological-fossil evidence reflecting
thereby a misinterpretation of Genesis 1.
Obviously, the phrase heavens and earth in Genesis 1:1 is not
interpreted by the traditional six-day creationists to mean a fully developed
perfect universe though the same phrase, elsewhere in the Bible, is
interpreted by them to mean as such. Instead, it is looked upon as an
imperfect creation characterized by chaotic disorder surrounded by darkness.

Thus they contradict themselves whenever they state that the term
heavens and earth wherever it appears in the Bible is a Hebrew merism
indicating the totality of all creation. For example, Ken Ham confidently
states: A linguistic analysis of the words heaven(s) and earth in Scripture
shows that they refer to the totality of all creation. 42
So, one is left wondering as to how the Hebrew merism: heavens and
earth only in Genesis 1:1 differs from the other similar merisms referring
to the whole of the originally completed creation so as to state it is
impossible to tell what form the matter took in the Beginning; or that the
barrenness described in verse 2 is simply the original state of the universe
in the twenty-four hours immediately following its initial creation. 43 The
barrenness in Genesis 1:2, however, wasnt the original state of the
universe following its initial creation but was a later chaotic state that
actually evolved on earth. In actuality, Genesis 1:2 state nothing about the
original heavens and earth but only about the barrenness that was next extant
on earth following its perfect original creation.
When the Bible states that In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth, doesnt it really mean that God created a fully developed
perfect universe (Deuteronomy 32:4) in the dateless past? According to the
traditional six-day creationists, Out of nothing, in an instant, the universe
with all its space and matter was made by Gods decree. Or, in that first
instant of creation, the space-mass-time universe began to exist. 44
Such erroneous assumptions may suit ones traditional beliefs but are
contrary to Genesis 1:1 account literally meaning the totality of all
creation. Next, according to the traditional six-day creationists The entire
panoply of heaven including the moon, the sun, the stars, and countless
galaxies was complete and fully functioning on the day God made it. 45
Purportedly, all the planets and their moons except the earth were created on
the fourth Day 46; and not In the Beginning (cf. Genesis 1:1).
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42: Hen Ham, www.answersingeneis.org, op. cit.
43: John MacArthur, op.cit. p. 76 ; 44: ibid, p. 73; 45: ibid p. 107.
46: Donald DeYoung, Astronomy and the Bible, www.answersingenesis.org

If that be the case, then how do we explain the existence of earth,

prior to the creation of other planets and moons on the fourth day? Wasnt
the earth a constituent of the solar system or of the panoply of heaven
from the time of its creation? Was the planet earth alone apart from the
rest of the solar system created first, and then miraculously kept floating in
space-time until the fourth day? Or did God have different laws for the
first three days so as to hang the earth in space (cf. Job 27:7) without suns
gravitational pulls to maintain it in a fixed orbit? As otherwise, how can one
explain the existence of the earth without any sun during the first three days
seeing that the earth is known to revolve around the sun being held in its
orbit by its gravitational pull?
Next, it is stated that According to Genesis 1:1, the heavens of outer
space had already been created. 47 In other words, the so-called heavens of
outer space were created first apart from the so-called panoply of heaven
which was supposedly created on the fourth day. However, the Bible doesnt
make any distinction between the heavens of the outer space and the socalled panoply of heaven purportedly consisting not only of the moon, the
sun, planets and the stars but even the countless galaxies.
Werent the countless galaxies a part of the heavens of outer space
and the planet earth truly a constituent of the panoply of heaven from the
beginning of their creation? If the entire stellar panoply was created on the
fourth day then of what the heavens of the outer space were actually made
up of when created in the beginning along with the earth? (Genesis 1:1).
And what particular primal gravitational forces kept the earth floating in
space if the solar system or the stellar panoply consisting of the sun, moon
and the stars was created on the fourth day?
According to the traditional six-day creationism, the starry heavens
of the outer space and the earth sans the starry panoply of heaven were
created on the first day. Accordingly, Genesis 1:1-5 is supposed to be the
biblical account of Gods activity on that first day of creation.48 That is,
As day one emerges from eternity, we find the earth in a dark and barren
condition 49 as a constituent of the so-called space-mass-time universe.
But the fact that the morning stars sang and all the angels shouted for joy
(Job 38:7) proves that perfect heavens and earth were created before Day 1,
perhaps soon after the creation of the Angelic hosts.
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47: John MacArthur, op. cit. p. 48: ibid ; 49: ibid

Certainly, the Bible does state that In six days, the LORD made the

heavens, earth and the sea and everything that is in them (Exodus 20:11;
31:17). However, the heavens and the earth and the sea God says in Exodus
20:11, 31:17 that He made in six days refer to the firmament or to the
heavens of Genesis 1:8, 14-19 and to the dry land called earth and to the sea
of Genesis 1:10. These Scriptures doesnt refer to the stellar heavens and
earth or to the round globe and the waters which God created ex nihilo in the
beginning and not during any of the six days.
The Scriptures clearly differentiate the Heavens and Earth of
Genesis 1:1 that were of old (2 Peter 3:5) from those heavens of Genesis
1:8, 14-19 and the earth of Genesis 1:10 which are now (2 Peter 3:7). The
later were actually made or fashioned during the additional work of the six
days described in Genesis 1:3-31. These obviously include the original
parent-primeval heavens and earth.
Traditional Six-day Creationists wrongly assume the creation of the
stellar heavens and the spherical earth with chaos and darkness as Gods
activity of Day One. However, Gods activities of the six days actually begin
from Genesis 1:3 onwards with clear-cut commands such as Let there be,
specifying each single days work. As such, what is stated in Genesis1:1-2 is
definitely not in any manner Gods activity of Day 1. To state as such, is to
leave the seeker of truth really feeling confused in spite of the evidence!
It is obvious that the traditional six-day creationists have somehow
got it sorely wrong whether it is admitted or not! The barrage of questions
provoked by the traditional six-day creationism cannot be answered
satisfactorily and, therefore, the confusion arising there-from is logically
inevitable. As such, traditional creation concepts cause much confusion
provoking unnecessary debate relating to the origins.
The only way to clear the existing confusion is to come to terms with
the fact that the six-day creation account in Genesis 1:3-31 doesnt include
in it the creation of stellar heavens and the earth nor the panoply of heaven
created instantly (Genesis 1:1) in the beginning. The phased work of the six
days is, therefore, totally and uniquely different from the earlier work of
instant creation of heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1. Undoubtedly, the work
of the six days is a later work subsequent to the chaos on earth (Genesis
1:2). It is in addition to the original work of creation of the perfect heavens
and earth of Genesis 1:1.

Chaos and Darkness of Genesis 1:2

Is It a Work of Creation or of Judgment?

Genesis 1:1 is definitely an independent creation account of the
original perfect heavens and earth. Subsequently, by rightly dividing and
separating Genesis 1:1 account of original creation from that of the later
additional work of the six days of Genesis 1:3-31 we are obviously left with
Genesis 1:2 that records the chaotic conditions on earth. In fact, it is because
of these chaotic conditions on earth God had to further work as planned in a
phased manner for six days. As such, the chaotic conditions on earth cannot
be a product of the original perfect creation of heavens and earth God
says He created In the Beginning.
Traditional Six-day Creationists do not rightly divide the Word of
Truth and separate the creation account of Genesis 1:1 from Genesis 1:2 or
from that of Genesis 1:3-31. Yet, such a distinction is biblically warranted. It
is theologically appropriate as it clears the prevailing confusion in traditional
creation theology.
The fact that Genesis 1:1, 1:2 and 1:3 are independent creation
accounts should not provoke Young Earthers to be unduly defensive. Such
a distinct separation is a theological necessity whether we are dealing with a
young earth or ages-old universe. However, as far as biblical revelation is
concerned, there is no indication as to the actual length of time covering the
accounts dealing with the two phases of Gods creative acts with a chaotic
situation in-between.
After all, elusive time, as we measure it, was created beginning with
Day One (Genesis 1:5) of the creation week. Time did not begin from the
Beginning of the Creation of the original universe as is wrongly assumed
by the traditional six-day creationists. The creation of heavens and earth in
the beginning and the conditions on earth as in Genesis 1:2 were before the
creation of time.
The so-called ages of the earth and universe whether in thousands of
years or billions of years, biblically speaking, are irrelevant (2 Peter 3:8). In
no way any age should ever bother Christians seeing that it is not at all a
biblical issue. As such, the age of the earth or of the universe should be of
much concern to none.
In a way, neither Progressive Creation nor Theistic Evolution over

billions of years is biblically relevant. The long ages advocated by these

theories need to be scientifically confirmed; nor the ages advocated by the
young-earth creationists can be relied upon to be accepted with conviction
as biblical truth. Jesus statements concerning Adam and Eve as being made
male and female from the beginning of the creation could mean as such
from the beginning of their creation. It certainly doesnt mean to imply that
the earth is young 50 or that the universe is about 10,000 years old. Jesus who
lives in timelessness is neither a young-age creationist 51 nor is He agesold earth advocate (cf. 2 Peter 3:8).
Next, apart from dividing and separating Genesis 1:1, 1:2 and 1:331from each other it is not possible to account for the chaotic conditions of
Genesis 1:2 but to resort to inaccurate explanations based upon traditional
beliefs. Anyway, the chaotic conditions (i.e. waste or tohu and
emptiness or bohu, and total darkness) cannot be the products of
original creation (Genesis 1:1) but are the outcomes of judgment. Similar
chaotic conditions elsewhere in the Bible are always of judgment a fact with
which no biblical theologian will disagree.
Speaking of judgment, Isaiah 34:11b states: He shall stretch out
upon it the line of waste (tohu) and the plummets of emptiness (bohu). Now,
That pictures God as the Architect of judgment, using a plumb line of tohu,
which is kept taut by weights made of bohu. 52 As such, the chaotic
conditions on earth in Genesis 1:2 are of judgment as a consequence of sin
and, therefore, cannot be a state of the original earth, or of the universe.
Traditional six-day creationists are of the opinion that there was no
sin prior to the creation week. According to them, Lucifer sinned some time
after Day 7 and subsequently Adam sinned. As such, the chaotic conditions
on earth spoken of in Genesis 1:2 cannot be of judgment, we are told. They
somehow assume the earth was created in an unformed, imperfect or chaotic
state inundated with waters all over and covered with darkness at the
beginning itself, supposedly on Day 1. And, that it was next developed and
made good during the work of the remaining five days of Genesis 1.
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50: http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers/k/author-terry-mortenson/v/recent.
51: Mortenson, ibid ;

52: John MacArthur, op. cit, p. 74.

However, to assume as such is to contradict the Scriptures according

to which the waters were originally in one place in the beginning (Proverbs
8:30). These waters eventually deluded and covered the earth in a universal
flood (cf. Job 38: 8). Next, the waters then flooding the earth (Genesis 1:2)
had to be rebuked to return to their original location (Job 38:8, 11; cf.
Genesis 1:10). This aspect has no relevance to Noahs flood.
Whether the traditional six-day creationists openly admit it or not,
Isaiah 14:12-15 and Ezekiel 28:12b-15 point to Lucifers rebellion and sin as
having taken place much prior to the creation week. Unfortunately, six-day
creationists hardly seem to take into account these Scriptures. Instead, they
seem to be somehow convinced all these Scriptures have nothing to do with
the time of Lucifers sin; or with the chaos on earth which can be only
explained as a consequence of Lucifers sin and that of his angels (Jude 6)
and the pre-Adamite world (2 Peter 3:6). Nevertheless, Gods planned and
phased work of the six days of Genesis 1:3-31 which actually comprises the
true biblical six day creationism with evangelical themes of restoration and
renewal was occasioned by prior Satan-dominated evil chaotic conditions on
a darkened and deluged earth.
Traditional six-day Creationists state, but not convincingly, that
Lucifer sinned some time after Day Seven of the creation week and not
before. However, their belief is definitely not based upon biblical evidence
but is merely assumed as such. They, somehow, overlook the fact that the
Serpent was already there in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:1 read with
Genesis 1:25) before the creation of Adam. This fact (cp. Revelation12:9)
confirms that Lucifer sinned much before the creation week, and not after.
Obviously, Lucifer already had sinned before the creation week. As
such, Chaos on earth had to be a consequence and an aftermath of Lucifers
sin. At the same time, it is a consequence of the sin of the angels (Jude 6)
and that of pre-Adamic men over whom Lucifer ruled. It may sound
heretical; but, nevertheless, these are biblically-based pre-historical facts!
A relevant question would be: when did God actually create the vast
Angelic Host including Lucifer and the angels that sinned with him? Were
all the Angels, including Lucifer, created during the creation week as is
assumed by the traditional six -day creationists? Next, werent there any
pre-Adamite men on earth under Lucifers dominion and ruler-ship? How do
we then are to explain the Scriptures that answer these questions pointedly?
The prevailing belief of the Traditional Six-day Creationists that the

angels were created during the creation week is biblically untenable. Such
an assumption contradicts the biblical fact that the angels were already in
existence long before the creation of the earth. The angels were already there
to actually witness earths creation and shout for joy (Job 38:7). As such, the
angels could not have been created during the creation week. They were
created before the creation of the earlier heavens and earth. Moreover,
leaving aside any geological-fossil evidence there is biblical evidence, as
highlighted herein, to confirm the existence of pre-Adamic life. This
includes pre-Adamic men on the original primeval earth.
Traditional six-day creationists overlook the above biblical creation
facts. They simply assume that God created the universe in a chaotic
condition. Their assumption is contrary to Gods nature and character and,
therefore, theologically inappropriate. At the cost of repeating, chaos and
darkness cannot be a part of the original work of an Intelligent Designer
whose works of direct creation are always functionally perfect
(Deuteronomy 32:4), and also beautiful (Ecclesiastes 3:11a).
Various other discrepancies characterize traditional six-day and
modern young-earth creationism which certainly cannot be biblically and
scientifically resolved. However, if we first divide the Word of Truth in
Genesis 1 and allow the Bible to interpret it there cannot be any
inconsistencies in the interpretation of the Scriptures relating to creation. As
such, once the traditional six-day creationists come to terms with the fact of
an earlier instant creation as distinct from that of the later work of the first
six days there will be no room for any discrepancies.
Next, attempts made by theistic evolutionists, progressive creationists
and others to accommodate the evolutionary long ages are only exercises
in futility. The Bible is totally silent about the ages of the earth or of the
universe so as for anyone to logically dispute as to whether we are dealing
with a Young Earth and Universe or an Old Earth and Universe. As such,
the debatable issue of earths age is biblically irrelevant and a sheer waste of
time. At the most, any speculated long ages of the earth or universe if at all
substantially found to be true based upon relevant scientific data could be
then convincingly adjusted but only in relation to the so-called gap rather,
the white space between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 as well as the chaotic black
space between Genesis 1:2 and 1:3.
Anyway, the issue is not young Earth versus old Earth, but this:
Can fallible, sinful man be in authority over the Word of God? Compared to

what God knows, we know next door to nothing! This is why we should be
so careful to let God speak to us through His Word, and not try to impose
our ideas on Gods Word this message needs to be proclaimed to the
Church as a challenge to return to Biblical authority, and thus stand tall in
the world for the accuracy of Gods Word. Ultimately, this is the only way we
are going to reach the world with the truth of the Gospel message. 53 But
then, how often we read into the Bible what is not there such as earths age
instead of letting the Bible speak to us and tell us only what is actually there.
We are accustomed to read into our bibles what we assume to be true.
It will be, indeed, a constructive exercise to consider what the Bible
says about Gods works of creation in all its creation-accounts. Otherwise,
we can end up with wrong interpretations of Scriptures when taken in
isolation. As an example of such wrong interpretation, consider the
following: The question is what God says that He did! And what He said in
writing was this, recorded with His own finger on a table of stone: In six
days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and
rested the seventh day (Exodus 20:11; see also Exodus 31:15-18), 54
interpreting these passages as referring to all creation covering Genesis 1in
its entirety thereby mixing up Genesis 1:1-2 with Genesis 1:3-31.
What God actually says in Exodus 20:11 that He did is the work of the
six days described in Genesis 1:3-31. This work is in addition to the original
creation of heavens and earth. Exodus 20:11 or 31:17 doesnt state that God
created the original universe during the six days. These scriptures do not
refer to the creation of stellar heavens of the outer space but to the
firmament called heavens of Genesis 1:8 made on the second day. This
firmament includes the solar system and also the stars re-arranged on the
fourth day (Genesis 1:14-19). Next, it does not even refer to the original
earth or the globe but to the dry land called earth of Genesis 1:10
that God made to appear on the third day after gathering the waters into one
place constituting the seas. The Bible describes two inter-related but
distinct heavens and earth; one, created in the beginning (Genesis 1:1);
and the other, on the second and third day with a re-arrangement of the solar
system on the fourth day (Genesis 1:7-10, 14-17).
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53: Ken Ham, op. cit;

54: Henry Morris, www.cri.org; op. cit.

Gods systematic work of the six days actually involves a work of

restoring functional order out of the chaos brought about by Lucifers

rebellion upon the original once beautiful earth. These redemptive and
restorative aspects of Gods work of the six days differentiate it from the
original earlier perfect work of instant creation wherein dwelled light until
Lucifer sinned. And just as God restored physical order out of chaos on earth
through His work of the six days resting on the seventh day so also God has
been working all this long, during the last 6000 years, to restore spiritual
order out of moral chaos brought about by Adams sin.
In fact, the very nature of Gods phased work of the six days
culminating in Gods resting on the seventh day portrays that every single
day of the creation week has a typological and prophetic significance. The
six-day work points to Gods work of restoring spiritual order out of
spiritual chaos as a result of mans sin under Satans rule on earth through
six millennial days. It is followed by the Millennial Sabbath during which
Satan will be forced to take rest in the bottomless pit. These are
fundamental evangelical truths underlying the work of the six days and the
creation of the 7th day Sabbath.
As such, the typological, restorative and the prophetic aspects of the
phased work of the six days sets it apart as distinct and uniquely different
from that of the original work of an instant creation of primeval heavens and
earth by fiat wherein dwelled righteousness until the day Lucifer and his
angels and pre-adamic men sinned. Next, the uniqueness of the phased work
of six days also sets it apart from the future work of instant creation of New
Heavens and Earth.
Whether the traditional six-day creationists freely admit it or not the
fundamentalist belief of a creation of heavens and earth or of the universe
during the six days of the creation week is hopelessly untenable, both
biblically and scientifically! The Bible proves it to be so and Science
confirms it and that should settle it, once for all, without any further debate!
As such, the need of the hour for the traditional six-day creationists is
to abandon their faulty traditional six-day creationism. Modern adherents of
the Traditional six-day creationism have no other option but to admit that the
traditional six-day creationism is theologically flawed and biblically
incompatible. And, accordingly, they need next to convincingly align with
the actual pristine biblical creation truth.
We need to consider what the Bible actually teaches about creation,

here a little and there a little (Isaiah 28:10, 13). And next, rightly divide
the Word of Truth about Gods past and the prophesied future works and
formulate a Theology of Creation which is free from contradictions.
Hopefully, traditional six-day creationists will revise their theological
position after evaluating the same in the face of the many questions it raises.
As long as these questions cannot be answered convincingly with biblically
supported answers it is of no real value to hold on to the traditional six-day
creationism but adopt a creation position which is free from contradictions.
Traditional Creationism cannot serve any evangelical purpose seeing
that it is plagued with inconsistencies. It provokes questions that cannot be
biblically and scientifically answered prompting unbelievers to question
biblical integrity. In fact, it acts as a stumbling block in the way of those
genuinely seeking truth relating to creation. As such, a vibrant Biblical
Theology of Creation is a dire need of the hour.
The modern militant Church should not hesitate to aim towards such a
goal mainly for evangelical purposes. As noted succinctly by John
MacArthur, Our view of creation is the necessary starting point for our
entire world-view. In fact, so vital is the issue that Francis Schaeffer once
remarked that if he had only an hour to spend with an unbeliever, he would
spend the first forty-five minutes talking about creation and what it means
for humanity to bear the image of God and then he would use the last
fifteen minutes to explain the way of salvation. 55
This treatise aims to address the basic biblical facts relating to the
different phases of creation by rightly dividing the Word of Truth in Genesis
and elsewhere in the Holy Bible. To any one attempting such an exercise
objectively it will be obvious that the true biblical six-day creationism
described in Genesis 1: 3-31 summarized by Exodus 20:11 and 31:17 is
totally different from the traditional six day creationism. After all, it has
wrongly mixed up the work of the six days (Genesis1:3-31) with the work of
instant creation (Genesis 1:1) in timelessness thereby inadvertently doing
violence to biblically based Theology of Creation.
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55: John MacArthur, op. cit, p. 43,

Biblical Creation Truth or the True Scriptural Creationism, the

subject matter of this book verily differs from the biblically untenable

traditional six-day creationism according to which it is assumed that God

created the universe in six days. It is thus wrongly assumed that the creation
week of Genesis 1 begins with Genesis 1:1 and not with Genesis 1:3. In fact,
the universe was created much earlier in the dateless and ageless past, much
before the actual work of the six days of Genesis 1:3-31 which truly
constitutes the true biblical six-day creationism. This sharp distinction is
essential to our understanding.
The distinction between the creation accounts in Genesis 1 is a
theological necessity and is biblically warranted whether one really agrees
with such a distinction or not. But the Bible is definitely clear about it! To
deliberately ignore such a biblically-based distinction affirming a radical
theology of creation is to hopelessly remain enslaved to nave tradition.
Undoubtedly, given the human nature for what it is, ones bias based
upon ones preconceived notions and presuppositions underlying the
prevailing belief in the traditional six-day creationism will surely come into
play. Such bias makes it difficult to acknowledge the errors and embrace the
truth. However, if we are to remain faithful to Gods Word then we should
not hesitate to prove all things and faithfully hold fast that which is
biblically true constituting sound doctrine!
Resistance to correction is inevitable! And, even as one chooses to
evaluate traditional beliefs he or she is likely to experience dissonance! The
disturbing question is: How could the Church simply ever err all along in its
doctrine of creation so as to believe that which is biblically untenable?
Instead of merely looking to church history to defend ones belief on
the premise that it has been accepted as such all along one will do well to
check the truthfulness of any belief as to whether it is really biblical or not.
More so, when such a belief is objectively stated to be biblically untenable.
Anyway, it may be conveniently stated that no traditionally accepted belief
system is complete and final but is subject to scrutiny in the light of any new
understanding of biblical truth no matter how much uncomfortable one feels
with it. As such, we need to be always willing to prove all things and hold
fast that which is true even if it means painfully facing the cost of giving up
ones established traditional, historical church beliefs and hide-bound
concepts and erroneous beliefs.
On the whole, we need to be fully cautious and be aware of the fact
that The argument from church history seems to rear its head almost every

time any doctrine is discussed. If the doctrine was taught in ancient times
this supposedly makes it more reliable. If, on the other hand, it has not been
taught until more recent years, then it is suspect.
Of course, the argument itself is invalid. The truth or untruth of any
doctrine does not depend on whether or not it was ever taught in church
history. Its truthfulness depends solely on whether or not it is taught in the
Bible. Now, admittedly, a teaching that no one has ever before heard about
might be suspect, but the Bible, not church history, is the standard against
which all teachings must be measured. 56
Anyone who experiences unhealthy cognitive dissonance, will do
well to acknowledge the same and lay aside any resistance arising therefrom. Next, for the sake of truth come under grace and choose to be
honestly objective so as to freely prove all things and hold fast that which is
true. As such, the reader to be objective will do well to act on the principle
of bracketeering by creating an empty mental space (
) freed from all
bias resulting from traditional beliefs. Next, let the Bible do the plain
speaking; that is, involve oneself in exegesis, by reading out of the text
instead of impulsively or with bias engage in eisegesis by reading into the
biblical creation texts ones established assumptions or traditional beliefs.
And then objectively evaluate the three-phased-creation theology presented
herein constituting the core truths of Biblical Creation Truth.
The focus of Biblical Creation Truth is not merely to review the
biblical facts in understanding the Theology of Creation, per se. The focus
goes much beyond that. It takes into consideration the evangelical aspects
and the spiritual application as is symbolically portrayed by the physical
creation events. Its goal, notwithstanding the prevailing faulty and confusing
Traditional Six-Day Creationism and Theistic Evolution is to affirm a
radical evangelically-based biblical theology of creation rooted in the very
first chapter of the Bible Genesis 1.
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56: Charles C. Ryrie, Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding
Biblical Truth; 1999; Moody Press, Chicago, USA, p. 91.

To conclude, Genesis 1:1 definitely deals with a perfect creation

wherein dwelled light (life, truth and righteousness) until Lucifer when,

once placed on earth sinned by rebelling against God bringing in darkness

and chaos on earth (Genesis 1:2) as a consequence, necessitating Gods work
of the six days (Genesis 1:3-31). Accordingly, In Genesis 1 we have a
picture of the work of God in connection with His counsels. You may say it is
a picture of creation, but it is a wonderful picture of God's work which leads
right on to the rest of God. Thus Genesis (1:3-31) gives a description of the
work of the six days, and it ends with the Sabbath of rest, and it is thus a
picture of the end to which God is really working. He is working up to a
certain point and that is to secure rest and satisfaction for Himself in the full
blessing of man. Depend upon it, which is God's object. 57
Hermeneutically speaking, the very first two verses of Genesis 1 when
rightly divided and separated from each other and studied exegetically with
the help of other related Scriptures make it clearly evident that these two
verses actually describe two different states of Gods physical creation:
One, the initial perfect state of the original heavens and earth as in
Genesis 1:1 when the earth was under the dominion of Lucifer and angels,
wherein once dwelled light symbolizing life, truth, righteousness and peace.
Two, the later imperfect state as in Genesis 1:2, depicting the original
once perfect earth next in total chaos inundated by waters all over and
covered by darkness, undoubtedly as a consequence of Lucifers sin and that
of his subjects; and, perhaps, a creation that is subjected to futility and
uselessness (Romans 8:20-21) and which is now under Satans dominion and
control (Luke 4:6).
Accordingly, in the light of the first Epistle of John sin existed
at that time, but it did not exist in connection with man nor in relation to the
creation brought before us in the opening of Genesis and which God
pronounced to be very good. Sin existed already in relation to Satan; he
was the original sinner he sinneth from the beginning or outset, but
there was a created scene down here without sin. 58
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57: Charles A. Coates, Miscellaneous Ministry on the Old Testament, Vol.30, Kingston
Bible Trust, UK, 1991 reprint, p.3.
58: J. Pellatt, Departure and Recovery in The Closing Ministry of J. Pellatt, (1843
1913), Vol.1, Kingston Bible Trust, UK, p. 150-151.

Genesis1:3-31 describe Gods additional works of the six days. This

additional phased work performed through specific six days by its very

nature and methodology distinguishes it from that of the original instant

creation of Genesis 1:1. Moreover, unlike the work of the original creation
of Genesis 1:1, the work of the six days is peculiarly characterized by
specific commands (cf. 2 Corinthian 4:6) as if to address or to order the
cosmic forces of darkness to Let There Be functional conditions
necessary to sustain new life on earth.
No such specific commands were given at the time of original
creation and neither such commands were necessary. God simply visualized
or planned it, willed it and spoke it into existence by fiat; and the perfect
heavens and earth came into existence. And since it was all perfect, the
heavenly host shouted for joy and the Wisdom of God, Personified, rejoiced
in the habitable part of the earth. Moreover, Wisdom also took delights in the
pre-adamic sons of men then dwelling in the habitable part of the original
primeval earth (Proverbs 8:31).
On the other hand, the specific work of each of the six days begins
with And God said thereby giving specific commands to Let There Be
life sustaining conditions on earth that became or that was barren, and void.
Let There Be in Genesis 1 - the unanswerable fiat 59 is said to be the
equivalent of Thou Shalt in the moral world 60; and in each case, it is a
commandment which is the divine language 61 to restore order out of
chaos. In the one case, to restore order out of physical chaos in the physical
universe; and in the other case, to restore order out of moral chaos in the
moral universe. Thus the work of the six days is basically restorative,
culminating in the creation of Sabbath. It symbolizes Gods dispensational
work of six millennial days to be followed by a millennial-dispensational
Sabbath of heavenly rule on earth next culminating in the creation of new
heavens and new earth (Isaiah 65:17).62
The following section is a brief statement giving a view (synopsis) of
the theological material relating to Biblical Creation Truth.
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59: R. E. O. White: Biblical Ethics: John Knox Press, Atlanta, USA, 1979; p.18.
60: R. E. O White, ibid, p.18. 61: ibid, p.18.
62: Alfred Edersheim, Biblical History: Old Testament, Text: Public Domain, Database
@2004, WORDsearch Corp., Volume 1.

Synopsis

The material covered in this Treatise is presented mainly in Three

Parts. Each part covers relevant topical sections addressing, in depth,
related issues from different angles. As such, repetition of significant
biblical facts heretofore overlooked, has been tentatively inevitable.
Part One covers the topic of Atheistic Evolution v/s Biblical Creation
Truth. It addresses Biblical Authority as against fallible human theories and
questions as to whether the God of the Bible is a Creator of Evolution who
has created and set in operation an evolutionary process or whether God
created the universe and everything in it differently. Next, it questions as to
whether Theistic Evolution is a fitting response to atheistic evolution and
accordingly next, Evolutionary Myths are exposed and debunked.
Part Two deals with the basic aspects of creation relating to Gods
works in three phases covering three different and distinct periods. Against
this background, obvious draw-backs of the traditional six-day creationism
are further addressed depicting its biblical and scientific inaccuracy. Next,
the fallacy of smuggling evolutionary concepts into the Bible by the
Theistic Evolutionists is addressed concluding thereby that it implies to
worshipping their so-called Beleaguered God of the Gaps with myths.
Part Three covers the three phases of Gods creative works in detail,
beginning with the creation of perfect original heavens and earth followed
by the work of the six days and then at the end, a new creation.
The first phase of Part Three deals with the creation of the angelic
host followed by the creation of heavens and earth in timelessness,
wherein dwelled light and righteousness until the time of Lucifers rebellion
when the earth became without form and void covered with waters and
darkness all over.
Next, the second phase comprising the work of the first six days is
dealt with during which God restored order out of chaos on earth that was
plunged into darkness. Next, that God created life-conditions for human life
and rested on the seventh day thereby creating measurable units of time and
the first week of human history.
Special emphasis is placed upon the work of the first six days of the
creation week. Its typological and prophetic significance is highlighted

pointing to Gods works of spiritual redemption in the course of six

millennial days under Satans rule on earth. Subsequently, there will be the
establishment of the Millennial Sabbath. The underlying evangelical aspect
of the six-day work makes it spiritually meaningful.
The third phase deals with the creation of the new heavens and a new
earth not by evolution nor in six days, but instantly by fiat to be inherited by
the saints or the Sons of God. God promises to create new Heavens and
Earth by fiat after destroying the present temporary heavens and earth. This
promise should go a long way in convincing the skeptics with the fact that
God created the original universe by fiat, perhaps instantly. There is no
sufficient scriptural base to believe in a creation in six days or through
evolutionary processes in the course of billions and billions of years.
The book concludes with a theologically significant Epilogue with an
evangelical focus and thrust in mind. It takes into account the framework of
the spiritual significance of Gods phased redemptive physical works of the
first six days that involved restoring order out of chaos and darkness extant
on earth before the creation of Man; but, unlike the pre-adamic man, this
time after His own Image and Likeness, as the pinnacle of His creation and
as a type of the second Adam, even Christ, the God-Man.
Next, the subject of fallen human nature and mans sinful condition is
dealt with. Subsequently, the Way of Salvation and mans redemption
through Christs substitutionary bloody death for reconciliation, justification,
sanctification and restoration is dealt with for evangelical purposes.
Finally, the truly repentant Believers New Spiritual Creation in
Christ and his or her eternal covenantal relationship with God and ruler-ship
under Christ in the Kingdom of God after the creation of the new Heavens
and the new Earth is briefly addressed. After all, mans spiritual creation is
the supreme manifestation of Gods purpose for creating the physical man on
earth. It is therefore a relevant topic that needs to be incorporated in any
discussion relating to Gods Works of Creation.

Psalms 8: 1-9
1: O LORD our Lord,
how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth,
Who has set thy glory above the heavens?
2: Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
Hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies,
That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3: When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4: What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5: For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,
And hast crowned him with glory and honor.
6: Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of thy hands;
Thou hast put all [things] under his feet:
7: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8: The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,
And whatsoever passed through the paths of the seas.
9: O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

PART ONE
Atheistic Pagan
THEORY of EVOLUTION
(SATANIC EVOLUTIONISM)
V/s
BIBLICAL CREATION TRUTH
(TRUE SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM)
******************

Satanic Evolutionism
Bibles Authority
V/s Mans Fallible Guesses
Is It Science versus Faith?
Or Is It Bible and True Science?
Bible & True Science
V/s Atheistic Theory of Evolution
(Debunking the Pagan Myth of Evolution)

Evolution, at the most, is an idea about history,

Not observational science.
There may be inferences we can make
About the past based on modern observations,
And these may or may not be true,
But don't bother claiming that ideas about history
Are the same as repeatable observations in the present.
And don't insult us by thinking that we will believe that they are.

Roger Patterson
*******
If science depends on
Naturalistic explanations,
It must accept that our thoughts are
Simply the products of chemical reactions
That evolved from random chance.
How can you ultimately rely on randomness
To evolve the correct way of thinking?
If there is no God,
Ultimately, philosophically,
How can one talk about reality?
How can one even rationally believe
That there is such a thing as truth,
Let alone decides what it is?

Ken Ham

Satanic Evolutionism

Evolutionism is a subtle satanic doctrine aimed to deny the existence

of the unseen reality of a Creator God! Under the pervasive influence of the
unseen devil and his demons, Evolutionism is propounded, advocated and
propagated by the atheistic philosophers, scientists, and evolutionists whose
goal is to deny Gods role in creation and, instead, attribute all that exists to
the goddess of blind chance. Nevertheless, --- that which may be known of
God is manifest in them; for God hath shown it unto them. For, the invisible
things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and
Godhead, so that they are without excuse (Romans 1:19-20).
Evolutionism is, therefore, a hodge-podge of contradictory doctrines
built upon imaginary and unscientific false atheistic theories. These theories
basically include the so-called cosmic evolution of matter and organic or
biological evolution of complex life. The multi-varied forms of these basic
theories grotesquely display a biased spirit of pseudo-science and the blind,
religious, irrational faith of its proponents and nave adherents.
Consequently, just as there are different religions with their diverse gods and
belief systems so also atheistic evolution means different things with varied
views to different classes or genre of atheistic evolutionists. The
proponents of evolutionary theories actually wear the garb of true science.
But, in real life, they are the deceived high priests of atheistic evolutionism
- a subtle devilish religion and not at all a true science.
Atheistic evolution is purportedly a process of gross gradated changes
over a long period ranging from millions to billons of years (Doctrine of
Gradualism) during which the so-called cosmic and organic evolution has
taken place. Accordingly, the complex universe comprising of galaxies with
its immeasurable stars, planets and other cosmic bodies has supposedly
evolved from huge clouds of hot gases or from some undefined imaginary
primitive nebulous matter and so on. However, they cannot account for the
origins of such primitive nebulous matter.
Next, organic or biological evolutionary theory holds that all species
probably evolved from a single form of life which lived about 3 and 1/2
billion years ago. Over time, the basic life form evolved into two or more

species. These species, in turn, developed into many other species; 1 which
next, eventually produced the more than 2 million species that inhabit the
earth today2 (Doctrine of Speciation). Most evolutionary change is
supposedly as a result caused by the interaction of processes which could be
best termed as Doctrines of Mutation, Natural Selection (Survival of the
Fittest with its sub-doctrines of Directional Selection, Stabilizing Selection
and Sexual Selection). Add to these recent doctrines such as the Genetic
Drift, Synthetic Theory and Punctuated Equilibrium and so on. There is
simply no end to mans fallible speculations.
There is no room for any direct creation of universe or life including
human life by God. Instead, cosmic evolution presumes our universe made
up of sextillions of stars has evolved from lower units of matter such as
hydrogen atoms or from a cloud of hot gases in the course of billions of
years. But why only some hydrogen atoms or a few clouds evolved into
complex universes is a mystery even for intelligent minds to grasp and
thereby appreciate the myths of evolution. Next, biological evolution is the
Theory that all living things developed from a few simple forms of life
through a series of physical changes. According to evolution, the first
mammal developed from a type of reptile, and ultimately all forms are
traced back to a simple, perhaps a single-celled, organism. 3
In other words, the many species of plant and animal life of today are
said to have evolved from some simple unicellular primitive forms of life
that lived about three and half billions (or, more?) years ago. In other words,
simplicity of unicellular life evolved into the complexity of human life.
Imagine the evolutionary magic of primordial life forms that, contrary to
known laws of nature and of chance, supposedly evolved, in the course of
billions of years, into more than 1,000,000 species of insects, 250,000
species of beetles, 110, 000 of butterflies and moths, 80,000 of shellfishes,
80,000 of snails, 60,000 of arachnids, 40,000 of flies, 25,000 of barnacles,
crabs, lobsters and shrimps; 20,000 of fishes, 10,000 of bees; 10,000 of
wasps, 9,000 of worms; 5,000 of ants, 1,200 of birds and 1,000 species of
cockroaches. There are also many species of larger animals, and over
180,000 species of plants. Species of fungi are 100,000; algae 20,000;
mosses 20,000; corals 5,000; and sponges 3,000; besides many other
species of living things. 4
And the so-called primeval nebulous matter or hydrogen atoms and
undifferentiated protoplasmic life has supposedly come into existence from
nowhere. Appeal is made to undefined blind operations of unintelligent

impersonal gods of chance to account for the existence of the same.

Accordingly, in atheistic evolutionary thinking there is simply no room at all
for any uncaused efficient cause, as demanded by pure logic and true
science as well as by common sense, to account for the origin and planned
well-designed creative development of matter and life forms.
There is no room for any Intelligent Designer and Creator God to
account for the complex universe and the living world with all its energy
systems and the intricate laws governing the same in absolute mathematical
precision and orderly perfection; whose origins the atheistic scientists and
evolutionists, even as they accidentally stumble at and discover, cannot
logically account for but irrationally assign the same with religious zeal to
some impotent blind and dumb goddess of chance! Accordingly, when
they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but
became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools (Romans 1:21-22).
To imagine each of the species as having evolved out of some simple
undifferentiated unicellular life forms finally evolving into homo sapiens,
sounds fictional and absurd! Even atheistic scientists are not convinced of
any truth in the theories of evolution. As admitted by Professor Jerome, We
have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none;
and I cannot accept the theory that I teach to my students each year. Let me
explain. I teach the synthetic theory known as the neo-Darwinian one, for
one reason only; not because its good, we know it is bad, but because there
isnt any other. Whilst waiting to find something better, you are taught
something which is known to be inexact, which is a first approximation. 5
Of course, given sufficient time covering millions or billions of years,
evolution has become possible. This is somehow considered to be a
scientific possibility but only according to the fancy speculations and myths
of the evolutionists. In other words, Time is the fancy hero or god of the
evolution plot. Imaginary time slots convert the myths of evolution to sound
scientifically true. These are next accepted by faith by the atheistic scientific
community. And, it is believed as such, contrary to the true scientific spirit
and in spite of the lack of evidence. And, instead of acknowledging God, the
goddess of chance with its prophetic probabilities is worshipped.
Atheistic scientists and evolutionists need to be rationally objective,
and without prejudice or bias come to terms with The fact that evolutionary

processes, on the scale of millions of years, cannot be observed, tested,

repeated or falsified, places them in the category of historical science. In
secular science, evaluating historical events is considered just as acceptable
as conducting laboratory experiments when it comes to developing scientific
theories. Since scientific theories are subject to change, it is acceptable to
work within an admittedly deficient framework until a better or more
reasonable framework can be found. 6
Moreover, When we deal with the issue of origins, we must realize
that no people were there to observe and record the events. When scientists
discuss the origins of the universe, or life on earth, we must realize that the
discussion is based on assumptions. These fallible assumptions make the
conclusions of the discussion less valid than if the discussion were based on
actual observation. Almost all biology books / textbooks written in the last
two generations have been written as if these presuppositions were true. 7
Unjustifiably, contrary to sound ethical principles, the Proponents of
the evolutionary worldview expect everyone to accept evolution as fact. This
is a difficult case to make when the how, why, when, and where of
evolutionary history are sharply contested or unknown by the scientists who
insist evolution is a fact. Evolutionists often claim that creation is not
scientific because of the unprovable assumptions that it is based on. The fact
that evolution is based on its own set of unprovable, untestable, and
unfalsifiable assumptions is recognized by many in the scientific
community. 8 Somehow, scientists sometimes choose to be subjectively
speculative rather than be honestly rational and objective.
As such, in view of what is stated above, one is left wondering as to
how the myths of evolution are considered to be truly scientific. Fallible
unscientific conclusions based upon unprovable assumptions are accepted
as scientific facts with an irrational religious faith by the biased atheistic
scientists and evolutionists. On the other hand, any belief in a Creator God is
totally unacceptable; instead, it is replaced by a blind belief in chance who is
the goddess of evolution. And such a state of mind only confirms the biblical
truth that once God gives one over, man succumbs to subtle deception.
Such deception leaves no room to objectively perceive and accept by faith
revealed truth and unseen reality.

Systems of Reality Perception

There are obviously three basic systems of perception by which we

acquire or obtain the knowledge of reality or truth. One, Rationalism
determines the reality through reasoning; two, Empiricism determines
reality through what we see, touch, taste, hear and smell; three, Faith
determines reality through confidence in the authority and veracity of
someone who has the knowledge of realities, physical or spiritual, that
cannot be simply verified through the use of our five senses (R. B. Thieme).
In principle, accurate scientific knowledge is restricted to that obtainable by
empiricism and rationalism, subject to verification by experimentation.
According to the commonly accepted scientific technical language,
Observability, testability, repeatability, and falsifiability are the hallmarks
of the scientific method. If an idea is not observable, testable, repeatable
and falsifiable, it is not considered scientific. Neither creation nor evolution
is directly observable, testable, repeatable, or falsifiable. Each is based on
certain philosophical assumptions about how the earth began. Naturalistic
evolution assumes that there was no God, and biblical creation assumes that
there was a God who created everything in the universe. The argument is
not over the evidence the evidence is the same it is over the way the
evidence should be interpreted 9.
Next, the weakness of the so-called rational scientific method lies in
its restricting itself to gaining knowledge about the universe by allowing
only naturalistic and materialistic explanations and causes. Science in this
sense automatically rules out God and the possibility that He created the
universe, because supernatural claims, it is asserted, cannot be tested and
repeated. The denial of the supernatural events limits the depth of
understanding that science can have and the types of questions science can
ask. 10 Nevertheless, scientists are quick to entertain the goddess of chance
to whom they blindly attribute supernatural evolutionary powers!
It is altogether impossible for human beings to explain the origin of
life apart from Gods revelation in the Bible. Research on the origin of life
seems to be unique in that the conclusion has already been authoritatively
accepted ..What remains to be done is to find the scenarios which describe
the detailed mechanisms and processes by which this happened.
One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current
wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and
natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has

not yet been written. 11

Anyway, both Biblical Creation Truth and the Theory of Evolution are
built upon faith in presuppositions. These are relied upon to account for the
origin of Matter and Life in all its complex forms wherein everything is
governed by intricate laws. However, faith in ones presuppositions about
realities has to be realistic faith and rational. Only infallible inerrant Biblical
Revelation can provide the basis of proven evidence especially of things or
realities that cannot be seen. Therefore, faith in biblically derived
presuppositions is tangible and realistic and rational. On the other hand,
faith in fallible humanly derived presuppositions or speculations is blind.
Unfortunately, all such blind faith is unrealistic, irrational, religious or
superstitious. This includes the negative faith of the evolutionists, mainly
their philosophical leap of faith that lies at the eve of evolution thinking
such as molecules-to-man macroevolution or soup of hydrogen atoms-tosextillion stellar systems evolution. However, this kind of evolution is
neither observable nor repeatable nor is it falsifiable to be treated as true
science. Actually, to unbiased sound minds, evolutionary theories are only a
hodge-podge of fallible presuppositions and vague speculations which
may, in due course of time, eventually mutate or else, fossilize but never
evolve into true science!
Biblical Revelation, dealing with Creation Truth, on the other hand,
is, undoubtedly, totally RELIABLE, ABSOLUTE and INFALLIBLE. After
all, it proceeds from the Intelligent Mind of the ONE Supreme Omniscient
God who is the perfect source of all true knowledge and wisdom.
Undoubtedly, Biblical Divine Revelation is a direct road or path to
comprehension of realities, seen and unseen. And, it is absolute; but is
closed to a great many people and independent of rational thought. Those
who can make use of it are fortunate. The second path is strictly rational
and scientificbut relative with respect to the recording instrument, man 12
However, scientific man is hopelessly a crude, imperfect recording
instrument. As such, Scientific Knowledge is hopelessly RELATIVE,
FALLIBLE and UNRELIABLE, and it keeps constantly changing.
Technically speaking, All science is based on observation and
experimentation by using our senses. But reality is not always identical with
our perception. Reason and experience must intervene to correct the direct
impression of the senses and to construct in our brains a picture which

corresponds to what we call the external world, the objective world, in

opposition to the subjective idea which is the result of the information given
by the senses. In short, this picture is relative, and not absolute. 13
Scientific Enterprise, however, is not without its practical limits. Its
crude findings and conclusions are not necessarily absolute. As such, To
help us understand that science has practical limits, it is useful to divide
science into two different areas: operational science and historical science
(origins). Operational science deals with testing and verifying ideas in the
present and leads to the production of useful products like computers, cars,
and satellites. Historical science (origins) involves interpreting evidence
from the past and includes the models of evolution and special creation.
Recognizing that everyone has presuppositions that shape the way they
interpret the evidence (rationalism) is an important step in realizing that
historical science is not equal to operational science. 14
As historical sciences, the models or doctrines of Evolution and
Special Creation have to depend upon prior subjective presuppositions to
interpret evidence from the past. Accordingly, Because no one was there to
witness the past (except God), we must interpret it (the evidence) based on a
set of starting assumptions. Creationists and evolutionists have the same
evidence; they just interpret it within a different framework. Evolution
denies the role of God in the universe, and creation accepts His eyewitness
account the Bible as the foundation for arriving at a correct
understanding of the universe. 15
As a matter of fact, All scientists, creationist or evolutionist, have the
same evidence; the difference is the presuppositions that are used to
interpret that evidence. All reasoning is based on presuppositions. Biblical
creationists start with the assumption that the Bible provides an accurate
eyewitness history of the universe as a basis for scientific thought.
Evolutionists begin with the presupposition that only natural laws can be
used to explain the facts. Facts exist in the present, and our interpretations
are an attempt to connect the past to the present. The evolutionists must
assume everything about the past, while biblical creationists have the Bible
as a time machine that can provide valuable insight into the past... 16
_____________________________________________________________
1: The World Book Encyclopedia (International), World Book Inc., USA, Vol. E 6, p.406

2: The World Book Encyclopedia, ibid.

3: The World Book Dictionary, Vol. 1 A-K, World Book, Inc; US; p.737,
4: Finis J. Dake, Dakes Annotated Reference Bible, Dake Publishing, Inc; USA, p. 82
5: Prof. Jerome Lejeune, Evolution Exposed, www.answersingenesis.org.
6: Patterson, R. Natural Selection v/s Evolution, 2007; www.answersingenesis.org
7: ibid.
8: ibid.
9: Roger Patterson, Evolution Exposed: What is Science? www.answersingenesis.org.
10: ibid
11: Yockey, H.P., A calculation of the probability of spontaneous biogenesis by
information theory, Journal of Theoretical Biology 67:377398, 1977; quoted by Roger
Patterson in The Origin of Life, Evolution Exposed, www.answersingenesis.org.
12: Lecomte Du Nouy, Human Destiny, The New American Library of World Literature,
Inc., New York, USA , 1956 reprint, p.15.
13: R. Patterson; What is Science? Evolution Exposed, 2007;www.answersingenesis.org.
14: Ken Ham, Creation: Wheres the proof? www.answersingenesis.org/go/proof
15: ibid
16: Ken Ham, Creation: Wheres the proof? www.answersingenesis.org/go/proof.

Bibles Authority
V/s Mans Fallible Ideas

The fundamental debate is really about

The most trustworthy source of information about history.
Do we start with the Bible,
Which God says is true in every detail, including its history,
Or do we start with the changing theories of imperfect man?
God tells Christians to walk by faith
And that without faith it is impossible to please Him
(Hebrews 11:6).

Bodie Hodge

THE HOLY BIBLE

The Holy Bible, as a Book which is superior to all other books, stands before
the world unique, defying all comparison or competition. It owes nothing to any other,
although every other is indebted to it. The Bible differs from every other book.
1. Every book must have an author, and an author whose moral and intellectual
perceptions are equal to the task. Now we assert, that the book we call the Bible infinitely
transcends the moral and intellectual powers of any man, or any set of men of which
history makes mention; this is not less true even of the men whose names are associated
with its production. Our assertion is that the Bible contains the oracles of God --- that
God is its author --- that its origin can and must be traced to the Almighty mind.
2. Its history already is of itself a science, in which a lifetime would be too short to
become perfect. Some portions of it are older than any known record besides. None of it
belongs to one age alone --- It goes up to the beginning of all things, and gives some
prophetic notices of the end of all things --- whilst every passing age affords some
evidence that it is intimately connected with it. It gives us faithful biographies of such
men as Moses, and David, and Solomon, and Daniel, and Paul, and John, and Jesus. Its
history runs parallel with the history of the most learned, most mighty, and most polished
nations of antiquity; and still holds on its way, and will, till the kingdoms of this world
become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ. Against it earth and hell have been
leagued, and many times has every copy been hunted out to be burned, as though it were
the enemy of God and man. Does it not differ, then, from every other book in its history?
3. Every author has a style peculiarly his own, and oftentimes it is so strongly marked
that many who know the author can easily detect his anonymous productions. So is it
with the Bible. The first thing which strikes us perhaps on minutely examining its style is
its unity. Another thing is its style is its sublime simplicity. The treasures of Heaven, the
secrets of God, the depths of eternity, are made clear to the mind of a little child.
4. A book is worthless or valuable in proportion to the new truths it unfolds, to the light it
throws on old truths, or to the purifying and elevating thought it presents. Now every
page, almost every line, in the Bible, if thus estimated, becomes invaluable. But what are
those revelations which make it differ from all other books? Among many others it
reveals to us God in all His perfections. It reveals to us man as he was, is, and might be.
The disclosures it makes on this subject are such as our consciousness approves.
5. But what book has exerted a tithe of the influence that the Bible has over individuals,
and families, and societies, and institutions, and governments, and nations? It has gone
hand in hand with civilization, science, law, and has been the precursor of all that could
elevate the physical, intellectual, and moral conditions of a people. Happy is the man who
experimentally understands its influence!
Joseph S. Exell, The Bible Illustrator, Vol.1, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, USA, p.
XXIII

Bibles Authority
V/s Mans Fallible Ideas

Objectively and rationally speaking, as has been convincingly stated

earlier, The fundamental debate is really about the most trustworthy source
of information about history. Do we start with the Bible, which God says is
true in every detail, including its history, or do we start with the changing
theories of imperfect man? God tells Christians to walk by faith and that
without faith it is impossible to please Him (Hebrews 11:6). 1
The Self-existent Ever-Living God is the Source of everything. He is
the Creator of all forms of life. These life forms include the microscopic
viruses, bacteria and unicellular simple life forms as well as the multi-varied
diverse and complex forms or species of flora and fauna. Accordingly, The
only true account of the origin of life on earth is found in the account of the
only Eyewitness who was there. The Bible explains that the presence of life
on earth is the result of supernatural actions of an omnipotent Intelligent
Designerthe God of the Bible. Many complain that accepting this
supernatural explanation stops anyone from pursuing knowledge about the
natural world, but the presence of a logical Creator provides a reason to
look for order in the universe. This point is underscored by the fact that
many of the major fields of science were founded by men who believed in the
Creator God of the Bible. The only aspect of science that the acceptance of
creation excludes is the story of evolution. 2
.

However, as stated by Ulric Jelineck, Under Divine Guidance, men

did not attempt to interpret what they were told to write. 3 the Divine
Guidance lay in the fact that none of the writers of the Scripture tried to
interpret what they wrote in the light of the science of the day, because had
they done so this book would be full of errors as are many books of today.
Now this book is not a scientific text book. If it were written as a scientific
textbook it would have needed to be written in the terms of final science.
nor are we living in the time of final science; as a matter of fact we are just
beginning to scratch the surface of things scientific. 4 And the scientific
knowledge man has gained is nothing in comparison to what God knows!
The God of the Bible declares that He created by fiat all the material

and spiritual creations, the animate and inanimate things and that He is the
First and the Last Cause of everything that exists; not only that, He further
states that He is going to destroy the heavens and earth (Genesis 1:3-31)
that are now (2 Peter 3:13) and create new heavens and earth (2 Peter
3:22) and all things new instantly by fiat. Of course, atheistic scientists
cannot accept nor feel comfortable with any biblical truth! They simply
cannot, given their strong unholy bias.
On the other hand, theistic evolutionists entertain their own ideas
about God whom they profess to know as a Creator God who creates by
fiat. At the same time they assume He is a Creator of Evolution.
Indoctrinated with the myths of evolution, they assume that God has brought
everything into existence by creating and setting in motion an evolutionary
process that worked all the wonders in the course of billions of years. With a
worshipful attitude, perhaps, they then gasp and adoringly whisper How
Great Thou Art?!
The Bible states and proves that GOD IS and that HE is the CREATOR of
Matter and Life. HE is the SUPREME INTELLIGENT DESIGNER and the FIRST
CAUSE of everything that has been in existence and now exists, both seen and
unseen realities. However, The agnostic and the atheist do not seem to be
in the least disturbed by the fact that our entire organized, living universe
becomes incomprehensible without the hypothesis of God. Their belief in
some physical elements, of which they know very little, has all the earmarks
of an irrational faith, but they are not aware of it. 5 Anyway, the arrogant
human tendency is always to blatantly ignore the hypotheses rather the
reality of God! So, the true Living God is never real to them. And so, they
are given over to hold on to vague speculations with irrational faith.
But, Many men who are intelligent and of good faith imagine they
cannot believe in God because they are unable to conceive Him. However,
An honest man, endowed with scientific curiosity, should not need to
visualize God, any more than a physicist needs to visualize the electron. Any
attempt at representation is necessarily crude and false, in both cases. The
electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is more perfectly known
through its effects than a simple piece of wood. If we could really conceive
God we could no longer believe in Him because our representation, being
human, would inspire us with doubts. It is not the image we create of God
which proves God. It is the effort we make to create this image. 6
Some astute atheistic Scientists and Evolutionists know they cannot

deny the FIRST CAUSE without making them-selves look foolish, ignorant and
highly biased. As such, these Evolutionists do not deny the FIRST CAUSE.
Most embarrassingly, therefore, Their theory begins with matter or
substance already in existence. They believe in primitive nebulosity and
powers possessed by molecules. They do not try to account for how these
came to exist, how molecules got their inherent powers, or how there came
to be definite laws governing them so that they could produce, without
failure, all things as we now have them.
Their theory does not show why there is such bitter hatred against
the God of the Bible as being that first cause. It does not consider proved
facts, but has absolute faith in a mere supposition which no fact has ever
been produced to prove. Its teachers seemingly deny God, the Bible, and
known facts and continue to rob multiplied thousands of children of simple
faith in God and the Bible without a sting of conscience.
They do multiplied drawings of different kinds of human beings
rising from a molecule through a monkey to the present man, and add guess
upon guess of how life was in each stage of evolution, but refuse to accept
the Bible truth of the origin of all things. They glibly deny God and His work
in creation and at the same time pose as having the only truth on the
subject.7 Strong words of rebuke, indeed!
Once the atheistic theories of evolution take hold of any man, there is
no room left for any biblical truth. Evolutionary thinking then reduces the
biblical doctrine relating to the fall of man to a mere myth. Mans sinful
nature is then treated as a mere animalistic extinct from which he is required
to further evolve by obtaining freedom from the same through the processes
of civilization and moral development. As such, there is no sin and hence,
there is no need for mans redemption from sin through the atoning sacrifice
of Christ. Next, there is no resurrection, no life after death, no accountability
to God, no judgment, no heaven and no hell-fire. Thus all the Biblical
Doctrines are reduced to mere myths and, instead, the myths of evolution are
blindly accepted as scientific truth.
Nevertheless, puny man will have to bow down to biblical authority
over him or her, sooner or later; or else perish in the lake of fire. That is how
the Bible describes the fate of those who despise the Word of God and its
Rule in ones life and conduct; a fearful outcome to those who ignore God.
_____________________________________________________________

1: Bodie Hodge.
2: Roger Patterson, The Origin of Life, ibid.
3: Ulric.Jelinek, op. cit. p.6.
4: ibid. p. 5.
5: Lecomte Du Nouy, Human Destiny, The New American Library of World Literature,
Inc., New York, USA , 1956 reprint, p.15.
6: Ibid, p. 99
7: Finis Jennings Dake, op. cit. p.80.

Is It Science V/S Faith?

Or
Is It the Bible and True Science?

Since there is no real scientific evidence

That evolution is occurring at present
Or ever occurred in the past,
It is reasonable to conclude that
Evolution is not a fact of science,
As many claim.
In fact, it is not even science at all,
But an arbitrary system
Built upon faith in universal naturalism.

Roger Patterson
**************************
If science depends on
Naturalistic explanations,
It must accept that our thoughts are
Simply the products of chemical reactions
That evolved from random chance.
How can you ultimately rely on randomness
To evolve the correct way of thinking?
If there is no God,
Ultimately, philosophically,
How can one talk about reality?
How can one even rationally believe
That there is such a thing as truth,
Let alone decides what it is?

Ken Ham

Is It Science versus Faith?

Or Is It The Bible and True Science?
Genuine living faith in God as the Creator of matter and life is not
only realistic but is relevant, very essential, and mandatory. This faith is
spiritually fruitful as the same is built upon reliable biblical revelation. As
such, it is not like the blind irrational faith of those who accept the
unscientific speculations of baseless evolutionary theories about the origins
of matter and life. Anyway, to be objective, One must conclude that,
contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the
genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted
on the basis of fact and not faith has not yet been written. 1
Zealous Bible-believing theistic evolutionists state that God delights
in concealing things; scientists delight in discovering things (Proverbs
25:2, Message Bible). Accordingly, they assuredly believe that It must be
exciting to be a scientist today. It must be even more exciting to be a
scientist, who believes in God, able to examine the natural world through
the eyes that recognize the work of the great Master Architect. 2 The
problem arises when Believers see Science as a threat and Scientists as
enemies of Faith.3 And the problem is further aggravated when theistic
evolutionists add unhealthy confusion even to biblically orientated and
spiritually well-ordered minds by failing to interpret both the Holy Bible
and the Book of Science and Natural Revelation the way God wrote them.
Actually, there is no tangible conflict between Good Science and
Biblical Faith; rather, it is a conflict between God and the Old Serpent of
Evolution falsely interpreting, if not questioning, Gods Creation accounts in
the Bible. In the process, the Man, rather the Innocent Christian, becomes
the arena of that conflict. He has to choose either to accept the Biblical
Creation account literally by faith or else, allow himself to be carried away
by the intellectually appealing but biblically and empirically or factually
unfounded scientific speculations the Serpent of Evolution has to dangle.
Scientist Urlick Jelinek eloquently states: Since God wrote the Bible
and God wrote the Book of Science there can be no disagreement between
them. And if there is any disagreement in our minds between them you will
find that it is because there is something wrong with either the observation
of the facts or the interpretation of that observation. 4

Instead of studying the Bible to find out what God has to say about
His creation and evaluate the questionable scientific findings accordingly,
theistic evolutionists interpret the dubious research findings in relation to
erroneous biblical views such as the Traditional Six-day Creationism. Or
else, they blindly accept the vague findings as absolute truth. In the process,
they make themselves look foolish and ignorant. Certainly they are not
aware of the fact that there are two biblical accounts in Genesis 1. One, of an
instant original creation of Genesis 1:1 and the other of the true Biblical
Six-day Creationism based upon a literal interpretation of Genesis 1: 3-31.
Nevertheless, our Realistic scientists know that they might never
uncover all the mysteries of creation. And though they may never fully
resolve {all} questions in this life, {still they believe} it is a legitimate and
exciting quest, and we are discovering wonderful things along the way. 5
However, in the meantime, it will be a wise thing to be careful not to
smuggle into Scripture concepts that are not there the Divine Guidance
lay in the fact that none of the writers of the Scripture tried to interpret what
they wrote in the light of the science of the day, because had they done so
this book would be full of errors as are many books of today. Now this book
is not a scientific text book. If it were written as a scientific textbook it would
have needed to be written in the terms of final science. nor are we living
in the time of final science; as a matter of fact we are just beginning to
scratch the surface of things scientific. 6
Whether they openly agree with it or not, theistic evolutionists are
guilty of smuggling into Scripture concepts that are not there. Instead of
allowing the Scriptures to confirm and clarify the so-called tested and wellestablished genuine scientific findings, they are smuggling into Scripture
unbiblical evolutionary concepts or the baseless scientific speculations. Or
else, they indulge in biased biblical interpretations and falsely presume that
Genesis 1 is about the Who of creation, not the How of creation.
Accordingly, they tell us that Genesis 1 creation account need not be taken
literally but be treated as a genre of the creation epic adopted by Moses.
Certainly, the Bible is not technically a scientific textbook written in
terms of final science. Yet, the Bible in its very first book titled Genesis
deals with subjects of permanent scientific value, fundamentally, but not
finally. Genesis, as such, is preeminently scientific bedrock upon which all
true knowledge (all Sciences) should find a permanent foundational base.

As has been appropriately observed by George C. Morgan, the Book

of Genesis actually contains the foundation truths of theology, cosmogony,
anthropology, sociology, hamartiology, ethnology, and soteriology. None of
these subjects are dealt with finally, but all are presented fundamentally.
Genesis supplies men with the rudiments of the science of God. It offers a
theory of the origin of the universe. It says the first thing concerning the
science of man. It lays the foundations of the science of society. It reveals the
simplest matters of the science of sin. It introduces the study of the science
of races. Finally, it presents the initial truths concerning the science of
salvation. The essential value of the book is the fundamental character of its
teaching on all these matters. Its declarations meet us at the point where
knowledge, proceeding along the line of investigation, fails; and present
truths undiscovered by investigation. 7
Biblical Revelation as well as Natural-General Revelation, when left
untainted by human misinterpretation of both biblical and scientific facts, go
hand in hand. These two domains cannot be at war with each other if both
the biblical facts and scientific discoveries are interpreted without any
prejudice or bias. Bible and true Science can be the proper and the real
sources of true knowledge in our pursuit of the ultimate answers of life.
Biblical Faith and true Science based upon Natural Revelation cannot be at
odds or in a flat disagreement with each other. These two sources of
knowledge cannot act as enemies at logger-heads or be engaged in a war of
words. Rather, as succinctly pointed out by the physicist and theologian
John Polkinghorne, Science and Religion ... are friends, not foes, in the
common quest for knowledge. All who seek true and profitable knowledge
should keep this fact in mind in their common quest for knowledge.
______________________________________________________________________
1:Yockey, H. P., A Calculation of the Probability of the Spontaneous Biogenesis by
Information Theory, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 67:377-398, 1997.
2: John Halford, Editorial, Christian Odyssey, op. cit. p. 4.

3: ibid, p. 4.

4: Jelinek, Urlic, Science and the Bible, Kingston Bible Trust, England, p. 4.
5: Creation and Evolution? op. cit. p. 8.

6: Ulric Jelinek, op. cit. p. 5.

7: George Campbell Morgan, Handbook for Bible Teachers and Preachers: Applications
to Life from Every Book of the Bible, Baker Book House, USA, 1982, p. 1

God has created and made everything beautiful in its time.

Also He has put eternity in their hearts,
Except that no one can find out the work
That God does from beginning to end.
(Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Bible & True Science

V/s Atheistic Evolution
Debunking the Atheistic Pagan Myth of Evolution
************************
God has created and made everything beautiful in its time.
Also He has put eternity in their hearts,
Except that no one can find out the work
That God does from beginning to end.
(Ecclesiastes 3:11)
*******

Science cannot answer the questions relating to the Genesis of

Matter and Life; or, prove that there has been ever any evolution of life from
inert matter; or, that animate primordial life forms actually evolved from
inanimate matter. Only Philosophy based on Natural Revelation and beyond
that Theology based on Biblical Revelation can arrive at an answer to any
question of Origin of Matter and Life that is intellectually and scientifically
satisfactory.
Philosophically speaking, Effect cannot be greater than the
Cause. Now, that rules out the possibility of any blind chance (a lesser
cause) giving rise to matter (a greater effect), and inanimate matter (a
lesser cause) giving rise to animate life forms (a greater effect).Therefore,
theologically speaking, GOD, as the Prime Mover and Uncaused Cause, is
the Creator of Matter and Life including Human Life as well as the Unseen
or Invisible Spirit-life.
~~~ Fr. Carmo Martins, Personal Notes, paraphrased.

The agnostic and the atheist

Do not seem to be in the least disturbed
By the fact that our entire organized,
Living universe becomes incomprehensible
Without the hypothesis of God.
Their belief in some physical elements,
Of which they know very little,
Has all the earmarks of an irrational faith,
But they are not aware of it.
Some of them have remained slaves to a nave verbalism

Lecomte Du Nouy

Bible & True Science

V/s Atheistic Evolution
The Answer to the Question of Origin of Matter and Life is actually
outside the realm of scientific enterprise or any other human investigating
enterprise. No man can really ever find out (cf. Ecclesiastes 3:11) the real
answers to the knotty questions relating to the origin of matter and life; nor
explain the purpose for the existence of matter and life; nor provide any
meaning to human life. At the most, men may philosophize; or, they may
confidently lean upon biblical revelation. The pertinent questions relating to
the origins are purely philosophical and theological issues and are, therefore,
not within the realm of the empirical scientific enterprise.
Scientifically unfounded Theory of Evolution is not a true science. It
is not even a philosophy but an illogical nonsense. The so-called theories of
Evolution hailed as scientific realities and taught in almost all the fields of
higher education have fancily occurred and still occur in the minds of the
atheistic- materialistic scientists and evolutionists. These theories are then
blindly accepted by the educated elite without questioning because there is
no room for questioning. Thus saith the Atheistic Scientist and that
settles it, once for allto question is to invite antagonism; or else, sound
foolish and ignorant or downright stupid!
Evolutionism is more of a religion that includes atheistic theories of
inorganic-cosmic evolution and organic-biological evolution. These theories
encapsulate a family of fallible ideas and myths to account for the origins
of matter and life in a crude attempt to do away with a living Creator God.
Subsequently, evolution of complex life forms over the course of billions of
years culminating in the Descent of Man from a Common Ancestor is
firmly but blindly believed without any sting of conscience!
Frankly speaking, most People believe the ideas of the evolutionary
development of life on earth for many reasons: it is all that they have been
taught and exposed to, they believe the evidence supports evolution, they do
not want to be lumped with people who do not believe in evolution and are
often considered to be less intelligent or backward, evolution has the
stamp of approval from real scientists, and evolutionary history allows

people to reject the idea of God and legitimize their own immorality. 1
Next, Evaluating the presuppositions behind belief in evolution
makes for a much more productive discussion. Two intelligent people can
arrive at different conclusions using the same evidence; so their starting
assumptions are the most important issue in discussing historical science. 2
However, the vague unfounded Theories of Evolution have been
constantly mutating and evolving into new revised forms and will
continue to further evolve into yet newer and newest modified versions. At
the moment, Classical Darwinism has been replaced by an enlarged theory
of natural selection which (purportedly) does greater justice to the facts of
the living world. With the rise of twentieth-century biochemistry an
evolutionary approach to the subject of the origin of life (purportedly)
became possible. A most influential hypothesis was stated by A. I. Oparin
(1924), and by Haldane (1929). According to a recent modified version of
this hypothesis, life originated by a process of chemical evolution on the
earth, before there was free oxygen in its atmosphere. Through the action of
ultraviolet light, inorganic material gave rise to organic molecules, which in
turn evolved into complex polymers having a primitive capacity to
reproduce. From these diffused polymers, specific closed organisms
developed, culminating in the nucleated cell. At this stage, chemical
evolution was succeeded by organic evolution. 3 Both the historical and the
modern modified versions certainly sound like fancy fiction-stories!
Naturalism and Materialism are based on beliefs that scientific
laws are adequate to account for all phenomena (naturalism) and physical
matter is the only fundamental reality and that all organisms, processes, and
phenomena can be explained as manifestations of matter (materialism). As
such, those indoctrinated with naturalism and materialism cannot entertain
anything supernatural or miraculous, including supernatural biblical truth.
Rather, as has been accurately and succinctly pointed out by S.
Hawking and L. Mlodinow, ones concept of reality can depend on the
mind of the perceiver. That viewpoint, with various subtle differences, goes
by names such as antirealism, instrumentalism or idealism. According to
those doctrines, the world we know is constructed by the human mind
employing sensory data as its raw material and is shaped by the interpretive
structure of our brains. This viewpoint may be hard to accept, but it is not
difficult to understand. There is no way to remove the observer us from
our perception of the world. 4

As measuring devices, however, we are crude instruments 5 No

wonder, fallible scientific theories keep on changing! On the other hand, the
Word of God is permanently unchanging, infallible and inerrant, absolutely
trustworthy and foundational to all true knowledge.
As appropriately and wisely commented by Lecomte Du Nouy,
Science struggles constantly against the imperfections of our sensorial
system, the rhythms of which are not always in unison with outside
phenomena. 6 Given such a drawback he advises: Let us try not to
transpose facts belonging to one scale of observation in our own universe
onto another, and, above all, let us beware of casting human judgments on
events which transcend our experience. 7 (Underline / italics, mine)!
Whether scientists freely admit it or not, the vague fancy Theory of
Evolution is still a theory; it is what fallible scientists think or speculate
whilst claiming they are searching for truth about the origins of matter and
life based on what they observe in nature. Unfortunately, it is an eternally
incomplete search for truth. And, it will remain an eternal search, because
the study of the origins of matter and life includes truth that cannot be
purely ascertained by the use of the five senses. Nor it can be ascertained
by mere rationalism as is the case in all empirical sciences. Anyway,
evolution cannot be truly scientific as it cannot be observed experimentally
or repeated to prove the validity of its conclusions.
Any unbiased scientist, who is objectively rational, will do well to
accept without prejudice that The evolution of living beings, as a whole, is
in absolute contradiction to the science of inert matter. It is in disagreement
with the second law of thermodynamics, the keystone of our science, based
on the laws of chance. To account what has taken place since the
appearance of life, we are obliged to call in an anti-chance which orients
this immense series of phenomena in a progressive , highly improbable
direction (incompatible with chance), resulting in the human brain. 8
Accordingly, Lecomte Du Nouy doesnt fail to confront fellow but
erring scientists by stating as follows: Should we keep our blind confidence
in human reason and intelligence, we will attribute these contradictions to
our momentary ignorance and will say: In a near or distant future, new facts
or new interpretations will enable us to shed light on these obscurities, due
to our imperfect knowledge of reality. But in so doing, we cease to think
rationally, scientifically.

We simply express a hope based on a sentimental trust in science.

What is more, we completely lose sight of the fact that when these
contradictions, as in our example, are not with details, but with a set of
fundamental concepts, which constitute the foundations of our science, we
have actually shaken the whole scientific edifice in the name of which we
have condemned (Biblical) Faith, and have been driven, by an irrational
faith in an unaccountable abstractive intelligence, to demonstrate its
failure. 9
Obviously, the imaginary evolution of man from some common
ancestor is scientifically untenable. For, Just as there seems to be an
impassable gap between the irreversible evolution of electrons and that of
atoms (built up of electrons); between the irreversible evolution of atoms
and that of life (built up of atoms); so also there seems to be an
intellectually impassable gap between the evolution of life and that of
man as such. 10
Atheistic scientists are prone to foolishly think that the universe has
evolved from some primitive material atoms, call it soup of hydrogen
atoms. But, from what did the original hydrogen atoms evolve?
Analytically speaking, Material atoms are made up of sub-atomic
particles: protons, electrons and neutrons. But between the realm of the
atoms and that of electrons there is today an impassable chasm; the laws
which explain the motion and behavior of the electrons are not the same as
those which govern the atoms.11 Obviously, right at the beginning, there is
a break in the continuity of the history of the evolution of the universe, or
rather in mans interpretation of this history. 12
Next, some biased scientists blindly assume that life came into
existence from lifeless inert matter some billions of years ago by
spontaneous generation (abiogenesis). Others assume and theorize inorganic
matter gave rise to organic matter under the action of ultraviolet rays,
eventually evolving into a nucleated cell. But they cannot account for the
origin of primitive matter they begin with whilst theorizing. Instead, they
fall back on chance; but then, the laws of chance cannot account for the
origin of any primitive life.
On the whole, realistically speaking, It is impossible to lay down the
basis for a calculation which would enable one to establish the probability
of the spontaneous appearance of life on earth 13 by chance. Still, wonder

and worship the goddess of chance and gasp, How Great Thou Art?
Moreover, in accordance with the known laws of chance, The
probability for a single protein molecule of high dissymmetry to be formed
by the action of chance and normal thermal agitations remains practically
nil. Accordingly, An explanation of the evolution of life by chance alone is
untenable today. It does not permit the incorporation of man and of his
psychological activities into the general pattern of things. 14 Unfortunately,
this is rather pretty difficult for biased minds to digest and honestly accept
and thereby uphold ones scientific integrity!
If it be scientifically and logically impossible for even a simple
protein molecule to evolve by chance, how can one account for any
evolution of complex phenomena of Life and that of Man by mere chance?
Does it mean that Mother Nature chose to cheat or violate the laws of
chance to make evolution from simple to complex forms somehow still
possible, when logically arguing it could never be by chance, lawfully? As
otherwise, It is totally impossible to account scientifically for all the
phenomena pertaining to Life and its development and its so-called
progressive evolution, and that, unless the foundations of modern science
are overthrown, they are unexplainable. 15
Nevertheless, in their misguided zeal to deny God, Evolutionists
seem pathetically eager to find some way of accounting for the universe and
its life forms without resorting to God and creation. But they must inevitably
fail, and some at least sense they will fail. In our attempts to understand the
nature of the universe, theorists must often admit to reaching a possible
dead end a question we may never satisfactorily answer; James M. Cline,
The Origin of Matter, American Scientist. Vol.92, March-April 2004; p.
156. It is obvious that Genesis 1 is a satisfactory answer, but our atheistic
physicists and astronomers keep trying since they feel they must find an
answer that does not involve God. 16
The so-called evidence for evolution is absolutely irrelevant to
logically account for the origin of matter and life. Nor is it substantially
valid and credible to scientifically explain the origins or the basal first cause
- which is the root and the trunk necessary to nourish and support the Tree of
Evolution. Next, Louis Pasteur has disproved the theory of spontaneous
generation. Yet, scientists have not given up that theory. They still maintain
that life gradually came into existence from lifeless inert matter. But they
cannot explain precisely how; instead, they keep on guessing, thereby only

displaying their unholy biased ignorance.

It has been stipulated that everything observable and subject to
scientific experimentation and scrutiny deals with the five known existing
categories: time, force, action, space and matter. Scientists cannot account
for the origin of these basic five scientific categories and the Laws of Nature
that govern their relationships as arising out of nothing by mere blind
chance. The actual origin of these five prominent categories can only be
accounted for by the biblical witness of Genesis1:1 wherein Time (In the
Beginning), Force (God), Action, (created), Space (heavens) and Matter
(and the earth) rightly fit in.
Atheistic Scientists are frenetically working overtime to explore the
origin of matter and life so as to account for the existence of life and matter
without the need of a Creator God! And, even if scientists do somehow
succeed in creating life in the laboratory, it will only prove that it requires an
intelligent mind to create it and that nothing can come from nothing by
chance. As such, to be scientifically precise, nothing has ever evolved or
can ever evolve of its own out of nothing by chance. True science rejects the
theory of evolution rooted in the assumption that Nothing working on
nothing by nothing, through nothing, for nothing begat everything 17
including the super-intelligence of the atheistic scientists.
Next, the theory of biological evolution contradicts known laws of
nature. It is a law of nature that nothing reproduces anything greater than
itself. There can be no evolution without the power of reproduction in living
things. Since reproduction is a prior condition to evolution, it cannot be a
product of it. Hence we face the logical necessity for the creation of life and
its power of continued reproduction. 18 Unfortunately, biased evolutionists
are not willing to weigh the facts that are in favor of creation and change. In
a way, they somehow prove that God has given them over to hold on to the
blatant evolutionary lies. Accordingly, they further indulge in the so-called
scientific but vague irrelevant speculations which make sense only to those
who have no fear of God.
Life comes only from the pre-existing life and non-living matter can
never give birth to life. If we do not allow our prejudice to blind us, we will
conclude The laws of chance, in their actual state, cannot account for the
birth of life. It is scientifically impossible to explain the birth of life by
resorting to the operation of the laws of chance. Instead, we should be quick
to honestly admit that the laws of chance actually forbid any evolution

other than that which leads to less and less dissymmetrical states. 19
Such a relevant conclusion necessarily goes against the theory of
evolution. For, according to evolutionary thinking The history of the
evolution of life reveals a systematic increase in dissymmetries, both
structural and functional.
Therefore, such a formidable contradiction stands today as an
insurmountable obstacle in the path of materialism 20 or evolutionism, or
naturalism, or religious fanatical atheism and communism.
The intelligent unbiased minds have no other option but to believe in
the Self-existent Creator God of the Bible as the uncaused First Cause of
everything that exists. Accordingly, it is rationally sound and scientific to
believe that In the Beginning, God created the Heavens and Earth. God is
the Uncreated Source that has brought the Heavens and Earth into existence
not during the six days of the creation week, 6000 or 10,000 years back, but
by fiat in the dateless pre-historical past. The work of the six days, the truth
of which is challenged by the evolutionists in vain and because of which
challenge theistic evolutionists have bowed down to them by compromising
with the biblical truth of Genesis 1 and 2 is a much later work of renewal
and restoration through re-creation.
Atheistic Scientists and Evolutionists unduly feel threatened by the
Biblical account of Creation because as absolute revealed truth along with
Natural Revelation it strikes at the root of the Tree of Evolution. And once
you strike and chop off the root and the trunk at its very base the whole tree
falls flat. If evolution ever worked, then scientists should be able to prove
how the first forms of matter and life came into existence out of nothing.
Apart from it, evolution is nothing but downright myth!
Anyway, those who blindly believe the vague Theories of Evolution
know that there is no substance even in the theories that presume to explain
the origin of even simplest forms of life. Admittedly, there is not a
single fact or a single hypothesis, today, which gives an explanation of the
birth of life or of natural evolution. Willy-nilly we are, therefore, obliged
either to admit the idea of transcendent intervention, which the scientist may
well call God as anti-chance, or to simply recognize that we know nothing of
these questions outside of a small number of mechanisms. This is not an act
of faith but an undisputed scientific statement. It is not we, but the convinced

materialist who shows a powerful, even though negative, faith, when he

obstinately continues to believe, without any proof, that the beginning of life,
evolution, mans brain, and the birth of moral ideas will some day be
scientifically accounted for. He forgets that this would necessitate the
complete transformation of modern science, and that, consequently, his
conviction is based on purely sentimental reasons. 21
Moreover, as is very well known to educated atheists, The ideas of
natural selection, speciation, adaptation, and evolution are often used
interchangeably by secular scientists. This they formidably do so, so as to
unjustly suppress Biblical Truth as well as Natural Revelation. And, instead
of honestly acknowledging the truths of which they are fully aware they not
only stubbornly hold on to evolutionary lies but unjustly further propagate
these lies in the Name of Science clothing themselves with a scientific garb.
But When scientists and authors use evolution to mean both change
in features over time and the history of life on earth, it is difficult to
know which definition is being used in each instance. This is often used as a
bait-and-switch technique (equivocation). When small changes that arise as
a result of the loss of information are used as evidence for molecules-to-man
evolution, the switch has occurred. 22 Anyway, the foes of biblical faith are
in no way without any excuse!
Upholding the well-established structural design in creation, Biblical
creationists consider major structures to be part of the original design
provided by God. Modifications to those structures, adaptations, occur due
to genetic recombination, random mutations, and natural selection. These
structures do not arise from the modification of similar structures of another
kind of animal. The beak of the woodpecker, for example, did not arise from
the beak of a theropod dinosaur ancestor; it was an originally designed
structure. The difference in beak shapes among woodpeckers fits with the
idea of natural selection leading to changes within a population of
woodpeckerswithin the created kind. 23
Furthermore, The rationalist, who in the last forty years has had
reason to doubt the all-mightiness of reason, accepts without tremor the
overthrow of physical theories considered unshakable in his youth. He
admits the inconceivable space in which the electrons move. He admits that
the electron is a wave of probability. He admits the existence of particles
such as the Neutrino, and the Anti-neutrino which were invented for

reasons of pure mathematical symmetry. He admits, without resistance, the

existence, the reality of these paradoxical entities which he is forbidden to
visualize---; 24 yet he obstinately refuses to admit the possibility of a
supernatural, creative power without which the greatest scientific problems
are incomprehensible, simply because the models furnished by his sensorial
experience do not enable him to conceive or visualize it even though he is
quite aware of their limits.
He knows and does not even discuss the fact that the image he has
built up of the universe rests on reactions determined in him by a minute
fraction (less than 1 per thousand billions, or 0.000,000,000,001 per cent)
of the vibrations surrounding him and which go through him without leaving
a trace in his consciousness. There is nothing more irrational than a man
who is rationally irrational. 24 Unashamedly, the atheistic highly biased
cocked rationalists and evolutionists along with the atheistic scientists take
pride in being wholly rationally irrational.
The fact that the CREATOR GOD of the Bible exists and that He is the
FIRST CAUSE of everything that exists is a basic spiritual reality. But then,
just as in the case of unseen but known physical paradoxical entities one is
forbidden to visualize so also we are expressly forbidden to visualize
known and unknown spiritual realities.
Nevertheless, whether or not you think God exists is not a concern at
the moment. What should concern you is maintaining logical and clear
thought. If you say There is No God you are being arbitrary and foolish
(Psalms 14:1; 53:1-2). 25 A logical statement might be, On the basis of
rationalism and empiricism, God does not exist. But if you dogmatically say
I do not believe God exists you demonstrate inconsistent thinking. If you
truly do not think God exists, at least express the concept by making a
statement that shows you are a logical thinker 26 Notwithstanding biased
speculations, scientific discovery, at the most, has only disproved wrong
traditional beliefs claimed to have been derived from the Bible.
The Bibles view is that God is the unchallengeable Almighty Creator
of the universe and all that is in it. And that next our vast incomprehensible
universe is maintained by His almighty power with an utmost scientific
precision that defies the imagination of our crude scientists. This is no
happenstance. The regularity of nature is the constancy of God who sustains
the physical, moral and spiritual order. Nature or Science is a tribute to the

Majesty, to the wisdom and to the Benevolence of God. 27

Next, the Almighty Creator God of the universe reveals Himself to us
in the Bible in a well organized logical sense because God is totally
organized 28. God not only makes organized sense, but His organized
sense is presented in the Bible in the form of a plan we can understand. God
not only has a plan but His plan is perfect and His plan includes you. You
are the object of Gods plan. If you can say: I am a person, I am a human
being, I belong to the human race, then you can say God has a personal
plan for me. That is why you are here on this earth. 29
But if you deny the reality that you are a human being and instead
claim, without any proof, that you or your ancestors have evolved from some
common anthropoid monkey, then you have no other option but to live as a
monkey, or else mutate into a donkey. Now, you will quickly admit, if you
are a logical thinker, of course, by chance that is not at all possible for a
monkey to mutate into a donkey. But the very fact that you can think
logically and critically and, therefore, not dumb, should prove to you that
you have not descended from monkeys but that you are a PERSON created in
the Image and Likeness of God.
Nevertheless, contrary to facts that can be relied upon to ascertain
spiritual realities, The agnostic and the atheist do not seem to be in the
least disturbed by the fact that our entire organized, living universe becomes
incomprehensible without the hypothesis of God. Their belief in some
physical elements of which they know very little, has all the earmarks of an
irrational faith, but they are not aware of it. Some of them have remained
slaves to a nave verbalism. 30
And, slaves they are! And, as long as scientists choose to remain
enslaved to nave verbalism they can as well be labeled as pseudo-scientists
who are clever at concealing their ignorance. If we are rational and objective
then we will openly confess that The Omnipotence of God does not enter
into the restricted pattern of our actual scientific thought. It is no more
shameful to confess it than to confess our incapacity to conceive the electron
which we have domesticated. 31
Precisely, What is science? It is the method by which man tries to
conceal his ignorance. It should not be so, but so it is. You are not to be
dogmatical in theology, my brethren, it is wicked; but for scientific men it is

the correct thing. You are never to assert anything very strongly; but
scientists may boldly assert what they cannot prove, and may demand a
faith far more credulous than any we possess. Forsooth, you and I are to
take our Bibles and shape and mould our belief according to the evershifting teachings of so-called scientific men. What folly is this! Why, the
march of science, falsely so called, through the world may be traced by
exploded fallacies and abandoned theories. Former explorers once adored
are now ridiculed; the continual wrecking of false hypotheses is a matter of
universal notoriety. You may tell where the learned have encamped by the
debris left behind of suppositions and theories as broken bottles. 32
Somehow, it is very encouraging to know that there are scientists who
understand biblical creation truth and are, therefore, convinced creationists.
And, Clearly, creationists can indeed be real scientists. And this shouldnt
be surprising since the very basis for scientific research is biblical creation.
The universe is orderly because its Creator is logical and has imposed order
on the universe. God created our minds and gave us the ability and curiosity
to study the universe. Furthermore, we can trust that the universe will obey
the same physics tomorrow as it does today because God is consistent. This
is why science is possible. On the other hand, if the universe is just an
accidental product of a big bang, why should it be orderly? Why should
there be laws of nature if there is no lawgiver? If our brains are the byproducts of random chance, why should we trust that their conclusions are
accurate? But if our minds have been designed, and if the universe has been
constructed by the Lord, then of course we should be able to study nature.
Yes, science is possible because the Bible is true. 33
The Living Creator God is very much actively involved in the human
affairs! Like it or not! And, It is because God created a logical, orderly
universe and gave us the ability to reason and to be creative that technology
is possible. 34 As such, to come to a logical conclusion: Here is the point:
If there is a God, if He has revealed Himself, if He makes sense, if He has a
perfect plan, and if He has perfect plan for every human being, including
you, then YOU owe GOD a hearing. 35
Therefore, listen to the Living God Who speaks to you in the First
Person, saying: The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool
for ALL those THINGS hath Mine Hand hath made, and all those things have
been, thus saith the LORD, (regardless of your latest theory of evolution or
the particular phase of evolution); but to this man will I look, even to him

that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and TREMBLES at MY WORD (Isaiah 66:12).
And, to those who really tremble at Gods Word and humbly obey
Him, they are promised an eternal inheritance in His Kingdom and further,
ruler-ship under the Risen Christ in the new eternal heavens and earth!
Well, the universe has not existed from eternity past, but it will exist
eternally in the future. There was a beginning, but there will be no end. . .
The new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before
me, saith the Lord (Isaiah 66:22) Peter says that we can then "look for
new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelled righteousness" (II Peter
3:13). 36
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1: Roger Patterson: Natural Selection vs. Evolution March 8, 2007, www.answersingene
sis.org.
2: Roger Patterson, ibid.
3: J. D. Bernal, The Origin of Life, New York, 1967.
4: Hawking, S. & Mlodinow, L., The (Elusive) Theory of Everything, Scientific American
India, October 2010, p.50.
5: Lecomte Du Nouy, op. cit. p. 140-141, 145.
6: ibid
7: ibid
8: Lecomte Du Nouy, op. cit. p.76.
9: ibid
10: ibid
11: Lecomte Du Nouy, op. cit. p.
12: ibid
13: Lecomte Du Nouy, op. cit. p.19; 41.
14: Lecomte Du Nouy, op. cit. p.19.

15: ibid
16: Henry Morris, PhD, The Eternal Future of Time, Space, and Matter; www.icr.org.
17: Finis Jennings Dake, op. cit. 83.
18: Dake J. Finis, op. cit. p.83.
19: Lecomte Du Nouy, op. cit. 40
20: ibid
21: Ibid, p. 98.
22: Roger Patterson, Natural Selection vs. Evolution, Evolution Exposed, March 8, 2007
www.answersingenesis.org.
23: R. Patterson, ibid.
24: Lecomte Du Nouy, op. cit. p.100.
25: R. B. Thieme, op. cit. p.3
26: ibid. p.3.
27: Urlic Jelinec, Bible and Science; op.cit, p. 7.
28: R. B. Thieme, op. cit. 4.
29: ibid
30: Lecomte Du Nouy, op. cit.. 134.
31: ibid
32: Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
33: Jason Lisle, Ph. D., Can creationists be scientists? www.icr.org.
34: Jason Lisle, Ph.D, ibid)
35: R. B. Thieme, op. cit. p. 4.
36: Henry Morris, Ph.D., The Eternal Future of Time, Space, and Matter, www.icr.org

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In the Section to follow (Part Two), the basic biblical facts about
Gods Works of Creation are briefly dealt with. If we choose to rightly
divide and handle the Word of Truth relating to creation accounts fearfully
and objectively without any bias rooted in traditional creation concepts, it
will become very clear that there are actually three independent and distinct
phases of Gods works.
The first phase is dealt with briefly in Genesis 1:1; the second phase
is covered by Genesis 1:3-31 and the third phase is as prophesied in such
Scriptures as Isaiah 66: 67, 2 Peter 3: 13 without any mention as to the
actual length of the periods or ages relating to the three phases of creation.
The GOD of the Bible is the CREATOR GOD who WAS. He had
created In the Beginning a perfect and beautiful universe and everything in
it instantly by fiat, in the dateless past, or in the eternity past without any
reference to elusive time, as we measure it on earth;
And GOD IS, who, beginning with Day One, worked for six days both
to create by fiat and make, mould, re-fashion, re-align, re-order, restore and
replenish here on earth (second phase); and since then, GOD has been
working providentially and miraculously, in he realm of time.
And GOD WILL BE; and He is to come, and will come and will
display His omnipotent power by creating new heavens and a new earth, not
by creating evolution or by setting in motion some evolutionary process, but
by fiat (third phase); and that, to uphold His Glory and for His eternal
pleasure, in the eternity future!
As such, it is not at all necessary to embrace the atheistic evolutionary
worldview in as much as the God of the Bible has created everything by fiat
and will destroy it all on the Judgment Day. He will next create New
Heavens and a New Earth, not by creating evolution or in six days but,
undoubtedly, instantly by fiat, true to His awesome creative power and

perfect character!

PART TWO

BASIC FACTS OF CREATION

TOWARDS REVIEWING
TRUE SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM

TRUE SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM

In the Eternity Past

(Genesis 1:1; 2 Peter 3:5)

In the Realm of Time

(Genesis 1:3-31; 2 Peter 3:7)

In the Eternity Future

(Isaiah 65:17; 2 Peter 3:13)

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BASIC FACTS OF CREATION
REVIEWING TRUE SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM

Towards Reviewing
True Scriptural Creationism
Creation of Invisible Things
Physical Creation
Biblical Creation Truth
V/s Traditional Six-Day Creationism

Biblical Creation Truth

V/s Theistic Evolution

And the Catholic Doctrine of Evolution

TOWARDS REVIEWING

TRUE SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM

According to the Traditional Six-Day Creationism it is taught that

God created everything that exists during the six days of Genesis 1 about six
to ten thousand years ago. However, such traditional thinking is obviously
based upon a faulty Scriptural interpretation. The traditional belief of a sixday creation actually differs from the True Scriptural Creationism. True
Scriptural Creationism includes first, the instant creation of heavens and
earth by fiat and next, the additional phased work of the first six days; and
also takes into consideration the prophesied new heavens and new earth to
be created instantly by fiat.
The Traditional belief of Creation in Six Days assumes that Genesis 1
deals with the totality of all creation as having taken place in six days. In
assuming as such, it obviously fails to distinguish that Genesis 1:1 actually
deals with an earlier work of an instant perfect creation different from that of
the much later additional phased work of the six days (Genesis 1:3-31).
Accordingly, traditional six-day creationism wrongly assumes the chaotic
condition on earth described in Genesis 1:2 is essentially an activity of
Gods work of the first day. In actuality, Genesis 1:2 is not a work of
creation at all, but a later judgmental outcome on the original perfect earth.
It is a consequence of Lucifers rebellion along with his subjects.
Failure on the part of the Traditional Six-Day Creationists to treat
Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:3-31 as two different and independent creation
accounts lies behind their belief that the heavens and earth and everything in
them have been created in six days some six to ten thousand years ago. In
assuming as such, they overlook the fact that the original creation of
heavens and earth was in the dateless past much before the later work of the
six days some six thousand years back. It is biblically inaccurate to assume
that the original creation described in Genesis 1:1 is the same as the later
work of the six days described in Genesis 1:3-31. Next, the chaotic
conditions on earth in Genesis 1:2 are in no way a work of the original
perfect creation notwithstanding the conjunction waw joining this verse to

verse 1. The debatable grammatical connection between Genesis 1:1 and

1:2 has nothing to do with the biblical fact that these two are independent of
each other.
In assuming the original creation of heavens and earth to be the same,
and is as old, as the later work of the six days of some six to ten thousand
years ago traditional sixday creationism has given rise to an ongoing
conflict between the true Science and the Bible regarding the ages of the
earth and the universe. True Scriptural Creationism, however, gives no room
for any such debate between the Bible and true Science. Instead, the two are
in perfect harmony with each other!
At the cost of repeating, the real battle is not between the true Science
and the Bible or its Creation Record. These two are in perfect agreement
with each other. Any supposed conflict is apparently based upon our
misinterpretation of either biblical or scientific facts. As such, the real battle
is between misunderstood biblical facts relating to creation and the scientific
facts or unscientific speculations challenging misinterpreted biblical facts
propounded by Young Earth Creationists.
Next, the battle is augmented by different views put forward such as
the young-earth and old-earth creationism and related positions. All these
views are an attempt to patch up and resolve the apparent conflict between
the Bible and true Science. Nevertheless, the ongoing battle is meaningless
exercise in the face of clear biblical truth relating to creation. There is no
Scripture in the Bible relating to creation or any other subject that is in
conflict with true Science. Nothing in the Bible has been proved to be false
based upon any scientific discovery.
Objectively speaking, it is not at all necessary to treat Genesis 1 and 2
and other creation accounts as literary devices purportedly adopted by
Moses and others in keeping with the standard style and genre of creation
epics at the time. Nor does the Genesis 1 creation record require any
special interpretive methods such as progressive creationism, process
creation, day-ages old-earth creationism punctuational evolution, etc. so
as to capitulate to the evolutionary time-scale of modern unbelieving
geologists and astronomers.
At the other extreme, there are thousands of scientists who believe in
a recent six-day creation. There are also organizations of scientists who are
young-earth creationists in at least ten different countries as well as in the

USA. And, there are those different church denominations, theologians and a

large number of nominal Christians who hold on to a six-day young-earth

creationism etc. assuming it is purely True Biblical Creationism.
Notwithstanding the unbiblical views of the theistic evolutionists,
neither the original creation of the heavens and earth nor the work of the six
days in any way involved the creation of evolutionary processes by God. As
such, no one should presume the complex species of life have evolved from
simple species in the course of billions of years. Such a presumption is
biblically irrelevant. So couldnt God have used evolution to create? The
answer is no! A belief in millions of years of evolution not only contradicts
the clear teaching of Genesis and the rest of the Scripture but also impugns
the character of God. (Ken Ham, Could God Really Have Created
Everything in Six Days? www.answersingenesis.org).
At the same time, Gods phased work of the six days doesnt include
the creation of the original heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1. These were
already created much earlier. As such, it is unbiblical to state that Taking
Genesis 1, at face value, without doubt it says that God created the universe,
the earth, the sun, moon and stars during the six days of the creation week.
Obviously, a faulty interpretation of Genesis 1:1, 1:2 and 1: 3-31
creation accounts by the proponents of the Traditional Six-day Creationism
is the cause behind the ongoing debate between Science and the Bible. Next,
it has further given rise to different theological positions. However, the
positions adopted by the young-earth creationists, day-ages old-earth and
progressive creationists, etc. are not without any theological problems as is
obvious from the ongoing debates amongst their proponents. One is left
wondering as to how age-related conclusions have been drawn or even the
need to draw such conclusions has been felt at a time when the Bible is
silent on issues such as the age of the earth and or of the universe. As for
the exact date of the first creation, it may be safely affirmed that we have not
yet the knowledge sufficient to arrive at any really trustworthy conclusion.
(Alfred Edersheim, Biblical History: Old Testament, Text: Public Domain,
Database @2004, WORDsearch Corp., Volume 1 and Chapter 1)
As a matter of fact, instead of interpreting the biblical creation record
by allowing the Bible to interpret it what has been done is to interpret the
creation record in the background of ones established but erroneous
traditional belief of all creation in six-days. Accordingly, it is wrongly
assumed by the modern adherents of Traditional Six-day Creationism such

as Young Earth Creationists that the creation record in the first chapter of
Genesis deals with a creation in six days, six to ten thousand years back. The
assumption is, therefore, biblically unjustifiable.
An appropriate interpretation of the Scriptures will bring to light that
the very first chapter of Genesis in fact covers two distinct creation phases.
Accordingly, it would be certainly obvious that Genesis 1: 3-31 is different
from Genesis 1:1 covering different historical periods. As such, the chaotic
conditions described in Genesis 1:2 are not of original creation.
Thus, as it has been precisely stated by Alfred Edersheim, The first
verse in the book of Genesis simply states the general fact, that "In the
beginning"whenever that may have been"God created the heaven and
the earth." Then, in the second verse, we find earth described as it was at
the close of the last great revolution, preceding the present state of things:
"And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face
of the deep." An almost indefinite space of time, and many changes, may
therefore have intervened between the creation of heaven and earth, as
mentioned in verse 1, and the chaotic state of our earth, as described in
verse 2. 1 Accordingly, it is definitely biblically inaccurate to state that
Genesis 1:1 to 1:3-5 cover Gods activities of Day 1. Not at all!
Undoubtedly, Traditional Six-day Creationism and its variants differ
from the True Scriptural Creationism which covers the creation of the
original universe of Genesis 1:1 and the much later actual biblical six-day
creationism of Genesis 1:3-31. Most probably, such an interpretation will not
be easily accepted by the traditional six day creationists and is likely to meet
strong, if not unholy, opposition. Nevertheless, it is necessary to do a
thorough objective unbiased review of all the Scriptures relating to creation.
For this purpose we need to consider a few preliminary hermeneutical
assumptions. Its only then we will be able to get a clear view of the True
Biblical or Scriptural Creationism.
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1: Alfred Edersheim, Biblical History: Old Testament, Text: Public Domain, Database
@2004, WORDsearch Corp., Volume 1, Chapter 1

Preliminary Considerations
Given the human nature for what it is, subtle and prejudiced, anything
that contradicts our traditional beliefs is bound to be looked upon with
skepticism and disdain coupled with uncalled-for defensiveness. It has been
rightly said that it is much more difficult to unlearn error than to learn new
truth. And it is these aspects of human nature that leave some souls highly
biased. Their bias, in turn, keeps them from being open-minded so as to
appreciate and accept new truth.
It is, therefore, essential that we sincerely recognize and acknowledge
those aspects of human nature that prevent us from correcting our wrong
beliefs and learn new truth. And accordingly, next realize the need to
practice the principle of bracketeering (
) by withholding ones
presuppositions so as to keep the same from unduly interfering with ones
learning process. This is important to keep ones prejudice in check.
Therefore, to interpret the Scriptures in the Genesis Creation Record
appropriately we need to consider a few preliminary hermeneutical facts:
First: No single or any textual unit of Scripture lies within the domain
of ones private interpretation. We need Gods help through prayer to
properly discern scriptural truth and rightly divide the Word of Truth within
the parameters of Bibles interpretation of its own inspired Scriptures.
Rightly dividing Gods Word is important notwithstanding our knowledge of
grammar and syntax of the original Hebrew and Greek.
Next, interpretation has to be based upon a consistent, general
approach to the interpretation of the Scripture literal or normal sense. The
value of this literal system is that it specifies a normative role for the textual
contexts in interpretation and a normative practice of interpretation.As
such, the Bible is to be interpreted as a book, albeit a divine book. The fact
that the Holy Bible is a divine book authored by God and composed by
man, does introduce special applications of the normative principles of
general hermeneutics, based upon the analogy of faith. Narrative
portions are understood to refer to historical realities as the human is

inspired to compose a divinely revealed interpretation of history. Prophetic

portions are understood to speak of future events as the human prophet
speaks empowered by divine revelation.
Second: The importance of retaining the literal sense of historical
narratives.
Genesis 1 to 2:3 is primarily a plain historical narrative
corresponding to reality and the sequence of events portrayed correlating
with real time. Therefore, it is not an extended poetic metaphor nor is it a
mere creation story that uses the standard style and genre of the creation
epics at the time. 1
Based on statistical analysis of Genesis 1to 2:3, it has been concluded
that (1) It is not statistically defensible to read Genesis 1:1-2:3 as poetry;
(2) since Genesis 1:1-2:3 is a narrative, it should be read as other Hebrew
narratives are intended to be read as a concise report of actual events,
couched to convey an unmistakable theological message, and (3) when this
text is read as a narrative, there is only one tenable view of its plain sense.2
Third: Inherent distinctiveness of scriptural texts. Genesis 1:1, 1:2 and
1:3-5 are texts with an inherent distinctive nature. Content analysis of these
texts will make it clear that these three biblical passages or texts are purely
distinct and independent accounts though they are contextually related to
each other as far as the historicity of the events they are dealing with is
concerned. Content analysis of these three passages and their historical
periods render them mutually exclusive.
As such, it is improper to take these three independent texts together
and interpret them as one single textual unit purportedly comprising of
Gods activity on that first day of creation as is done by the proponents of
the Traditional Six Day Creationism (John MacArthur, Jr., op. cit. p.73).
Content-wise each text is exclusive and is independent of the others. Each
text is primarily covering events that are historically sequential. As such,
they are not directly related to each other.
Accordingly, it should be noted that irrespective of the Hebrew syntax
or sentence construction of these texts (Boyce), Genesis 1:1 is solely and
wholly descriptive of a completed perfect phase of creation, seeing that God,
whose works are perfect, is the Creator of it all. This initial phase of instant
creation is followed by chaotic conditions on earth (Genesis 1:2). The
subsequent phased work God carried out in six days is described as the next
phase of creation works. (Genesis 1:3-31).The peculiarity of the six days
work lies in the fact that the work on each of these six days is a response to

Gods specific commands to Let There Be. These commands are obviously
addressed to the cosmic powers of darkness so as to restore the lost original
life conditions that existed earlier on the primeval earth.
Fourth: The importance of engaging ones spiritual gift of
discernment. We first need to discern the doctrinal relatedness of scriptures
and then rightly divide the Word of Truth. The goal here is to study all the
Scriptures related to any doctrine by stirring ones gift of spiritual
discernment and enlightenment so as to get the whole picture. For, to
Whom shall He teach knowledge? And whom shall He make to understand
doctrine? To them, that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the
breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon
line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little (Isaiah 28:9-10). Thus, it
is important that one obey 2 Timothy 2:15 read with 3:16, 17 and rightly
divide the Word by separating the three accounts in Genesis 1:1, 1:2 and
1:3-31 from each other. Subsequently, interpret the same with related
Scriptures given here a little, and there a little, precept upon precept
(Isaiah 28:10-13) to get a clear picture.
In doing such an exercise, it will be evident, within the context and
background of related Scriptures that Genesis 1:2 is not a description of any
activity of day one but is a much later chaotic condition that developed on
earth. Related Scriptures will make it clear that the chaos was as a
consequence of Lucifers rebellion and that of his angels during the
administration of the pre-Adamic world that was then. Lucifers rebellion,
even prior to Adams sin, had brought the original heavens and earth if not
the whole of Gods original creation into bondage and decay thereby
subjecting it to futility (Romans 8:20) and or to uselessness.
Next, it will be obvious that Genesis 1: 3-31 is a description of Gods
later phased redemptive and or restorative works. These involved giving
commands to let things appear or be created by fiat or expressing
permission and purpose in connection with already existing things. The
phased work of the six days is, therefore, mainly physically redemptive and
restorative in nature. During the re-creative phase God gave express
commands to restore conditions on earth as well as create new life forms so
as to make it suitable for the habitation of man.
Just as God gave plain commands to Pharaoh to Let His People Go
when His people were in bondage in Egypt so also God gave commands to
Let Things Happen or Be Created on earth during the six days of Genesis

1:3-31. By issuing such commands God restored order out of chaos and thus
made the earth free from being under bondage to Satan consequent to his
rebellion and fall.
Fifth: Application of the Law of Double Reference of biblical
interpretation: In understanding and interpreting certain scriptures it
becomes necessary to apply the principle or law of double reference. In
many passages of the Bible it will be evident that a visible creature is
addressed but certain statements also refer to an invisible person who is
using the visible creature as a tool. Thus two persons are involved in the
same passage. The law of interpretation to follow in such passages is to
associate only such statements with each individual as could refer to him.
Accordingly, the statement of Genesis 3:15 could apply only to the
serpent and not to Satan. The first part of verse 15 could apply to both the
seed of the serpent and Satan. The last part of verse 15 could only refer to
Satan and to Christ. A simple example of this law which is recognized by
scholars is the case of Christ addressing Peter as Satan. We have other
examples in Isaiah 14:12-14 and Ezekiel 28:11-17 3.
Sixth: The principle of allowing Scripture to interpret Scripture.
Instead of habitually interpreting the Scriptures with the grid of ones
traditional church beliefs we need to interpret Scripture with Scripture.
Instead of merely looking to church history to defend ones belief on the
premise that it has been accepted as such all along one needs to check the
truthfulness of any belief as to whether it is biblical or not; more so, when a
belief is stated to be biblically untenable. No traditional belief is complete
and final but subject to scrutiny in the light of biblical truth. As such, the
need is to prove all things and hold fast that which is true even if it means
facing the cost of giving up ones traditional church beliefs.
To religiously hold on to traditional beliefs whilst the same are found
to contradict Scripture is to indulge in idolatry. On the whole, we need to be
fully aware and cautious of the fact that The argument from church history
seems to rear its head almost every time any doctrine is discussed. If the
doctrine was taught in ancient times this supposedly makes it more reliable.
If, on the other hand, it has not been taught until more recent years, then it
is suspect. Of course, the argument itself is invalid. The truth or untruth of
any doctrine does not depend on whether or not it was ever taught in church
history. Its truthfulness depends solely on whether or not it is taught in the
Bible. Now, admittedly, a teaching that no one has ever before heard about

might be suspect, but the Bible, not church history, is the standard against
which all teachings must be measured. 4 (underline, italics mine)
Seventh: Recognizing spiritual symbolism/imagery in the Scriptures.
Obviously, Genesis 1 creation record is richly loaded with imagery and
symbolism. Recognizing and identifying the same with the help of related
Scriptures will make it obvious that the creation accounts do not necessarily
deal with a description of physical works of creation per se. It will also
become clear that these creation accounts portray themes of spiritual
significance having evangelical import.
As such, Genesis 1 and 2 are not only literal creation accounts. They
also cover and include systematic orderly composites of archetypical
characters. These archetypical plots are loaded with motifs of restoration,
redemption, reconciliation, etc. The archetypical primeval images and
symbols appear throughout the Bible culminating in their fullest expression
in the Book of Revelation.
Accordingly, Genesis accounts of creation can be better appreciated
by taking into consideration both their literal and symbolic meanings. The
underlying theological and evangelical significance of these images, motifs
and archetypes become apparent in the light of other related scriptures.
Theological connotations of the imagery and symbols of Genesis 1-2
become evident as these are interpreted in the Bible here a little and there a
little without our need to spiritualize the same.
All we need to do to understand biblical imagery is to simply interpret
its symbolic and figurative meanings by looking for the same elsewhere in
the Bible. For example, subsequent to Genesis 1:1 wherein God who is pure
Light created perfect original heavens and earth, the creation account next
immediately shifts to describe conditions on earth that are actually contrary
to Gods nature but symbolic of cosmic forces of Darkness (Genesis 1:2).
The spiritual meaning of light and darkness could not be obvious apart
from the meaning of these symbols as revealed elsewhere in the Bible. The
work of each of the six days can be better understood in terms of what God
has done in the course of the six millennial days in carrying out His plan of
redemption and spiritual salvation. Therefore, one has to be willing to
openly accept the Bibles own interpretation of its various symbols and
imagery employed in the creation accounts. As such, this maiden work
whilst reviewing the True Biblical Creationism revealed in the Sacred

Scriptures has also taken into consideration the rich imagery, symbols and
archetypes in the creation accounts based on their Biblical meanings and
connotations but without spiritualizing the same.
Keeping in mind the essential preliminary considerations, we need to
look at Gods different physical creative acts and interpret the same
appropriately. The subsequent sections of this part of the treatise covers
Gods various creative acts beginning with the creation of the Invisible
Things or of the Angelic Hosts as far as the biblical record of creation is
concerned. The description of Invisible Things is followed by an elaborate
descriptive account of Gods different phases of the physical creations.
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1: Christian Odyssey, op. cit. p.8
2: Steven W. Boyd, The Biblical Hebrew Creation Account- New Numbers Tell the Story,
Institute for Creation Research; www.icr.org.
3: Finis, J., op. cit. p.93.
4: Charles C. Ryrie, Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding
Biblical Truth; 1999; Moody Press, Chicago, USA, p. 91.

Creation of Invisible Things

In A Beginning --- In the Eternity Past
GOD, (Elohim, pl. in Hebrew), who is essentially ONE SPIRIT and
HOLY in ESSENCE but TRIUNE in operations is the CREATOR of all that
exists. HE, Who WAS; and IS, and IS to COME always existed, hence
GOD is EVERLASTING or ETERNAL. HE is the EVER LIVING ONE
inhabiting ETERNITY. The finite mind cannot understand or grasp what
eternity is, or what it actually is like, other than to simply state that it has
neither beginning nor end. GOD is ETERNAL SPIRIT!
Tauntingly, or even sincerely, the question Who created God? is
very often asked! The answer is: God is Eternal Spirit, Uncreated Being!
By very definition, an eternal Being has always existednobody created
Him. God is the Self-Existent Onethe great I Am of the Bible. He is
outside time; in fact, He created time. Think about it this way: everything
that has a beginning requires a cause. The universe has a beginning and
therefore requires a cause. But God has no beginning since He is beyond
time. So God does not need a cause. There is nothing illogical about an
eternal Being who has always existed even though it might be difficult to
fully understand. 1
The entire creation, the seen and the unseen realities, is the work of
the Triune Eternal God. All the three Persons of the Godhead (Elohim) were
involved in creation. In other words, God the Father, God the Son and God
the Holy Spirit planned and executed in unison the creation of all life and
matter. Matter and Life: each has A Beginning! GOD, not blind chance, is
the Cause of their origin.
Next, in relation to each other, the three Divine Persons are co-equal;
but when these Divine Persons are viewed relative to creation, They do at
least change in attitude, for in love They have come into relations in which
They are known to the creature, One of Them having become Man 2

Accordingly, Gods WISDOM, became FLESH (John1:14). Wisdom

personified states: The LORD possessed ME at the beginning of His way,
before His works of old. I have been established from everlasting, from the
beginning, before there was ever an earth. (Proverbs 8: 22-23).
In the dateless Past, there was a BEGINNING; and that in relation to
Gods Ways, before His works of old (Proverbs 8:22) outside the realm of
time. Accordingly, as the Apostle John puts it, In the BEGINNING (ARCHE
in Greek) was the WORD and the WORD was with GOD, and the WORD was
GOD. The same was in the beginning with GOD (John 1:1-2). Specifically,
God created through Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit. As such, Jesus Christ,
the Word of God personified, is the He Arche or the Beginning of Gods
creation. Notwithstanding ones traditional beliefs, the Beginning of Gods
Creation has nothing to do with the actual beginning of time.
Another A Beginning is in relation to the beginning of angelic
creation. It is outside the realm of time in the eternity past; next, is the A
Beginning in relation to the physical creation of Genesis 1:1, again outside
the realm of time in the dateless past. As a matter of fact, the phrase In the
Beginning in Genesis 1:1 should be properly translated as: In A
Beginning, as suggested by Andrew Martin to account for the absence of
the definite article in the word bereshit 3 As such, the term beginning in
the Bible is only a beginning, which is one among other beginnings.
Finally, is the A Beginning in relation to Gods work of physical creation
in the realm of time during the work of the six days.
Biblically speaking, from the beginning of creation can actually
mean from the A Beginning of creation outside the realm of time. Or, it
may refer to another A Beginning before the creation of the first day of the
week. Or, it could also mean from the A Beginning of the creation of Adam
and Eve. As such, the phase: from the beginning of creation doesnt
necessarily always mean from the beginning of Genesis 1:1. In each case,
either the context or the content of the scripture should make it clear.
Moreover, Greek word Arche, like Archegos, technically means
the Founder as the First Participator, Possessor; e.g. Jesus Christ is called
the Archegos of Life (Acts 3:15) because HE is the He ARCHE, meaning
Beginning or the Originator of Gods Creation. This excludes Him from
being Himself a product of that beginning. Again, Arche means a passive
beginning or origin, or an act, or a cause as in Colossians 1:18; Revelation
3:14; Rev.1:8; 21:6; 22:13. In these verses, CHRIST is called the BEGINNING

because HE is the Efficient First Cause of all Creation: spiritual or nonmaterial and physical or material. HE is the HEAD because HE is before all
things, and all things were created by Him and for Him.4 All things were
made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.
Next, in Colossians 1:16-17 Paul clearly states as to what ? are the
all things that were actually made by the Word, who is the Image of the
Invisible GOD: For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and
that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or
dominions or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and
for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. It is
therefore understood that the all things created by Christ as stated in
Colossians 1:16-17 include the unseen or the invisible things, even the
myriads of Angelic hosts as well as the physical things.
There are thousands even thousands of angels, seraphim, cherubim
and other spiritual beings that minister unto God. And also ten thousand
times ten thousand angels stand before Him (Daniel 7:10; Revelation 5:11);
rather, an innumerable company of angels minister to God (Matthew 26:53;
Hebrews 12:22) being created for that very same purpose. Next, as stated in
Hebrews 1:14, angels also minister to those destined to inherit salvation:
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall
be heirs of salvation?
The angelic host is vast and countless and each spirit or angel is
created to serve God and man in specific ways. Perhaps, Lucifer and his
angels were placed on earth to serve man whom God would create next.
Even otherwise, the devil and the fallen angels now serve Gods purposes.
They are under His sovereign control and are totally subjected to Him.
When did God create all the myriads of angels? Were all the angels a
part of Gods original physical creation? Does the Bible specifically tell us
as to when exactly the vast angelic host was created and brought into being?
Do Exodus 20:11 indicate and Colossians 1 confirm that the angels were
created during the creation week as stated by the traditional six-day and
young-earth creationists? 5
Nowhere in the entire Bible is it mentioned as to when exactly the
angels were created. Neither Exodus 20:11 indicates nor Colossians 1
confirms that the angels were created during the creation week. This is
merely an assumption lacking biblical support. Exodus 20:11 clearly refers

to physical works of God during the creation week as described in Genesis

1:3-31. And though Colossians 1 speaks of the creation of invisible things,
it doesnt say at all that these were created during the creation week.
Obviously, the angelic host was created much before the physical creation
It can be confidently ascertained from the Bible that the angels were
not a part of the original physical creation and that they were created very
much earlier. Angels are first referred to in the Holy Writ in the oldest book
of the Bible, Job, in relation to their service to God (Job 1:6; 2:1) and as
witnesses of Gods physical creation (Job 38:7) at the beginning. God
confronts Job by asking him rhetorically as to where he was when God laid
the foundations of the earth, when all the sons of God (that is, the angels)
shouted for joy (Job 38: 1-7). As such, it is inaccurate to assume and teach
that the angels were created during the creation week at a time when it is not
at all directly stated in the Bible.
Obviously, the angelic host had to be created before the creation of
heavens and earth so as for the angels to be there to witness Gods physical
creation and shout for joy. Moreover, related scriptures confirm the creation
of angels before the creation of visible and invisible, physical or material
things. And, the very fact that they have been created to serve God Who is
eternal, should lead us to confidently conclude that their creation to serve
God had to be in the eternity past even before any of the works of physical
creation in the eternity past.
Next, does the Bible state that Satan, rather Lucifer, sinned and fell
some time after Day 7 of the Creation week? 6 Precisely, nowhere in the
Bible it is stated as to when exactly Lucifer sinned and fell. But certainly it
was not after Day 7 of the creation week. There is sufficient scriptural
evidence to convincingly believe that Lucifer sinned long before the phased
works of the six days of Genesis 1:3-31.
It is biblically inaccurate to state that the angelic hosts were created
during the work of the six days. There is no Scripture in the Bible to support
any such theological ideation. Nor is it biblically accurate to assume if not to
presume and believe that the entire original creation of the heavens and earth
or the creation of the universe was during the work of the six days.
Notwithstanding the traditional belief of six-day creationism not only the
angelic host but even the original perfect creation of heavens and earth was
not during the creation week but very much earlier.

When objectively considered, Traditional Six-day-creationism is

based upon a wrong interpretation of Genesis 1 which actually records the
creation of two physical worlds having their unique distinct social systems:One, as recorded in Genesis 1:1, spoken of by the Apostle Peter in 2
Peter 3:5; and the other, as recorded in Genesis 1:3-31, spoken of by Peter in
2 Peter 3:7. Precisely, Peter taught two distinct ends of two sinful careers of
the earth: (1). The world that then was. The preAdamite, social system had
a sinful career or it would not have perished in the flood of v. 6; Genesis
1:2; Jeremiah 4:23-26; Isaiah 14:12-14; Ezekiel 28:11-17; Matthew 13:35.
(2) The present Adamite sinful social system, marking the present sinful
career of the earth. It will come to an end during the Millenium, v. 7, 10-13;
1 Corinthians 15:24-28; Revelation 20: 7-107.
God made the physical worlds by CHRIST (Hebrews 1:2c, 10; 11:3).
Next, Christ is now upholding all things by the Word of His power
(Hebrews 1:3c) even the works of physical creation from the beginning. The
next section deals with the physical creation of heavens and earth that was in
existence in the eternity past, having been created In A Beginning.
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1: Ken Ham & Jason Lisle, Is There Really a God? www.answers ingenesis.org.
2: J. T., Names of Divine Persons, Kingston Bible Trust, U. K. p.5
3: Andrew Martin, The Knowledge of Ignorance, Cambridge, 1985
4: S. Zodhiates, op. cit. p. 1670.
5: Ken Ham, What About the Gap and Ruin-Construction Theories, September 6, 2007;
www.answersingenesis.org.
6: Ken Ham, ibid
7: Dake J. Finis, op. cit. p. 42

When He prepared the heavens, I was there:

When He set a compass upon the face of the depth:
When He established the clouds above:
When He strengthened the fountains of the deep:
When He gave to the sea His decree,
That the waters should not pass His commandment:
When He appointed the foundations of the earth:
Then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him:
And I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him;
Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth;
And my delights were with the sons of men.
(Proverbs 8:27-29).

Physical Creation
So many evidences have come from so many directions and have
converged with such remarkable unanimity upon the conclusion that the
material Universe came into existence all at once in a great creative act
some billions of years ago that it would require either a lot of new evidence
or a special prejudice to hold any other opinion. If today we dot believe in
creation, it is in spite of, not on account of, the testimony of Science. And I
mean creation by supernatural means that is, by processes quite literally
outside the laws of nature.
____Edward McGrady, Religious Perspectives in College Teaching:
In Biology, Hazen Foundation, New Haven, 1950, pp. 13-15

************
The first Book of the Bible, GENESIS, is the Book of Beginnings. But,
unlike John 1:1-2 which also includes the creation of the non-material
invisible things, Genesis 1:1 deals solely with the Physical Creation in the
background of eternity past, without any reference to time as we measure it
on earth. It states simply but exhaustively that In A Beginning, GOD created
the HEAVENS and the EARTH. Genesis 1:1, therefore, covers the creation of
a perfect completed universe.
Genesis 1:1 creation account is a brief statement of a beautifully
completed work of creation (Ecclesiastes 3:11a) of heavens and earth
displaying Gods glory. It was witnessed with joy by the angelic host (Job
38:7). Its here itself that we need to divide the Word of Truth and treat
Genesis 1:1 account as a comprehensive but exclusive statement of truth
relating to a perfect creation. It means exactly what it says that In A
Beginning God created a perfect universe obviously in an instant, by fiat.
The original universe was not created during any of the first
biblically defined six literal days of creation as is assumed by the six-day

creationists. Nor could it be biblically appropriate to state that the universe

had evolved through some evolutionary process in the course of billions of
years as is assumed by atheistic and theistic evolutionists. God did not create
and set in motion any evolutionary process. The Bible doesnt state it, as
such!
The Universe created by fiat In the Beginning, even long before the
creation of time, obviously included our solar system consisting of the sun,
nine major planets including the earth, thirty-one known satellites along
with a number of other very faint moons more recently discovered and
innumerable asteroids or minor planets and many comets and meteors. Next,
there are trillions of solar systems beyond ours or more than forty sextillion
stars which are suns to other planets like our sun is to our solar system.
The entire universe was created by fiat In A Beginning, perhaps
instantly and not in six days. When God says He created the heavens and
the earth in the beginning in itself it covers the totality of a perfect
creation. Exactly when that beginning was is not stated in the Bible; it
could be just 10,000 years back, or long ages before that. One may
convincingly state, based on Proverbs 8:22-23, that it was in the dateless
eternity past. Actually, the real beginning no man can really ever find out. As
such, human effort to estimate the actual age of the universe is futile.
Proverbs 8:27-30 is an eye-witness account by the WISDOM of God,
Personified, who actually witnessed the creation of the original heavens and
earth. It states When He prepared the heavens, I was there: when He set a
compass upon the face of the depth: When He established the clouds above:
when He strengthened the fountains of the deep: When He gave to the sea
His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment; When He
appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was by Him.
Proverbs 8:27-30 refers to the primal creation described in Genesis
1:1. In no way does it refer to the first three days of the creation week as
assumed by the traditional six-day creationists (John MacArthur, Jr., op cit.
p.88). It deals primarily with the preparation (Heb. kuwn) (Proverbs
8:27a) and subsequent creation of the original perfect heavens and earth
(Genesis 1:1) consisting of a dry land (Proverbs 8:29c) or the habitable
part of the earth (Proverbs 8:31a).
The earth, therefore, In the Beginning was not wholly covered with

waters as in Genesis 1:2. The flooded earth of Genesis 1:2 was actually a
later condition. In the beginning itself and not on the third day the fountains
of the deep were strengthened (Proverbs 8:28b). Next, God had set a
compass upon the face of the depth (Proverbs 8:27b) when He decreed that
the waters forming the vast sea should not unlawfully move from their
affixed original place (Proverbs 8:29a, b).
Gods decreeing that the waters of the sea should not move away
from their original fixed place symbolizes Lucifers restricted dominion upon
the primal earth. However, consequent to Lucifers sin, the sea symbolizing
Lucifers pride that led to his fall broke away from the decreed bounds (as
if it had issued out of the womb, Job 38:8b) and engulfed the original dry
land thereby covering the entire earth. Subsequently, God made the cloud
the garment thereof and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it (Job 38:9;
Isaiah 45:7). This is precisely what Genesis 1:2 describes and is, therefore,
definitely of a later development. It is not a condition of original creation or
is it the work of original creation.
God next set His hand to restore light on earth (Genesis 1:3-5).
Next, He created the atmospheric heavens or the firmament (Genesis 1:68). Subsequently, on the third day, He rebuked the waters to return to their
original place as recorded in Genesis 1:9, Job 38:8, 11, Psalms 104:7, 9 and
let the dry land appear (Genesis 1:10) once again for the habitation of man.
The work of the third day, therefore, is a later work during which God
restored the original dry land from the earths flooded and chaotic
condition of Genesis 1:2.
How old is the universe should not be of concern to us as long as the
Bible is silent about it. Neither the long ages guessed by the scientists should
ever bother us or be an issue for any debate; for, to God, Whom we cannot
even conceive in relation to time, it is all instantaneous. Given the
biblical fact that God created the heavens and earth instantly by fiat in the
beginning, outside the realm of time, we cannot mix it up with the
additional work of the six days and state that God created everything in six
days. As such, traditional creation theory is hopelessly unscriptural and
defective.
But then, it is stated in Exodus 20:11 and 31:17 that God made the
heavens and the earth in six days and that He rested on the seventh day.
Dont these Scriptures prove that God created everything in six days? The
apparent contradiction is resolved by allowing Scripture to interpret Exodus

20:11. It is stated that God created the heavens and earth by fiat in the
beginning (Genesis 1:1). It is also stated that God made the heavens and
earth in six days (Exodus 20:11; 31:17). The apparent contradiction is
resolved by accepting the fact that these two are different creation accounts.
The heavens and the earth that God created as recorded in Genesis 1:1 and
Proverbs 8:27-30 and the heavens and earth and all that in them is that
God made in six days as in Genesis 1:3-31 are not one and the same.
Actually, it is the work of the six days recorded in Genesis 1:3-31 that
is referred to in Exodus 20:11 and 31:17. It is not the same work of creation
by fiat that is recorded in Genesis 1:1. It is in addition to it. It is
hermeneutically of prime importance to distinguish between these two
biblical creation-accounts seeing they deal with two different periods or
phases of Gods creative works. Failure to treat these two creation accounts
separately lies behind the traditional faulty understanding of biblical
creationism. As such, the concept of traditional six-day creationism is
hermeneutically defective and, therefore, it is biblically inaccurate.
The creation of the heavens and earth referred to in Genesis 1:1 is
certainly an earlier perfect work of direct creation. On the other hand, Gods
phased work of the six days (Genesis 1:3-31) is a much later work of recreation or renovation. Nothing could be more clear from the Scriptures than
the fact that the heavens, earth, and the sea and all that in them is
referred to in Exodus 20:11 and 31:17 are the heavens of Genesis 1: 8,
including the solar system of 14-18, the earth and the sea of Genesis 1: 10
and all that is in them that was created and made during the six days.
As such, the original perfect creation is totally independent and is
prior to Gods next phase of creative works beginning with the first day of
Genesis 1: 3-5. Nor is it biblically true to assume that the heavens and the
earth when they were created in the beginning were in a state of disorder and
chaos contrary to Gods character whose works are perfect. The chaotic
condition on earth as in Genesis 1:2 was, therefore, a definite consequence
of Lucifers sin and is not of original perfect creation. And to restore order
out of chaos as well as to restore the splendor of original life on earth God
next actually worked systematically for six days. This six-day work was
essentially against the pervading evil forces of darkness. Therefore, God
necessarily rested on the seventh day to crown the completion of His job of
six days and create the Sabbath in perfect alignment with His eternal plan.
The original heavens and the earth were unique and distinct, perfect

and complete, created instantly by fiat in the eternity past. Therefore, the
heavens and the earth including the all things therein God says He created
and made in six days resting on the seventh day (Exodus 20: 11) refer to the
stellar and atmospheric heavens and the earth which God recreated (Genesis
1:3-31) once the original perfect heavens and earth were found in a state of
chaos with darkness and waters covering the earth a condition of judgment
brought about by Lucifers rebellion against Gods government.
However, it has been defensibly but inappropriately argued that The
phrase heaven(s) and earth in Scripture is an example of a figure of speech
called merism, where two opposites are combined into an all-encompassing
single concept, in this case the totality of creation. A linguistic analysis of
the words heaven(s) and earth in Scripture shows that they refer to the
totality of all creation. For example, in Genesis 14:19, God is called the
Creator of heaven and earth. In Jeremiah 23:29, God speaks of Himself
as filling heaven and earth. See also Genesis 14:22, 2 Kings 19:15, 2
Chronicles 2:12, Psalms 115:15, 121:2, 124:8, 134:3, 146:6, Isaiah 37:16.
Thus, there is no Scriptural warrant for restricting Exodus 20:11 to earth
and its atmosphere or the solar system alone. So Exodus 20:11 does show
that the whole universe was created in six ordinary days. 1
Its certainly biblically inappropriate to defend as such. It amounts to a
gross misinterpretation of creation accounts in Genesis 1:1 and in Exodus
20:11. Granted, it may be hermeneutically true to state that the merism:
heavens and earth as two opposites are combined into an all-encompassing
single concept comprising the totality of all creation. However, we must
keep in mind that in Genesis 1:1, the merism: heavens and earth refers to
the totality of all creation that was created In A Beginning. On the other
hand, in Exodus 20:11 it is very clear that the merism: heavens and earth
referring to a totality of all creation is plainly referring only to that that was
made specifically In Six Days. But in no way it is referring to the perfect
original creation of Genesis 1:1 that was created outside of time. Thus the
hermeneutical difference between the two creation accounts is very
significant: Genesis 1:1 refers to that which was created ex-nihilo In A
Beginning; Exodus 20:11 refers only to that which was made and created in
six ordinary days. Now, that which was made and created during the six
days is out of the existing material; whereas, that which was made In A
Beginning is purely ex-nihilo, out of nothing, created in the eternity past.
As pointed out earlier, there is enough Scriptural warrant in Genesis
1: 6-8 and 9-10, 14-19 for restricting Exodus 20:11 to earth and sea of

Genesis 1:10, cf. Psalms 136:6 ; and to its atmospheric heavens or

firmament of Genesis 1:8, cf. Psalms 136:5 and to the solar system (sun and
the moon and the stars) of Genesis 1: 14-19, cf. Psalms 136:7-9 which God
says He made and or made to appear during the six days, also creating all
that in them is, resting next on the seventh day. It is our wrong interpretation
of Scriptures in Genesis 1 and Exodus 20:11 that lie behind our failure to
appreciate the significant differences between these two creation accounts.
The six-day creationists are somehow quick to interpret Exodus 20:11
as referring to the totality of all creation. This they do in spite of the fact
that Exodus 20:11 is best interpreted by Genesis 1:8, 14-19 solely referring
to the atmospheric heavens; and next by Genesis 1:10 referring to the dry
land called earth and to the sea and all that in them is. At the other extreme,
they somehow fail to interpret Genesis 1:1 as a totality of all creation!
However, if we let Scripture here a little interpret Scripture there a
little, then it will be obvious that the merism: heaven(s) and earth in every
Scripture it is referred to, though it encompasses the original heavens and
earth of Genesis 1:1, doesnt necessarily and technically always refer to the
entire universe perfectly created In A Beginning. In most of the cases, it
refers to the heavens and the earth visible to the naked eye referred to in
Genesis 1: 8 and 1:10 and to the solar system referred to in Genesis 1: 14-19.
Next, if we conclude from Genesis 1:14-19 that the sun, moon and
stars were actually created on the fourth day and not in the beginning then
we will have to conclude that the heavens were created on day two (v.8)
and that the earth was created on day three (v.10) which will be, of course,
an illogical conclusion contrary to Genesis 1:1 and 2. As such, the sun,
moon and stars which were created along with the stellar heavens were
made to appear visibly on the fourth day through the clearing of the dense
cloudy skies just as the dry land wasnt created but was made to appear.
After all, there were the original heavens before the atmospheric
heavens of Genesis 1:8; and there was an earth before the appearance of
the dry land called earth of Genesis 1:10. The six-day creationists have
erroneously mixed up the two biblically different heavens and earth as if
they were one and the same. At the same time, they contradict themselves by
stating that these two are different by excluding the heavens and earth of
Genesis 1:1 as if they were different from the other related merisms.
The Biblical truth is clear: the merism Heavens and Earth refers to

the totality of all creation. It refers to the whole Universe including the
Sun, Moon and the Stars and the earth created together by God by fiat,
perhaps at the same instant In A Beginning in the dateless past.
Next, the merism: heavens and earth includes the atmospheric heavens
and the dry land that were made to appear again during the six days.
Biblically speaking, however, it is one and the same merism: heavens and
earth referring to the atmospheric heavens and to the earth.
Of course, six-day creationists are not going to easily accept the fact
that the solar system was created in the beginning and not on the fourth day.
But the fact is that on the fourth day God re-arranged and made the greater
light (sun) to rule during the day and the lesser light (moon) to rule during
the night by taking their proper positions in relation to earth. So also the
stars that were created earlier In the Beginning were made clearly visible
again to brighten the earth during the night. It is unimaginable that the earth
was kept afloat in space on its own without solar system until the 4th day.
The biblical fact that the heavens and the earth of Genesis 1:8 and 10
are different from the original perfect heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1 is
further confirmed by Genesis 2:4a. It states: These are the generations of
the heavens and of the earth when they were created. Generations means
descent, family, race, origin, birth. Therefore, Genesis 2:4 does not
indicate the process of heavens and earth came into existence, but the events
which followed their establishment. In other words, it is not a summary of
the events which preceded Genesis 2:4 2
Thus the term generations in Genesis 2:4a point to two different
heavens and earth. The first generation of original PERFECT heavens and
earth of Genesis 1:1 is, therefore, totally different from the next generation
of atmospheric heavens of Genesis 1:8 and the dry land or earth of
Genesis 1:10 created, rather made, during the work of the six days.
Next, the much disputed and argued about Hebrew word Reshiyth
in Genesis 1:1translated as BEGINNING means the first in place, time,
order, or rank; the beginning of a fixed period of time (Genesis1:1,
Deuteronomy 11:12; Job 42:12). Genesis 1:1 and John 1: 2 leave no doubt
that Genesis 1:1 was the initial act of physical creation 3 However, the
beginning of creation doesnt mark the beginning of a fixed period of
time as in Genesis 1: 3-5 but it refers to the beginning of Gods ways.
The actual beginning of time as we measure it today is from the first

day of the creation week. It marks the beginning of the period of human
history. It has nothing to do with the beginning of the original heavens and
the earth first created by God (Genesis 1:1) in the eternity past. Biblical
Revelation discloses here a little and there a little when and how and
what particular things were made as they were made as well as all the
things that are to be created and made in the future. The Bible mentions
about three distinct categories of heavens and earth that are inter-related.
The three categories of creation may be distinguished as follows:(i) In the eternity past, before the creation of time, as we measure it today;
(ii) In the realm of time, all the things, that were made in the first six days;
(iii) In the eternity future, the all things new that will be made in the
eternal future, without any reference to time.
As such, as far as the Biblical Revelation is concerned, there are
actually three distinct, major chronological phases or periods or ages
aeons, or worlds that describe Gods Physical or Material and Organic or
Biological Creative Works that is, of heavens and earth with biological
and social-relational life on earth. The three phases of Gods creative works
are in perfect accordance with Gods overall plan and eternal purposes both
for angelic creatures and for human beings created after Gods image.
Apostle Peter aptly summarizes these three phases as follows:(1) Heavens that were of old, and the earth standing out of the water; and
the world (kosmos) that then was (2 Peter 3:5-6); in the Eternity past;
(2) Heavens and earth, which are now (2 Peter 3:7); in the Realm of time;
(3) New heavens and the new earth (2 Peter 3:13); in the Eternity future.
Next, as convincingly stated by Finis J. Dake, the three phases of
heavens and earth are also characterized by three distinct social systems on
earth. That is 1: The pre-Adamite, the one that then was before the present
heavens and the earth (v 6); 2: The Adamite sinful social system, from Adam
to the new heavens and the new earth (v 7); 3: The Adamite sinless social
system in the new earth (v 13; Revelation 21:1-22; 5; Isaiah 66:22-24.4 The
sinless social system of the new earth need not necessarily be of the

eternally saved Adamites in Christ but will also include the elect angels.
The above three major phases and accounts of Gods creative works
with their associated social systems are supported by Scriptures given
elsewhere in the Bible line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there
a little (Isaiah 28:9-10). The Bible gives us a necessary but not a complete
view of all that constitutes and encompasses Biblical Creation Truth.
The three phases of Gods creative works during the three different
and mutually exclusive periods will be dealt with, in detail, in Part Three of
this work. However, the same to be appreciated one should be free from bias
resulting from the traditional six-day creationism.
A scholarly unbiased approach to these aspects will lead to a
comprehensive understanding of Gods creative works as well as a better
appreciation of the same. Such an understanding will pave the way to
resolve prevailing conflicts with science precipitated by the traditional sixday creationism as well as by the proponents of Young Earth Creationism.
Actually, scientific discoveries should be of help to us to gain a better
understanding of Gods creation. However, We do not say that the Word of
God falls in with the results and facts of science, thus honoring the Word; it
never borrows light, but adds a luster and glory to every subject it touches
(Walter Scott, op. cit). After all, God is the Author of Biblical Revelation as
well as of Natural Revelation or the Book of Science. These two sources of
knowledge can never contradict nor are they in opposition to each other.
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1: K. Hem, op.cit. Underline, mine.
2: Spiros Zodhiates, op. cit. p.1652.
3: S. Zodiathes, ibid., p. 1636.
4: Finnis. J. Dake, Dakes Annotated Reference Bible, Dake Publishing, Inc., 2001; Indian
Edition, Sathyam Publications, Kerala, India; Section 2 p. 480.

Biblical Creation Truth

V/s Traditional Six-Day Creationism
The proponents of the Traditional Six-day and Young Earth
Creationism do not rightly divide the Word of Truth (2 Timothy 2:15) in
Genesis 1 creation account. In doing so, they restrict themselves to a single
narrow interpretation of the first chapter of the Bible. Accordingly, they
overlook, if not bluntly ignore, certain important doctrinal aspects of the
scriptural accounts of creation. And as a result, they have come up and still
come up with unbiblical interpretations that fly in the face of scientific
research and defy common sense. The resulting bias makes it even more
difficult for them to unlearn error or to learn new truth, objectively.
If one only leaves aside at least for a while, if not completely shed
away for eternal good, the traditional belief of a creation of everything
during the six days of Genesis 1:3-31 and be next willing to look at the
creation accounts in Genesis 1 objectively, then it wont be difficult for such
an honest soul to conclude and openly admit that the traditional doctrine of a
creation in six days is indeed faulty. An objective study of the creation
accounts in Genesis 1 will certainly lead one to confirm that the traditional
concept of creation in six days is unbiblical.
It should be obvious by now that the traditional six-day creationists
have been focusing on narrowly interpreting Genesis 1 in its entirety as if it
dealt with creation of the whole universe during the first six days. As such,
the fact that Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 and 1:3-31 constitute three different
creation accounts has been overlooked. Instead, these three distinct creation
accounts are treated as a single creation account.
Moreover, Traditional Six-day and Young-Earth Creationists have not
taken into account those Scriptures that point to the creation of angelic hosts
as occurring earlier than the physical creation. So also they overlook the

Scriptures that indicate that the angels and pre-adamite men lived on earth
under Lucifers administration. They also need to consider those Scriptures
that point to Lucifers rebellion and his consequent judgment that brought
the chaotic conditions on earth. Only then, they will be able to accept and
appreciate the fact that the phased work of the six days is totally distinct.
And that, it was thus planned to depict the implementation of Gods program
on earth for mans ultimate redemption from remaining enslaved to Satan.
As is wrongly presumed by the Traditional Six-Day Creationists, the
Bible doesnt state that the whole universe along with the round globe we
call earth was created during the work of the six days. Nowhere in the true
six-day-creation-account of Genesis 1:3-31, is it stated that the heavens and
the round globe or earth were created during any of these six days. Six day
young-earth creationists somehow presume the heavens and the earth were
created on the first day; but the Bible certainly doesnt state it to be as such.
Moreover, as is erroneously presumed by the Traditional Six-Day
Creationists, the Bible nowhere in it states that the earth is only six thousand
years old or even ten thousand years old. Nor does it state that the earth is
billions of years old. In fact, the Bible doesnt at all talk about the age of the
earth or of the universe; it says neither the earth is young nor it says the
earth is old. As such, it is of no use at all to keep oneself pre-occupied in
guessing the ages of the earth or that of the universe. All we can do is to
simply comply with Gods silence about the age of the earth or universe by
remaining silent ourselves; nor should we allow ourselves to be troubled by
any scientific guesses about the ages of the earth or universe.
The Bible simply states that the heavens and the earth were created in
A Beginning; but that Beginning is not the beginning of Day One or
the beginning of Time as is assumed by the Six-day Creationists. The Bible
briefly states in Genesis 1:1 that it was In a beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. It doesnt tell us when that beginning was! It was a
creation not within the context of any measurable time but within the
context of eternity, outside the realm of time. The Bible tells us that that
particular Beginning was the beginning of a physical creation.
Therefore, it is not the Beginning of Time as we measure time on earth.
Actually, Day One begins much after the original creation of the
heavens and earth mentioned in Genesis 1:1. It begins much after the
original perfect earth became and then was found to be in a state of chaos,
without form and void or empty, inundated by waters and covered by

darkness all over, as stated in Genesis 1:2. Moreover, the Bible is silent as to
how long it was in a chaotic condition before God commanded the existing
light to shine out of darkness on earth(2 Corinthians 4:6) thereby creating a
recurring cycle of day and night regular periods, beginning with Day 1 of
Genesis 1:3-5. And, it has been as such, ever since the beginning of Day One
of the creation week described in Genesis 1:3-5. As such, it is biblically
inappropriate to assume Genesis 1:1-2 is Gods activity of Day 1.
Chaos of Genesis 1:2; Not a Work of Creation
The Bible tells us that the earth was or became void and empty; and
that darkness covered the waters that covered the earth. It doesnt say that it
was created that way. It could never have been created that way seeing that
God creates perfectly (Deut. 32:4)! How some dare to think of chaos in
Genesis 1:2 as a work of creation one cannot understand.
No matter how we choose to translate it, whether it is As to the earth,
it was empty and void or whether it is And the earth was void and empty
or And the earth became empty and void, the fact is that that was the
condition on earth. It was not created as such by God whose works are
perfect. God is not the Author of confusion or of towhu or bohu. As such,
these chaotic conditions cannot be in accordance with His essence and
perfect character as the Creator God who creates all things perfectly.
Even if The most straightforward reading of the verses sees verse 1
as a subject-and-verb clause, with verse 2 containing three circumstantial
clauses, in no way does it mean that these three statements that further
describe the circumstances introduced by the principal clause in verse 1
(www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/gap-ruin-reconstruction-theories),
are essentially a description of the state of the originally created earth. To
state as such, is to foolishly state that the circumstantial clause in verse 2c
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters is also a
description of the state of the originally created earth. Therefore, the
chaotic tohu and bohu and darkness cannot be acts of original creation.
As such, it is definitely wrong to conclude that the clause And the
earth was without form and void in Genesis 2a is a description of the state
of the originally created earth, irrespective of the fact that the Hebrew
conjunction waw, meaning and at the beginning of verse 2, is a waw
copulative, which compares with the old English expression to wit. In
no way, the Hebrew conjunction wau in Genesis 1:2 should prevent us

from sharply dividing the Word of Truth in a manner which is in harmony

with Gods character, whose works are perfect and beautiful.
It is biblically wrong to state that it was all darkness all over when
God created the heavens and the earth. The stellar heavens necessarily had
to be full of light as the purpose of all stars is to give light. There are no
stars that are totally dark or that do not emit at least colored light.
To state that it was all dark in the universe soon after its creation is to
state contrary to known facts. The sextillions of solar systems comprising
the vast galaxies necessarily had to emit light from the beginning. Darkness,
therefore, had to be a much later condition as a result of judgment.
Jeremiah states that he saw the earth as it was in Genesis1: 2 without
form and void and with no light (cp. Jeremiah 4:23); no man and no birds
(cf. Jeremiah 4:25); and instead of vegetation or fruitful place, he saw
wilderness and cities broken down (cp. Jeremiah 4:26). Jeremiahs vision
here seems to be more of a warning-reminder of the historical past as well
as it is a prevision of prophetic prediction of some future catastrophe.
The Bible doesnt say that the light and darkness were first created on
the first day of the creation week; that is, that there were no light and
darkness periods before Genesis 1:3-5. Or, that the sun, moon and stars were
actually created on the fourth day. That is, that there was no sun and moon
in the stellar heavens prior to Genesis 1:14-19. The very fact that the earth
today revolves around the sun and is held in its orbit with precision by the
suns gravitational pull demands the existence of the sun from the beginning
of earths creation and not from the fourth day as is wrongly assumed.
Next, the Bible doesnt state that the earth brought forth vegetation
for the first time on the third day; or that the fowl of the air and the fishes and
other creatures were created for the first time on the third day; or that, the
cattle and other animals were created for the first time on the fifth day of the
creation week; that is, that there was no vegetation of any kind or that there
were no aerial birds or aquatic creatures and terrestrial animal life of any
kind prior to that which is described in Genesis 1:11-12, 20-28 accounts. In
fact, a proper understanding of Genesis 1:11-12, 20-28 accounts will actually
confirm that there was an earlier vegetation on earth; or that, there were
the fowl of the air and aquatic creatures and terrestrial animals prior to
their (re-)creation as described in the Genesis accounts.

When the Bible states that the earth brought forth grass, and herb
yielding seed after his (its) kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed
was in itself, after his kind, it actually states what has been overlooked that
the vegetation which the earth brought into existence in response to Gods
command on the third day was after its kind- it was something now
brought forth after the same kind that was once there earlier on earth prior
to its destruction as described in Genesis 1:2.
Similarly, when the Bible states that when God created great whales
and every living creature , which the waters brought forth, after his kind,
and every winged fowl after his kind; or next, when it states that God
made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and
every thing that crept upon the earth after his kind, it actually states what
has been overlooked, that the fauna God created on the fifth and sixth days
was actually something of the same kind that was earlier on earth prior to its
destruction as described in Genesis 1:2 .
As otherwise, if the earth had brought forth flora and fauna for the
first time on the third, fifth and sixth day , then what the earth brought forth
could not be after its kind, if there was no earlier life of the same kind.
The phrase after his/their/its kind has been commonly associated
with reproduction of ones own kind, which fact is indeed true. After all, it is
a biblical and scientific fact that all living forms reproduce after their own
kind. However, in the Genesis 1:3-31 account referred to earlier, the phrase
after ones kind in every case does not refer to any reproduction of the
same kind as is assumed; for these are not accounts of reproduction but of a
re-creation after some original kind of the same type. Certainly, it is not
stated here that which the earth newly brought forth eventually or
immediately reproduced after its own kind. Rather, it states that the earth
brought forth living forms after its own kind, exactly like the ones that
were earlier. This is confirmed by other similar statements in the Bible.
As a matter of fact, Isaiah 14:12, Ezekiel 28:12c-16, 31:8-9 and 2
Peter 5-7 indicate the presence of life forms much before the creation of life
recorded in the Genesis 1 account. Anyway, there had to be a Garden of
Eden with vegetation on earth in the original creation as the same can be
certainly and confidently inferred from Ezekiel 28:13, 31:8-9, 18.
Unless proved to the contrary, Prophet Ezekiel talks of a pre-Adamic
Garden of Eden (Ezekiel 28:13; 31:8-9, 18). As a matter of biblical fact,

Adam was placed in a Garden that was planted Eastward of an already

known place called Eden (Genesis 2:15) and tested for his obedience
(Genesis 2:16-17) and was then cast out for disobeying God (Genesis 3:2324). So also, Lucifer was tested for his obedience in an earlier Garden of
Eden (Ezekiel 28:13) and was next cast out from the same for disobeying
God (Ezekiel 28:16). As such, it is very clear that there were two distinct
Gardens of Eden on earth but at two different periods!
In the footnote to Ezekiel 28:13(see The MacArthur Study Bible,
page 1191) John MacArthur interprets the Garden of Eden of Ezekiel 28:13
as the Garden of Eden of Genesis 2:15. However, the Garden of Eden of
Ezekiel 28:13 cannot be the same as the Garden of Eden of Genesis 2:15.
For, in the Garden of Eden of Genesis 2:15, Satan is present as a Serpent
(cp. 2 Corinthians 11:3). On the other hand, in the Garden of Eden of
Ezekiel 28:13 it is Lucifer who is addressed wherein God talks of Lucifers
earlier wisdom, beauty and sinless-ness. This indicates that he was once in
an earlier Garden of Eden when he ruled in a pre-Adamic world on earth,
during which he eventually sinned and fell (Isaiah 14:12; Ezekiel 28:16).
That there has been an earlier Garden of Eden is further confirmed by
the fact that when the Bible states the location of the newly (re-)created
garden, it does so by referring to its location as if it were in a place or rather,
planted in a place, that was eastward of an already known Eden that is,
that the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden (Genesis 2:8).
In keeping with the principle or rather the Law of Double Reference
of biblical interpretation, it may be stated that Ezekiel 28:12b is addressed to
Lucifer and not to the King of Tyros as in Ezekiel 28:12a. Similarly, the
passages in Ezekiel 31 though to begin with are addressed to Pharaoh, King
of Egypt (Ezekiel 31:2), the focus is then next shifted. As such, Ezekiel
31:8-9 are not actually addressed to Pharaoh but to Lucifer, referring to his
original status of grandeur and splendor he once had when in the Garden of
Eden (Ezekiel 28:13-15) before his fall (Ezekiel 28:15-18; 31:18).
In fact, God is actually addressing Satan by addressing to the King of
Tyros or the King of Egypt just as Christ addressed Satan by addressing to
Peter (Matthew 16:23; Mark 8:33). There could not be any Garden of Eden
in Egypt during Pharaohs time or at any other time anywhere on earth once
the original Garden of Eden from which Adam after sinning was cast out,
was destroyed. Therefore, the Garden of Eden of Ezekiel 28:13 should be
pre-historic and, therefore, it is not the same garden that was planted

eastward of Eden of Adams time.

As such, there had to be an earlier pre-Adamic Garden of Eden under
Lucifers dominion. It was, in a way, a type of the Garden that God would
next create and plant on the eastern location of the original Garden of Eden
after creation of Adam and Eve. Again, the pre-adamic Lucifers Garden of
Eden could be very well considered as a type of the millennial kingdom.
Next, during the millennial reign of Christ, the earth will be like the
Garden of the Lord (Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 36:35), which is again a type of the
Garden or heavenly Paradise of the Eternal State. Isaiah also talks about
pre-Adamic nations which were under Lucifers rule when he was on earth
(cp. Isaiah 14:12). These nations were swayed by him after he sinned in
exalting himself and were destroyed. If this be the correct interpretation,
then it can be confidently stated that anthropoid life was extant on earth prior
to its condition as stated in Genesis 1:2 or before the work of the six days.
There must have been nations of primitive preAdamic sons of men
(Proverbs 8:31b) which Lucifer did weaken. Or else, there must have been
anthropoids like human beings, whose remains now discovered are wrongly
claimed to be the ancestors of human beings. Perhaps, All the species
must have been advanced apes or anthropoids possessed of considerable
intelligence and resourcefulness but who completely died off before Adam
and Eve were created. There may have been advanced and intelligent
hominids that lived and died before Adam, but they were not created in the
image of God (1) the same as Adam was created after Gods image/likeness.
Anyway, the fact that the anointed Cherubim Lucifer ruled on earth
prior to Adam cannot be denied in the light of the Scriptures to that account.
Isaiah 14:12 cannot refer to nations on earth under Satans influence that are
now; nor can they be of any other time. They refer to some nations which
Lucifer ruled before he sinned and became Satan. Lucifers creation and his
subsequent rebellion as described in Isaiah 14:28 cannot be some time after
day seven of the creation week as assumed by the Young Earth Creationists.
Based on what is stated above we may, therefore, confidently state
that Peter speaks of the world (social system) that then was (2 Peter 3:67). This social system, unlike the ante-diluvian world of Genesis 6, was
totally destroyed by a universal flood. Such a universal destruction could be
only explained and accounted for by treating Genesis 1:2 account as a later
development or rather a judgmental outcome. Universal destruction as

depicted in Genesis 1:2 could never be logically associated with the creation
of the heavens and earth (Genesis 1:1) in A Beginning. To state as such, is
to impugn the character of God who creates all things perfect. Moreover,
darkness and sea in the Bible, are often, almost always symbolic of Satan.
Some other Scriptures, such as Matthew 13:35; 25:34 also point to a
destruction of a primeval pre-Adamic world that was then:For example, Matthew 13:35; 25:34 could as well be translated from
the casting away of the world (cosmos) instead of being translated from the
foundation of the world which is actually an improper translation of the
Greek katabole kosmou. In all instances of foundation of any structure,
whether its of heavens or earth or the heavenly city of Jerusalem, the
original Greek word translated as foundation is themilioo and not
katabole. Even katabole used for Sarahs conception involves the
destruction of the sperm once united with the ovum and it is next
followed by metabolism of new life; so also katabole of the kosmos is
followed by the formation and birth of a new cosmos.
The events of judgment of which Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel and Peter
talk about cannot refer to any other period of human history beginning from
the creation of Adam and Eve. These events must be rightly interpreted as
having occurred during the world that was then (2 Peter 3:6-7; Jude 6, 13)
under Lucifers dominion. And this pre-Adamic sin-laden world is the one
that was eventually destroyed subsequent to Lucifers rebellion as explained
earlier! Therefore, it can be clearly stated that the conditions of Genesis 1:2
are not of original creation but as a result of judgment due to Lucifers sin.
Again, it is also the result of judgment brought upon pre-Adamic sons of
men (Proverbs 8:31b) who along with the angels eventually sinned.
Even though it is not stated as such in the Bible, the existence of sin in
pre-Adamic world can be nevertheless inferred. As such, destruction if not
suffering on earth in the world that was then should be due to Lucifers sin;
just as destruction and suffering has been in Adams world as a consequence
of Adams sin. Sin, whether that of Lucifer or of his angels or of Adam and
his progeny could not be without its dire consequences.
The argument is so often made by the six-day creationists that there
could not be any suffering and death prior to the sin of Adam. However,
Lucifer had sinned prior to the creation of man; and it his sin and that of the
pre-adamic races that brought destruction and chaos on earth (Genesis 1:2,

cf. Job 38:9) Anyway, it is a biblical fact that Lucifer and his angels kept not
their first state but sinned from the beginning. As a consequence of their
rebellion and sin, they are, therefore, said to be kept reserved under chains of
darkness unto the judgment of the last day (Jude 6). Obviously, Lucifers sin
and that of the angels and pre-adamic races brought about the conditions of
chaos and universal flood and darkness on earth. Such a chaotic situation on
earth necessitated Gods phased work of the six days for restoration.
As otherwise, such a chaotic condition could never be the state of the
newly created earth, notwithstanding the fact that The most straightforward
reading of the verses sees verse 1 as a subject-and-verb clause, with verse 2
containing three circumstantial clauses (i.e., three statements that further
describe the circumstances introduced by the principal clause in v. 1). To
state as such is also to conclude that the Holy Spirit is a part of creation.
Another argument raised by the traditional 6-day creationists is that
the Gospel of Jesus Christ is subverted if sin and its consequences were prior
to the creation week. However, the everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ is not
subverted but has relevant application in cleansing the defiling consequences
of Lucifers sin, even prior to Adams sin. We also need to be aware of the
evangelical truth that refers to the reconciling aspects of Christs sacrifice in
relation to all things and not in relation to men only. (Colossians 1:20).
Unfortunately, all of these biblical facts tend to be overlooked or are
ignored by the traditional six-day creationists. Or else, the same are wrongly
interpreted. All this shows ones prejudice or bias and a compulsion to
comfortably hold on to ones accustomed and attuned, habitual beliefs.
Subsequently, it becomes much more difficult to admit and own and confess
and unlearn error than to learn new truth!
Anyway, these and other related biblical aspects will be dealt with
more comprehensively as well as convincingly in Part Three of this
Systematic Treatise by highlighting biblical facts that have been overlooked
or not properly understood; if not, plainly ignored to accommodate ones
traditional belief of a creation in six days, contrary to biblical revelation.
Hopefully, the traditional six-day creationists and the modern Young Earth
Creationists will come to terms with the biblical facts that hereto have been
overlooked rather than to hold on to contradictory assumptions based on the
Traditional Six-Day Creationism. To deliberately hold on to such hidebound traditional concepts, amounts to indulging in a wholesale denial of
biblical truth. It certainly involves a denial of True Scriptural Creationism.

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1: Gleason L. Archer, Encyclopedia of BIBLE DIFFICULTIES, Zondervan Publishing
House, US, 1982, p. 64.

Biblical Creation Truth

V/s Theistic Evolution

Theistic Evolutionists are in no way faring better. They are equally

guilty of their failure to rightly divide the Word of Truth and take into
account all the scriptural accounts relating to creation. Instead, they have
freely chosen to smuggle into Scripture evolutionary concepts. They aim to
explain how God supposedly brought into existence the complex universe
and the rich variety of species on earth with the help of evolutionary
concepts. At the same time, they tell us they are not 100 per cent sure of
what they are saying! And, as is the case with atheistic evolutionists, their
vague hypothetical conclusions tend to mutate in course of time and
evolve into ever new speculations; or else, the same remain fossilized.
In the Creation Terminology there is not even the slightest indication
of any form of evolutionary process as having been created and used by
God. There is absolutely nothing in the Scriptures to indicate that God
brought the complex universe and life into existence in the course of billions
of years. Evolution is totally an absurd idea that has been smuggled into the
Scriptures based on a false interpretation of scientific speculations. We
need to have concrete scientific facts to be accepted as biblically supported
truth and not any evolving and constantly mutating evolutionary guesses.
The Bible nowhere states that God created some form of evolutionary
process and that the heavens or the universe, the earth and all things therein
are a product of that evolutionary process. Instead, the Bible clearly states
that Man was directly fashioned and created by God as a perfect and highly
intelligent being with the ability to rule over Gods creation. Men as we
know them today are not the product of lower forms of life resulting from
evolution through natural selection and or survival of the fittest.

Anyway, as far as the Scriptures are concerned God is not a MacroEvolutionist and need never ever be considered as such. He is the CREATOR
GOD who creates by FIAT, miraculously, almost always in an instant. As
such, theistic evolutionists are guilty of adding to Gods Word by
subscribing to atheistic evolutionary concepts which are only guesses
popping out of the heads of biblically illiterate evolutionists.
Nothing has been biblically demonstrated to prove concretely that
God brought into existence matter and life forms by creating and using some
form of evolutionary processes as falsely assumed by theistic evolutionists.
It has been simply and naively assumed as such, as a result of constant
exposure to false unscientific speculations (or oppositions of science falsely
so-called, 1 Timothy 6:20) of atheistic scientists and evolutionists.
Instead of allowing the Scriptures to guide them to properly interpret
the facts in the Book of Science and Natural Revelation, the so-called
theistic evolutionists have deified the atheistic theories of cosmic and
biological evolution. Next, they have naively consecrated unscientific
speculations and unbiblical conclusions to sound theistic. However, they
blindly believe evolutionary lies and pseudo-scientific speculations.

No wonder, reflecting on such a deplorable thinking in the Church,

In his essay Lights of the Church and Science, Huxley stated, I am
fairly at a loss to comprehend how anyone, for a moment, can doubt that
Christian theology must stand or fall with the historical trustworthiness of
the Jewish Scriptures. The very conception of the Messiah, or Christ, is
inextricably interwoven with Jewish history; the identification of Jesus of
Nazareth with that Messiah rests upon the interpretation of the passages of
the Hebrew Scriptures which have no evidential value unless they possess
the historical character assigned to them. If the covenant with Abraham was
not made; ---if the ten words were not written by Gods hand on the stone
tables; if Abraham is more or less a mythical hero; the Story of the Deluge a
fiction; that of the Fall a legend; and that of the Creation the dream of a
seer; if all these definite and detailed narratives of apparently real events
have no more value as history than have the stories of the regal period of
Romewhat is to be said about the Messianic doctrine, which is so much
less clearly enunciated. And what about the authority of the writers of the
books of the New Testament, who, on this theory, have not merely accepted
flimsy fictions for solid truths, but have built the very foundations of
Christian dogma upon legendary quicksands? 1
Galileo did actually prove by presenting concrete scientific data to
support his conclusions. However, his were found to be in disagreement with
the traditional unbiblical church belief prevailing at the time. Nevertheless,
Galileos findings were certainly in tune with the biblical revelation. But,
unlike Galileo, the so-called theistic evolutionists are still guessing. Instead
of using the Scriptures to assess their speculations borrowed from the
atheistic theory of evolution, they use evolutionary concepts to substantiate
Scriptures. They then boast about evolutionary concepts of which they can
never actually be 100 per cent sure. After all, no man can really find out all
about Gods work. It is unimaginable how any one believing in a Creator
God who creates by fiat could at the same time think of God as creating and
using false evolutionary processes of chance contrary to His character.
At a time when the Bible speaks so clearly of a creation that has been
brought into existence by fiat, it is unimaginable how the so-called theistic
evolutionists should succumb into being deceived by the so-called scientific
evidence in support of evolution which is not an operational science. The
so-called evidence doesnt prove evolution theory and there is no proof of
any complex species of life evolving from simple life forms.

At the same time, theistic evolutionists are doubly guilty of taking

away from the Word of God what is actually there. This they do by falsely
assuming the biblical creation accounts are written by using some kind of
literary devices. They boldly teach Christians that the creation accounts in
Genesis 1 need not be taken literally. And this they do in order to
accommodate their unfounded scientific speculations in the Scriptures and
thereby make the Scriptures conform to their speculations.
Ken Ham fittingly comments about the ills of such a compromise: In
many nations, the Word of God was once widely respected and taken
seriously. But once the door of compromise is unlocked, once Christian
leaders concede that we shouldnt interpret the Bible as written in Genesis,
why should the world take heed of Gods Word in any area? Because the
church has told the world that one can use mans interpretation of the world,
such as billions of years, to reinterpret the Bible, this Book is seen as an
outdated, scientifically incorrect holy book not intended to be believed as
written. As each subsequent generation has pushed this door of compromise
open farther and farther, they are increasingly not accepting the morality or
salvation of the Bible either. After all, if the history in Genesis is not correct,
how can one be sure the rest is correct? Jesus said, If I have told you
earthly things, and you do not believe, how you will believe if I tell you of
heavenly things? (John 3:12) 2
Theistic evolutionists, instead of blindly idolizing and praising an
Unknown God of Evolution, will do better to answer the series of
rhetorical questions God asked Job (Job 38:1 to 41:34).
In fact, God confronted Job so as to emphasize the distance between
man and his Creator as well as creation and, therefore, mans inability to
understand even if God explained it all to man. Theistic evolutionists
darken both natural and biblical revelation with their vague unfounded
smuggled speculations. Instead of interpreting the creation accounts in
Genesis literally, they proclaim God as a Creator of Evolution. And then,
they want everyone to gasp, How Great Thou Art? for supposedly
creating MAN after the Image of some Common Unknown Ancestor. As
such, to them, man is not to be any more conceived as a direct product of
Gods handiwork after His own image and likeness. Theistic Evolutionists
firmly believe man to be a descendant of some anthropoid common ancestor.
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1: Quoted by Ken Ham in Couldnt God Have Used Evolution? August 22, 2007.

2: Ken Ham, ibid).

The Unknown God of Evolution

Since creation has a beginning, it had to be created by a Supreme
Intelligent Agency, even God Almighty, by fiat. Therefore, we can with full
confidence and conviction affirm that, Through faith we understand that
the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen
were not made of things which do appear (Hebrews11:3). That is, God
created everything out of nothing simply by the power of His Word 1
Therefore, instead of blindly accepting unscientific speculation to
inform us as to how the universe came into being or how the process of
creation has unfolded throughout the history of the earth which is known to
contradict revelation, one will do well to intelligently believe in what God
says in His WORD that remains undisputed; that the worlds (and not big
bang or any soup of hydrogen atoms) were framed by the Word of God;
and not evolved, or that new species were continually created by fiat
over the course of billions and billions of years. Evolution, as a process, is
in sharp contrast to direct creation during which, as the Bible authoritatively
says, the worlds were actually framed, and not evolved.
Framed translated from the Greek word katartizo actually means
finished, completed or disposed of perhaps with great wisdom and
propriety; as such, to entertain any thought of any evolutionary process for
physical things and life to develop by blind chance in the course of time is to
indulge in contradictions. By the way, katartizo in Greek, meaning
framed or completed or disposed of and the Hebrew suwn or siym of
Job 37:15 has similar meanings, implying an already completed work.
Of course, we do not pretend to inquire HOW all these things were
made, for in doing so we should be committing the folly of those who,
professing themselves to be wise became fools by prying into things
they never could know. For where, we might ask, is the philosopher who
could fully describe the growth of even a daisy? Enough for us to know that
the infinite and omnipotent God spoke and it was done; He commanded

and it stood fast 2 Yes, God commanded; and the entire creation STOOD
FAST (Psalms 33:9) and not developed or evolved in the course of billions
of years through evolutionary process from a soup of hydrogen atoms!
Proponents of abiogenesis state that primitive unicellular life forms
have evolved from non-living matter in the course of billions of years; and
that, from these, complex life forms evolved in the course of more billions
of years. One is left to wonder how the guesses of billions of years are
arrived at to explain the unexplainable past events. Of course, theistic
evolutionists know very well that primitive life did not evolve but directly
created. Their problem is to guess as to how primitive life forms further
evolved into higher forms resulting in the human brain. At the most, they
may speculate that the development of species over vast periods of time
tells us that God either created some form of evolutionary process in the
beginning or continually created new species by fiat over billions of years.
However, Nobel Laureate, Professor George Wald scoffs at the
absurdity of such a possibility. He states: Time is in fact the hero of the
plot. The time with which we have to deal is of the order of two billion years.
What we regard as impossible on the basis of human experience is
meaningless here. Given so much time, the impossible becomes possible,
the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One has to wait:
time itself performs the miracles3 Anyway, the lengthy process of evolution
does contradict the reality that God is the Creator who creates by fiat. Either
we believe that the worlds were framed and completed or else firmly
hold on to evolutionary lies with dogged determination.
CREATION by fiat and the process of EVOLUTION in the course of
billions of years are definitely antithetical terms; and the tension of their
antithetical meanings can never be compatibly embodied; rather, they are
terms in sharp contrast, opposed to each other; creation being one of
established biblical FACT of a completed or finished work (Genesis 2:1)
which God looked at and said very good (Genesis 1:31) and evolution
being a mere THEORY developed by human minds to explain the existence
of a well-ordered physical creation and life forms without a Creator!
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1: Creation and Evolution? op. cit. p. 8.
2: John A. Savage, The Scroll of Time, Kingston Bible Trust, U. K., 2004 Reprint, p. 7.

3: George Wald, The Origin of Life, Scientific American, May 1954, 46; quoted by
John MacArthur, op. cit. p. 40.
4: Henry Morris, Old-Earth Creationism,
www.icr.org.

How Did Matter and Life Really Begin?

Theistic Scientists and Evolutionists state that God brought the
complex creation into existence, not as described in Genesis 1:1; but that He
brought it into being by a simple creative act, to begin with, in one big
bang. Not all believe this, but lets say for arguments sake that this is
when and how the universe got started1 , by treating Genesis 1 account as
being penned by Moses by using the standard style and genre of creation
epics at the time2 and that, as such, it need not be taken literally.
Next, At the moment of the Big Bang and for some considerable
time afterwards, galaxies, stars and planets did not exist. The universe
started over billions of years to a kind of soup of hydrogen atoms, and then
expanded over more billions of years during which galaxies, stars, planets
and other elements of the universe came into existence. Thus the universe
became what it is today through gradual development, the natural
consequences of Gods original creative act. Perhaps God also did
something like that with life on earth. The point is that a process like
evolution need not contradict the reality that God is Creator3! But it does
contradict the reality that God is a Creator who creates instantly by fiat.
Theistic evolutionists state that there is evidence to show life on
earth is billions of years old4 and that breakthroughs in scientific
disciplines such as molecular biology have refined the theory of evolution by
natural selection4. They are therefore somehow convinced that evolution
is the most likely explanation for the development of species6. Biological
evolution, therefore, need not contradict that God is the Creator of life.
Biological evolution states that all living things are developed from a few
simple forms of life through a series of physical changes. That, the first
mammal developed from a type of reptile, and ultimately all forms is traced
back to a simple, perhaps single-celled, organism7.
Are Christians to believe that God has created evolution? Did God
bring into existence the rich variety of species on earth such as the

mammals, including Homo sapiens, by natural selection? Did God next

take the Homo sapiens and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, who
then became a Living Soul with a Human Spirit and named as Adam?
How about Eve? Did she also evolve from some simple life form? Or
was there some other mechanism of which theistic evolutionists are not as
yet aware of? Or is the Genesis account of the creation of Adam and Eve a
myth? We may then blasphemously state next that the sinless human
Christ descended, not from a distinctly and deliberately created Adam
(Genesis 5:1b-2; Luke 3:23-38) but from some Homo sapiens whose
genealogy may be traced back to some single-celled organism which
may be metaphorically termed as a thing. Accordingly, Adam of the
creation epic need not be literally called the Son of God (Luke 3:38).
However, direct creation and not evolution, is the product of an
Intelligent Mind. Unlike evolution that depends on chance or external
factors for the development of life, direct creation involves pre-programmed
planning, designing and execution. That, that which is designed and made, is
always the end product of an intelligent thoughtful process; the product had
to be first conceived before it was ever made. In other words, intelligent
design originates in a mind capable of thinking, conceiving, planning and
executing what it conceives and plans and bring it to fruition, accordingly.
And that, without waiting, with fingers crossed, for some lengthy
evolutionary process to develop by chance things thought of and planned to
automatically happen; or to evolve on their own in the course of billions of
years. God has not used any evolutionary process in the creation of life or
matter; and there are enough gaps in the evolutionary theory to be filled up
so as for the theistic evolutionists to be 100 per cent sure and be fully
convinced. Nevertheless, as long as evolutionists are not 100 per cent sure,
Christians are free to argue that The evolution theory is not only absurd
its so-called proofs are so contradictory that they cause increasing doubt;
But then, some are convinced that The development of species over
vast periods of time tells us that God either created some form of
evolutionary process in the beginning or continually created new species by
fiat over billions of years. In either case, creation was no cosmic accident8!
Embarrassingly, it is still Either and Or; guesses, nevertheless; the
fact is that it simply doesnt lie in the power of mans finite mind to

conceive creation; it is a thought which can only be entertained by faith9.

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1: Evolution and Creation, op. cit. p.7
2: ibidem, p.7

3: ibidem, p.7.

4: ibidem, p.7

5: ibidem, p.7

6: ibidem, p.7

7: World Book Dictionary

8: Evolution and Creation, op. cit., p.

9: C.A.Coates, op. cit. p. 1.

Is It a Planned Instant Creation?

Or, Is It a Creation by Fiat over Billions of Years?

Hearken unto this, Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of
God. Dost thou know when God disposed them? The wondrous works of
Him which is PERFECT in knowledge? (Job 37:14-15).
To think of the OMNIPOTENT Creator God as depending upon an
evolutionary process is biblically untenable if not an insult to His Sovereign
Person who speaks and brings into existence instantly by fiat; that is, in an
authoritative order or command!
God boldly reiterates: I have made the earth and created man upon
it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I
commanded (Isaiah 45:12) and it stood fast (Psalms 33:9); that is, it came
into existence, instantly.
There is no biblical evidence to tell us that God either created some
form of evolutionary process in the beginning or continually created new
species by fiat over billions of years (Creation and Evolution?, op. cit. p. 6).
It is blindly assumed as such to make the Theory of Evolution acceptable to
the Bible believing Christian community. But God opposes such ideation!
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou

hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?
Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the
foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof; when
the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
(Job 38:2-7).
If the universe has been created through some evolutionary process
and is still in the process of being, then we may presume that the sons of
God shouted for joy at a simple creative act such as big bang further
evolving into a kind of soup of hydrogen atoms. And they must have
continued rejoicing as they saw the universe and life forms evolving in the
course of some billions of years. And, who knows, they must be still
rejoicing to watch the universe and man still in the process being and
becoming. Or, else, they must be now wondering as to what next is going
to evolve and develop in the next billions of years.
It is very clear that the Sons of God or angelic host witnessed a fully
developed creation brought into existence by fiat. However, the unbelieving
theistic evolutionists find it difficult to accept by faith the biblical truth of an
instant creation by fiat. Instead, they assume that God must have created and
used some evolutionary process or a creation by fiat, not instantly, but
over billions of years. From where the billions of years is deriving its
credibility is unknown, so as for anyone to presume it is a reliable scientific
fact. If there was really any evolution or creation by fiat through billions of
years, then that must have been the case during the unknown period prior to
the earths destruction as briefly described in Genesis 1:2.
Convinced that matter and life have evolved into the complex forms
we find it today, theistic evolutionists are frantically seeking an answer to
the question of the manner of the creative process or how long the creative
process took or whether it is continuing even today1
As a matter of fact, physical creation is destined to deteriorate and
decay in the course of time instead of evolving further (Romans 8:2829).This fact, no one familiar with the second law of thermodynamics, will
ever deny. There is evidence now that the whole world and all in it are
degenerating and moving toward some climax, instead of evolving upward
into higher and better forms2
Notwithstanding unproved assumptions of evolutionary theories of

life and matter developing or evolving into a better form, the tendency for
decay has been recognized as one of the basic laws of nature. First codified
in science, and dubbed as the second law of thermodynamics, it has now
been recognized in every system of thought including genetics. This
tendency has received the name times arrow always pointing downhill3.
Accordingly, One of the very strongest arguments against evolution
has always been the tendency for every system, living or dead, individual or
societal, moral or mundane, to wear out, deteriorate, or die. As is common
to all experience, nothing, absolutely nothing, gets better on its own4
As such, instead of wondering and speculating as to whether the
supposedly created evolution process is continuing even today, we will do
well to ponder and accept Gods revealed truth that The heavens and the
earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire
against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men (2 Peter 3:7).
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1: Creation and Evolution? op. cit. p.7).
2: Finis J. Dake, op. cit. p.83.
3: John D. Morris, Are Things Getting Better or Are They Running Down? www.icr.org.
4: John D. Morris, ibid.

Theistic Evolution!
Is It a Fitting Response to Evolutionism?
Did God really first create some form of primitive matter and life
endowed with the potential of evolving into complex forms in the course of
billions of years? Did man, accordingly, evolve from some lower form of
life or was he created just the way the God of the Bible says He did?
Theistic Evolutionists accept the findings of science and see no
contradiction between the theory of evolution and a proper understanding of
the biblical account in Genesis 11. They state that revelation of the Bible
in no way rules out the possibility of life forms evolving through time2.
Their self-convincing argument is that if the facts show that evolution is

the most likely explanation for the development of species, they must come
to terms with it3. However, there is neither scriptural nor scientific evidence
to account for the possibility of life forms evolving through time; nor are
there any scientific facts to show that evolution is the most likely
explanation for the development of species, including the so-called homo
sapiens or man.
Next, in his Editorial intelligently captioned In Search of the God
of the Gasps4, John Halford confidently confronts the skeptics, saying:
Like it or not, the evidence is mounting that evolution through natural
selection is the way life develops 5 and that, after all, it does now look as if
Charles Darwin did not get it all wrong 6. However, there is no concrete
scientific evidence to prove that evolution through natural selection is the
way life develops. Neither John Halford did justice to his contention by
providing the necessary evidence to prove that evolution through natural
selection is the way life develops.
Next, according to him, What the world needs now is not more
people to desperately defend the increasingly beleaguered God of the
Gaps4 by defensively pointing to gaps in the evolutionary theory. He is
confident that current research has closed many of those gaps, and others
are under investigation7. As such, skeptical Christians are now called upon
to drop any opposition to the evolutionary theory and accept evolution by
natural selection as a valid explanation of the development of life8
But then, what kind of biblical and scientific evidence is there to
concretely prove the development of life by evolution? There is none!
Majority of the Christians have no access to any scientific findings or
facts to convincingly accept evolutionary theory as a scientific reality. Any
dissertation highlighting how research has closed many of the gaps in the
evolutionary theory and in what way evolution specifically macroevolution is Gods mechanism of creation would be of much help to
concerned God-fearing Christians. This is necessary so as to convincingly
give up any opposition to the evolutionary theory.
Notwithstanding the so-called evidence of evolution that seems to be
appealing to the theistic evolutionists, it can be convincingly stated that
Theistic evolution is clearly not the solution to quieting the creationevolution controversy for many reasons. One is because leading educators,
scientists and major science organizations are all hotly opposed to any and

all worldviews that involve God, and this view now actually faces much
more opposition than does creationism9
Moreover, by blindly accepting unproved evolutionary speculations,
theistic evolutionists are actually generating doubts as to the accuracy and
appropriateness of all Scriptures in adopting a Christian worldview. Once
you accept evolution and its implications about history, then man becomes
free to pick and choose which parts of the Bible he wants to accept 10
Reportedly, Huxley mocked those who try to harmonize evolution
and millions of years with the Bible, because it requires them to give up a
historical Genesis while still trying to hold to the doctrines of the New
Testament. He pointed out the various doctrines in the New Testament are
dependent on the truths of biblical Genesis events, such as Pauls teaching
on the doctrine of sin, Christs teaching on the doctrine of marriage, and the
warning of the future judgment11. However, the Bible has nothing to state
about the age of the universe or of earth. As such, it is the misinterpretation
of the Genesis account and not Genesis itself that is in sharp contradiction
with scientific speculations and is the cause of much unhealthy debate.
Anyway, we are now confidently assured that any possibility of
Evolution of Life Forms and Man by natural selection as good science
need not conflict with ones faith in God. But then, a conflict with what
God authoritatively has to tell us in Genesis 1 and what the so-called good
science has to sheepily tell us is certainly inevitable. The good science that
assumes the possibility of Evolution of Life Forms and Man by natural
selection is certainly very much at odds with Biblical Creation Science.
Nevertheless, in spite of the obvious conflict between Biblical Faith
and the so-called good science, theistic evolutionists are at ease even as they
assume that the Genesis 1 accounts of creation need not be taken literally.
They are quite comfortable in accepting the Genesis creation accounts as a
genre of creation epic adopted by Moses to tell people How Great God Is!
Subsequently, confident of their theological position built upon the
sands of evolutionary myths, a joyful invitation is now made by them to the
best minds to join in the quest for innovation and discovery, and then stand
back occasionally from what they are discovering in awe of the God of all
Creation and gasp, How Great Thou Art! 12
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1: Creation and Evolution? op. cit. p.7

2: ibidem. p.7.
3: ibidem. p.7.
4: Christian Odyssey, op. cit. p. 4
5: ibid, p. 4
6: ibid,. p. 4.
7: ibid,. p. 4.
8: ibid,. p. 4.
9: Jerry Bergman.
10: Ken Ham, Couldnt God have Used Evolution? August 22, 2007.
11: Ken Ham, ibid
12: John Halford, op. cit., p. 4.

Glorifying God of the Gaps

With the Myths of Evolution?
Theistic Evolutionists are convinced by the fallacies of evolutionary
theory as if its scientific truth and state that they cannot afford to hold
back our best young people by trapping them in hidebound concepts and
anti-scientific worldviews. According to them, What the world needs now
is not more people to desperately defend the increasingly beleaguered God
of the Gaps. We need our best minds to join in the quest for innovation and
discovery, and then stand back occasionally from what they are discovering
in awe of the God of all Creation and gasp, How great Thou art 1

In other words, to teach Biblical Creation Truth based upon a literal

interpretation of Genesis 1 and 2 accounts of creation is to hold on to
hidebound concepts and anti-scientific worldviews 2. Instead, we are
called upon to accept godless theories of Evolution as scientific facts and
stand back in awe of the God of the Bible as the Creator of Evolution.3
On the one hand, we are told that God has not revealed how He has
created everything; on the other hand they smuggle into the Scriptures
atheistic evolutionary concepts to tell us HOW God created everything in the
course of billions of years. We are now called upon by the Theistic
Evolutionists to stand in awe of God, rather the Unknown God, the Creator
of Evolution and gasp, How great Thou art? They want the archaic
ignorant Christians to convincingly accept by faith what the High Priests of
Evolution has to teach in an attempt to fill in the existing gaps in the theory
of evolution; and next, work miracles to bridge the unbridgeable gaps such
as between living and non-living matter and in the realm of particles,
between the electrons constituting the atoms and the atoms themselves4 and
so on, which scientists have not yet been and will never be able to bridge but
fall back on a miracle or a hyper- scientific intervention by God.
Perhaps, to the godly theistic evolutionists, God is no more a Supreme
Intelligent Designer and Omnipotent Creator who is able to get things done
miraculously by fiat, by mere speaking. Instead, God has been transformed
into a Dependent Evolutionist who, in spite of His omnipotent power, chose
to depend upon evolution governed by blind chance for the universe and life
forms including man to appear in the course of billions of years.
No wonder, as pointed out earlier, Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), an
ardent evolutionary humanist who popularized Darwins ideas, eloquently
pointed out the inconsistencies of reinterpreting Scripture to fit with popular
scientific theory. Huxley mocked those who try to harmonize evolution and
billions of years with the Bible, because it requires them to give up a
historical Genesis while still trying to hold to the doctrines of the New
Testament. What was Huxleys point? He insisted that the theologians had to
accept evolution and millions of years, but he pointed out that, to be
consistent, they had to give up the Bible totally. Compromise is impossible5
Theistic evolutionists do compromise, nevertheless, to their own glory.
Theistic Evolutionists will do well to heed Huxleys taunt at them and
decide either to wholeheartedly embrace evolution or to exclusively adhere

to Biblical Christian Faith. For, But once the door of compromise is

unlocked, once Christian leaders insist we shouldnt interpret the Bible as
written in Genesis, why should the world take heed of Gods Word in any
area? After all, if history in Genesis is not correct, how can one be sure the
rest is correct? (John 3:12) 6
Even atheistic scientists themselves are not wholly convinced of any
truth in the theory of evolution. As admitted by Professor Jerome, We have
no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none; and I
cannot accept the theory that I teach to my students each year. Let me
explain. I teach the synthetic theory known as the neo-Darwinian one, for
one reason only; not because its good, we know it is bad, but because there
isnt any other. Whilst waiting to find something better, you are taught
something which is known to be inexact, which is a first approximation. 7.
What a serious indictment that is!
So, why should any persons of ordinary intelligence blindly accept the
constantly mutating synthetic neo-Darwinian theories of evolution
knowing they are bad theories having no basis? And why should theistic
evolutionists seek to accommodate such bad theories and compromise with
biblical truth of creation at a time when the atheistic evolutionists
themselves candidly if not shamelessly admit that they have no acceptable
theory of evolution at the present time?
But the astounding thing is, that persons of intelligence, and of the
highest education too, should be so beguiled as to believe in the absurd and
nonsensical theory of evolution in these so-called enlightened times 8
One may easily conclude the so-called theistic evolutionists are also
beguiled so as to believe in the unbiblical evolutionary theory. At the same
time, as Pastors and godly Christians, they profess to know God as an
Omnipotent Creator and then deny Him the power to create by fiat,
instantly, and or to re-create and re-shape an existing creation without form
and void in six literal 24-hour days and rest on the seventh 24-hour day.
Is the so-called evidence of evolution so subtly deceitful, so as to lure
Christians to accept it as if it is truth? Nevertheless, The Bible in its entirety
condemns the theories of both cosmic and organic evolution. It declares in
no uncertain terms that God created all the material and moral creations,
the animate and inanimate things, and that He is the first and last cause of
all existing universes and the things therein 9

The Theory of Evolution intrinsically rejects God, Christ, Holy Spirit

and the Bible. It is totally anti-Christian. Instead of acknowledging God as
the Creator of matter and life, its proponents substitute and worship blind
force, resident powers or deify chance to account for the existence of
matter and life without the need for any Creator God.
Evolutionary hide-bound concepts degrade man to the level of a beast
by theorizing that man has descended from some beast-like common
ancestor or from the so-called ape-men. As such, it blatantly denies man
as being created by God after His own Image and Likeness. In that sense,
Christ who is a historical figure is indirectly degraded to having descended
from some ape-man ancestor. Thus, it indirectly degrades God.
On what concrete basis theistic evolutionists can come to terms with
blasphemous unscientific theories of evolution is difficult to understand?
One is left imagining as to what kind of scientific evidence they have come
across to convincingly presume man has descended from some imaginary
common ancestor, which in turn, supposedly evolved from some vague
primitive cellular forms through the course of billions of years.
However, neither man nor plants nor animals have descended from
some common imaginary ancestor. Despite the claims of evolution, the
appearance of new species, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, pesticide
resistance and sickle-cell anemia are not evidence in favor of evolution.
They do, however, demonstrate the principle of natural selection acting on
existing traits a concept that creationists and evolutionists agree on.
The creationist model of how life spread across the globe after the
Flood of Genesis uses many of the same principles of natural selection and
adaptive radiation that are used in the evolution model. One of the main
differences is that the biblical creation model recognizes that one kind
cannot change into another and that the changes are a result of variation
within the created kinds not descent from a single common ancestor. As a
result of the Curse, genetic mutations, representing a loss of information,
have been accumulating, but these do not cause new kinds to emerge.
Accepting the idea of a single common ancestor denies the authority of
Gods Word 10
Its amazing as to how theistic evolutionists could allow themselves to
be deceived into accepting evolutionary myth of mans descent from some

ape-man and at the same time doctrinally look at man as Gods creation, his
fall into sin and subsequent redemption of the fallen man from sin and
death by the atoning and saving work of Christ. However, To argue that the
Christian can accept evolution on the grounds that the Bible is not to be
taken literally, is a surrender to the foes of God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, the
Bible and all Christian teachings 11
In a fitting Conclusion to his Article entitled Theistic Evolution
and Creation-Evolution Controversy, Jerry Bergman succinctly states:
Theistic Evolution is clearly not the solution to quieting the creationevolution controversy for many reasons. One is because leading educators,
scientists, and major science organizations are all hotly opposed to any and
all worldviews that involve God, and this view now actually faces much
more opposition than does creationism. The solution to the controversy is
not to adopt a position that does justice to neither the Science nor the
Scriptures, but to advocate a position supported by the scientific data, and
not science speculation based on naturalism 12
Further, Bergman quoting Provine concludes that a person who
argues that Darwinism and Theism are compatible is (1) an effective atheist,
or (2) one who believes things demonstrably unscientific, or (3) asserts the
existence of entities or processes for which no shred of evidence exists 13
Biblically speaking, Nothing about the Genesis text itself suggests that the
biblical creation account is merely symbolic, poetic, allegorical, or
mythical. The main thrust of the message simply cannot be reconciled with
the notion that creation occurred via natural evolutionary processes over
long periods of time. 14
To some extent it is true that the traditional six-day creationism
does not offer a proven, rigorous and valid scientific alternative to evolution.
It is based on a single narrow interpretation of the first chapter of the
Bible15. Nevertheless, the fact that God is the Originator of life and matter
remains unchanged. The Theory of Evolution with all of its versions is not
truly an Operational Science and only deals with imaginary Origins.
To be scientifically precise, We need to be aware of the difference
between operational science and origins science. Operational science is the
result of experimental data or observations taken in the present, subject to
peer review, and capable of repetition. Origins science is an extrapolation of
presently observed phenomena into the past, in a manner which is not
repeatable. When evolutionists are criticized for the latter, it is not because

the principle of origins science is wrong, but because such a model cannot
be accepted as a proven fact. So it is with creationists models 16
Notwithstanding the vague speculations of the atheistic evolutionists
relating to the origin of life, it is humanly impossible to explain the origin of
life apart from Gods revelation in the Bible. Research on the origin of life
seems to be unique in that the conclusion has already been authoritatively
accepted One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current
wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and
natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has
not yet been written 1 7
The Self-existent God is the Creator of life. In other words, beginning
with the microscopic viruses, bacteria and unicellular simple life forms to
the complex species of flora and fauna, all forms of life have been created by
Him. Accordingly, The only true account of the origin of life on earth is
found in the account of the only Eyewitness who was there. The Bible
explains that the presence of life on earth is the result of supernatural
actions of an omnipotent Intelligent Designerthe God of the Bible. Many
complain that accepting this supernatural explanation stops anyone from
pursuing knowledge about the natural world, but the presence of a logical
Creator provides a reason to look for order in the universe. This point is
underscored by the fact that many of the major fields of science were
founded by men who believed in the Creator God of the Bible. The only
aspect of science that the acceptance of creation excludes is the story of
evolution18 Evolutionists who draw weird conclusions about the origin of
life somehow resort to blind faith so as to accept their conclusions as truth.
Theistic evolutionists somehow prefer not to interpret the Creation
accounts in Genesis literally. This they have to do in order to embrace vague
evolutionary concepts. As such, their unscriptural reasoning is in tune with
that of the modern skeptics. For, Skeptics often claim, The Bible is not a
science textbook. This, of course, is truebecause science textbooks change
every year, whereas the Bible is the unchanging Word of Godthe God who
cannot lie. Nevertheless, the Bible can be relied upon when it touches on
every scientific issue... It is the Bible that gives us the big picture. Within this
big picture, we can build scientific models that help us explain how past
events may have come about. Scientific models, while helpful, must never
take the place of Scripture. The scientific model can be superseded.
Scripture cannot! If scientific evidence causes a creationist model to change,
we should not let that shake our confidence in the accuracy and authority of
Scripture 19. Next, Technology has shown us that sophisticated machines

require intelligent designersnot random chance. Science and technology

are perfectly consistent with the Bible 20
Prophet Isaiahs question to theistic scientists and evolutionists who
believe in the evolutionary concepts would be: To whom then will you liken
God? Or with what likeness will you compare Him? Its high time they
listen to God and take His Word relating to creation accounts seriously and
interpret the same literally. There is no need to sympathize with God as the
beleaguered God of the Gaps, and then serve Him with the myths of
evolution to fill in the unbridgeable gaps in the evolutionary theory.
Gods Word thunders at those who deny its truth and contradict God
through evolutionary lies thereby defiling His Holiness and character. The
holiness of God is what drives and limits His revelation of Himself to His
creation. Scripture is consistent. Holiness is God's fundamental nature and
that unique nature so permeates what God is and does that no action or
thought from the Godhead can override it. Humanity will never know
holiness until the new heavens and the new earth. We may well experience
righteousness in our lifetimes as our hearts long for the presence of the holy
God, but God's holiness--God's perfection--can only be believed.21 Theistic
scientists and evolutionists should give up worshipping and glorifying the
Unknown God of the Gaps. Instead, they should reverently gasp and start
serving the God of the Bible, for He alone is: Holy, holy, holy, LORD God
Almighty.... Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power:
for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were
created (Revelation 4:8, 11).
Gasp it if you can, and wonder! It is HE that sitteth upon the circle
of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof (including the theistic and atheistic
evolutionists) are as grasshoppers; that stretched out the heavens as a
curtain, and spread them out as a tent to dwell in (Isaiah 40:18; 22).
Surely, God didnt take billions of years to stretch out the heavens like
a curtain and spread them out as a tent to dwell in. The God of the Bible,
who IS, certainly cannot be a Creator of Evolution. The unproven Theory
of Evolution is not only unscientific but totally unscriptural, and is a satanic
lie. The Bible says it so and that should settle it, once for all, whether theistic
scientists and evolutionists agree with it or not. The myths of pagan
evolution dont glorify God but only please Satan. The pure biblical truth of
Genesis and that of the rest of the Bible is what glorifies God!

Instead of accepting Genesis and other biblical accounts of creation

literally, Theistic Evolutionists have sanctified lies of atheistic scientists. In
doing so, they make God a liar. But Because of His holiness, God cannot
lie (Hebrews 6:18), and whenever God reveals anything, He must reveal the
truth about Himself and His nature. The Creator God is "Truth" (John 14:6)
and the originator of "Lie" is the Archenemy, Lucifer (John 8:44). The
opposite of truth, even though it may contain partial truth, is the active
agent that opposes Gods truth as it is revealed to His creation. Therefore,
the Creator God must reveal truth and cannot "be" untruth. When God
speaks, He must speak truth. When God acts, God must act without "doing"
error. One of the titles by which Jesus Christ is eternally known is "Faithful
and True" (Revelation 19:11). God's holiness demands that the creation not
distort anything about God--or about the creation itself.
God could not create a lie -- He could not make anything that would
inexorably lead us to a wrong conclusion. Nor could He create processes
that would counter His own nature--or that would lead us to conclude
something untrue about Him. Evolutionary mechanisms are, by their very
nature, both random and nonfunctional. Nothing in naturalist theory
"directs" evolution. Vast eons of time, in which chaos "works" and during
which death "weeds out" the ineffective, are thought to somehow produce
processes and systems of apparent design. No god in this system exists to
create anything. Christians who seek to harmonize the biblical revelation of
a holy God with the antithetical evolutionary theories are constructing
dangerous hybrids that blaspheme the very God they insist they believe in.
May God protect us from such thinking 22
1: J. Halford, Christian Odyssey, op. cit. p.4 2: ibid, p. 4
3: J. Tkach, www.wcg. org.
4: Lecomte DuNuouy, op. cit, p.
5: Ken Ham, Couldnt God Have Used Evolution? featured in: The New Answers Book,
www.answersingenesis.org. 6:Ken Ham, ibid, www.answersingenesis.org.
7: Professor Jerome Lejeune, Evolution Exposed, www.answersingenesis.org.
8: Savage, J. op. cit. p. 8.

9: Dake, F. J., op. cit. p. 82.

10: Patterson, Evolution Exposed, Biology, 2007; www.answersingenesis.org.

11: Dake, Finis J; op. cit; p. 81.

12: Jerry Bergman, PhD, Theistic Evolution and Creation-Evolution Controversy,

www.icr.org.
13: Provine,W, 1988: Scientists, Face It! Science and Religion are Incompatible,
Scientist, September, 5 p.10 quoted by Jerry Bergman, op.cit.
14: John MacArthur, The Battle op.cit; p.18.

15: Creation and Evolution, op.cit., p.5

16: Paul Taylor, AiG-UK, Can Creation Models be Wrong? September 4, 2007,
www.answersingenesis.org.
17: Yockey, H.P., A calculation of the probability of spontaneous biogenesis by
information theory, Journal of Theoretical Biology 67:377398, 1977; quoted by Roger
Patterson in The Origin of Life, Evolution Exposed, www.answersingenesis.org
18: Roger Patterson, The Origin of Life, www.answersingenesis.org,op. cit..
19: Paul Taylor, www. answers in genesis.org; op.cit
20:Dr. Jason Lisle, Ph.D.,
www.answersingenesis.org..

Can

creationists

be

scientists?

April

2005,

21: Henry Morris III, God's Holiness Demands a Perfect Creation, www.icr.org.
22: Henry Morris III, D. Min, God's Holiness Demands a Perfect Creation, www.icr.org.

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Part Three to follow deals comprehensively but not exhaustively

with all the three major aeonian Phases or Epochs of the True Biblical or
Scriptural Creationism. All the biblical evidence relating to the Creation
Truth that has been briefly highlighted in Part two is further examined and
dealt with, in detail.

A critical in-depth biblical evaluation of the Traditional Six-day

Creationism is made. Next, the assumed contradictions in the so-called Gap
Theory are examined in the light of clear Scriptural evidence to conclusively
prove pre-Adamite Fall of Lucifer and the consequent destruction brought
on earth as in Genesis 1:2. The Gap Theory is next convincingly replaced
with a relevant Biblically based pre-historical, pre-Adamite Theology having
evangelical connotations and much theological significance.
Next, the phased work of the six-days is covered by highlighting its
prophetic or predictive evangelical significance in relation to Gods
dispensational restorative plan through a prophetic week of six millennial
days under Satans rule culminating in the Millennial Sabbath of Gods rule.
Finally, the creation of new Heavens and new Earth as predicted in the
Bible is dealt with briefly, followed by an Epilogue depicting the New
Spiritual Creation in Man, the pinnacle of Gods creative works.

PART THREE

EPOCHS or PHASES
OF

SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM

Generation, Degeneration
And
Regeneration of Heavens and Earth

Phase One
Creation in the Eternity Past
Generation of Heavens and Earth
(First Generation)
Pre-Adamic Life on Earth
Lucifers Rule on Earth
Lucifers Rebellion and Consequences
Degeneration of Heavens and Earth

Towards

Biblical Pre-Adamite Theology

Phase Two
Creation in the Realm of Time
Gods Second Phase of Creative Works
Regeneration of Heavens and Earth
(Second Generation)
Origin of the Seven-Day Week
Creation of Sabbath
A Literal Seven-Day Week

Phase Three
Creation in the Eternity Future
Creation of New Heavens and New Earth
(Third Generation)

EPOCHS or PHASES
OF

SCRIPTURAL CREATIONISM
Biblically speaking, there are three different clearly distinguishable
epochs or phases of Gods Works of Physical Creation. This fact becomes
obvious when we put together all the Scriptures relating to physical creation;
that is, those relating to the past works as well as to the prophesied future
works. We need to rightly divide the Word of Truth differentiating the
creation accounts with reference to their specific periods which obviously
constitute the three different phases of the True Scriptural Creationism.

Persistent failure to differentiate the Scriptures relating to Creation

given here a little, and there a little, with reference to the creation periods
they obviously cover, lies behind the faulty traditional six-day creationism.
Next, this gross failure is compounded by elaborate grammatical conclusions
drawn to substantiate that the three circumstantial clauses of Genesis 1:2
are contemporaneous with Genesis 1:1. Accordingly, it is wrongly believed
that the entire universe has been created during the six days of Genesis 1 at a
time when the Bible clearly teaches otherwise.
The fact that Gods work of the six days (Genesis 1:3-31) is actually a
later additional work different from His original instant work of creation by
fiat In the Beginning (Genesis 1:1) has escaped the attention of the
traditional six-day creationists. Next, their failure to distinguish the two
creation accounts in Genesis 1 lies behind the prevailing conflict between
the traditional belief of a creation in six days and true science. As otherwise,
there can be no conflict between science and the biblical creation accounts.
Next, the conditions on earth described in Genesis 1:2 were not, as
such, in the beginning when God created the universe. God is perfect and
His works are always perfect. The conditions of empty wasteland and
desolation on earth were not of creation but of judgment as a consequence of
Lucifers rebellion. Scriptural evidence shows that Lucifer was on earth
(Ezekiel 28:13a) along with angels; and that they all eventually rebelled
against God (Ezekiel 28:16, Jude 6; 2 Peter 2:4). Failure to appreciate these
scriptural truths has only re-enforced traditional hide-bound concepts. In
turn, is the failure to recognize evangelically significant truth in Genesis 1.
A simple textual analysis of Genesis1 makes it very clear that there is
a marked inherent distinction in it. This distinction clearly depicts works of
instant creation ex nihilo of a prior parent generation of heavens and earth
and the distinct phased work of the six days wherein each days work is
characterized by And God Said. The six-day work is, therefore, a work of
restoration and of renewal through re-creation. Actually, it is a work of
regeneration that brought forth the second generation of heavens and earth.
This has been accomplished through renovation of the original creation.
The very first verse of Genesis 1 is an independent and distinct verse
in itself which Moses was inspired to write, to briefly describe the creation
of the entire universe as it was first created, in the eternity past. The original
universe when first prepared (Proverbs 8:27a) was a perfect work of creation
and complete, requiring no additional work for its further development as is

assumed by the traditional six-day creationists. The fact that the original
universe was created as a completed work is biblically relevant seeing that
whatever God does is always perfect (Deuteronomy 32:4) and beautiful
(Ecclesiastes 3:11) from the very moment it is brought into existence in
perfect harmony with His will.
Next, this original creation of the universe is in no way a work of the
first day of the creation week. In fact, this original creation was in the midst
of eternity, in the dateless or ageless past in timelessness. This original
creation doesnt mark the beginning of time or the beginning of the first day
of the week. Just as the stellar heavens are now in space, in timelessness, so
also the original universe existed, as such, without any reference to time.
As such, the conditions on earth described in Genesis 1: 2 cannot be a
work of Gods original perfect creation but are a result of judgment. God is
not the Author of disorder or chaos and, therefore, the chaos described in
verse 2 is not a part of Gods original creation. It was, therefore, in Gods
plan to work additionally for six days in order to restore order out of chaos
and create conditions of life on earth, all over again.
The work of each of the six days, unlike the work of direct creation, is
a result of God ordering things by giving express commands to Let things
happen or be created. As such, each of the six days work was initiated by a
command: And God said: Let There Be! And that which God commanded
to happen or come into existence, instantly materialized. As such, the first
day of re-creation begins with Genesis 1:3 and not with Genesis 1:1.
But then, was there any need for God to give specific commands to
initiate each days work? And to whom God was issuing such commands?
The very fact that God commanded to bring into existence things that were
not there and or to put those things in order that were in a chaotic condition
indicates that the chaotic situation was something that occurred later, on the
original once perfect earth. Hence, the specific commands to restore!
The chaotic condition on earth wasnt created by God. It actually
occurred as a judgmental outcome resulting in the original perfect and
beautiful earth ending up in chaos and under Satans control. Therefore, God
had to give specific commands so that the angels could witness the earths
restoration and redemption from being under Satans dominion. As
otherwise, there was no need for God to issue any specific commands but
simply create and bring into existence through a phased work-course in six

days in the absence of any specific commands even as in the beginning.

Undoubtedly, Genesis 1:2 describes a situation on earth that occurred
as a result of sin. Scriptural evidence as described in Ezekiel 28:16-17 makes
it all clear to those who have spiritual eyes to discern spiritual truths that
Lucifers sin occurred before the creation of Adam. There is not even any
slightest biblical indication so as for anyone to presume that Lucifer sinned
after Day Seven of the creation week as is taught by the traditional six-day
creationists. Yet, such is the prevailing belief amongst the traditional six-day
creationists. Accordingly, they believe chaos of Genesis as Gods activity of
Day 1. Biblically speaking, darkness covering a chaotic empty or void and
barren earth inundated with waters is a result of judgment (Jude 6).
Thus, the planned and phased work of the six days is not in any way
connected with that of the original creation of Genesis 1:1 nor with the
chaotic conditions of Genesis 1:2. It is a work God carried out through six
days to restore first the original conditions of life and thereafter re-create
new life forms on the barren earth in spite of Lucifers opposition.
The work of the first six days, in a way, typically characterizes Gods
redemptive work following Lucifers rebellion and subsequently, Adams
sin, during the last 6,000 years. It culminates in Gods millennial reign on
earth followed by the Final Judgment and the creation of new heavens and
new earth, completing the third phase of the True Scriptural Creationism.
There is obviously, a generation which is next followed by degeneration and
then a regeneration. In other words, we have three Generations!

Generations of Heavens and Earth

The Bible speaks of Generations of Heavens and Earth in
Genesis 2:4a: These are the generations of the Heavens and the Earth
when they were created. Why speak of Generations of Heavens and
Earth if the Heavens and Earth of Genesis 1:1 is one and the same
throughout?
According to the Scriptures, there is first a parent generation of
heavens and earth created instantly In the Beginning by fiat, distinct and
complete. The next generation is an outgrowth or offspring of the first
generation subsequent to a systematic work of six days. This distinction
becomes clear from the Hebrew word for Generations in Genesis.

The Hebrew Toledah or towledah in Genesis 2:4a translated as

Generations means descent, family, race, history, origin It refers to
what is produced or brought into being by someone, and sometimes the
results. It does not include the birth of the individual who started the line of
descendants. Therefore, Genesis 2:4a doesnt indicate the process of how
heavens and earth came into existence, but the events which followed their
establishment. In other words, it is not a summary of the events which
preceded Genesis 2:4. 1
As such, the generations of heavens and earth of Genesis 2:4a
include, first, the parent generation of heavens and earth of old (Prov.8:2031, 2 Peter 3:5) that were created bara in the eternity past (Genesis 1:1).
Next, is the second generation of heavens and earth that were made asah
(Genesis 2:4b) rather regenerated as in Genesis 1:8 and 1:10, 14-19 during
the work of the six days (Genesis 1:3-31). These two generations are
summarized by Genesis 2:1: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,
and all the host of them.
The Hebrew word for finished is kalah meaning to be completed,
accomplished, ready essentially, it means to bring a process to
completion. It appears both transitively and intransitively throughout the
Hebrew Bible. The processes may be either positive or negative, i.e.,
something may be continually added to until it is full or complete, or
something may be taken away from until there is nothing left. It is the total
task, working until the job is done. 2 And that is exactly what God did
during the work of the first six days beginning with Genesis 1:3.
God makes it very clear that the work of the six days He began on the
first day (Genesis 1:3-5) was completed on the sixth day (Genesis 1:31) by
adding a fitting conclusion in Genesis 2:1. In no way, this refers to the
original creation which involved no process but was created instantly. The
creation of the heavens and earth In the Beginning involved creating the
same miraculously by fiat, ex-nihilo when there was nothing. It involved
no work, so to say, but God willing it into existence instantly by fiat (Isaiah
48:13); as such, it is totally a different creation in relation to the phased
work of the six days that actually involved independent creative processes.
The fact of generations of heavens and earth God speaks about in
Genesis 2:4a remains totally obscured by the traditional concept of six-day
creationism. According to the traditional concept the entire universe was

created in six days. This leaves no room to differentiate any generations of

heavens and earth. However, the very fact that God Himself speaks of
Generations of Heavens and Earth rules out or does away with the
traditional belief of a creation of heavens and earth in six days as if it were
an actual one-time single event.
On the other hand, the biblical fact of the plurality of generations of
heavens and earth confirms and establishes the biblical accounts of
creation in Genesis 1:1 and those of Genesis 1: 3-31 as totally different
accounts, independent of each other. Accordingly, it is biblically accurate to
state that the instant creation of heavens and earth recorded in Genesis 1:1 is
a completed work of an initial perfect creation by fiat and is prior to the
phased work of the six days of Genesis 1:3- 31(cf. Exodus 20:11, 31:17).
Traditional Six-day creationists will never ever be able to explain the
concept of GENERATIONS of HEAVENS and EARTH by insisting the entire
universe was made in six days. A proper exegesis of Genesis 2:4a indicates
two generations of heavens and earth consisting of an earlier parent
generation (Genesis 1:1) of the dateless past and the subsequent younger
generation (Genesis 1:3-31) of some 6000 years back, originating from the
parent generation. The third and the last generation of the heavens and
earth is yet in the future and will be created as prophesied in Isaiah 65:17,
66:22; 2 Peter 3:13 and Revelation 21:1. All these three generations of the
heavens and earth constitute three distinct creation epochs!

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1: Spiros Zodhiates, op. cit. p.1652.

2: Spiros Zodhiates, ibid, p.1600.

Where were thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast
understanding. Who set the measures thereof -- if thou knowest? Or who
stretched a line upon it? Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken?

Or who laid its corner-stone, when the morning stars sang together, and all
the sons of God shouted for joy? (Job 38:4-7, Darby Translation, 1889).
*******
When He prepared the heavens I was there; when He ordained the
circle upon the face of the deep; when He established the skies above, when
the fountains of the deep became strong; when He imposed on the sea His
decree that the waters should not pass His commandment, when He
appointed the foundations of the earth: then I was by Him as His nursling,
and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him; rejoicing in the
habitable part of His earth, and my delights were with the sons of men
(Proverbs 8:27-31; Darby Translation, 1889).
*******

Phase One

Creation in the Eternity Past

Generation of Heavens and Earth
(First Generation)
Pre-Adamic Life on Earth
Lucifers Rule on Earth
Lucifers Rebellion and Consequences
Degeneration of Heavens and Earth
Towards

Biblical Pre-Adamite Theology

When He prepared the heavens, I was there,

When He drew a circle on the face of the deep,
When He established the clouds above,

When He strengthened the fountains of the deep,

When He assigned to the sea its limit,
So that the waters would not transgress His command,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth,
Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman;
And I was daily His delight,
Rejoicing always before Him,
Rejoicing in His inhabited world,
And my delight was with the sons of men
(Proverbs 8:27-31)
Scriptures taken from the New King James Version.
Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Used by permission. All rights reserved).

First Generation of Heavens and Earth

Original Perfect Creation
To those who might ask Theistic Evolutionists as to Why would God
have created a process like evolution? Dr. Joseph Tkach, of Grace
Communion International, responds: We could equally well ask of those
who interpret Genesis 1 as a literal, six-day creation, Why would Creation
take God six days? Couldnt He have done it all in one instant? 1 And, that
is exactly what God did, In A Beginning, by creating instantly by fiat!
To be precise, God did create the original heavens and the earth all in

one instant by fiat, as is recorded in Genesis 1:1. In no way does it cover

the creation account in Genesis 1:3-31relating to the work of the first six
days. Unfortunately, this biblical fact has not been acknowledged by the sixday creationists and has not been recognized by the theistic evolutionists. It
involves rightly dividing and separating the Word of Truth stated in Genesis
1:1 from that of Genesis 1:2 and 3-31. These Scriptures when interpreted
independently with the help of other related Scriptures, given here a little,
and there a little, definitely prove that the original creation of heavens and
earth was perfect. God spoke it into existence and it stood fast.
However, prejudice somehow has to play its role to keep oneself from
openly acknowledging the truth of an earlier perfect creation. After all, the
belief of traditional six-day creationism has become deeply ingrained in
the hearts and minds of those who have been exposed to it. Moreover, it has
been believed as such throughout the church history. After all, how could the
church and all the theologians be ever wrong, all along?
The human tendency is always to resist truth that contradicts ones
established belief systems and that, even when one once confronted with
biblical facts is able to see that his or her beliefs are biblically untenable.
Next, attempts are made to seize on certain Scriptures apparently supporting
ones beliefs and from which one next concludes he or she is right even as
such Scriptures are interpreted through the grid of ones beliefs, erroneous
though they be. For example, it is very often defensively stated that Moses
confirms the creation of original heavens and earth in six days by quoting
Exodus 20:11 and 31:17. However, heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1 differ
from the heavens of Genesis 1:8, 14-19 and the earth of Genesis 1:10.
As such, when Moses states that God made the heavens and the
earth and the sea and everything in them in six days and rested on the
seventh day, it is obvious that he is actually referring to the work of the six
days described in Genesis1:3-31 and not directly to the original creation.
Next, when Jesus states that from the beginning of the creation, God
made them male and female (Mark 10:6), He is talking about the creation
of Adam and Eve as male and female from the beginning of the phased
six days work of creation of Genesis 1:3-31 if not from the beginning of
their creation as male and female on the sixth day. Similarly, when Jesus
states that there shall be affliction such as was not from the beginning of
the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be (Mark
13:19), He did not mean to say from the beginning of the original creation

but from the beginning of the creation of the phased work of the six days.
Unlike the traditional 6-day creationists, Jesus was fully aware of two
inter-related generations of heavens and earth (Gen.1:1, 2:1,4a) having
distinct beginnings of their creation. One, the first generation of heavens and
earth of Genesis 1:1 having a beginning in the eternity past. The other,
the second generation of heavens and the earth having a beginning on the
2nd and 3rd day made during the phased creation work of the six days.
The phrase beginning of creation needs to be understood from the
meaning of the Hebrew word reshith translated beginning in Genesis1:1.
It actually refers to the initiation of a series of historical events that
involved the creation of the first generation of heavens and earth of Genesis
1:1. This is followed by the second generation of heavens and earth during
the work of the six days. Creation in Greek ktisis, in a passive sense
refers to what is created in general; the sum total of what God has created,
the entire creation (Mark 10:16, 13:9; Romans 1:20; Hebrews 9:11; 1 Peter
2:13; 2 Peter 3:4) and, in particular, it refers specially to mankind as Gods
creation (Mark 16:15; Colossians 1:28) 2
Next, A Beginning in Genesis 1:1 refers to the actual beginning of
Gods physical Works of Creation in the eternity past (Proverbs 8:22-31). It
has no reference whatsoever to any beginning in relation to time. Time,
actually began with the first day of the creation week as in Genesis 1:3-5.
During the phased work of the six days God created the second generations
of heavens and earth and all that in them is ever since. This second
generation of heavens and earth is obviously an outgrowth of the first.
As such, what God actually created and made rather regenerated
during the six days of Genesis 1:3-31 is in addition to what God originally
perfectly created In the Beginning in timelessness. It is subsequent to the
chaos on earth described in Genesis 1:2 which was a later outcome.
Biblical Creation Truth, as such, interprets Genesis 1:1 with full
conviction, by stating that it describes the creation of a perfect, fully
developed universe by fiat. In other words, God of His own free will and by
His absolute power called the whole universe into being; evoking into
existence what was previously nonexistent. (See Psalms 33:6, 9; 102:25;
Isaiah 45:18; Jeremiah 10:12; John 1:3; Acts 14:15; 17:24; Romans 4:17;
Hebrews 3:4; Revelation 4:11). If we concede the absolute power of God,
we must accept His power to create and destroy as stated in the Scripture.

There are many problems which the finite mind cannot completely grasp. We
accept those things by faith (Hebrews 11:3). 3
All that can be actually stated about the original universe from the
Scriptures here a little and there a little is that it was created perfect and
beautiful. After all, whatever God does according to His plan is always
perfect (Deuteronomy 32:4) and beautiful (Ecclesiastes 3:11). This is a clear
biblical fact; and to think otherwise and state that the original creation was
incomplete with chaos on earth covered with waters and darkness so as to
hold on to traditional beliefs is totally unscriptural if not blasphemous.
However, it has not been revealed as to the exact nature and physical
composition of the original heavens and earth as they were initially created
nor any man can actually find it out. All that can be said is that God hath
made everything beautiful in his time: and, that no man can find out the
work that God maketh ftom the beginning to the end (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
Mans attempt to find out about the work that God maketh from the
beginning to the end is bound to be a futile exercise; a fruitless effort.
Atheistic scientists and evolutionists can only guess and speculate but
in vain as to the origins and the exact nature of the vast incomprehensible
universe. However, what is observed by the scientists relating to the present
universe does not necessarily mean the universe was as such from the
moment of its original perfect creation. What is scientifically observed and
studied of the present universe is actually what has been re-created later
(Genesis1:3-31) subsequent to the chaos of Genesis 1:2 during which the
original creation was subjected to uselessness (Romans 8:20).
Actually, it is impossible for anyone to find out about the real nature
of the original universe of Genesis 1:1. As a matter of fact, whatever is
currently discovered about the universe and related findings in astronomy
actually indicate the physical aspects of the universe as it has been since its
re-creation following the chaotic condition on earth as in Genesis 1: 2.
Further, recent findings only confirm that the creation was made subject to
vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in
hope as stated in Romans 8:20; 22, subsequent to Adams fall.
Traditional Six-day Creationists and Theistic evolutionists will do
well to interpret appropriately all the Scriptures relating to creation in
Genesis and elsewhere in the Bible. We need to be in the faith of Gods
creative wisdom and power and accept the biblical fact which states that

In the Beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth at its face value.
We should not interpret the same according to traditional beliefs!
Traditional six-day creationists have overlooked, all along, the
biblical fact of two independent creation accounts in Genesis 1. They have
mixed up these two accounts as if the same were one event. As a
consequence, the traditional six-day creationists have come up with
erroneous conclusions about the age of the earth as well as have distorted
scientific facts about the solar system and the rest of the universe. Thus, their
erroneous conclusions have been the target of attack by the atheistic and
theistic scientists and evolutionists, all along.
Theistic evolutionists, on the other hand, hastily adopted the absurd
atheistic evolutionary concepts as if evolution, rather macro-evolution, has
really occurred. However, there are evolutionists who, themselves, are not
wholly convinced and know that evolution is not really a scientific fact.
As such, theistic evolutionists will do well not to speculate that the
universe has evolved with some big bang or from a soup of hydrogen
atoms culminating into a fully developed universe with the suns, moons,
stars, planets, galaxies, and so on. Next, that by some mysterious processes
of organic evolution, the vegetable and animal kingdoms have mysteriously
evolved from some lower forms of life to what they are today. To assume as
such, is to display ones ignorance of biblical truth. Biblical creation facts
when interpreted appropriately convincingly rules out any evolution. The
concepts of evolution and chance forces would sound strange to the biblical
authors who knew God as a Creator God who creates perfectly.
It is of primary importance for the traditional six-day creationists,
theistic scientists and evolutionists to convincingly come to terms with the
fact of two independent creation accounts in Genesis 1 itself. Accordingly,
next interpret scientific evidence within the framework of the two creation
accounts taking into account the chaotic conditions on earth in Genesis 1:2.
To adopt such a biblical creation framework convincingly one will
have to renounce traditional unbiblical presuppositions. And then one has to
confidently choose to attune and align with the biblical truth of two
independent creation accounts. This can be only achieved by shedding away
ones bias or prejudice! Unfortunately, we arent interested in hearing
anything that doesnt support what we have already determined is true.

But, irrespective of whether one acknowledges two independent

creation accounts in Genesis 1 or not, the Bible is very clear about it and that
settles it. Accordingly, it can be convincingly accepted that God did create
the original heavens and earth in a perfect physical condition according to
His perfect plan and, as such, it was not some vague formless matter.
And given the fact that God is a Creator who creates perfectly or does
things perfectly, the condition on earth stated in Genesis 1:2 cannot be a part
of the original creation. As such, the prevailing hypothesis of the six-day
creationists that the earth when originally created was in an imperfect
condition of tohu and bohu is biblically and theologically untenable.
When God created the Heavens and the Earth in A beginning, it was a
completed perfect creation with nothing lacking in it, so as to necessitate by
implication, further work for its development. The entire universe (the
merism: heavens and earth) has had to consist of everything that then existed
in timelessness and now exists anywhere in space and in time. Obviously, it
includes all the physical matter including disintegrated matter (supernova) as
well as light, electro-magnetism, radiation and all other forms of energy.
And right away from the beginning of creation, the vast universe with
everything in it, is sustained and maintained by Gods power. Of course, the
physical creation is undergoing change through disintegration having been
subjected to futility and decay consequent to Lucifers rebellion and later on,
as a consequence of Adams sin. In other words, the present regenerated
physical creation is subjected to futility or uselessness. Accordingly, it is
eventually going to be by a new and permanent creation.
When the Bible states that In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth, it logically means that He created it all with everything that
we now know of and everything we may never come to know about the vast
universe. Accordingly, our solar system has been a part of the universe from
the beginning of creation. So also all the sextillions stars of which more than
100 billion stars comprise our giant spiral shaped Milky Way Galaxy has
been a part of the universe. Next, Studies of distant space with optical and
radio telescopes indicate that there may be about 100 billion galaxies in the
visible universe. Galaxies tend to be grouped together into clusters, and
some clusters appear to be grouped into super-clusters. 4
Obviously, our unique solar system with all its planets, the moons,
asteroids, comets, etc has been in existence along with the earth from the

beginning and not from the fourth day of the creation week as assumed by
the Traditional six-day creationists. God created a fully organized universe
from the beginning itself. He did not create the so-called stellar heavens of
the outer space without the solar system supposedly believed to be created
on the fourth day and the earth on the first day contrary to Genesis 1:15.
It is a well known fact that our earth is organized into a solar
system, which is a part of a highly organized group of stars called a galaxy,
which is part of a highly organized family of galaxies called clusters which,
in turn, are organized into an enormous group of clusters called supercluster. 6
The solar system was not created on the fourth day 7. On
the fourth day, God positioned the sun and the moon and the stars also to
align in such a way so as to restore order out of chaos. And, the pristine
earth was not void and empty in the beginning of its creation but was
inhabited with life.
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1: Speaking of Life, with Dr. Joseph Tkach; link: www.speakingoflife.org.
2: Spiros Zodhiates, op. cit. p. 1636.
3: Spiros Zodhiates, op.cit. p.1.

4: World Book Encyclopedia

5: Gleason L. Archer, Jr. Encyclopedia of BIBLE DIFFICULTIES, Regency Reference

Library, A Zondervan Publication, USA, 1982, p.61
6: Jeremy Walter, In Six Days, Ed: p. 11
7: Jack W. Langford, The Gap is Not a Theory, www.separationtruth.org, Section 1, 2010

Pre-Adamic Life on Earth

Any discussion or even a casual academic mention of pre-Adamic life
on earth prior to Genesis 1:2 as a reality quickly invites scorn and ridicule.
And the reason for such ridicule is that that such a thing is never known to
be officially taught in the history of the professing Christian Church. Any
teaching of pre-Adamic life would be obviously contrary to the Traditional
Six-Day Creationism which is almost as infallible as the Bible; so much so,
any thing contrary to such traditional thinking is considered to be heretical.
On the other hand, theistic evolutionists have no problem in accommodating
pre-Adamic life in their creation theology. However, their accommodation is

not biblically based but rather by embracing evolutionary theories of life.

Pre-historical, pre-Adamic life on the primeval earth prior to Genesis
1:2 is a biblically-based reality that cannot be simply ignored if we are to
faithfully abide in the Word. Scriptural references such as Proverbs 8:27-31,
Ezekiel 28:1b-18; 31:8-18, Isaiah 14:12-14, 2 Peter 3:6, Jude 6 point to both
angelic or spirit life as well as biological life on earth prior to Genesis1:2.
These Scripture references cannot be accounted for otherwise as referring to
any historical period on earth since the creation and fall of Adam and Eve.
Initially, God willed (Proverbs 8:27a) and created the heavens and
earth of Genesis 1:1. God prepared, rather willed first and then made the
heavens by wisdom (Psalms 146:4-5). He stretched out the earth with a dry
land above the waters (Psalms 136: 6; 2 Peter 3:5b) and girdled the ocean
(the deep) with the horizon, NAB. He strengthened the fountains and issued a
command to the waters of the deep (or sea) not to transgress His decree
(Proverbs 8:27b-29). All these Scriptures in no way parallel the creation
account in Genesis 1:3-13 as stated by John MacArthur, op.cit, p. 88.
Instead, they do briefly illustrate the creation of original heavens and earth
in the beginning (Genesis 1:1) when He marked out the foundations of
the earth (Proverbs 8:29b), in the absence of any chaos and darkness. It
was, therefore, a perfect creation (Deuteronomy 32:4) and in order.
Next, Isaiah 45:18 states that the earth was not created in vain but to
be inhabited. It can be inferred that the original earth itself was partly of dry
land inhabited by vegetation and animal life (cf. Proverbs 8:31) and partly
covered with waters forming the seas teeming with aquatic life.
As such, it can be convincingly stated that God re-created plant and
animal life during the creation week seeing that all life forms were created
after their original kind 1 that had to be really in existence prior to their
destruction. As otherwise, the newly created life forms during the first six
days would not be after any of their specific kind if the same were created
for the first time. It doesnt make any biological sense to state that a variety
of fully developed plant life as stated in Genesis 1:12-13, aquatic life as
stated in Genesis 1:20-22 and animal life as stated in Genesis 1:24-25 were
created after its particular specific kind. As such, there had to be an earlier
plant life as well as aquatic and animal life of the same kind that was wiped
out necessitating its re-creation after the same kind.
It could be appropriately argued that the term after its own kind to

actually mean that the different life-forms would be reproducing after their
own kind 2. But then, that is not what is actually stated in Genesis 1:12-25.
Of course, the different life forms that were re-created after their original
kind do reproduce after the same kind. This has been the case ever since
their re-creation. But that which was re-created was after its original kind.
Concerning pre-Adamic human life it can be convincingly stated that
pre-Adamic men were in existence on the original earth. This pre-historical
fact is substantiated by Proverbs 8:31! Proverbs 8:31 talks about the
habitable part of the earth which was in fact inhabited by pre-Adamic men
in whom the Wisdom of God rejoiced (cf. Proverbs 8:31a). As such, as
stated further, Wisdoms delights were in the sons of men (Proverbs
8:31b) who were pre-Adamic men of a specific kind.
It could be argued that the habitable part of the earth and the sons
of men mentioned in Proverbs 8:31 as referring to the habitable part of the
earth of Genesis 1:10 and that the sons of men in whom the Wisdom of
God delighted as the Adamic sons of men. However, Gods Wisdom would
never rejoice in the earth that has been accursed since Adams fall. Nor
could there have been any group of men, at any time, in whom Wisdom
could have delighted (with the exception of Gods elect cf. Deu.10:15;
Num.14:8; Pro.11:20) seeing that the imaginations of mens hearts were
being evil continually ever since the fall of Adam.
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1: Gaines R. Johnson, The Bible, Genesis and Geology, www.kjvbible.org
2: Jack W. Langford, Personal Communication, by eMail dt.28/12/2011

Those who think Proverbs 8:31b cannot refer to any Adamic sons of
men interpret the same as being anticipative; meaning, that Wisdom, as
anticipatively taking form in Christ as Man should be the delight of the
Deity in all its operations(J. T.; Names of Divine Persons, Kingston Bible
Trust, UK, p.26). However, others interpret it differently: In the past
eternity the wisdom of God rejoiced, by anticipation, in the habitable part of
the earth, and found its delights with the sons of men, Proverbs 8:31. In the
coming eternity this will have its complete fulfillment in a scene where
everything is based upon redemption, and where no failure can ever come.
(Charles A. Coates, Miscellaneous Works, Vol. 37 op. cit, p.37).
However, the above arguments cannot have any standing in the face of
an objective content analysis and a thorough exegesis of Proverbs 8:22-31.

Again, an appropriate exegesis will clearly show that Proverbs 8:31b refers
to a specific kind of pre-Adamic sons of men of old:
First of all, Proverbs 8:22-31, as a contextually independent textual
unit, refers to the creation of the original heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1as
the same was then witnessed by Gods Wisdom. In no way, these Scriptures
describe a creation that perfectly parallel the Genesis account, particularly
that which is narrated in Genesis 1:3-13 as is assumed by the traditional 6day creationists (cf. J. MacArthur, The Battle, op. cit. p. 88).
Next, based on its content analysis, Proverbs 8:22-31 may be divided
into two sections: First, Proverbs 8:22-26 testify to the pre-existence of
Gods Wisdom, even before there was any primal physical creation. Second,
Proverbs 8:27-31 narrate precisely, as witnessed by Wisdom, the original
creation (of Genesis 1:1, which is certainly different from Genesis1:3-31).
Accordingly, Proverbs 8:22-26 describe Wisdoms pre-existence, even
prior to Gods physical works of old (v.22b); that is, before ever the earth
was (v.23b); when there were no depths (or sea, cp. v.24a); when there
were no fountains abounding with water(v.24b), even before the mountains
and the hills were settled(v. 25), even before the earth, nor the fields, nor
the highest dust of the world (v.26) were brought into existence.
Gods Wisdom precedes the beginning of all creation; whether this
creation is just 6, 000 years back or long before that, in the eternity past, is
to be determined from the Scriptures themselves. Gods Wisdom witnessed a
perfect creation. Obviously, Wisdom rejoiced in the earths habitable part.
Proverbs 8:27-31 describe the preparation (Hebrew: kuwn), and
then the establishment of perfect heavens (v.27a) and earth (v. 30).
Although Proverbs 8:27 says that God prepared the heavens, Proverbs
3:19 shows that He has also established (fixed) the heavens and earth.
The main idea (underlying the Hebrew word: kuwn) is to bring something
into an incontrovertible existence. (Spiros Zhodhiates, op. cit. p.1600).
As such, Proverbs 8:27-31 describe a creation of an original perfect
earth, with a firm foundation (v.29b). Next, God strengthened the fountains
of the sea and next decreed limits and commanded that the sea should not
break His decreed limits (v.27-29). At the same time, He established the
clouds above (v.28a) so as to cover the habitable part of the earth (v.31).
Therefore, the heavens of v.27a and the earth of v. 29b definitely refer to

the perfect heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1. Certainly, the heavens of
v.27a and the earth of v. 29b are not the same heavens and earth that were
re-created (Genesis 1:8, 10).
Proverbs 8:27-29 talk about setting (Heb: chaqaq: meaning to
establish, to ordain,) a compass upon the face of the deep (sea), when He
also gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His
commandment(v.29a). This is precisely, when He appointed (Hebrew:
chaqaq) the foundations of the earth (v.29b). At the same time He
established the clouds above and strengthened the fountains of the deep
(v.28). All these works refer to the original creation (Genesis 1:1) when the
heavens were established and the foundations of the earth were laid. None of
these original works could be said to parallel with any of the works of
restoration of Genesis 1:3-31on an already established earth.
Subsequently, as Proverbs 8:31 states, Gods Wisdom rejoiced in the
habitable part of His earth; and further, it is stated that Wisdoms delights
were specifically with the sons of men. Now, the term habitable part of
the earth is translated from a single Hebrew word tebel. It is the earth
(moist, inhabited), the globe and its inhabitants (i.e. all the people on earth,
Ps. 9:9; 24:1; 33:8; 96:13; 98:9), land, the habitable part of the world (Job
37:12; Ps.90:2; Prov. 8:31; Isa.14:17). (Spiros Zodhiates, op. cit. p. 1651).
Obviously, the habitable part of the earth inhabited by the sons of
men in whom Wisdom delighted (Proverbs 8:31) has to be the original
earth or land of Genesis 1:1. It is not the restored dry land of Genesis
1:10 subsequent to Adams fall when it was accursed (Genesis 3:16).
Tebel is the same original Hebrew word which in Proverbs 8:26c is
translated as the world. Next, the phrase the dust of the world actually
should have been translated as the descendants of the earth just as the dust
of Jacob in Numbers 23:10 mean the descendants of Jacob. Contextually
speaking, the clause habitable part of his earth in v.31a and dust of the
world or descendants of the earth in v.26c are synonymous. As such, these
clauses refer to the sons of men of v.31b in whom Gods Wisdom is said to
have taken delight.
The sons of men of Proverbs 8:31b necessarily have to be the men
who inhabited the habitable part of the original premeval earth. Proverbs
8:31b confirm that the sons of men in whom Gods wisdom delighted were
created much before the creation of Adam. Accordingly, the sons of men of

v.31b are pre-Adamic human beings that originally lived on earth

(Genesis1:1) which fact is also confirmed by the fossils.
Such a conclusion will sound heretical to the traditional six-day
creationists who do not believe in any kind of life as existing on earth prior
to Genesis 1:2-31. However, Proverbs 8:22-31 does indicate that life on
earth including human life prior to Genesis 1:2 did really exist. Moreover, it
is nigh impossible that there could have been at any time since the Fall of
Adam any sons of men, as a whole group, in whom Wisdom could be said
to have taken delights seeing that there ever being none that did good.
Undoubtedly, the sons of men mentioned in Proverbs 8:31b must be
pre-Adamic men after their own kind in whom Gods Wisdom took
delight for their being created and equipped with wisdom to begin with. And
that was as long as they were sinless, of course. These sons of men that
inhabited the habitable part of the earth in whom Gods Wisdom rejoiced
have been collectively called as the dust of the world in v.26c meaning the
descendants of the earth just as the Israelites who were the descendants of
Jacob were called the dust of Jacob in Numbers 23:10. Therefore, these
pre-Adamic sons of men must have been created directly though not after
the likeness and image of God but as moral beings after their kind.
The pre-Adamic sons of men in whom Gods Wisdom delighted had
to be like Lucifer, perfect. In a way, they could be considered as a type of
the future Adamic sons of men whom God would create next after His
image and likeness. This would be, of course, subsequent to the failure of
the pre-adamic men to live up to Gods standards and remain holy.
Obviously, the pre-Adamic sons of men had to be the subjects under
Lucifers dominion and rule on the primal earth. However, they eventually
sinned once Lucifer sinned and fell. Could this conclusion be proved wrong?
It can be proved from the Scriptures that Lucifer along with some
angels was placed on the original earth for a definite purpose according to
Gods plan. It may be inferred that Lucifer was placed in an earlier Garden
of Eden specially created In the Beginning on the original earth wherein
was his throne and from whence he ruled. Lucifer and certain angels were
definitely placed on the original earth of Genesis 1:1 and that, for a specific
purpose. Obviously, earlier to this, Lucifer as the anointed cherub that
covereth and his angels were in heaven where they served God long before
they were placed on the earth of Genesis 1:1.

Next, as the anointed cherub that covereth and whose covering

was of precious stone Lucifer, as succinctly stated by Charles A. Coates,
represented responsibility as standing before God to reflect what God as
Creator is. I suppose every item in the creation in some sense reflects God,
but it is not all covered with precious stones; this great creature was, so that
he represents some feature in the creation that was superlative; he stood out
as representative of creation in the most exemplary way. The precious stones
represent and reflect what is of the Creator in the creature.
Lucifer and all the angels were created much before the creation of the
physical universe. They had to be created before the creation of Genesis 1:1
and perhaps were created the same time when God created the heaven of
heavens, even the heaven of Gods Throne. Could this be just 6,000 years
back? Certainly not! For, God who inhabits eternity has been in existence
from eternity to eternity and had to have the Heaven of His Throne from
eternity to eternity. Accordingly, the myriads of angels and the heavenly host
had to be created in the dateless past serving God from eternity to eternity
and not just from some 6,000 years back.
Lucifers erstwhile rule on earth even as now is best depicted through
earthly rulers. For example, the Kingdom of Pharaoh in Egypt is compared
to a cedar tree whose flourishing growth portrayed Pharaohs worldwide
influence that made him to boast. Similarly, the same flourishing cedar tree
that symbolically represented Pharoahs rule could be confidently stated,
according to the Law of Double Reference, to figuratively best describe
Lucifers primeval rule on earth (cf. Ezekiel 31: 8-18).

Lucifers Rule on Earth

His Rebellion and Consequences
It is a biblical fact that God, who inhabits eternity, created first the
angelic hosts in the eternity past to serve Him (Revelation 5:11-13). As such,
the angels had to be already in existence before any physical creation. They
were there to rejoice at Gods creation of the earth (Job 38:4-7). Next,
Lucifer and some angels were placed on the primeval earth after its creation
(2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6) before the creation of Adam. Therefore, the period
beginning with the original creation of the heavens and the earth until the

cataclysmic change in Genesis 1:2 may be called the Anthe-chaotic Age

the Dispensation of the Angels and Pre-Adamic men.
The primeval earth when originally created was substantially a dry
land, spreading forth, above the waters (cp. Isaiah 42: 5; 44:24) and not
that the waters were stretched all over, upon the earth, as in Genesis 1:2. Or
as attested by 2 Peter 3: 5 by the Word of God, the heavens that were of
old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water when first
created. As such, in the beginning (Genesis 1:1) itself, the earth has had a
dry land standing out of the waters that was obviously suitable for the
habitation of life. The command to Let the Dry Land Appear in Genesis
1:9 proves that the original dry land had eventually submerged.
Undoubtedly, the dry land of the primeval earth had to be inhabited
(Proverbs 8:31a) by plants and animals. There had to be pre-adamic perfect
sons of men also dwelling on earth in which the Wisdom of God took
delight (Proverbs 8:31b). As otherwise, since the fall of Adam there could
never be at any time sinless and perfect Adamic sons of men in whom
collectively Gods Wisdom could be said to have taken delight. Of course,
God took delight in those few He chose to be the objects of His delight.
Next, Scriptures clearly state that Lucifer, at one time, ruled on earth
(Ezekiel 28:11-17; Isaiah 14:12-17). Obviously, those angels placed on earth
had to be his subjects along with the pre-adamic sons of men. Lucifer, as
one of the three Cherubs, was full of wisdom and perfect in beauty (Ezekiel
28:12b). Next, as an angelic being, with a free will, he was perfect from the
day he was created (Ezekiel 28:15a). As the anointed Cherub, he covered
(Ezekiel 28:14) Gods throne in the heavens prior to his assignment on earth.
Lucifer when on earth has been in Eden, the Garden of God (Ezekiel
28:13a). He had also his throne on earth, from where he ruled. In fact, the
eventual greatness and sudden downfall of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, which as
described in Ezekiel 31 is compared to the greatness and fall of a flourishing
Cedar of Lebanon. The same symbolism could also be said to have
portrayed Lucifers rule figuratively depicting his sinful pride and
consequent downfall through rebellion. Lucifers pomp and glory is
portrayed by the symbolism of a flourishing cedar of Lebanon.
Technically, the Garden of God in Eden mentioned in Ezekiel 28:13a,
31:8-9, 16-18 isnt the same as the Garden of Eden of Genesis 2:8-15.The

Garden of Genesis 2:8-15 in which Adam was placed is not the same as the
one mentioned in Ezekiel 28:13a or 31:8-18 as is wrongly assumed. The
Garden of Genesis 2:8 is actually that garden which God next created after
the destruction of the Garden of Eden of Ezekiel 31. This is simply
speculated from the fact that the Garden of Genesis 2:8 is said to be planted
eastward of a particular place already then geographically known as Eden
(Genesis 2:8). As such, it had to be a specific location somewhere eastward
in some original familiar place called Eden wherein also earlier was the
original Garden of God mentioned in Ezekiel 28:13a; 31:8.
Isaiah 14:12-14 describes the Fall of Lucifer. This fall had to be when
he was in the Garden of Eden of Ezekiel 28:13a and not in the Garden of
Eden of Genesis 2:8, some time after Day 7 of the creation week as is
wrongly assumed. Precisely as stated earlier, Jesus use of v. 12 (Isaiah14)
to describe Satans fall (Luke 10:18; cf. Rev.12:8-10) has led many to see
more than a reference to the king of Babylon. Just as the Lord addressed
Satan in His words to the serpent (Gen. 3:14, 15), this inspired dirge speaks
to the king of Babylon and to the devil who energized him. See Ezek.28:1217 for similar language to the king of Tyre and Satan behind him. 1
Obviously, in the Adamic Garden that was planted eastward of the
original place Eden, Satan was there as a subtle serpent. He was not there as
Lucifer unlike in the earlier Garden of Eden of Ezekiel 28:13a, 31:8 from
where he ruled and whose rule is compared to that of a flourishing Cedar of
Lebanon (Ezekiel 31:2, 8-18). It was in the Garden of God of Ezekiel
28:13a that Lucifer eventually sinned and not when he was in the Garden of
Eden of Genesis 3:1-15 as wrongly assumed by some. 2 For, in the Garden of
Eden of Genesis 3:1-15 he was definitely already there as Satan in the guise
of a serpent and not, any more, as a shining Lucifer, perfect in his ways.
As to when exactly Lucifer sinned is not specifically mentioned in the
Bible. But it may be inferred from relevant Scriptures that sin came into
existence within the period between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Its only during
this undefined period all the related Scriptures discussed earlier could be said
to fit in. The story of the beginning of sin is nowhere related explicitly in
the Word; but certain passages seem to hint so strongly, that the following
theory has long been held to explain them. Apparently God first peopled the
universe, or at least our part of it, with a hierarchy of holy angels, of whom
one of the highest orders was (or contained) the cherubim. One of them,
perhaps, the highest of all, was the anointed cherub that covereth, who

was created beautiful and perfect in his ways. This cherub knew that he was
beautiful, but pride entered his heart and the first sin in the whole history of
eternity occurred. Pride led to self-will (Isa.14:13-14) and self-will to
rebellion. This great cherub became the adversary (Satan) of God and
apparently led other angels into rebellion (cf. 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6). 3
Contrary to what is stated above, Henry Morris states: Satans sin
and fall, however, was in heaven on the holy mountain of God, not on
earth. There is, in fact, not a word in Scripture to connect Satan with the
earth prior to his rebellion. On the other hand, when he sinned, he was
expelled from heaven to the earth. The account in Ezekiel says: Thou wast
perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was
found in thee therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of
God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones
of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted
thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground (or
earth, the same word in Hebrew) (Ezekiel 28: 15-17) 4.
Nevertheless, Isaiah 14:13-14 definitely states that Lucifer was on
earth when he first entertained the prideful thoughts of conquering Gods
throne. He was very much on earth from where wanting to be like the Most
High he ascended into the heavens but was cast down to the earth (verse
15). No wonder, Lucifer next turned into Satan was already on earth in the
guise of a serpent before the creation of Adam and Eve.
Lucifer rebelled against God when he was on earth thereby incurring
judgment resulting in chaos on earth surrounded by darkness as in Genesis
1:2 Traditional Six-day creationists somehow overlook the Scriptures
relating to Lucifers rule and his subsequent rebellion on earth that brought
chaos on earth and subjected the entire universe to futility or uselessness.
Since God created a perfect universe to begin with, the chaos on earth
spoken of in Genesis 1:2 cannot be of creation, but of judgment. And since
the Scriptures speak of Lucifers rule on earth and of his subsequent
rebellion long, long before the creation of Adam, then the chaotic conditions
on earth had to be logically of a later occurrence as a consequence of
Lucifers sin and that of the angels under his administration on earth.
Whether young earth creationists agree with it or not, the six-day work and
the creation of Adam were occasioned by Lucifers fall. Lucifers sin and its
consequences were foreseen and accordingly the 6-day plan was conceived.

As such, it is the world of the angels, animals, plants and sons of

men who once inhabited the earth is what Peter actually talks about as the
world that was then. It is in this world that Lucifer and his subjects sinned.
This sinful world was next destroyed by flood (Psalms 104:6-9 read with Job
38:10-11). The flood referred to here is certainly not Noahs flood.
The original dry earth, to begin with, was created to be inhabited
(Isaiah 45:18) and was therefore certainly inhabited before the flood of
Genesis 1:2 and the work of the six days culminating with Adams creation
(Genesis 1:3-2:25; Isaiah 14:12-14; Jeremiah 4:23-26). The earth, therefore,
was originally created with a dry land and was not totally flooded by waters
nor covered up with darkness as in Genesis 1:2, which is a later condition.
As such, on the original earth itself that God created in the beginning,
there was a dry land, the habitable part of the earth(Proverbs 8:31) at
one place; and the deep or the depths of the sea located in some other
place when He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass
his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth
(Proverbs 8:29) in the beginning of His way. It is from where the waters
did break the original bounds to cover the earth (Genesis 1:2) subsequent to
Lucifers rebellion along with that of his angels and the pre-Adamite men.
Undoubtedly, conditions on earth in Genesis 1:2 were not the same as
that of original creation but were as such as a result or consequence of sin.
The word kosmos in 2 Peter 3:5-7 meaning some form of social system,
that then was and then destroyed embraces the whole pre-Adamic earth to
which all fossils and remains belong. The actual findings of science
regarding pre-historic animals and mammals, the age of the earth, its rock
formation, and other facts can be recognized only if we believe the Bibles
revelation of pre-Adamite life. 5
These fossils were not of some simpler forms of life evolving
gradually into complex forms. It is a known fact that many fossils come
from a great catastrophe, being entombed in the strata instead of being
slowly buried by sedimentation over millions of years as is falsely assumed
by the evolutionists. Anyway, We find proof of two universal floods on
earth, one in Lucifers day (Genesis 1:2; Isaiah 14:12-14; Jeremiah 4:2326; 2 Peter 3:5-7) and another in Noahs (Genesis 6:11-8-14,2Peter 2:5). 6
These two universal floods are uniquely different from each other.
The World, or Kosmos as in Greek, meaning inhabited living

systems of which Peter speaks about in 2 Peter 3:6 is not the same one that
was deluded during Noahs flood. During Noahs flood the world that began
with Adam was not totally destroyed in that Noah and his family along with
animals, birds, etc were kept alive in the ark. So also, this flood did not
destroy totally the aquatic life or the flora that existed on earth.
A cursory reading of Job 38:8 makes it clear that the waters originally
did not cover the earth. But the waters did engulf the earth (dry land) much
later on undoubtedly as a consequence of Lucifers rebellion. Which means,
during the creation week, God caused the dry land to appear again by
shifting the waters to form the seas. Only in this context can we interpret and
understand Job 38: 8 wherein God asks Job who shut in the sea with
doors, when it burst forth as if it had issued out of the womb? This was not
the case at all, as such, during Noahs flood.
As a result of the sea bursting forth from the womb or from its
primordial location, God decided again to fix a limit to it on the third day of
the creation week: When I fixed my limit for it, And set bars and doors;
when I said, This far you may come, but no farther, and hereto your proud
waves must stop. (Job 38:10-11). Such a command implies that the sea
waters were in a particular place (in the womb) and subsequently burst forth
engulfing the earth (Genesis 1:2). This would not be the case if the earth was
originally covered with water, all over. No such command was ever given to
the flooding waters to return back to their original location during the
universal flood of Noahs time; instead, the waters gradually abated.
Next, during the Lucifers flood, according to Psalms 104:5-9 the dry
land of the original earth was fully covered (Hb. Kasah: to conceal) by the
deep. So also, the waters stood above the mountains even as during
Noahs flood. However, relevant Scriptures do differentiate the two floods.
But unlike Noahs flood during which the waters gradually abated
(Genesis 8:9-13), during Lucifers flood as stated in Job 38:10-11 God
rebuked the engulfing waters to return to their original location. The
flooding waters on Gods rebuking fled; at the voice of thy thunder they
hasted away, they go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto
the place which thou hast founded (Heb. Yasad: built up, set) for them; thou
hast set a bound that they turn (Heb. Shuwb: to turn back; to return from
where they came) not again to cover the earth. (Psalms 104:7-9).
The Scriptures cited above referring to the universal flood do not refer

to Noahs flood which was to a large extent caused by torrential rains. These
waters were not rebuked, taken off nor hastened away supernaturally in one
day (cf. Genesis 1:6-12, Psalms 104:7). Instead, these waters abated or
receded gradually and taken off in the course of several months through
natural processes (Genesis 8:1-14). Moreover, during Noahs flood, all the
aquatic life could not have been destroyed; fowls and animals were saved,
and vegetation survived without much harm (Genesis 6:20, 8:17) even when
it remained totally submerged for many days.
As such, it could be convincingly stated that The flood of Noah
lasted over a year, yet vegetation was not destroyed. But in Lucifers flood
the fruitful place became a wilderness (Jeremiah 4:3-26). New vegetation
had to be planted /created, for the earth was totally desolate (Genesis 1:1112; 2:5, 8-17). This proves that Lucifers flood was on earth longer than
Noahs and, without doubt, as judgment for a more serious rebellion. 7 We
therefore, conclude that Genesis 1:1-2 proves a pre-Adamite world that was
eventually destroyed in a worldwide flood, which necessitated the making of
the present Adamic world so that the original purpose of God concerning
the earth (Isaiah 45:18) could be realized. 8
The Book of Stone or Geological Science also confirms the existence
of pre-Adamic life on earth and its subsequent destruction by a global flood.
As such, By way of silent yet eloquent witness to the power, wisdom, and
goodness of the Creator, the sedimentary rocks uncovered by the geologist
tell us that the waters were filled with life, that fishes and numerous aquatic
animals of gigantic size and curiously shaped, once swam there, that
amphibious animals disported themselves, and birds extraordinary for size
and kind, trod those ancient sands and left their footprints behind them. 9
Leaving aside geological evidence, revealed biblical evidence is in itself
sufficient enough to confirm the truth of pre-adamic life and its destruction.
Not all biblical scholars are equally convinced about Lucifers rule on
earth and of his subsequent rebellion or that the chaos described in v.2 is as a
result of his fall. As for the reference to the earths being waste and void
(Heb. tohu wabohu) in Genesis 1:2, it is not altogether clear whether this
was a subsequent and resultant condition after a primeval catastrophe, as
some scholars understand it (interpreting the verb hayetah as became
rather than was. Those who construe hay etah (was) as became
understand this to indicate a primeval catastrophe possibly associated with
the rebellion of Satan against God, as suggested by Isaiah 14:10-14. 10

Nevertheless, as elaborated and explained as above, there is sufficient

prime scriptural evidence to substantiate the existence of pre-historical, preAdamite life on the primeval earth. As otherwise, the Scriptures referred to
above to account for the existence of pre-Adamic life cannot be adequately
and convincingly explained with reference to any events on earth in Adams
world or kosmos subsequent to his fall.
In other words, apart from any pre-historical, pre-adamite, biblically
revealed gap of considerable length of time, the foregoing biblical and
geological facts clearly portraying pre-Adamic events leading to primeval
catastrophe prior to Genesis1:3 cannot be historically accounted for. It is
nigh impossible, both biblically and theologically, to interpret and explain
convincingly the aforesaid events recorded in the Scriptures as having any
spiritual relevance. The same events cannot be accommodated in any other
historical period of the kosmos or the world that has been until now, and
that has descended from Adam. Such lacunae should lead one to formulate
biblically-based gap theology by completely shedding away ones
prevailing unholy bias towards the so-called gap theory.
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1: John MacArthur, The MacArthur Study Bible, Word Publishing, USA, 1997, see foot
note re: Ezekiel 28:13, p.1191
2: ibid; - footnote re: Isaiah14:12-14, p. 977
3: Merrill C. Tenney, General Editor, and J.D. Douglas, Revising Editor, New International Bible Dictionary, Zondervan Publishing House, Michigan, US, 1987, p. 271.
4: Henry Morris,
5: Dake, Finis J. op. cit. p. 1
9: Walter Scott, op. cit. p. 14

6: Ibid, p. 83

7: ibid, p. 83

8: ibid, p.80

10: Gleason L. Archer, Jr., Encyclopedia of BIBLE DIFFICULTIES, Zondervan

Corporation, US, p. 65-66.

TOWARDS A

BIBLICAL GAP THEOLOGY

Towards
Pre-Historical Pre-Adamic Theology
(Biblical Gap Theology)
The Gap Theory assumes a lengthy gap of indeterminate period of
geologic time, between Genesis1:1 and 1:2-3, comprising of billions of years
based on the geological evidence in the fossil record. According to the gap
theory, God created a fully-functional earth in verse 1. That ancient earth
ostensibly featured a full spectrum of animal and plant life, including fish

and mammals, various species of now-extinct dinosaurs, and other creatures

that we know only from the fossil record. 1. Next, Proponents of the gap
theory suggest that verse 2 ought to be translated, The earth became
without form, and void. They speculate that as a result of Satans fall, or for
some other reason, the prehistoric earth was laid waste by an untold
calamity. (This presupposes, of course, that Satans fall or some other evil
occurred sometime in the gap between Genesis1:1 and 1:2). Then,
according to this view, God created all the life-forms that we now see and
thus remade earth into a paradise in six days of recreation. 2
The Statement of Faith of www.answersingenesis.org and the
proponents of other diverse Theories of Creationism state that the Gap
Theory has no basis in Scripture and that it has no theological relevance.
Surely, there couldnt be any measurable gap of time before the creation of
Day 1, even as the elusive time we measure on earth began with Day 1.
Nevertheless, there are sufficient Scriptures that describe events that
can be only convincingly accommodated as having occurred during a
Biblical period comprising of white space between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 and
black space between Genesis1:2 and 1:3. More, the Book of Stone or
Geology provides fossil evidence that can be only accounted for by the
intervals of white and black space between Genesis 1:1 and 1:3; and that
may be done without resorting to any indeterminate chronological slots.
Anyway, even apart from any relevant fossil record relied upon by the
Gap Theorists, the Scriptural evidence in itself, relating to events on earth
that can be explained only as having occurred prior to the works of Genesis
1:3-31, demand a proper theological explanation. As such, these prehistorical pre-adamic events we find recorded in the Bible provide sufficient
basis to convincingly formulate a sound Biblical Gap Theology.
Scripturally-based Pre-Historical Pre-Adamic Biblical Gap-related
Theology, by implication, has evangelical connotations of profound
spiritual significance. When properly understood and appreciated, Biblical
Gap Theology provides doctrinal background with which to meaningfully
appreciate Gods works of the first six days. Apart from any such relevant
pre-historical Biblical Gap Theology, the work of the six days becomes
inconsequential, having no precise meaning and purpose nor any spiritual
significance. Biblical Gap Theology confirms that the Traditional Belief in a
Creation of Cosmos in Six Days, some six to ten thousand years ago is
biblically unfounded and evangelically insignificant. The same belief fails to

account for the biblically recorded pre-historical events.

Anyway, Genesis 1:2 is of theological relevance when accounted for
within the framework of Scriptures recorded elsewhere in the Holy Bible,
such as Proverbs 8:22-31, Job 38:9-11, Psalms 104:6-9, Isaiah14:12, Ezekiel
28:12-18. These events can be only explained as having occurred during the
time lag or unknown period between Genesis 1:1 and 1:3 with a changed
state on earth as described in Genesis 1:2. Apart from any such position, it is
not at all possible to appropriately interpret these Scriptures. As such, the
work of the six days described in Genesis 1:3-31 is a later work of physical
redemption and restoration from the chaos and darkness. It is substantially a
six-day divine work having tremendous evangelical significance.
Biblically as well as theologically speaking, In the beginning
God created the heavens and the earth Then in the second verse we find
things fallen into a state of ruin. And the earth was waste and empty, and
darkness was on the face of the deep. This was certainly not as it was
created -- for we are expressly told that not as waste [the same word as in
Genesis 1:2] did he create it (Isaiah 45:18). A solemn change had come
about between the first and second verses of Genesis 1.We do not know what
length of time elapsed between those two verses.. In verse 2 we find on
earth disorder and darkness. It is in such a scene that God's next activities
are presented as taking place activities which come to an end on the sixth
day, so that on the seventh day God rested. This indicates at the very outset
the whole subject of Scripture. It is the unfolding of how God has worked,
and will work, in a scene of moral disorder to bring about a state of things
in which He can rest -- a scene of order and life and fruitfulness where all
will be under the dominion of Man in His image and after His likeness. 3
Theologically and evangelically loaded nature of the phased six days work
distinguishes it from the work of an original instant creation.
Traditional Six-day and Young-Earth Creationists owe it to God to
accept the fact of a distinct, completed creation phase (Genesis1:1)
followed by a changed state (Genesis 1:2). This state is in no way a
constituent of the original creation notwithstanding any grammatical
connection between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. And, rooted in the state of chaos
and darkness on a flooded earth in Genesis 1:2 are theological facts that lie
behind Gods redemptive-restorative work of the six days. These basic facts
substantially affirm a radical Evangelically-Based Theology of Creation.
Anyway, arguments provoked by the controversial Gap Theory and

resorted to repudiate any pre-historical period between Genesis1:1and 1:3

deserves our attention. These arguments aim to refute the claims of any preAdamic world or social system on earth under Lucifers rule and its
destruction following Lucifers sin before Gods work of the six days. The
same arguments can be convincingly addressed and resolved only if we are
wiling to shed away our preconceived traditional notions and consider the
much overlooked but relevant biblical and scientific facts without any bias.
Obviously, these arguments are prompted by ones core traditional belief of
a creation in six days, mistakenly assuming the chaotic conditions on earth
in Genesis 1:2 as comprising of Gods activity on Day One. However,
traditional creational thinking is hopelessly misleading being errant.
It is stated that the so-called gap theory of indeterminate geologic
time, poses enormous biblical and theological problems. At the same
time, it is admitted that it allows for a straightforward literal interpretation
of the creation days of Genesis 1 4. In a similar vein, Ken Ham states that
Believing in the gap theory presents a number of problems and
inconsistencies, especially for a Christian. 5. Though some of the problems
and inconsistencies may be real so as to render the Gap Theory as
defective, the core problems experienced by the traditional six-day
creationists are not at all warranted though certainly understandable.
Understandable, because such imaginary problems and inconsistencies are
subjectively experienced by those who interpret Genesis 1:1, 1:2 and 1:3-31
within the framework of the traditional six-day creationism. When viewed in
the light of ignored biblical truth, these problems are baseless.
Anyway, the unwarranted problems and inconsistencies are
confidently addressed hereinafter, so as to convincingly replace the Gap
Theory with a Biblically-based Gap Theology, having evangelical
overtones:-

#1: The Grammar of Genesis 1:12

Many adherents of the gap theory claim that the grammar of Genesis

1:12 allows, and even requires, a time-gap between the events in

verse 1 and the events in verse 2. Butthe most straightforward
reading of the verses sees verse 1 as a subject-and-verb clause, with
verse 2 containing three circumstantial clauses (i.e., three statements
that further describe the circumstances introduced by the principal
clause in verse 1). The Hebrew conjunction waw, meaning and at
the beginning of verse 2, is a waw copulative, which compares with
the old English expression to wit. This grammatical connection
between verses 1 and 2 thus rules out the gap theory. Verse 2 is in fact
a description of the state of the originally created earth: And the
earth was without form and void. (Genesis 1:2a). (Ken Ham,
www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/gap-ruin-reconstruction-theories).
See also Weston W. Fields 6 and M. W. J. Phelan 7.
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We should not allow our limited knowledge of Hebrew grammar and

syntax to cause Scripture here a little to contradict Scripture there a little.
We do come across Scriptures in the Bible that are grammatically connected
to each other but which, when studied together as a single textual unit based
on their grammatical connection, actually contradict each other. Examples of
such Scriptures include Genesis 1:1-2, Isaiah 14:14-16, Ezekiel 28:12-13
and so on. The principle to be adopted in such a situation is to rightly divide
the Scriptures that are grammatically connected to each other but then are
clearly seen to contradict each other when studied together as a unit.
There is a significant lack of understanding of the Hebrew Grammar
and Syntax of Genesis 1:1-2 amongst biblical scholars. This is obvious from
the difficulty experienced in translating Genesis 1:1-2. Hence, we come
across diverse, sometimes contradictory, translations of these first two verses
in the Bible. How do we resolve this difficulty in properly understanding the
intended meaning of these first two verses in the Bible? The principle to be
adopted is to obey 2 Timothy 2:15c and rightly divide the Word of Truth
which is grammatically connected rather than allow the connected scriptures
to contradict with each other. And, to rightly divide such scriptures we must
let the Bible interpret the underlying meaning and subsequently divide.

It is well known to all biblical scholars that the merism: heavens and
earth in the Hebrew Scriptures means totality of all creation. It has the
sense of a completed perfect creation showing forth the glory of God
(Psalms 19:1-6). As such, we should not allow chaos of 1:2 to contradict the
intended true meaning of heavens and earth in Genesis 1:1 because of any
grammatical connection between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. In other words, chaos
of Genesis 1:2 cannot be considered as a work of perfect creation in spite of
the grammatical connection between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. To state
as such is to impugn the character of God whose works are always perfect.
Genesis 1:2 containing three circumstantial clauses that describe
the circumstances supposedly introduced by the principal clause in
verse1doesnt really mean that Genesis 1:2 is in fact a description of the
(actual) state of the originally created earth, notwithstanding any supposed
grammatical connection. In fact, it is a brief description of the circumstances
on earth, to wit: chaotic earth without form and void, darkness upon the
face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters
that came to be later on earth, subsequent to its original perfect creation. To
conclude that the three circumstantial clauses of Genesis 1:2 describe the
state of the originally created earth just because they are connected to
Genesis 1:1 by the conjunction wau copulative is absolutely illogical.
Certainly, the Spirit of God, moving upon the surface of the waters,
doesnt belong to the state of the originally created earth because of the
grammatical connection between verses 1 and 2. As such, any supposed
grammatical link between verses 1 and 2 in no way implies Genesis 1:2 is a
description of the actual state of the originally created earth. Again, it is a
gross hermeneutical error to state that the three phrases in v. 2, namely,
without form, and void, darkness was on the face of the deep, and the
Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters are used to describe
the original state of the earth and to further state that A similar barrenness
no doubt characterized the whole universe. 8
It is stated that The construction of the Hebrew phrase that opens
verse 2 is significant. The subject comes before the verb, as if to emphasize
something remarkable about it. It might be translated, As to the earth, it
was formless and void. Here is a new planet, the very focus of Gods
creative purpose, and it was formless and void. 9 But, the construction of
the phrase that opens v. 2 does not emphasize something remarkable about
the earth as a newly created planet but about a planet that was in a chaos.

The state of chaos and darkness on a flooded earth in Genesis 1:2

cannot be interpreted to be the actual state of the originally created earth
because of any supposed grammatical connection with Genesis 1:1. The
chaos and darkness on earth in Genesis1:2 needs to be differentially and
factually interpreted as circumstances occurring on earth later on. It has
nothing to do with the originally created earth just as the Spirit of God,
moving upon the face of the waters has no connection whatsoever with the
chaotic circumstances in Genesis 1:2. As such, it is totally misleading to
state Genesis 1:2 is the state of the originally created earth of Genesis 1:1,
on the same premise that the Spirit of God is not a state of the originally
created earth. Now if it is wrong to conclude that Spirit of God is a state
of the originally created earth in spite of its grammatical connection with
verse 1, then it is also equally wrong to conclude that the other two
circumstantial clauses are an actual state of the originally created earth.
Similarly in Ezekiel 28:12, in spite of the grammatical connection
between the clauses, we know we cannot interpret this Scripture by stating
that the King of Tyrus actually sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, perfect in
beauty. Even though this particular clause is actually addressed to King
Tyrus, and grammatically speaking it should refer to King Tyrus, yet we
cannot at all attribute these characteristics to King Tyrus. Instead, they are
appropriately attributed to Lucifer. Similar is the case in Isaiah 14: 4-12; in
spite of the grammatical connection in this passage, we will never state that
the King of Babylon is Lucifer. As such, in spite of the grammatical link, it
is improper to state Genesis 1:2 is the condition of the earth in Genesis 1:1.
Next, according to the NIV translators, __ the vast majority of prose
sentences in OT Hebrew begin with one of the two Hebrew forms for the
word and. The word for and appears even when there is absolutely
nothing preceding to which the sentence logically connects. In fact, six
books of the OT (Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, Ezra, Ruth and Esther) begin in
Hebrew with the word and, though they obviously do not follow anything.
Accordingly, it is now recognized by Hebrew grammarians that and at the
beginning of a sentence is virtually the equivalent of the use of
capitalization at the beginning of English sentences.__ it simply means that
and is only sometimes and certainly not a majority of the time, the best
translation in English 10. As otherwise, The simple English sentence
beginning with a Capital letter will do nicely in most cases. 11 Accordingly,
NIV translators reduce the number of occurrences of and (in Genesis 1)
to eleven as compared to KJV translation with a total of thirty times.

In spite of the fact that Genesis 1:2 contain three clauses that describe
the circumstances introduced by the principal clause in Genesis 1:1, NIV
translators saw it fitting to separate Genesis 1:1 from Genesis 1:2.
Accordingly, NIV Verse 1: In the beginning God created the Heavens and
the earth is independent of Verse 2: Now the earth was (Or possibly
became- NIV foot note) formless and empty, darkness was over the surface
of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. The NIV
translation of Genesis 1:1-2 allows no contradiction between the contents or
the subject matter of the two independent verses. However, when the two
verses are linked together with a copulative waw or and as in the KJV the
contradiction and the subsequent misinterpretation is inevitable.
Even otherwise, and is used 153 times in Genesis 1-2 to separate
the 102 recorded independent acts of God. Verse 2 is as independent of verse
1 as to time and subject matter as all the other separate acts of God. Verse 1
refers to the whole universe being created and inhabited in the dateless past,
while verse 2 refers to chaos because of sin. Verses 3-31 picture the
restoration of the earth as before chaos, and its second habitation with
present man and the earth and water creatures brought into being about
6,000 years ago. 12
The content of Genesis 1:2 describing the chaos on earth is at total
variance with the contents of Genesis 1:1 describing a creation which, as
defined by the Hebrew merism: heavens and earth, had to be perfect and
complete. As such, biblically speaking, any relevant grammatical link or
connection between the two verses becomes inconsequential. We need not
allow the chaos of Genesis 1:2 to contradict with the Hebrew merism
heavens and earth (Genesis 1:1), meaning a completed perfect creation.
Next, the hermeneutical principle to consider the context, Context,
CONTEXT during exegesis of Scriptures need not be necessarily applicable
to every single Scripture or textual unit. If that be the case, then there is no
need to divide the Word of Truth (2 Timothy 2:15) which is very essential
to obey, seeing that the Word of Truth relating to any biblical subject is
given here a little and there a little (Isaiah 28:10, 13) in the Bible.
As such, when any grammatically connected Scriptures contextually
contradict, analyzing the immediate context is of no use. We must simply
obey God and rightly divide and separate the contradicting scriptures so as
to preserve their true original biblical sense. Therefore, it is hermeneutically
appropriate to divide and separate Genesis 1:1 from Genesis1:2.

Anyway, Traditional Six-Day Creationists who are firmly convinced

and believe in a creation of the cosmos in six days some six to ten thousand
years ago will somehow hang on to their traditional beliefs in spite of the
contradictions. Subsequently, any other biblically relevant view will not be
easily accepted as biblical truth because it simply doesnt agree with ones
ingrained traditional beliefs. Tradition, by all means, reigns supreme.
Nevertheless, it is biblically inconsistent to subjectively conclude that
the grammatical connection between verses 1 and 2 rules out the gap
theory, defective though it may be. For an in-depth and thorough refutation
of the views held by Weston W. Fields that the Gap is Grammatically
Impossible, the reader is recommended to read in this book, Appendix A,
reproduced from a Personal Communication made to me by Jack W.
Langford. However, notwithstanding traditional beliefs, Biblical Gap
Theology based on a proper exegesis of Genesis 1:1, 1:2 and 1:3 with the
help of other Scriptures relating to the events that can be solely accounted
for as having occurred during the period between Genesis 1:1 and 1:3 has
much relevance and profound evangelical significance.
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1: John MacArthur, The Battle for the Beginning, op.cit; p.75

2: ibid, p.75

3: Charles A. Coates, An Outline of Genesis, op.cit. p.2

4: John MacArthur, Jr., The Battleop. cit, p.75.
5: Ken Ham, www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/ gap--ruin-reconstruction-theories
6: Weston W. Fields, Unformed and Unfilled, Master Books, USA, 2005
7: M. W. J. Phelan, The Genesis Gap Theory, Its Credibility and Consequences,
Twoedged Sword Publications, UK, 2005
8: John MacArthur, The Battle, op. cit. p.74, 73.
9: John MacArthur; ibid, p.74.
10, 11: Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All its Worth;
OM Books, Indian Reprint 2000, A. P., India, p. 42.
12: F. J. Dake, op. cit. p. 76.

#2: The gap theory flatly contradicts Exodus 20:11: For in six days
the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
and rested the seventh day. (John MacArthur, The Battle for the
Beginning, op. cit. p. 76).
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May be, some Gap Theorists attempt to accommodate the theories

of evolution between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 so as to explain and account for
the fossil record of billions of years. However, Gap Theology propounded
briefly in this treatise aims to convincingly explain the biblical realities of
Lucifers rule and pre-Adamic life on earth prior to Genesis 1:2 and the
subsequent destruction consequent to Lucifers fall. But, in no way does it
contradict Exodus 20:11 which actually summarize Gods later additional
work of the first six days of creation, re-creation. The apparent contradiction
is due to faulty interpretation of Exodus 20:11. This faulty interpretation is
made based upon traditional assumptions. As such, we need to interpret
Exodus 20:11 with the help of related relevant Scriptures.
That is, if we rely on the Scriptures in Genesis 1: 8, 10 and 14-18 to
interpret the Scripture in Exodus 20:11 and in 31:17 instead of interpreting
the same with the myths of defective six-day creationism, then it will be
clear that Exodus 20:11 and 31:17 doesnt speak of the original Heavens and
the Earth of Genesis 1:1 which were first created (bara, in Hebrew) by fiat,
ex nihilo, outside of any measurable time. Instead, it will be confidently
ascertained that Exodus 20:11, 31:17 speak of Heavens of Genesis 1:8, 1418, and of the dry land named Earth of Genesis 1:10, and of the Sea(s) of
Genesis 1:10 which God made (rather re-ordered, asah in Hebrew, from
previously existing material) and all that in them is, in six days, which after
He saw the same, and said very good (Genesis 1:31).
Its only in the atmospheric heavens of Genesis 1:8 of day two and
on the dry land called earth of Genesis 1:10 of day three and in the sea of
Genesis 1:10 of day three do we find all that in them is, that is, the flora
and fauna, which God made on the third, fifth and sixth day. Certainly, all
what God created during the six days was not a constituent of the earlier
original perfect creation of Genesis 1:1. All that in them is refers to all
what God brought into existence in the atmospheric heavens and on earth
and in the seas during the work of the six days of Genesis 1:3-31. As such,
Exodus 20:11 has no direct reference to heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1.

The above Scriptures make it very clear that the heavens, earth and
the sea of Exodus 20: 11 are not the same heavens and earth of Genesis
1:1. Accordingly, the Bible speaks of generations of heavens and earth in
Genesis 2:4a, distinguishing thereby the heavens and earth that were
created earlier (Genesis2:4a) from those that were made later (Genesis1:8,
10; 2:4b)
In an attempt to refute the above distinction, Ken Ham pointedly states
that bara and asah are used in Scripture to describe the same event. For
example, asah is used in Exodus 20:11 to refer to the creation of the heavens
and the earth, but bara is used to refer the creation of the heavens and the
earth in Genesis 1:1. The word asah is used concerning the creation of the
first people in Genesis 1:26 they did not previously exist. And then they
are said to have been created (bara) in Genesis 1:27. 1
It is true that at times bara and asah are used in Scripture to describe
the same creation event. But in Exodus 20:11 and 31:17 asah is definitely
used to refer to the heavens of Genesis 1: 8, 14-18 and to the earth and
to the sea of Genesis 1:10 which God MADE out of existing things, during
the Creation Week. In NO WAY do these refer to the Heavens and the
Earth of Genesis 1:1 or to the waters covering the earth of Genesis 1: 2
which God created instantly In the Beginning out of nothing, ex nihilo.
Both the words asah and bara are used in Genesis 1: 26-27 to
describe the creation of the first people. This is because in the creation of
man, Adam was first formed (asah) out of the existing material and then
God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life thereby creating (bara) the
human spirit in him (1 Corinthians 2:11). There could be no other way to
consider the use of both these words to describe the creation of man after
Gods Image and Likeness. Both the words asah and bara may not always
be necessarily being able to be said to be used synonymously.
Again, both words bara and asah are used synonymously when
referring to heavens and earth. This is because of the heavens and the earth
that were created (bara) out of nothing ex nihilo in the beginning and the
heavens and earth and the sea that were made during the creation week
out of the existing material as in Genesis 1:8, 10-18. In certain Scriptures
God speaks of the permanence of heavens and earth. And in certain other
Scriptures He speak of their transience. This apparent contradiction can be
resolved by the fact that the original creation of Genesis 1:1 is permanent

whereas those re-created in Genesis 1:8 for mans habitation are transient.
When God Himself clearly distinguishes the heavens and earth He
first created by fiat in the beginning (Genesis 1:1) from those He made
during the six days (Genesis 1:8, 10-18) then why should we hesitate to
accept the distinction God Himself makes? Anyway, we should never allow
our wrong interpretations based on any traditional concepts to fit into the
Scriptures so as then to passionately hold on to the traditional six-day
creation, ONLY.
We can, therefore, conclude that Nehemiah 9: 6 refers to the heaven
of heavens and to the heavens and earth and the sea of Genesis 1:8, 10-18
which are, of course, a part of the original heavens and the earth of Genesis
1:1, created ex-nihilo. Anyway, the Bible speaks of Generations of
Heavens and Earth (Genesis 2:4a) distinguishing the heavens and earth
that were originally created (Genesis 1:1) from the heavens and the earth
that were made (Genesis 1:8, 10, 12-18; 2:4b). Next, there will be a third
new Generation of heavens and earth when once created and or made
after the Millennium and final judgment.
Moreover, there are three kinds of heavens: one, the atmospheric
heavens (Genesis 1: 8); second, the stellar heavens (Genesis 1:1a) and third,
the heaven of Gods throne, wherein Paul was taken (2 Corinthians 12:2, 4).
The fact that the words bara and asah are used interchangeably in the
Hebrew Scriptures and that in some places they are used in synonymous
parallelism doesnt mean we can ignore the distinction between different
generations of heavens and earth or that there are three kinds of heavens.
As accurately stated by Henry Morris, President of the Institute for
Creation Research, USA: In the first chapter of Genesis, both types of
activity are stressed, the account finally concluding with the summary: All
His work which God created and made (Genesis 2:3). The two types of
work are almost synonymous when referring to the divine activity but not
quite (otherwise created and made would be redundant). Specifically, the
three acts of true creation in Genesis are the creation of the physical
elements of the cosmos, the entity of biological life, and the spiritual image
of God in man (Genesis 1:1, 21, 27). These entities God simply called into
being, ex nihilo, by His Word. Everything else He made, or formed, or let be,
out of the three basic entities that were specially created. He is both Creator
and Maker of all things and we should worship Him as such. 2 God created
the heavens and the earth by fiat in Genesis 1:1. He also made the visible

heavens of Genesis 1:8, 14-19 and the earth and sea of Genesis 1:10.
It is very clear that there are two distinct creation phases in Genesis 1.
It should be obvious that Exodus 20:11, 31:17 are not talking of the original
perfect creation of Genesis 1:1 at all, which God created (bara) and brought
into existence ex nihilo, not in six days but instantly. After all, it surely had
to be a perfect and beautiful creation for HE is ROCK; His work is perfect
(Deuteronomy 32:4). Next, He hath made everything beautiful in his time:
also He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the
work that God maketh from the beginning to the end (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
As such, The original creations of God include the heavens, the
earth, and all things therein as first brought into being. They were made
perfect the first time. Genesis 1:1 refers to the dateless past or the beginning
of the creative ages (Job 38; Psalms 8:3-8; 19:1-6; Proverbs 8:22-31; Acts
17:24-26; Colossians 1:15-18; Hebrews 1:1-12; 11:3; Revelation4:11). In
the beginning, the dateless past, and not in 6 days about 6000 years ago,
God created the heavens, including the sun, moon and starsall the
heavenly bodies in space and the earth as a dry land. 3
Biblically-based Gap Theology unlike the Traditional Six-Day
Creationism doesnt contradict Exodus 20:11. Instead, it is very much in
agreement with it. It all depends on how one chooses to interpret the same.
When viewed through the lens of traditional concepts it looks like the
heavens and earth God created in a beginning as in Genesis 1:1 are one and
the same the Scriptures talk about that were made during the work of the six
days. But, when viewed through the pure lens of Scriptures, one can easily
confirm that the heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1 are not one and the same
described in Genesis 1: 3-31. It should be obvious to any unbiased mind,
spiritual or unspiritual, that Exodus 20:11 actually and precisely refer to the
heavens and earth that were made in six days. Biblically speaking, the
work of the six days begins from Genesis 1:3 and not from Genesis 1: 1. As
such, in no way Exodus 20:11 has any reference to the original heavens and
earth of Genesis 1:1. Traditional Six-Day Creationism after all contradicts
both Biblical and Natural Revelation and should, therefore, be rejected.
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1: Ken Ham, www.answersingenesis.org
2: H. Morris, www.icr.org

3: Finis J. Dake, op. cit. p. 76.

#3: If the fossil record is to be explained by an interval in the white

space between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, that means death, disease, suffering and
calamity were common many ages before Adam fell. Yet Scripture says
Adams sin was the event that introduced death and calamity into Gods
creation: Through one man sin entered the world and death through sin.
(Romans 5:12). (John MacArthur, ibid. p. 75-76).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Romans 5:12 states that death, as a consequence of Adams sin,
entered into the world of men of which Adam is the federal head. After all,
the Holy Bible basically deals with the sinful descendants of Adam. This
fact, in itself, doesnt rule out pre-adamic life. Nor does it rule out existence
of sin and death prior to Adam. In fact, there are Scriptures to account both
for sin and its consequences prior to Adams sin or fall. As such, sin did not
originate with Adam. It originated with Lucifers rebellion, who sinneth
from the beginning (1 John 3:8) subsequent to Genesis 1:1. And the wages
of sin is death. It is spiritual death resulting in eternal separation from God.
Christ says He saw Satan as lightning fall from heaven (Luke
10:18) during which fall (Isaiah14:12), destruction on earth, as well as in the
heavens, cannot be ruled out. Apart from any destructive consequences of
Lucifers sin and that of the fallen angels and pre-adamic men prior to the
creation of Adam, the chaos described in Genesis 1:2; Jeremiah 4:23-27; 2
Peter 2:3-6 cannot be accounted for on earth as a product of some creative
acts of God at the beginning of the original creation (Genesis 1:1). Anyway,
Lucifers sin (Isaiah 14:13-14; Ezekiel 28:15) and the sin of angels (2 Peter
2:4; Jude 6) resulted in their spiritual death- eternal separation from God.
The sins of pre-Adamic men brought death without any suffering but
in a swift destruction (Heb: abad, Ezekiel 28:16) along with the rest of the
pre-Adamic creation. Accordingly, we have clear and indubitable
evidence in the organic remains before us, of fossils, bones, skins, flesh,
skeletons, etc that the creation disentombed by the geologist did not come as
it is now from the Creators hands. To any who would question the wisdom
of a pre-Adamic creation, we would say, have you ever reflected on the
goodness of God in turning the primeval vegetable world into coal? 1 All

this fossilized geological evidence recorded in the Book of Stone is not the
same as that which is available subsequent to Noahs flood.
Suffering, calamities, disease and death in our world down through the
ages are as a consequence of Adams sin as well as a consequence of our
individual private sins. However, the consequence of sins of the pre-Adamic
men must have been swift destruction and death without there being any
prior disease and suffering. As such, we need not assume that death, disease,
suffering have been common throughout the history of pre-Adamic men.
Unlike the calamities, suffering, disease and death that are now as a
consequence of sin since the fall of Adam, we need not assume it had to be
also as such in the pre-Adamic life. Like the angels who were created
directly, so also the pre-Adamic men must have been created directly after
their own kind. All these men, in whom the Wisdom of God delighted
(Proverbs 8:30) must have continued to live perfectly sinless lives before
they were wiped out as a result of their subsequent sin. The Wisdom of God
took delight in the pre-Adamic men as they were sinless and perfect just as
the angels were perfect before they sinned.
There is no biblical record of any men living sinless lives in Adams
world in which Gods Wisdom could be said to have taken delight. There
never have been any perfect men on earth since the Fall. All men are born
tainted by Adams sin. As such, there could not have been any perfect men
on earth at any time, barring the few individuals comprising of Gods elect.
It is a scriptural fact that there were nations of men under Lucifers
rule on earth. Next, Lucifers subsequent boastful pride and mis-rule led to
his rebellion and downfall. And just as he led the angels under his rule to sin,
so also obviously he did lead the once perfect pre-Adamic men to rebel and
live in sin. So eventually, swift destruction and death without necessarily any
ongoing suffering and disease had to be a consequential reality.
This fact may be biblically established by applying the hermeneutical
principle or Law of Double Reference to Ezekiel 31:3-18 depicting Lucifers
primeval Edenic rule and fall. Lucifers arrogant rule (Ezekiel 31:3-15)
ended up in the destruction of pre-Adamic life during which Lucifer was
brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth
(Ezekiel 31:16-18). These Scriptures cannot refer to any period on earth in
Adams world. The trees of Eden here should refer to pre-Adamic life. At the
same time, based upon the principle of Double Reference, these trees

should symbolically refer to Lucifer and pre-Adamic men of renown. As

otherwise we have no record of there being any such trees in Adams world.
Ezekiel 31:14-15 demonstrate that pre-adamic life on earth was wiped
out as an aftermath of Lucifers rebellion. So also, pre-Adamites who sinned
along with Lucifer were also crushed to death as a consequence. The fate of
Pharaoh to whom Ezekiel 31 is addressed resulted in a similar defeat. After
all, the same Lucifer who ruled and deceived the pre-Adamic nations under
him was very much active influencing Pharaohs rule. Lucifers goal is to
exalt himself. And to exalt himself he sways the rulers of this world bringing
them under his control. Eventually, his misrule ends up in destruction.
The fossil record in the Book of Stone can, therefore, very much
relegated to the destruction depicted in Ezekiel 31. Accordingly, the
Carboniferous Period, defined by pale-anthropological data of fossil
record, cannot be an aftermath of Noahs flood.
Geo-chronologically, Carboniferous Period logically has to cover a
much longer period. Certainly, it has to be a period that is much longer than
the period which is comprised of from the period of Noahs flood down to
our times. If, then, the voice of science urgently demand a vastly longer
period for the formation of its numerous strata than that wrongly marked in
our Bibles, and, further, that vegetation must have flourished, light and heat
existed, and land animals at least lived under conditions not furnished by
the present state of things since man was created, What is the natural
conclusion? Why, that our thoughts, our previous habits of thinking and
speaking, are wrong, not the Word of God! 2
We can, therefore, confidently state that based upon Fossil Record and
Biblical revelation, swift death and destruction if not disease and suffering,
was a reality prior to sin and death entering into Adams world. It is only in
this context it could be stated that Satan knew what it meant to die so as to
tempt Adam and Eve to commit sin and die. On the other hand, Adam had
not yet witnessed the reality of death. Death, perhaps, became more of a
reality once he witnessed it after Cain killed Abel. For any sin and death to
enter into Adams world, both sin and its consequence death necessarily had
to exist prior to Adams sin and consequent death.
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1: Walter Scott, op.cit. p.15

2: Walter Scott, op. cit. p.15.

#4: A related theological problem posed by Henry Morris, Founder

and President Emeritus of the Institute for Creation Research, USA, is that:
the wonderful saving gospel of Jesus Christ is essentially subverted and
destroyed if we must accept the vast ages of the evolutionary cosmologists
and geologists, with their eons-long spectacle of suffering and death as
recorded in the global fossil graveyard. Sound theology must say no to any
such concession! Fossils speak of death and death results only from sin and
judgment. (Henry Morris, op.cit; link: www.icr.org).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anyway, without accepting the vast ages of the evolutionary
geologists with their eons-long spectacle of suffering and death as a reality,
the nature and rare composition of a global fossil graveyard demonstrate
sudden destruction and death. This could be only as a result of judgment
following Lucifers sin, that of his angels and pre-adamite men. Its only
after seeing the reality of physical death of the pre-adamite men, Satan could
know the gravity of sins penalty so as to induce Adam to sin and die.
Even otherwise, the wonderful saving gospel of Jesus Christ cannot be
said to be essentially subverted and destroyed. The entrance of sin into the
original pre-Adamic world, subsequent to Lucifers rebellion, is not without
its defiling effects. As such, the need for Christs blood to appease Gods
wrath and cleanse the defilements caused by Satans sin on heavenly things
was necessary (cf. Hebrews 9: 23b) even before the fall of Adam. Therefore,
the Gospel is not subverted; rather, its propitiatory value, with its appeasing
and cleansing aroma, was a spiritual necessity and therefore relevant even
before Adams sin entered into the world!
Biblically based pre-Adamic Gap Theology upholds the spiritual value
of the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ (Revelation 14: 6a). His slaying as
a sacrificial Lamb of God even before the foundation of the world
(Revelation 13:8c) was symbolically necessary to cleanse the defiling effects
of Lucifers sin. And, that was necessary even long before Adams sin
entered into the world of humanity, much later. Jesus death doesnt pay the
penalty of Satans sin. But it does cleanse and remove the defilement of the
heavenly things (Hebrews 9:23b) caused by Satans sin (Ezekiel 28:18a;
Revelation 12:8) who once inhabited the earth and eventually left his

habitation to usurp Gods throne, thereby defiling the heavenly things. If this
be not the case, then one has to explain how heavenly things are defiled.
We are accustomed to owning only the defiling effects of Adams sin
whilst overlooking such effects caused by Lucifers sin. However, the
slaying of the Lamb figuratively even before the foundation of the world,
becomes much more relevant because of the defiling effects of Lucifers sin.
As a matter of fact, Biblical Gap Theology, instead of undermining
the gospel faithfully upholds the same at its very foundations. Figuratively,
the shed blood of Christ, the Lamb that was figuratively slain before the
foundation of the world cleanses all and any defilement caused not only by
Adams sin but also by Satans sin. As otherwise, how could a thrice Holy
God of Integrity ever allow Satan to present himself before His throne
(Revelation 12:8, 12d)? Or, even have a dialogue with him (Job 1:6, 2:1, 7)
apart from the propitiatory and purifying value of Christs shed blood?
Unfortunately, the flawed theology of limited atonement places its
focus on limiting the efficacy of Christs shed blood solely for the cleansing
of sins of the elect. But, it fails to appreciate the universal cleansing effect of
Christs blood that was very much figuratively in operation even before the
foundation of the world. Defilement of heavenly things caused by Satans sin
needed then and still need a better sacrifice for their cleansing and
purification (Hebrews 9:22).
As such, it is a sound gospel truth. Not only has it made a provision
by the substitutionary death of Christ as the awful wages of mans sin for
the believers forgiveness and justification but also it has immense efficacy in
cleansing the heavenly things (Hebrews 9: 23). Symbolically, Christs
sacrifice for propitiation precedes its substitutionary purpose. It became
figuratively necessary from the casting away of the pre-Adamic world
(katabole kosmou, Matthew 13:35) even before Adam sinned. It is Lucifers
sin that existed before Adam entered into this world once Adam gave in to
Satans temptation. Satans pre-existing sin next entered into mans world.
Moreover, Gods plan for the atonement of human sin and redemption
of mankind from its bondage to sin has its focus upon the consequences of
Satans sin which are described in Genesis 1:2. As such, the physical work of
the six days figuratively marks the proclamation of the everlasting Gospel of
Salvation through its object-lessons. Definitely, it is essentially a work of
physical restoration. In a way, the six-day work involves earths physical

redemption from its chaotic state which parallels mans redemption from
sins chaotic spiritual consequences.1
Undoubtedly, the physical work of the six days is symbolic of the
spiritual work of God in the darkened and chaotic human hearts. This
spiritual work is evident in the hearts of the redeemed souls, through the
course of the ensuing six millennia whilst living under Satans dominion and
his deceptive mis-rule on earth. Traditional six-day creationists will not
easily accept the spiritual reality of the symbolic aspects of Gods Work of
the six days followed by rest on the seventh day as something of prime
evangelical significance and importance. Nevertheless, Hebrews 4 very
clearly brings out the evangelical significance of Gods work of the six days
pointing to a future millennial spiritual rest.
No wonder, the phased work of the six days is characterized by
physical redemptive and restorative acts. The earth under slavery to satanic
chaos is made free, rather redeemed, from the chaos during the first three
days. Next, following a reorganization of the solar system on the fourth day,
life is restored on earth and in the sea on the fifth and sixth day. For a
detailed explanation of the rich spiritual symbolism of Gods work of the
first three days and the subsequent work of the next three days, the reader
has much to gain by visiting: www.separationtruth.org. 2
The fact that life was restored on earth through re-creation is clearly
evident. Light was restored on earth through Gods commanding it out of
darkness; dry land was restored by commanding the waters to return to its
former place constituting the sea/s. So also, life was restored by giving
express commands to the earth and the sea to bring forth into existence
living forms after their kinds that formerly existed and was next wiped out.
This is why the specific phrasing of "after his kind" or "after their kind" is
used by the Spirit in describing the Lord's regenerative work. 3
Human life, however, was next created after God kind; that is, in the
image and likeness of God. And, the re-created new Generation of
heavens and earth were placed under mans dominion. And, God saw
every thing that He had created and made during the six days and said Very
Good. It was an evangelical declaration by God. But it doesnt rule out the
existence of evil prior to Adam! After all, darkness was still there!
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1, 2: Jack W. Langford, The GAP Is Not a Theory, www.separationtruth.org, 2010

3: Kaines Johnson, The BIBLE, Genesis and Geology, www.kjvbible.org , p.13

#5: In Genesis 1:31, after God had completed all His creation, He
declared it very good which would not be a fitting description if evil had
already entered the universe. (John MacArthur, op. cit; p. 76).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Evil did enter into Gods original creation the moment Lucifer sinned
and became Satan. Period! Evil had come into the universe the moment
Satan said "I will", and it became the great question in the universe 1. Next,
When the Lord says of Satan, that he was a liar from the beginning, that
goes back a long way 2. As such, Satan, personification of evil, was already
present in the Garden of Eden, as a subtle serpent, ready to tempt Adam and
Eve. And, since satanic-evil was there, there was the Tree of Knowledge of
Good and Evil, whose fruit Adam was commanded not to eat, failing which
dying he would die (Genesis 2:17). If evil had not then had entered the
universe, then the command to Adam to responsibly avoid eating of the fruit
of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is irrelevant.
What God saw and declared very good, was everything that He had
made during the six days. And, that which He created and made during the
six days is clearly specified in Genesis 1:3-30 which God then looked at and
said, very good (v.31). That, of course, doesnt include darkness which
is symbolic of the evil forces of spiritual darkness. And, God never called
darkness good. Therefore, God Himself separated the existing darkness
from the light which is symbolic of righteousness, truth, and peace, and
therefore good. As such, what God specifically created and made during
the six days of the creation week was good as compared to the chaotic
conditions on earth in Genesis 1:2 that were not good but were evil or bad.
Lucifer who became Satan and the angels who became demons were
not created during the creation week. Lucifer and the angels that sinned were
created before the creation of the universe (Job 38:7). Next, Lucifer did
actually rebel and sin and became Satan (Isaiah 14:12-14) before the work of
the six days. Evil which is symbolized by darkness in the Bible existed prior
to Genesis 1:3-31. Satan was on earth in the Adamic Garden of Eden as a
subtle sly serpent. However, what God created during the six days does not
include darkness. And, of course, it does not include the Serpent as an
instrument of evil, though it was certainly good as a creation of God when
created on the sixth day. Its when Satan got inside the serpent, to deceive

and tempt mother Eve, the serpent became a symbol of evil!

Traditional Six-day Creationists cannot accept the fact of Lucifers
rebellion and fall as occurring prior to the creation week. This is because
Lucifers rebellion prior to the work of the six days does contradict their
defective doctrine of six-day creationism. However, Lucifer sinned from the
beginning, long before the creation of man, as can be ascertained from Isaiah
14:12-14, Ezekiel 28:12a-19, Jude 6, 1John 3:8, Revelation 12:9.
Certainly, all these Scriptures do not suggest that Lucifer sinned after
Day Seven so as for the traditional six-day creationists to confidently state
that he did not sin before the creation week. Anyway, in the light of the
first Epistle of John sin existed at that time, (i.e. during the creation week)
but it did not exist in connection with man nor in relation to the creation
brought before us in the opening of Genesis and which God pronounced to
be very good. Sin existed already in relation to Satan; he was the original
sinner he sinneth from the beginning or outset, but there was a created
scene down here without sin. (J. Pellatt, op. cit. p.150).
Evil already had entered the universe much before the work of the six
days. It was characterized by waste and emptiness and the disappearance
of the conditions of life. The original dry land was covered by waters and
darkness. Gods work during the first six days, therefore, involved
restoring the lost life-conditions. Accordingly, God declares His later works
as very good thereby distinguishing the newly created good conditions
from those that were not good or, rather, were evil. As otherwise, it wasnt
necessary, in fact it was meaningless for God to specifically declare the
newly created life-conditions as good, if there were not earlier evil or
very bad conditions in sharp contrast to the re-created good conditions.
Darkness, after all, wasnt good even at the end of the six-day work.
The very fact that God declares His works of the six days as very
good, proves that whatever existed on earth as described in Genesis 1:2
was not really good but very bad or evil in His sight. Accordingly, the
chaotic evil conditions on earth in Genesis1:2 could not have been created
but were a result of judgment of the evil one. And it is these evil
conditions that God takes into account and restores those that were good
for the habitation of life. Accordingly, He set the earth free from the evil
one. However, God didnt eradicate all evil or its consequences at that time.
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1: C. A. Coates, Miscellaneous WorksVol. 30, p. 26.

2: ibid, p. 26

#6: Ken Ham argues differently: __some theorists put the fall of
Satan in this supposed period (Genesis 1:1 and 2). But any rebellion of
Satan during this gap of time contradicts Gods description of His completed
creation on day 6 as all being very good (Genesis 1: 31).
(www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/gap-ruin-reconstructionTheories
#fnList_1_22).---------------------------------------------------------------------------------The argument is not necessarily biblically warranted, or just. The very
fact that God specifically describes His works of the six days as very good
implies that it was not all well, or very good on earth, prior to Gods work
of the six days. And, rightly so; as otherwise, God would not separate the
light from the darkness; darkness wasnt good! But, in no way darkness
prior to Genesis 1:3-5 contradict completed creation on day 6 as all being
very good (Genesis 1: 31). As such, rebellion of Satan before Genesis 1:2
need not contradict Gods description of the six-day creation as very good.
God states His six-day physical re-creation as very good including
the serpent created on day six. Now the serpent was more subtle than any
beast of the field which the LORD God had made (Genesis 3:1). Satan
turned serpent and the fallen angels are not a part of the physical creation; as
such, there is no contradiction. But, the fact that the serpent was more subtle
from the day it was made indicates that Satan was already there on day six.
Actually, when was Lucifer created? And when were the angels
created? Were they created during the work of the six-days?
The angelic host was created before the universe of Genesis 1:1 which
in turn was created earlier than the Heavens of Genesis 1:8 and Earth and
the Sea of Genesis 1:10.The same is ascertained by the fact that the angels
shouted for joy when God laid the foundations of the earth (Job 38:7). Next,
as noted by John Mac Arthur, In eternity past, before men were created,
before the earth was formed, worship was taking place. Referring to the
angels, Nehemiah 9:6 says, The heavenly host bows down before Thee.
That is their activity, and it has been their activity from their creation. 1 On
the one hand, we are told the heavenly hosts were created during the creation
week, on the other hand they tell us worship by the heavenly host was
already taking place in the eternity past? How do we put these two together?

As such, the assumption that the angels must have been created
during the creation week of Genesis 1:3-31 is biblically untenable, and falls
flat.
Was Lucifer sinless and perfect when in the Garden of Eden at the
time of Adams creation? Or was he there already as Satan even before day
1 inhabiting darkness as described in Genesis 1:2 cf. Jude 6?
When did Lucifer actually sin? And where was he when he and the
angels sinned? Was he in heaven? 2 Or on earth? Did Lucifer sin first and
then tempted Eve to commit sin? Did Lucifer sin after Day Seven as
assumed by the traditional and young-earth six-day creationists? 3
According to John MacArthur Satans fall must have occurred sometime
between the end of creation (marked by that glorious day of rest on day
seven) and the events described in Genesis 3 ---which appear to have come
very soon after the creation of Adam and Eve, before they had conceived any
offspring. 4
If we were to merge the biblical six-day creationism of Genesis 1:3-31
with Genesis 1:1, then one could agree with the six-day creationists that
Lucifer and his angels sinned soon after Day Seven --- very soon after the
creation of Adam and Eve, before they had conceived any offspring.
However, Lucifer did not sin after Day 7 of the creation week but very much
earlier. For, it is clearly evident from Genesis 1:24-25 that the Serpent of
Genesis 3:1, symbolic of the Evil One, was created and already there earlier
on Day Six. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made.
Revelation 12: 9, 20:2 interpret the Serpent to be Satan or Devil and
2 Corinthians 11:3 states that it is the serpent who beguiled Eve. Obviously,
Lucifer must have had sinned before Day Seven and not after; for he was
already there as a subtle Serpent by Day Six. Thus the serpent symbolized
willy -nilly Satan from its very creation on Day Six. And since the Serpent
was already there to tempt, God commanded Adam soon after his creation
on Day Six not to eat of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Lucifer and the angels under him sinned when they were on earth and
not when they were in heaven. As such, the Angels who kept not their first
state, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains
under darkness (cf. Genesis 1:2?) unto judgment of the great day. (Jude
6).The record of Lucifers sin is found in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. These

two passages make it clear that Lucifers rebellion was not in heaven; nor it
could be in the Garden of Eden of Genesis 2:8 soon after Day Seven. But the
traditional six-day along with young-earth creationists drunk with the mixed
wine of traditional concepts will not accept it because it is too painful.
In the Garden of Eden of Ezekiel 28:13a in which Lucifer was placed
some time after his creation, he is symbolized as a beautiful Tree. He was
more beautiful than all the other trees in that Garden of the Lord. He was so
much beautiful that all the other trees in the Garden envied him (Ezekiel
31:9). And, that was of course long, long, before his fall.
Next, in the Garden of Eden of Ezekiel 28:13a in which Lucifer was
placed, every precious stone was his covering. He was also given a throne
from where he said I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God. I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the North. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be
like the Most High (Isaiah 14: 13-14). And that was exactly when he
rebelled and sinned against God, when he was on earth. He was not then in
heaven.
Are we to conclude that Lucifer acted on his pride and sinned when in
the Garden of Eden of Genesis 2: 8? If this be the case, then we will have to
conclude that Lucifer sinned between day 3 and day 6; for it was on day 3
that the Garden of Eden had to be created and on day 6 we find the subtle
serpent symbolizing Satan created along with other beasts.
However, it is unimaginable that Lucifer could have sinned in neither
such a short time; nor even some time after Day 7or even before Adam and
Eve could conceive any offspring. It is not only unimaginable humanly
speaking, but it is also theologically and doctrinally unreasonable and most
certainly it is biblically inaccurate and therefore untenable.
Unimaginable, because Lucifer who was created full of wisdom could
not be so foolish so as to end up in sin in such a short time. How long was it
when Lucifer sinned before Adam and Eve could conceive any offspring?
Wisdom required that Lucifer take time to consider the pros and cons of
rebelling against God. Next, he still needed much more time to mobilize the
support of other angels. Next, he had to have some idea about Gods throne
in heaven before he could ascend up to conquer it assuming he and his
angels were on earth soon after their creation.

Doctrinally unreasonable, because God who is in sovereign control

would never ever simply allow Lucifer to sin against Him that soon at the
cost of compromising His sovereignty; and that too, soon after completing
the work of the six days; that is, soon after the creation of Adam and Eve,
before they had conceived any offspring.

Biblically untenable, because:

(i) There is not even a slightest hint or indication in the Bible stating
that Lucifer and all the angels were created during the work of the six days.
On the other hand, Job 38:7 definitely and conclusively proves that the
angels were already created earlier so as to be there to witness the creation
of the earth and shout for joy. Therefore, they could not have been created
during the six days. After all, earths foundation was not laid during any of
the six days but long before the creation of the first day.
(ii) Lucifer and the angels were in heaven after their creation. They
were on the holy mountain of God. And that was long before the creation
of heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1. Next, after the creation of heavens and
earth Lucifer and the non-elect angels were placed on the habitable part
of the earth. Lucifer was ruling on earth when actually the thought of
conquering God popped up in his mind, dwell on it and then ascend into the
heavens where Gods Throne is. He thus rebelled and fell.
(iii) At one time before his fall, Lucifer was one of the three Cherubs
that were anointed and covered Gods throne in the heavens (Ezekiel 28:14).
You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you. This could
not be really the case if he and the other angels were created during the
creation week and were on earth soon after their creation. There wasnt any
Gods throne on earth at any time for Lucifer to cover it as anointed cherub.
(iv) Lucifer could not be then upon the holy mountain of God in the
heavens, walking up and down in the midst of the stones of fire: (you were
on the holy mountain of God; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery
stones Ezekiel 28: 14), if he were created during the creation week and was
on earth soon after that. There wasnt any holy mountain in the Garden of
Eden or anywhere on earth, prior to the establishment of Mount Zion as far
as the revealed biblical record is concerned.

(v) Lucifer could not be cast out of the mountain of God as a profane
creature at any time after his creation and before he sinned (Ezekiel 28:
16b), if he were created during the creation week and was on earth, soon
after that. The truth is he wasnt in heaven but on earth when he revolted.
(vi) There was no throne in the Garden of Eden of Adams time for
Lucifer to occupy and take charge (Isaiah 14:13b); instead, Adam was given
the charge to tend and keep the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2: 15). As a matter
of fact, Adam was required to obey God and qualify to rule on earth by
defeating Satan - who was there as a subtle serpent. However, Adam
succumbed to Satans temptation by disobeying God, and brought humanity
under Satans government ever since then.
(vii) There were no nations on earth soon after the creation week
which Lucifer (before he became Satan) could weaken (Isaiah 14:12 c) so as
to cause them to sin. These very nations on earth that he ruled eventually led
to his pride to the point of exalting himself and rebel against God (cf.
Ezekiel 31: 8-18). Isaiah is not talking about any other nations on earth
whom Lucifer weakened and caused to sin.
It should be obvious from the above facts based upon the clearest
account of Satans rebellion given in Ezekiel 28:11-19 and Isaiah 14 that
sheds more light on Satans fall that, in no way, Satans fall could be said
to have occurred soon after Day Seven. Nor it could be stipulated from the
above Scriptures that Satans fall occurred in heaven. To state as such is to
contradict Isaiah 14 which sheds more light on Satans fall wherein Lucifer
states: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of
God; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most
High. It was at this time when iniquity was found in him.
Before his fall, Lucifer had to be on earth from where he did ascend
into the heavens so as to literally usurp the throne of God in the heavens. It
is only then from where he fell even as the same was witnessed by Christ.
Satan could not appear suddenly and unexpectedly in Genesis 3:1 from
nowhere. He was on earth as a rebel angel cast out of heaven back to earth
during which the chaos on earth surrounded by darkness was the result.
If we are to carefully exegete the account of Satans rebellion in
Ezekiel 28:11-19 along with that of Isaiah 14:12-15 then it becomes pretty
difficult to assign Satans fall sometime between end of creation and the

events described in Genesis 3.

Traditional Six-day Creationists have no option but to come to terms
with the above biblical facts which cannot be denied. As such, they have no
scriptural reason to reject pre-Adamic gap theology!
To reject the biblically-based pre-historical pre-adamic gap theology
relating to facts that can be only accounted for as having occurred between
Genesis 1:1 and 1:3 is to unwarily reject truth having its roots in biblical
revelation. Sound wisdom requires that we accept the plain truth manifested
in the light of the above and other biblical facts highlighted hereinafter.
Accepting the biblically-based gap theology doesnt mean one
should be converted into an old-age creationist or become a progressive
creationist. The age of the earth or that of the universe is not a biblical
issue. It should not be an issue seeing that the Bible is totally silent about it.
One may reasonably be satisfied with either an old-age earth or a
young earth once we come to terms with the theological relevance of
biblical events that occurred before the creation of time. However, we cannot
overlook geological and cosmological evidence relating to the age of the
universe. Biblical gap theology basically deals with and focuses upon
events relating to the chaos in timelessness as having theological and
evangelical relevance.
Could be there no consequences on earth, if not in the heavens, of
Lucifers sin? If Adams sin could have its consequences and bring a curse
on earth how grave should be the consequences of Lucifers sin? Moreover,
along with Lucifer the angels on earth and pre-adamite men also sinned.
Undoubtedly, the conditions on earth as described in Genesis 1:2 are
of judgment and cannot be of original creation, which was perfect. And, as it
has been proved above, Lucifer was on earth from where he sinned resulting
in chaos and darkness and a flooded earth. Accordingly, the imaginary gap
against the background of timelessness comprising of the white space
between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 covering the pre-Adamite life and the black
space between Genesis 1:2 and 1:3 covering the chaotic conditions with a
universal flood and darkness on earth (Genesis 1:2) is assuredly a biblical
reality a fact and not a theory, having theological and evangelical
implications and connotations.

As such, The first verse of the Bible is a separate and independent

affirmation. The use of AND in verse 2, is as independent of verse 1 as
to time and subject matter as all the other separate acts of God. In fact
and is used 153 times in Genesis 1 and 2 to separate the 102 recorded
independent acts of God. (J. Finis Dake, op. cit. p.76).
However, it is not revealed in the Bible as to how long it was before
God executed His work of the six days. As stated by Charles A. Coates, We
do not know what length of time elapsed between those first two verses;
possibly the long periods of which the geologists and biologists speak might
come in there 5 Anyway, it is not necessary to know nor can we ever know
as to how long the period was between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2.
Nevertheless, Scriptures leave no doubt as to the existence of prehistorical, pre-Adamite life on earth. Next, it is scripturally also clear that
Lucifer ruled on earth prior to Genesis 1:2 and that he eventually sinned and
fell. Lucifer sinned in the Beginning (1 John 3:8b). Consequently, the
chaos of Genesis 1:2 is the curse upon earth, evidenced by fossil record. If
ever there was any biological evolution then it could be only prior to
Genesis 1:2. The fact that life existed prior to the works of Genesis 1:3-31 is
a biblically based reality. However, we are not told in the Bible as to how
pre-adamic life was created, or whether any evolutionary process was set in
operation. The Book of Stone has much to tell us.
Genesis 1:2 describes the changed conditions on an otherwise once
perfect original earth created in the eternity past. We find the earth waste
and void, flooded with waters and covered with darkness. These chaotic
conditions on an earlier perfect earth are not of direct creation, but of a later
judgment; a primeval catastrophe associated with the rebellion of Satan
against God.
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1: John MacArthur, Jr. The Ultimate Priority, Moody Press, USA, 1983, p.24.
2: John MacArthur, The Battle for the Beginning, op.cit. p. 200;
3: Ken Ham, ibid..
4: John MacArthur, ibid, p.200.
5: C.A.Coates,An Outline of Genesis, op.cit. p.3

6: W. Scott, op. cit; p. 17.

7: ibid p.16.

#7: While it is reasonable to assume that Gods creation referred to

in Genesis 1:1 was perfect, this fact is not actually so stated until after v.10
mentioned again in Genesis 1:12,18, 21,25, and 31. In the light of these
citations, it would be difficult to maintain that Gods creative work in
Genesis 1:2 .was not really good; As for the reference to the earths
being waste and void (Heb. tohu wabohu) in Genesis 1:2, it is not
altogether clear whether this was a subsequent and resultant condition after
a primeval catastrophe, ---possibly associated with the rebellion of Satan
against God. It must be understood, however, that there is no explicit
statement anywhere in Scripture that the primeval fall of Satan was
accompanied by a total ruin of earth itself; it is simply an inference or
conjecture, which may seem persuasive to some Bible students but be
somewhat unconvincing to others. (Gleason L. Archer, Jr. op.cit. p.65-66).
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It is not at all necessary to reasonably assume that Gods creation

referred to in Genesis 1:1 was perfect. It was, indeed, certainly perfect and
beautiful seeing that whatever God creates and does, it is always perfectly
beautiful. As such, it had to be reasonably perfect (Deuteronomy 32:4) and
beautiful (Ecclesiastes 3:11) in consonance with Gods glorious perfect
character. As a matter of fact, the Holy Spirit did not even see it fitting or
necessary to qualify Gods creation in Genesis1:1 as good or very good or
perfect. There wasnt anything imperfect as yet. It was expected that it
would be well understood to be as such by those who would know God as an
Intelligent Designer who creates everything perfect and beautiful to bring
Him glory, honor and pleasure (Revelation 4:11). So, why then reasonably
assume it was somehow perfect? It was certainly perfect! However, the
chaotic condition on earth in Genesis 1:2 was not good at all because it was
not Gods creative work but a consequence of sin.
And, it is from the chaotic conditions that God set forth His hand to
restore the original good life-promoting conditions on earth. As such, God
saw it necessary to distinguish His six-day creative work in Genesis 1:3-31
as very good. This was necessary because it was additional work to restore

the goodness of Gods original creation (Genesis 1:1) that was lost
subsequent to Lucifers rebellion resulting in chaos and darkness on earth
(Genesis 1:2). The very fact that God after restoring the original conditions
designates them as very good proves that the conditions on earth in Genesis
1:2 were in no way good but evil. Period!
As otherwise, it would be of no spiritual significance at all for God to
declare His own works of the six days as very good seeing that His works
are always very good. As such, God declares His works of the six days as
good so as to differentiate the same from the existing satanic evil.
Genesis 1:2 is not at all a creative work. To describe it as a creative
work is a contradiction in terms. There was nothing creative and good in
Genesis 1:2 as compared to all that was created and declared very good
(Genesis1:3-31). And, when the chaos is compared to a perfect creation in
Genesis 1:1 only the imperfection of chaos and darkness becomes obvious as
is briefly described in Genesis 1:2.
Next, God is not the Author of chaos or confusion (1 Corinthians
14:33). the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of
the deep. This was certainly not as it was created for we are expressly told
that not as waste [the same word as in Genesis1:2] did He create it (Isaiah
45:18). As such, a solemn change had come about between the first and
second verses of Genesis 1 1
The conditions in Genesis 1:2 were: As to the earth, it became
(Hebrew: hayah) formless (tohuw) and void (bohu) and darkness was upon
the face of the deep. Now tohu signifies a wasteland, a desolate place
and bohu means empty or void; which means before the earth became a
wasteland and empty, it had to be a fruitful land. These chaotic conditions
are the same as in Jeremiah 4:23-26 and Isaiah 34:11which are descriptive of
judgmental outcomes. As a matter of fact, as it has been succinctly pointed
out by John MacArthur tohu and bohu, picture God as architect of
judgment, using a plumb line of tohu, which is kept taut by weights made of
bohu. 2. As such, Genesis 1:2 is surely a display of judgmental outcomes.
Next, in the Scriptures, the sea is a symbol of the Devil and his power.
Obviously, the original sea symbolizing Lucifers power broke forth the
limit that God hath set upon it. As a result, typifying Satans rebellion, the
sea advanced and engulfed the entire earth; so that, at the time of re-creation,
God had to set bounds upon it. The waters stood above the mountains. At

your rebuke they fled; at the voice of Your thunder they hastened away
(Psalms 104:6-9). This Scripture doesnt refer to Noahs flood during which
the waters were not rebuked but gradually receded in the course of time. As
such, Psalm 104:6-9 definitely refers to a pre-Adamic flood on earth.
When God first created the primeval earth the waters were in one
place forming a vast ocean: When He drew a circle on the face of the deep,
when He established the clouds above, when He strengthened the fountains
of the deep, when He assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters would
not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the
earth, then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; and I was daily His
delight, rejoicing always before Him. (Proverbs 8:27-30).
Proverbs 8:27-30 doesnt describe creation with words that perfectly
parallel the Genesis 1: 6-10 account. It refers to the original creation when
God marked out the foundations of the earth (Proverbs 8:27b), when He
assigned to the sea its limit symbolizing Satans limited power well under
Gods control.
It is the limit that God set upon the sea in the beginning (Proverbs 8:
29) that it broke forth (Job 38:8, 10; Genesis 1:2) symbolically portraying
Lucifers rebellion. As such, God had to rebuke the sea for breaking its
decreed limit (Psalms 104:7). And in response to such rebuke, the waters
fled; at the voice of Gods thunder they hastened away (Psalms 104:6-9) to
their original place (Job 38:8-11) causing the dry land to appear again as in
Genesis 1:9-10 in obedience to Gods command.
Moreover, The waters covering the earth in a flood as a result of
Lucifers rebellion were more devastating and lasted longer than Noahs
flood, for it destroyed even vegetation (Genesis 2:5-6; Jeremiah 4:23-25),
while the one year and 17 days of Noahs flood did not. (Genesis 8:11, 22) 3
Genesis 1:2 is a precise description of chaotic conditions on earth
which were a consequence of Lucifers sin. Both darkness and the waters
covered the earth depicting satanic take-over of the earth. Thus the sea
may symbolize the Abyss, the source of demonic powers that are opposed to
God (Revelation 9:1). This view agrees with the OT images of the sea as the
origin of the satanic sea monsters (the dragon). 4
And, no wonder, we do not find the sea and darkness any more in the

new earth (Revelation 21:1) once the Devil is cast into the fire. As such,
The sea the source of the satanic beast (Revelation 13:1) and the place of
the dead (Revelation 20:13) will be gone. The sea serves as an archetype
with connotations of evil. Therefore, no trace of evil in any form will be
present in the new creation. 5
In Scripture, all instances of obscuring the sun and bringing
consequent darkness, and the two past cases of universal floods are revealed
to be the result of judgment, not creation.(Genesis 6:8-8:22; Exodus 10:2123; Isaiah 5:30; Jeremiah 4.23-26). All predictions of such future darkness
depict judgment (Matthew 8.12; 24.29-31; Revelation 6.12-17; 8.12; 9.2;
16.10; Isaiah 13.10; Joel 2.30-3.16; Amos 5.18-20). Could we say that
Genesis 1:2 is an exception and the only place in Scripture where darkness
and universal flood on the earth are not an act of judgment? If then, as in
other cases, these are the result of judgment, Genesis 1:2 definitely proves
there was a pre-Adamite world which was destroyed by flood. 6
There is sufficient Scriptural evidence to prove the primeval fall of
Satan was accompanied by ruin on earth. It is not simply an inference or
mere conjecture that seems to be persuasive only to some. All one has to do
is to read Isaiah 13:10, Joel 2:31, Rev.16:10 and it will be obvious that what
is predicted to happen in the end is declared in the beginning itself.
How long the changed state in Genesis1:2 lasted exactly we are not
told because it is not essential for us to know and no man can find out nor is
there any need to guess. The secret things belong to God! So, why guess?
All we can say is that those huge rocks, from 15 to 20 miles deep, (were)
formed of accumulated and countless millions of particles of matter, and
arranged in successional layers of formation periods of time as vast as to
defy human calculation. (Walter Scott, op. cit. p.16). The huge rocks of
remote ages are known to have formed the bed of the ocean, and others of
dry land, covered with rich luxuriant vegetation, serpents and reptiles of
enormous length, birds with giant wings, giant animals and mammals that,
perhaps, looked like human beings over whom Lucifer was given dominion.
And all of these turned into fossilized fuel stone in the course of
time, having been subjected to the pressures of a sudden disastrous
catastrophe. The fossil fuel cannot be accounted for with reference to any life
on earth since Genesis 1:3-31; or, since the universal flood of Genesis 6.
Even otherwise, the conditions on earth as Genesis 1:2 states can not be
accounted for other than that being of judgment. And it was a judgment

resulting from Lucifers rebellion and that of the angels and pre-adamite
nations that sinned with him. This is very well covered by the fact that preAdamic men, created perfect, under Lucifers influence, allowed pride to
bring their downfall (Ezekiel 31: 8, 9 read with verse 14, in keeping with the
Law of Double Reference) and, therefore, their consequent judgment.
Briefly, Geology clearly establishes the truth of a creation prior to
Adam, but no conflict need thereby be apprehended between science and the
Mosaic or rather Divine account of creation. The first verse of Genesis
refers to the original creation of heavens and earth, and is an independent
statement entirely apart from what follows; the second verse shows the earth
in a ruined state, yet, at a period prior to man; while from verses 3-31 we
have the earth got ready in six literal days as a dwelling for man. 7
From the Genesis 1 record, In verse 2 we find the earth a scene of
disorder and darkness. It is in such a scene that Gods movements and
activities are presented as taking place activities which come to an end on
the sixth day, so that on the seventh day God rested. 8 Accordingly, the Gap
Theology is undoubtedly biblically relevant; and Gods phased restorative
work of the six days is evangelically typical and very significant.
Evangelically and theologically speaking, subsequent to Genesis 1:2,
In the earth ... that is waste and empty, with darkness ... on the face of
the deep, we behold a scene in which God could find no pleasure or rest -a striking figure of the state of man as fallen under the power of sin, Satan,
and death, and without the knowledge of God. But it is blessed to see that,
though God could not rest in such a state of things, He did move and work
there. The Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
The Hebrew word rachaph, meaning hovering, to brood, relax, is
translated fluttered in Deuteronomy 32:11 and shake in Jeremiah 23: 9.
The word used is suggestive of affectionate interest, for it is the same as in
Deuteronomy 32:11, As the eagle stirred up its nest, hovered over its
young. It has something to say of the solicitude of divine love which would
put forth its activities where all was ruin in order to bring about conditions
which could be pronounced 'very good', and in which God could rest.
Before the work of the six days began there was this primary movement of
the Spirit of God. In a fallen and ruined world, where all have come under
sin and death, there must be a movement of the Holy Spirit in the souls of
men as the starting point of any result for God. The new birth must be

effected; otherwise divine light would shine in vain. There is nothing in man
that God can trust until men are born anew. Of the natural man it is said,
There is not a righteous man, not even one; there is not the man that
understands, there is not one that seeks after God ..., Romans 3:10 - 18.
Therefore God has to prepare the way for divine light to come in by
that mysterious operation which cannot be traced. It is needful that ye
should be born anew. The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its
voice, but knowest not whence it comes and where it goes: thus is every one
that is born of the Spirit, John 3:7, 8.
The preaching of the gospel would effect nothing if God did not move
sovereignly in the souls of men by His Spirit causing them to be born anew.
Man, the fallen sinner, is, as such, hopelessly lost, for he does not desire
God, and when the light of God in Christ is brought to him he rejects it. 9
In a way, we find Gods Spirit hovering upon the face of the waters
as if to incubate the waters covering the earth, in a prelude to bring forth
fruit of the next phase of Gods creative acts, culminating in the creation of
new men - Adam and Eve, in the Likeness and in the Image of God.

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1: Charles A.Coates, op.cit. p.2

2: John MacArthur, op. cit., p. 74
3: Finis J. Dake, op. cit. p.76.
4: Frank E. Gaebelein, General Editor, The Exposi tors Bible Commentary, Regency
Reference Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, 1981; p. 323.
5: ibid. p. 593.
6: Finis J. Dake, op. cit. p.79.
7: Walter Scott, op. cit. p. 200.
8: C. A. Coates, op. cit. p.2.

9: C. A. Coates, An Outline of Genesis, op. cit. p. 3.

*******

Phase Two, presents the six-day work of restoration of conditions of

life necessary for the habitation of flora and fauna, followed by the creation
of Adam and Eve. As a matter of fact, the work of the six days is not a work
of direct creation; rather, God sends forth His Spirit and renews the face of
the earth (Psalms 104:30) and restores the original conditions.
As such, it will be noticed that each days work of the six days is
marked out and distinguished from each other and also from the earlier work
of instant creation by the phrase And God said! Next, it could be
concluded that each days work was predominantly redemptive and
restorative as is obvious from the express commands given to the cosmic
forces of darkness, under Satans control, to Let Things Be or to Happen
so as to liberate the earth from being enslaved under satanic chaotic
conditions and subsequently restore the original life conditions for the
sustenance of new life on earth.
From an analysis of the nature of the six days work, it becomes
obvious that these works, more or less, bring into existence what was
originally there in the original creation but got destroyed once Lucifer, his
angels and the pre-adamite men sinned. It was a work of liberation or
redemption of the physical creation that was taken away captive by Satan
subsequent to his rebellion. God deliberately planned to carry out His work
of physical redemption through six days so as to typify His work of spiritual
redemption through the course of six millennial days. As otherwise, it was
not necessary for God specifically to work through some six days but create
everything instantly by fiat just as in the beginning.
The redemptive and restorative aspects of Gods physical works of the
six days are dealt with in detail in the section to follow, without meaning to

spiritualize in any manner. At the same time, the evangelically predictive

nature of the work of the six days, which distinguishes it as a totally different
work from that of the instant work of original creation by fiat, is accordingly
addressed next, affirming a radical evangelical theology of creation.

Phase Two

Creation in the Realm of Time

Second Phase of Creation

The Weeks Work
Biblical Six-Day Creationism
(Genesis 1:3-31; 2:1-4a)
Creation of the Sabbath
The Origin of the Seven -Day Week

A Literal Seven-Day Week

THE WEEKS WORK

From the chaos of the first earth (Gen.1:2) until its readjustment
(Gen.2:2) were seven days a weeks work. This is not a record of creation,
but of the readjustment of the chaos for the following eon.
There are three distinct creations recorded in the first chapter of
Genesis. Each was perfect, as all Gods creations perforce must be. The first
included the heavens and the earth. Isaiah tells us (Isa.45:18) that the earth
was not created without form or vain (Heb. theu, in both passages). It
became so through Satans interference. The six days work was occupied
principally with making it fit to be inhabited again. This was a material
creation. The next creation was on the fifth day (v.21). Living souls are
created in the waters and in the air. The third creation was humanity (v.27).
The bulk of subsequent revelation deals with mans readjustment after
Satan had contrived his overthrow, just as the six days dealt with the
restoration of the earth. Seven periods, or days in the moral history of
mankind, each commencing with an evening and ending with a
morning, corresponding to the weeks work demanded for the material
restoration of the earth. The material is a parable of the moral. Each of the
Divine activities on the six days pictures the work of a period of earths
history.
It is a delight to thus trace Gods handiwork and find the program, as
it were, all laid down at the very start. 1
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1: A. E.Knoch, The Divine Calendar, Concordant Publishing Concern,

Knochaven Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91387, U.S.A.

CREATION WEEK
The WORK of the SIX DAYS and the SABBATH
The second phase of Gods works of creation is described in Genesis
1:3-31 and Genesis 2:1-4a, 7, 21-24. It introduces the creation of a literal
seven-day week during which the next events were brought about by God in
six literal days followed by Rest on the Seventh Day. Genesis 1:3-31through
Genesis 2:1-4a is the first ever compact proto-evangelical biblical message
proclaimed through relevant archetypical object-lessons of the true biblical
six-day creationism culminating with the Seventh Day Sabbath Rest. It
portrays prototype works with symbolic message loaded with evangelical
connotations pointing to Gods spiritual works for mans salvation through
the course of six thousand years followed by a millennial spiritual rest.
Its rather a mystery that the traditional six-day creationists have
failed to capture the essence of proto-evangelical truth of the true six-day
biblical creationism in Genesis 1:3-31 account. Or else, instead of aligning
with the truth, they continue to hold on to the erroneous belief in a physical
creation in six days by clubbing together all the Scriptures in Genesis 1:131 contrary to the plain biblical revelation of true scriptural creationism.
But then, was there any need for an all-powerful, sovereign, CreatorGod to utter specific commands through the course of six days, beginning
with Genesis 1:3? Anyway, He did command to bring to fruition conditions
on earth that are conducive to the sustenance of physical life. The very fact
that God issued commands (cp. 2 Corinthians 4:6a) to bring into existence
life-sustaining conditions on earth beginning with the work of the first day in
Genesis 1:3 differentiates it from His earlier works of creation.
After all, in the beginning, God simply willed or desired it and the
whole universe consisting of the heavens and earth came into existence.

Thus it was created by fiat. It had to be a perfect and beautiful creation. To

think of it as otherwise and or to state that the lifeless chaotic condition
described in Genesis 1:2 as if it were the actual created imperfect state of the
original creation is to remain enslaved to contradictions and doctrinal errors.
As such, in no way the actual work of the six days includes in it the original
creation of Genesis 1:1. This fact automatically rules out the assumption that
the chaotic conditions of Genesis 1:2 are a work of creation.
Moreover, to state that the barren chaotic conditions on earth as if the
same were of the actual original creation in need of development through the
course of six days is to impugn the character of God. The fact is that Gods
works are always perfect. His planned creative works are always perfect,
complete and beautiful requiring no further development.
The very fact that God issued specific commands such as God said:
LetBe on each of the six days of re-creation/renewal (cf. Psalms 104:30)
against the background and circumstances of Genesis 1:2, indicates that the
lifeless barren conditions on earth briefly described in Genesis 1:2 are not of
original creation. As such, these are later judgmental outcomes subsequent to
the initial perfect creation next subjected to bondage and decay. As
otherwise, it was of no particular theological significance at all for an all
powerful God to issue such commands through the course of the six days.
God could simply will it, and bring it all into existence instantly by fiat.
However, God set His hand to restore order out of chaos in six days,
by giving specific commands to Let things Be. Let is used 14 times
in Genesis 1 and 1,497 times elsewhere in the Bible, and in no case is an
original creative act implied. The sense is made appear or made visible,
expressing permission and purpose in connection with already existing
things. The light, firmament, waters, earth, darkness, and all other things
mentioned here were already in existence but had been thrown into chaos,
and the laws which previously governed them had been made void because
of sin. Now, in restoration to perfection, God merely commands and the sun
gives light again, as it did all through Lucifers kingdom (Jeremiah 4:23-26;
2 Peter 3:5-7). Thus the light of days 1, 2, 3 came from the sun as has been
the case every day since. Cp. let in Genesis 13:8; 18:4; 24:14-18; Matthew
7:4; 13:30; 27:22; John 14:1; Philippians 2:5 for the true sense. 1
And. rather than create it all instantly by fiat again, God set forth His
hand to carry on His next phase of creation through a course of deliberately
planned specific works through six prophetically meaningful days. At His

appointed time, through a planned period of six days God first realigned the
heavens and refashioned the chaotic earth. Next, God commanded the earth
and the sea to bring forth new forms of life; both flora and fauna after their
original kind on the renewed earth, so as to make it habitable for Man whom
He would next create. Unlike the pre-historical Pre-Adamite Men who were
perhaps created after their own kind, this time, however, God created Man
after His own Image and Likeness, as the pinnacle of His creative works.
All these works, which God could otherwise produce in an instant by
fiat, instead were carried out in the course of six literal days. And then, the
weekly Sabbath was created by Gods resting on the seventh day.
Gods purpose in doing so was to create time, as we measure it on
earth in seven-day weeks. The phrase from the beginning of the creation
used in the New Testament (Mark 10:6, Romans 1:20, etc) obviously refers
to the entire period in timelessness, from the beginning of the creation of
the heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1 to the completion of the seven-day
week. This first week marks the actual beginning of time and a weekly cycle.
Who invented the seven-day week? On what basis the seven-day week
could be accounted for historically since the beginning of human history?
The theory of evolution has no answers other than to depict the seven-day
week as a human invention of no particular significance. However, the
biblical account of six-day creation crowned with Gods seventh-day rest or
the Sabbath marks the beginning of the weekly unit of time ever since.
Accordingly, Days and nights, lunar months, and solar years, are
natural divisions of time; and may be easily supposed or accounted for, by
the diurnal revolution of the earth, the appearance of the moon, and the
annual course of the sun; but weeks of seven days cannot have the shadow
of a reason assigned for their observance, except on the ground of the
primeval institution of the Sabbath on the seventh day of the creation, and
handed down by tradition to all parts of the world. 2
As a biblically-based historical fact, the recurring week of seven days
remarkably stands as a mute testimony vindicating Gods works of the first
six days followed by the seventh-day rest. It is a perennial reminder pointing
to Gods six-day work of re-creation, notwithstanding man-made clumsy
theories of evolution. As has been appropriately expressed, in the first
creation week we come across The very first use of sevens to denote time

is found in Genesis chapters one and two. That very first group of sevens
has delineated the days of the week since the beginning of human history.
However, in the course of time, and down through the ages, Man
certainly has messed with the years and the calendars (so no man today can
know EXACTLY what year it really is), but that seven-day week system has
survived from Adam until today. No wonder - it was ordained by God from
the beginning of this creation. 3
The seven-day week figuratively set forth a time frame for Lucifer or
the Devil to carry on his soul-damaging, spiritually destructive work for six
millennial days. At the end of six millennial days, Satan will be forced to
rest during the seventh millennial day. During this time God will establish
His Kingdom on earth and reign through Christ and the saints. As such, the
work of the six days and the seventh day Sabbath are prophetic in nature.
In other words, The bulk of subsequent revelation deals with mans
readjustment after Satan had contrived his overthrow, just as the six days
dealt with the restoration of the earth. Seven periods, or days in the
moral history of mankind, each commencing with an evening and ending
with a morning, corresponding to the weeks work demanded for the
material restoration of the earth. The material is a parable of the moral.
Each of the Divine activities on the six days pictures the work of a period of
earths history. It is a delight to thus trace Gods handiwork and find the
program, as it were, all laid down at the very start. 4
Logically, the works of the six days do not include the creation of the
Heavens and Earth of Genesis1:1.The same were already created instantly,
by fiat. The very nature of the work of the six days culminating in the
Sabbath Rest demonstrates Gods decreed planned intervention to re-create
life on earth that was rendered void and empty. It is figurative of Gods
spiritual work of six millennial days. It was a physical work that was, in a
way, prompted by Satans rebellion and its consequences and during which
re-creative period conditions for human life were restored.
Again, it is a Work of God to nullify the works of the devil. It involved
the execution of His foreordained decreed plan for mankind in spite of
satanic opposition. It included first the physical work of re-ordering a
disordered creation resulting from Lucifers rebellion followed by the
Sabbath day of physical Rest. And, therefore next, the six-day work is
figurative of the spiritual work of six millennial days basically against the

nefarious evil works of Satan who will end up in exile during the Millenium.
As already stated, the phased Work of the Six Days is in addition to
the original work of creation of Genesis 1:1. It rules out the traditional
belief of six-day creationism. Moreover, the very nature of the works of the
first six days is loaded with evangelical typology. And this theological fact in
itself establishes the pre-historical fact of an earlier original perfect creation
by fiat (Genesis1:1) prior to the works of the six days.
Lucifers rebellion and judgment resulted in chaos caused by
universal flood and darkness (Genesis 1:2). It necessitated Gods decreed
six-day planned intervention (Genesis 1:3-31). The purpose of the spiritual
work is the creation of the New Man in Christ.
In view of what is highlighted thus far it can be boldly stated that the
Traditional Six-Day Creationism and its modern versions such as YoungEarth Creationism and related Theories of Creationism as well as the DayAge Old and or Progressive Creationism, etc., cannot stand the test of
Biblical Truth relating to Creation. Biblical Creation Truth is given here a
little and there a little in the Bible and the same should be properly
interpreted without any bias resulting from traditional hide-bound erroneous
concepts.
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1: Finis J. Dake, op. cit. p. 76.

2: Joseph S. Exell, The Biblical Illustrator, Genesis, Vol.I Baker Book House, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, USA; p.123.
3: The Sevens (7) of the Bible in Time and Nature
4: A. E.Knoch, The Divine Calendar, Concordant Publishing Concern, 15570
Knochaven Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91387, U.S.A.

TRUE
BIBLICAL SIX-DAY CREATIONISM
(Genesis 1:3-31; 2:1-4a)

The Work of the First Day

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw
the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And
God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening
and the morning were the first day (Genesis 1:3-5).
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It was all dark on earth! As stated in Genesis 1:2, darkness was upon
the face of the deep upon the waters covering the earth. Obviously, there
must have been light in the heavens, even as God dealt with darkness on
earth by simply stating Let there be light on earth. As such, the first thing
in the creation week that God did was to command the already existing Light
in the heavens to shine forth through and out of darkness on the earth.
That is, God caused the earlier existing light that was obscured to
shine forth displacing darkness on one side of the rotating earth for a
particular period and called this bright period Day. There was an equivalent
period of darkness on the opposite side which He called Night. Thus, day
and night periods were set in motion on earth. Accordingly, God set in
operation laws to regulate recurring cyclical periods of evenings alternating
with periods of mornings (Genesis 1:3-5) on each side of the earth even as
the earth spins around its axis .
John MacArthur states What form this light took is not clear.
Whether it was merely an ethereal glow or a light that emanated from a
specific place is nowhere stated. Actual lights, such as the sun, moon, and

stars, were not created until the fourth day. These were permanent light
bearers. But light itself, the reality of light, was created on day one. And
instantly it separated day from night. 1 But the very fact of recurring day
and night periods from Day One itself and ever since, to be precise, demand
an earth spinning around its axis reflecting the light of the sun forming the
daytime and accordingly, regular cyclical day and night periods. The earth,
from the very first day, had to be in its correct orbit so as to rotate around an
existing sun for the day and night periods to be in full operation.
As otherwise, the phenomena of recurring day and night periods
cannot be explained. It would be scientifically inappropriate to account for
the existence of the first three days in the absence of any solar system, as
such. It could not be any different the first three days before the sun was
actually made to appear brightly on the fourth day. A cloudy sky (Gen. 1:7),
therefore, must have been cleared following a downpour (Genesis 2:5-6).
With the earth spinning around its axis and as a consequence of this
spinning motion, the sun appears to move from east to west, causing day
and night on earth. The day side of the earth faces the sun, and the night
side faces away from the sun. As the earth spins eastward, some parts of the
earth move from the night side to the day side. People who live in these
regions see the sun come up in the east. Other parts of the earth move from
the day side to the night side. People living there see the sun set in the
west 2. It is unscientific to imagine that this pattern of day and night periods
the first three days and until the fourth day was due to some other factors,
not regulated by earths spinning around its axis without facing any sun for
the occurrence of cyclical day and night periods during the first three days.
Some modern day adherents of Traditional Six-Day Creationism pose
and answer their own question How could there be light before the sun was
created? as follows:
How could the light exist on Day 1 before the sun was created on Day 4?
First, realize that light can exist without the sun. Candles, fires, flashlights, glowworms,
car headlights, matches, and many other objects give off light without the sun. All that
was needed for light to exist on the first day was a light source . The sun and moon are
light-givers, but they are not the only light-givers.

Light energy first: God activated light energy first, then great masses of
material were gathered together and set burning in complex chemical and nuclear
reactions, and the sun and moon were created to serve as light bearers, or light-givers, for
the earth. Second, in the book of John, chapter 1, we are told that Christ is the light of the
world, and the world was made by Him (John 1:10). This is true not only in a spiritual
sense, but also in a physical sense. At the time of creation, God was the light source.
This may have been through the massive energy He used to create the cosmos,
through the marvelous electromagnetic force system with short-wave radiation
(ultraviolet, x-rays, etc.) and long-wave radiation (infra-red, radio waves, etc.), or through
some other force God created . God is light: In 1 John 1:5 we are told that God is light
and in Him is no darkness at all.

Dr. Henry Morris made an interesting point about this passage when he said that
because God is light, dwelling in light (1 Timothy 6:16), He did not have to create light.
But God did create darkness (Isaiah 45:7) as the initial state of the unformed and
uninhabited earth (Genesis 1:2). He created the primeval darkness to form a division
between day and night. Physically, God is the light of shining glory. Intellectually, He is
the light of truth. Morally, He is the light of holiness . He is also the light of life (John
3
1:4), and of true guidance (John 8:12).
Was not light already existing? The answer is easy. Light may exist
independently of the sun. There is, e.g., the light of phosphorescence, the light of
electricity, the light of incandescence, the light of chemism, atom clashing with atom, and
4
discharging light at every collision.

Now, even after a simple cursory reading of the above answers any
unbiased person will be left wandering as to what is the real answer to the
Question: How could the light exist on Day 1 before the sun was created on
Day 4?
Was it merely an ethereal glow? Or did God activate light energy first
and then let great masses of matter burn in complex chemical and nuclear
reactions until the fourth day? And, is it after that did God create the sun,
moon and the stars on the fourth day? Or did Christ, the Light of the world
became the Source of Light in a physical sense at the time of creation?
Since we are told in 1 John 1:5 that God is Light are we to conclude
that Physically, God is the light of shining glory and therefore, because
God is light, dwelling in light (1 Timothy 6:16), He did not have to create
light? But, in Isaiah 45: 6, 7 He also says that He did create light as well as
darkness not necessarily on the first day but even much prior to that of the

first day. As such, it is wrong to state that just because God is Light,
dwelling in light He did not have to create light. But He did create light
before Day 1 and, as such, light was in existence long before the first Day.
What God actually did on the first day was to command the existing
light to re-appear out of darkness. The light that was there prior to the first
day was rather obscured by thick clouds causing total darkness as described
in Genesis 1:2. It is also unbiblical to state that Physically, God is the light
of shining glory. God is essentially Spirit and His Light is spiritual and not
physical. Are we to conclude that when God gave the command to Let
there be light He commanded His light of shining glory to shine forth out
of darkness in the form of some kind of physical light?
Without a shadow of doubt, it may be convincingly stated that when
God created the heavens and earth in the beginning as in Genesis 1:1, the
stellar heavens must have been surely shining brightly with physical light. It
is unscriptural to assume the heavens of Genesis were all in darkness.
Accordingly, the sun when first created had to emit light and its light along
with the light of the rest of the stellar heavens had to shine upon the earth.
As such, when initially created, the sun was not a dark body; if it were so,
then the stellar heavens created in the beginning also had to be dark and so
also the whole universe could be said to be in total darkness.
But the fact that physical light was already there is obvious from 2
Corinthians 4:6: God who commanded the Light to shine out of darkness.
As such, Light had to be there so as for God to command it to shine on earth
out of the prevailing darkness. God did not create Light on the first day.
Spiritual light was already there in Gods Kingdom; physical light must have
been on earth from the very beginning of the creation of the heavens
(Genesis1:1) which includes our solar system and the sextillions of stars.
Anyway, total darkness in the original perfect creation is biblically
unimaginable. It is unimaginable that God would create universe with starry
heavens without any physical light; the very word star implies a shining
brilliant object. The original heavens and the earth God says He created in
the beginning must have been definitely shining bright with sextillions of
stars. A perfect God who is LIGHT would essentially create stellar heavens
shining with physical light symbolizing His spiritual light. After all, even
before the physical creation of Genesis 1:1, God created the Angelic Hosts.
The Angelic hosts or Heavenly Hosts are also called bright shining stars.

Lucifer himself is called the Morning Star and his name means Light
Bearer. However, once Lucifer sinned, the physical light on earth was cut
off by obscuring it from its heavenly sources. As a result, the whole earth
was covered with darkness. It is symbolic of Lucifers judgment in losing
spiritual light once having lost the brightness of his original wisdom by
sinning. The anti-type of this judgment is also meted out to Pharaoh, King of
Egypt, wherein God says: I will cover the heaven, and make the stars
thereof dark, I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give
her light; All the bright lights in heaven will I make dark over thee, and set
darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD (Ezekiel 32:7-8). Obviously,
that was what God did as described in Genesis 1:2, soon after Lucifers fall.
Gods commanding the light to shine out of darkness on the first day
has rich imagery and spiritual symbolism conveying evangelical truths. It
portrays the appearance of Gospel Light subsequent to Adams sin that
brought him and humanity under spiritual darkness of sin. The Bible itself
interprets here a little and there a little the rich spiritual symbolism, though
briefly. As such, in the first millennial day itself, we find the spiritual light
of Gods promises of a coming Savior shining brightly dispelling the
spiritual darkness in the hearts of believing men, of old.
Light is made first. Not heavenly light, but earthly. It may need faith
for some to accept the fact of light on earth before either sun or moon, but
the moral counterpart is easily comprehended. Before God revealed Himself
from heaven, He had written righteousness upon mens hearts so that their
conscience testified as to what was right or wrong. This period begins with
the judgment of Adam and coincides with the economy of conscience 5.
And in our times, God commanding light is very significant of the
bringing in of Christ, for all true light that has shone for man has been the
light of Christ. All through the Old Testament the light was shining more and
more in promise, but now that Christ has come, and has died and risen, and
been glorified at Gods right hand, there is perfect day. It is the God who
spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts
for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of
Jesus Christ, (2 Corinthians 4:6). That is the full glory of the light.
But the light was good from the very outset: how good, for example,
was the light of Genesis 3:15 and 22:18! When light was brought in God
divided between the light and the darkness. This is a fundamental principle;
light and darkness could not go on together. Satan is always trying to mix

them. But Paul says, Be not unequally or overly yoked with unbelievers; for
what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what
fellowship light has with darkness? And what consent of Christ with Beliar,
or what part for a believer along with an unbeliever (2 Cor. 6:14-15). The
rejection of Christ has left the world, as such, in darkness, but He is coming
again, and will bring in the day. In the meantime believers are of the day
sons of light. Hence they have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather reprove them. People in the world may talk of progress
and increased light, but the sons of light regard it as darkness because
Christ is not in it. They confess Christ, and stand in separation from the
moral darkness around them. 6
And that includes staying away from the unfruitful works of darkness
of atheistic and theistic evolutionists who instead of letting the light of
biblical truth to shine forth darken it by their so called scientific
speculations. In doing so, they call Light, darkness and Darkness, light!
Light and the Gospel compared: --I: THE APPROPRIATENESS OF THE METAPHOR:1. Light and the gospel resemble each other in their source and Divine
resemblance. 2. Light and the gospel resemble each other in their adaptation to the end
designed. 3. Light and the gospel resemble each other in their purity. 4. Light and the
gospel resemble each other in their inseparable connection with joy and happiness.
II: THE WILL OF GOD RESPECTING IT:1. That man should have the light of salvation. 2. That His Church should be the
light of the world. 3. That the world should be filled with the light of the gospel of
Christ. (1) Now the gospel is adapted to all the world. It is as much suited to one part of it
as to another. (2) It is expressly said that it is designed for the whole world. I am the
light of the world. Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. (3)
The whole world shall finally enjoy its saving rays. This gospel of the kingdom, &c.
(See Isa.11:9, 60:19 and Hab. 2:14).
III. APPLICATION:1. Have you the light of Divine grace in your hearts? 2. Have you this light in
your families? 3. Have you this light in your neighborhood? 4. Are you assisting to
enlighten the world? (J. Burns, D. D). 7
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1: John Mac Arthur, The Battle for The Beginning, op. cit. p. 79.

2: World Book Encyclopedia

3: www.creationtips.org
4: Joseph S. Exell, The Bible Illustrator, GENESIS , Vol.I, Baker Book House, Michigan,
USA, .
5: A. E. Knoch, The Divine Calendar, Concordant Publishing Concern, CA , U.S.A
6: A. Coates, op. cit. p. 5, 6.
7: Joseph S. Exell, The Bible Illustrator, GENESIS, Vol.I, op.cit, p. 37.

The Work of the Second Day

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament,
and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters
which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the
firmament Heaven(s). And the evening and the morning, the second day.
(Genesis 1:6-8).
*******
On the second day, God made the firmament or a vast expanse so as
to separate the already existing waters below from those of the waters above
it. God then named this newly constructed vast open expanse as Heavens
(Genesis 1:8). So the imagery of Genesis 1:6 is that of a vast expanse, a
protective layer that overlays the earth and divides the waters below (the
sea of water that covered the earth) from the waters above (which could
refer to atmospheric water, clouds, and water vapor; or it might describe
some kind of ice-crystal or water-vapor canopy that encircled the
antediluvian world). In other words, the expanse in-between the firmament
includes the earths atmosphere. God called this expanse heaven (v.8). It
seems to refer primarily to the sky immediately above us the atmospheric
heavens. 1
The atmospheric heavens of Genesis 1:6-8 are different from the vast
stellar heavens comprising of the known and unknown billions of galaxies.
Thus the Hebrew merism: heavens and earth includes the stellar heavens

of the outer space. But, these were not created during the creation week
along with the earth on Day 1. The heavens and the earth of Genesis1:1
were created in a beginning of Gods creative works in the eternity past.
The atmospheric heavens of Genesis 1:6, 8 and the dry land called
earth of Genesis 1:10 are the very heavens and earth God says in Exodus
20:11, 31:17 that He made during the work of the six days. Accordingly, it is
unbiblical to presume that Exodus 20:11 and 31:17 include the stellar
heavens of the outer space, and next assume that the same were created on
the first day. In fact, they were created In A Beginning by fiat in the eternity
past. And, that could be some billions of years in the past if we are to believe
the testimony of Science. 2
John Mac Arthur, Jr., in tune with the traditional position of six-day
creationism, states that According to Genesis 1:1, the heavens of outer
space had already been created. So, the firmament described in verses 7- 8
is the earths atmosphere. 3 But Genesis 1:1 doesnt state that the heavens
of the outer space were created on Day 1which began as described in
Genesis 1:3-5. The actual work of the six days began with Genesis 1:3-5. As
such, this fact as stated earlier rules out the creation of the universe during
the work of the six days. Therefore, the Heavens of Genesis 1:8 and the
Earth of Genesis 1:10 are not the same as Heavens and Earth of Genesis 1:1
The original heavens and earth were created even before there were
any day and night periods prior to the first day. Such recurring periods might
have been there from the beginning of the creation of the heavens of the
outer space during Lucifers reign on earth. The atmospheric heavens of
Genesis 1: 8 and the dry land called earth of Genesis 1:10 together with the
stellar heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1 actually comprise the second
generation of heavens and earth. These are the same heavens and earth
that are now of which Peter speaks about (2 Peter 3:8).
Next, along with the physical Light re-appearing on the first day, the
firmament or the atmospheric heavens created on the second day bring in
other physical conditions for the sustenance of physical life on earth:1: The atmosphere is the great fund and storehouse of life to plants and
animals; its carbonic acid is the food of the one, and its oxygen the
nourishment of the other; without its carbonic acid the whole vegetable
kingdom would wither, and without its oxygen the blood of animals,
which is the life thereof, would be only serum and water.

2: It is a refractor of light. Without it the suns rays would fall

perpendicularly and directly on isolated portions of the world, and with a
velocity which would probably render them invisible; but by means of the
atmosphere they are diffused in softened effulgence through the entire
globe.
3: It is a reflector of light. Hence the mysterious, beautiful, and poetical
blue, contrasting and yet harmonizing with the green mantle of the world.
4: It is the conservator and dispenser and modifier of heat. By its hot
currents constantly flung from the equatorial regions of the world, even
the cold of the frigid zones is deprived of its otherwise unbearable rigour;
while the mass of cold air always rushing from about the poles towards the
equator quenches half the heat of tropical suns, and condenses the vapour
so needful to the luxuriant vegetation.
5: It is the great vibratory of sound, the true sounding-board of the world,
and without it the million voices and melodies of this earth would all be
dumb; it would be soundless desert, where an earthquake would not make
a whisper. (If there were no atmosphere all commercial, educational,
and social intercourse would be at an end, as men would not be able to
hear each other speak).
By its pressure the elastic fluids of animal bodies are prevented from
bursting their slender vessels and causing instantaneous destruction. Its
winds propel our ships, its electricity conveys our messages. By the aid of
its warm gales and gentle dews the desert can be made to blossom as the
rose. (John Cobley) 4
But the atmosphere with which the Creator has surrounded the earth is
wonderful also in its composition. The two elements of which it chiefly
consists --- oxygen and nitrogen --- are mixed in definite proportions, as
20 to 80 in 100 parts. If this proportion were but slightly altered, as
nitrogen destroys life and extinguishes flame, the result of any perceptible
increase of it would be that fires would lose their strength and lamps their
brightness, plants would wither, and man, with the whole animal kingdom,
would perform their functions with difficulty and pain. Or if the quantity
of nitrogen was much diminished, and the oxygen increased, the opposite
effect would be produced. The least spark would set any combustible in a
flame; candles and lamps would burn with the most brilliant blaze for a
moment, but would be quickly consumed.
If a house caught fire, the whole city would be burnt down. The animal
fluids would circulate with the greatest rapidity, brain fever would soon set
in, and the lunatic asylums would be filled.

A day is coming when the elements shall melt with fervent heat. God
has but to subtract nitrogen from the air, and the whole world would
instantly take fire; such is the activity and energy of the oxygen when left
uncontrolled (Brewer). 5

Symbolically, the separation of waters on earth from those of the

waters that were above sets forth a division between the spiritually dark
things on earth from those of the spiritual things in the heavens Above.
Like the fifth day, its sphere is the waters and the expanse. The waters
above are separated from those beneath the heavens. During the economy of
Conscience, the light of nature is replaced by the knowledge of evil, which
spread to such an extent that mankind had to be destroyed by the deluge. 6
The separation of waters above from the separation of waters below
has much to convey, in principle, the separation aspect of Christian life.
Thus this physical separation speaks morally of a heavenly character of
things brought in, which becomes the native air in which faith can breathe
freely. Just as God gave the light of Christ in precious promises, He also
gave from very early days to His saints the thought of what was heavenly,
and this became a very separating principle, as we see in Hebrews 11:8-16.
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to whom Promises were made looked for a
Heavenly City. They breathed the atmosphere of heavenly hopes, and its
separating power made them strangers and sojourners on the earth. This
dividing principle between what is under and what is above has made its
power known from that day to this, and has marked off the saints as
heavenly in hope. 7
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1: John MacArthur, Jr., op. cit. p.89.
2: Edward McCrady, Religious Perspectives in College Teaching in Biology, Hazen
Foundation, New Haven, 1950?, pp. 13-25. Quoted by Arthur C. Custance in Science
and Faith, Volume VIII: The Doorway Papers, a Zondervan Publication, Grand Rapids,
Michigan, USA, 1978, p. 23
3: John MacArthur, op. cit., p. 89.
4: Joseph S. Exell, op.cit, p. 48-49
5: ibid, p 49.

6: A. E. Knoch, The Divine Calendar, op. cit.

7: C. A. Coates, op. cit. p. 7.

The Work of the Third Day

And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And
God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters
called He Seas; and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,
and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the
earth; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding
seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in it, after its
kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were
the third day. (Genesis 1:9-13).
*******
On the first day, God commanded the existing light to shine out of
darkness (2 Corinthians 4:6). Similarly, on the second day, God commanded
the existing original dry land to appear again. God commanded the waters
under the atmospheric heavens, covering the earlier dry land, to be gathered
together into one place even as they were before, so as to let the originally
created dry land to appear again. God named the dry land appearing again
as Earth and the waters that were gathered together into one place in
obedience to His command as Seas.
The command to the waters covering the earth to gather into one

place as they were before Lucifers rebellion, is aptly poetically described in

Job 38: 8,10-11: who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth
(obviously after Lucifers rebellion), as if it had issued out of the womb?...
And said, Hitherto shall thou come, but no further: and there shall thy
proud waves be stayed? The Book of Job, whose human author is
unknown, was written long, long before Moses wrote the Genesis account of
creation.
The specific command given to the waters to move to their original
place proves that the waters in the beginning of creation were not totally
covering the earth as is commonly assumed by the Traditional Six-day
Creationists. No such command was ever given to the waters during Noahs
universal flood. Instead, the waters during Noahs flood gradually abated.
As such, what is stated in Job 38:8, 10-11 doesnt apply to Noahs
flood. During Noahs flood in a way the sea didnt break the limits set upon
it as such, contrary to Gods command given to it as in Job 38:8 and 10-11.
Instead, the fountains of the deep or the sea were set loose causing the sea
waters to engulf the earth. Moreover, heavy showers of rain water from the
above also constituted Noahs flood. Next, Psalms 104:7 also contributes to
our knowledge of Lucifers flood of Genesis 1:2.
Then, obviously, the waters that engulfed the earth as is described in
Genesis 1:2 were subsequent to Lucifers rebellion. Pride dominated him to
the point of exalting himself above God. He attempted to dethrone God by
ascending up into the heavens from his habitation on earth. Lucifers pride
and rebellion is symbolized by the sea breaking its limits flooding the earth
Subsequently, on the third day of the creation week, God specifically
ordered the waters flooding the earth to gather into one place. Remember,
these waters had sprung out of the womb of the earth to engulf it with their
proud waves, symbolizing Lucifers pride. The sea with its proud waves also
symbolically depicts satanic power of angelic evil forces. No wonder, the
legion of demons, whom Jesus rebuked, on possessing the swine got
themselves next drowned in the sea, their familiar home.
Ever since God gave His command on the third day, the waters have
been restrained to remain in the place originally appointed for them as per
Gods earlier decree (Proverbs 8:29). For this purpose, even as before, God
set in operation suns gravitational pull to keep the waters in their appointed
place. This then proves that the sun had to be created earlier and not on the

fourth day; unless one wants to assume that God kept the waters in one place
by creating some special force or by His power, if we are to believe in the
hypothetical creation of the sun or of the solar system on the fourth day.
Symbolically, during the second millennial day, This is marked by
the separation of the waters from the land and by the seed; fit picture of the
dispersion of Babel, when all the nations were disposed according to the
number of the Sons of Israel. Then Abraham emerges and a land is given
him and a Seed promised. Thus from the very beginning to the end of
revelation the waters denote peoples and multitudes and nations and
tongues (Rev.17:15). Israel is the only stable foothold in all the earth,
although in their present condition, scattered amongst the nations they are
like a mountain cast into the sea (Matt.21:21) 1.
Next, God commanded the earth or the dry land to bring forth grass,
herbs and fruit bearing trees producing fruit with seeds to reproduce after its
own kind. As pointed out earlier, God states that the earth brought forth
grasses after its kind and seed-bearing fruit trees after their own kind.
Logically, creation of grass and fruit bearing trees after their own kind
proves that the newly created grass and fruit-bearing trees were after their
original kind. Their kind, therefore, had to exist earlier, prior to Genesis
1:2, adorning the original Garden of Eden as well as the habitable part of
the earth of Genesis 1:1 in which the Wisdom of God rejoiced.
Otherwise, how the newly created grass and fruit bearing trees could
be after their specific kind if the same were created for the first time?
Obviously, there had to be an earlier creation of grass and trees of the same
kind. Most definitely, there had to be an earlier multi-varied vegetable and
plant life on earth which got flooded at the time of Genesis 1:2. Accordingly,
God commanded the earth to bring forth and the earth brought forth fauna
after its original kind. And, God saw and declared that it was good.
If ever there was any biological evolution, then the same could be
relegated to life that existed in the earlier earth before it was flooded. In no
way, the present flora could be said to have been evolved as the same was
created on the third day. And, for the last six thousand years the same has
been reproducing after its own kind. Ongoing reproduction down through
the ages definitely rules out evolution.
Whatever the evidence one may discover in favor of evolution, if it be

found to be true, then it could be concluded that there might have been some
evolutionary process in operation in the pre-adamic world. The same should
not be of any concern to Christians. In all probability, unless proved
otherwise, even the earlier creation had to be instantly by fiat. We simply do
not know. Only geological evidence, if definitely found to support such a
conclusion could tell us and thereby fill the gaps in our knowledge.
Figuratively speaking, Gods creative works on the third day, in a way,
symbolize the spiritual works of the third millennial day. It was during the
third millennial day, God did set aside Israel as a nation as a dry land. It
was separated from those of the other Gentile nations symbolized by the
sea-waters under Satans dominion. Israel as a nation is referred to as a vine
which God has planted and takes care of. Next, it is also symbolically
referred to as a fig tree. Undoubtedly, God had His people in mind.
It was precisely on the third millennial day, Jehovah gave them the
Passover a plain typical lesson as to their own state of death and
judgment, and that Gods promises and covenant could be only established
on the ground of death of Christ for them. 2 In the dry land we may see a
figure of what subsists in stability and becomes fruitful to God. It may be
taken as typical of the special place which Israel had as divinely called,
separated from the nations around them, and ordered by God. We cannot fail
to see in Scripture how distinctive was the place of Israel, and how it was
Gods thought that they should be a divinely ordered and fruitful people, so
as to show forth His praise before the nations.
But now Christ has come in infinite grace into the death that lay
upon man; but He has emerged from death to become the stable and
imperishable foundation of an order of things marked by fruitfulness and
life. We can be to Another now, even to Him who has been raised up from
among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God (Romans 7:4).3
And, consequent upon the dry land appearing, we find herb
producing seed and fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of
which is in them on the earth. Nothing but what stands in relation to Christ
is really stable or fruitful for God. The church is in relation to Him now;
Israel will be in a future day; then having as sure mercies of David in a
risen Christ they will be stable and fruitful for Gods pleasure. Meanwhile
the saints of the Assembly have that place. 4

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1: A. E. Knoch, The Divine Calendar, Concordant Publishing Concern, 15570

Knochaven Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91387, U.S.A
2: C. A. Coates, An Outline of the Book of Genesis, op. cit. p. 9.
3: C. A. Coates, ibid, p. 9.
4: A. C. Coates, ibid, p.10.

The Work of the Fourth Day

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to
divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and
for days, and for years; And let them be for lights in the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
And God made (the) two great lights, the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night: the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon
the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light
from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the
morning were the fourth day (Genesis 1: 14-19).
*******
As assumed by traditional six-day creationists, nowhere in Genesis 1:
14-19 it is stated that God created the original sun, moon and the stars ex
nihilo on the fourth day. To state as such, is to contradict their own belief
that God created the stellar or starry heavens of the outer space earlier,
supposedly on the first day of the creation week. Shockingly, all the
traditional six-day creationists do not speak the same thing but contradict
each other proving thereby their assumptions are not biblically based.

Biblically speaking, neither the stellar or starry heavens of the outer

space were created on the first day nor the sun, moon and stars were
created on the fourth day. Such an assumption is arrived at through
misinterpretation of biblical facts. And, this is made to accommodate
traditional beliefs relating to the original creation supposedly in six days.
If we let the Bible speak to us (exegesis), it will be certainly obvious
that on the fourth day of the creation week God issued the command to the
existing heavenly lights (sun, moon and stars). This was done to reorganize
the solar system and the other astral objects. This rearrangement set in
operation the newly created firmament called heavens (Genesis 1:8) which
are totally different from the stellar heavens God created in the beginning.
Exodus 20:11 refer to these heavens that were made on the fourth day.
Accordingly, God made the two great lights the sun and the moon
that were already created in the beginning and whose light was obscured, to
take designated positions in the solar system. This was done so as for the
sun to rule the day and for the moon to rule the night along with the stars.
This arrangement would continue to function in a regular cyclical manner,
thereby setting in operation regular cyclical annual seasons.
Genesis 1: 16 doesnt state that God created two great lights on the
fourth day. Rather, it states that God made the already existing two great
lights, that is, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light and the
stars also to rule the night. Next, Genesis 1:17-18 state that God set them
accordingly, not only to rule and distinguish day and night periods but also
to let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years (v.14).
The round earth of Genesis 1:1 was already in existence prior to the
dry land called earth of Genesis 1:10 that was made to appear on the third
day. Obviously, the sun, the moon and the stars had to be earlier in existence
having been created in the beginning along with the earth. As otherwise, the
earth could not be simply in existence apart from the solar system seeing
that it is maintained in space by suns gravitational pull. On the fourth day,
the solar system was rearranged and the sun, moon and the stars were made
to take their assigned positions or orbits in the vast expanse of the
firmament.
The fact that there was an evening and a morning the very first day
shows that the light of the first day necessarily had to be of a pre-existing
sun. After all, the same feature of evenings and mornings characterized

the subsequent days of the creation week and all the days ever since after
that first week. It is unimaginable that the gravitational laws governing the
evening and morning periods of the first three days were different from
that of the laws governing such periods from the fourth day onwards. As is
now well known, The earth spins around its axis, an imaginary line that
connects the North and South poles. The spinning motion makes the sun
appear to move from east to west, and causes day and night on earth. As
such, logically sunlight had to be the source of light from the first day itself.
As such, the first three days and three nights had to be as a result of
the earths spinning around its axis, whilst revolving in its orbit around an
already existing sun. However, the sun, moon and the stars were not made
wholly visible until the fourth day. As such, on the fourth day the solar
system was set in order so that the sun, moon and stars could be next seen.
Not only the Sun and the Moon but even the whole Solar System and
the Milky Way must have been rearranged on the fourth day. Thus, they took
their assigned positions to mark the cycle of day and night (verse 16) periods
started on the first day. They were also set to rotate with precision so as to be
starry signs in the skies; and also mark and set definite regular cyclical
periods characterized by seasons, lunar months, and the solar years. In
addition to spinning around its axis and traveling around the sun the earth
also moves with the sun even as the sun circles the Milky Way. The entire
system has been regulated by gravitational laws as from the beginning of the
creation. This fact rules out their creation on the fourth day.
The spectacular movement of the entire solar system in perfect unison
and precision circling Milky Way galaxy makes the entire system complete.
This aspect similarly rules out the creation of the sun, moon and stars on the
fourth day. The Bible merely states that God made (the) two great lights;
the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; the
stars also. This Scripture doesnt state that the two great lights and the
stars also were actually created on the fourth day as is wrongly assumed by
the six-day creationists. If the stars were actually created on the fourth day,
then of what the stellar heavens created in the beginning were made up of?
The logical answer should be obvious.
One of the strongest proofs that the sun, the moon and the stars were
not actually created on the fourth day but in the dateless past along with the
earth In the Beginning is ascertained by the scientific fact of earths
motion around the sun in its God-appointed orbit. Obviously, the earth was

kept in its place by the gravitational pull of the sun. Not only the earth but
the other planets also travel around the sun because the force of gravitation
pulls them toward the sun. That is, through the force of gravity, the sun
controls the orbits of all the planets including the planet earth around it in
perfect precision, and that as it was from the beginning.
Next, the earths gravitational pull keeps the moon traveling around it
instead of flying off into space. And, just as the earth revolves around the
sun, the sun revolves around the centre of Milky Way galaxy. It is not at all
imaginable that the earth, in the beginning, was simply kept floating solo in
space without the suns gravitational pulling. This would be the case if the
sun, stars and planets of the solar system were created on the fourth day.
Unless, all these facts are disproved, the belief that the solar system was
created on the fourth day is biblically and scientifically untenable.
If the sun was created on the fourth day, then what maintained the
earth in space during the first three days without the suns gravitation?
Gravitation is the power that holds all the bodies in their own orbits in
space. They orbit with unerring precision so that man can accurately
foretell, hundreds of years in advance, their location in the heavens, and the
exact hour, minute and second when eclipses will take place 1
The earth, you remind me, is a constituent part of the solar system; as such, it
necessitates from the beginning the contemporaneous existence of the sun, to hold
the solar system in balance, and to keep earth itself in its orbit; but if the sun was
not created till the fourth day, what becomes of the astronomic teaching that the
earth has been from the beginning an integral part of the solar system? Again the
answer is easy. Observe first, that our passage does not assert that God created --that is to say, caused to come into existence for the first time --- sun, moon, and
stars, on the fourth day. All that our passage asserts in this matter is this: God on
the fourth day for the first time caused sun, moon, and stars to become visible.
Remember that light is not an essential, constituent part of the sun. For aught we
know, the sun itself may be a dark body, as indeed the solar spots have led some
astronomers to think. Moreover, surveying the sun as the centre of gravitation for
the planetary system, the sun can fulfill its gravitating office equally well whether
luminous or not. (Joseph Exell).

We can imagine that there could be a solar system without the planet
earth. But we cannot visualize the existence of earth without a solar system,
as would be the case, if the sun, moon and stars were created on the fourth
day. As such, we can confidently state that the solar system was created
earlier in the very beginning and not on the fourth day. As otherwise, well
have to assume that God had set in operation different laws, the first three

days, to keep the earth created in the beginning floating solo in space
without any supporting solar system.
However, the earth could not be in any motion without the sun with its
gravitational pull, to begin with, for the earth to be in its appointed orbit.
This fact rules out the creation of the sun, moon and the stars on the fourth
day; but maintains the position that these astral bodies were only
rearranged that day, so as to better brighten and regulate the day and night
periods as well as the seasons in addition to being signs in the sky.
Nonetheless, traditional and young earth six-day creationists firmly
believe the sun, moon and stars were created on the fourth day. After all, it is
stated in Genesis 1:14-16 that God made two great lights to rule the day and
night periods and thus divide the day from the night on the 4th day (v. 19).
Actually, the Scriptures concerned doesnt state that God made two
great lights on the fourth day. It simply states that God made two great lights
for specific purposes as described in Genesis 1:14-19 without actually
stating as to when they were created. It is wrongly assumed that these lights
were made on the fourth day; rather, they were set in the firmament on the
fourth day so that from then on they could fulfill the purpose for which they
were created in a very precise manner.
Genesis 1:16 doesnt state that the greater and the lesser light, that is,
the sun and the moon, were created on the fourth day. It states that God
made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night: the stars also. Objectively, Genesis 1:14-19
reveals that God parted the cloud cover enough for direct sunlight to fall
on the earth and for accurate observation of the movements of the sun,
moon, and stars to take placewith a view to their eventually functioning as
indicators of time (signs, seasons, days, years) to terrestrial observers.
The Hebrew verb wayyaas in v.16 should better be rendered God had
made the two great luminaries, etc, rather than as simple past tense,
(God) made 2.
To state that these two special lights and stars were created on the
fourth day is to contradict known facts relating to the functioning of the
solar system as pointed out earlier. But, once we come to terms with the fact
of Lucifers reign on earth it will be obvious that these were created earlier.
Figuratively speaking, the Greater Light and the Smaller Light

portray the spiritual events of the fourth millennial day of Satans rule on
earth. Like the first, this day records the introduction of light. But now the
light is not in the earth but over it, deposited in heavenly light bearers. The
sun and moon and stars are first seen upon the earth. Just so in the
administration of the Law and in Messiahs and the apostles ministry. The
law was like the cold, lifeless, reflected light of the moon. Christs presence
was like the sun. He was the Light of the World. The apostles were like stars.
Twelve stars crown, the Sun clothes and the moon is beneath the feet of the
woman, Israel (Rev.12:1) 3.
Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, as the Greater Spiritual Light shone
forth on earth towards the end of the fourth millennial day. But, as Eternal
Light, Christ was in existence from eternity to eternity. And so, the physical
sun had to be in existence from the very beginning of Gods creation.
And the Church, as the lesser spiritual light, has been reflecting the
light of Christ since its appearance in the midst of spiritual darkness of the
fourth millennial day (Luke 2:32).This seems clearly to intimate the
thought of God that the earth should be in the light of what is set in the
heavens, and under heavenly rule or influence. Jesus glorified is the great
light in the heavens. When He was here the dayspring from on high visited
men, and He was the Light of the World, but the moral darkness in which
He appeared was so dense that it did not apprehend the light. He is now as a
risen and glorified Man in heaven, and in the world to come He will shine
forth publicly as the Sun of Righteousness. But now those who believe on
Him are in the light of His shining. Therefore, Wake up thou that sleeps
and the Christ shall shine upon you (Ephesians 5:14). 4
As mentioned earlier, Christ is the Sun of the spiritual universe, and
all other light is His light reflected, whether in the Assembly, or Israel, or
individual saints. While the sun is absent the moon shines; so heavenly light
now shines through saints of the assembly; and by and by when the moon
has gone the stars will appear. The lights are made, and set, to rule. It will
be so in the world to come; the nations will walk by the light of the heavenly
city. There will be no insubordination or lawlessness; they will walk by the
light of God which shines in the city. In the present day the assembly rules in
the sense of shedding abroad holy and divine influences upon men. There is
a shining out of divine light from those who are walking in righteousness,
holiness and love. The saint in the light of Christ is clothed with shining
armor; he has on the armor of light, and it affects people. How often those
in difficulty or danger are glad to have a Christian near them. 5 Then we

have the thought of the lights being for signs and seasons, and to divide
between the light and darkness. In a moral sense, the Christian should be
intelligent as to times and seasons. The sun set in this world by its rejection
of Christ. Now the Assembly is a luminary as the vessel of the Holy Spirit;
there is a divine Person dwelling here in the saints, and divine light is
shining for men through a vessel that corresponds anti-typically to the
moon, its light shining through saints. 6
When we resort to Gods own interpretation of biblical symbols we
cannot be guilty of allegorizing the Scriptures. When we consider the works
of God on the fourth day in the light of its rich imagery as illustrated here a
little and there a little in the Bible, who would willingly want to ignore
what God Himself interprets to enlighten our spiritually dark minds? Listen:
In the sun we have the most worthy emblem that the visible universe presents of
Him, who, with the word of His power, kindled up its glories, and with the
strength of His right hand established it in the heavens. And the analogies between
the sun of nature and the Sun of Righteousness are both striking and instructive. 1.
In the opening scene of the fourth day we have a fine image of the advent of the
Redeemer of men. On that morning the sun burst forth in its unveiled glories,
irradiating the new-made earth, and revealing upon its face scenes of loveliness
and grandeur which could be neither seen nor known before. So arose the Sun of
Righteousness upon the world of mankind, an object as wonderful and as new in
His person, and character, and office, as the great orb of day when it first came
forth to run the circuit of the heavens --- pouring a flood of light from above upon
benighted humanity, and opening up to them views of truth, happiness, and
immortality, such as the world had never known or heard before; and, like the
solar light, while revealing all else, remaining Himself a glorious mystery. 2. As
the natural sun is the centre of the system of creation, so the Sun of Righteousness
is the vital centre of revealed truth and religion. 3. As the sun shines by its own
light, so the Son of God poured the light of truth from the fountain of His own
mind. The instructions He imparted were neither derived from tradition nor
borrowed from philosophy. He was a self-luminous and Divine Orb, rising upon
the darkness of the world, shedding new light, and revealing new truths to
bewildered humanity. 4. As in the pure sunbeam we have combined all the colors
of the rainbow in their due proportions, so in Christ we find all virtues and graces
harmoniously blended in one perfect character. 5. As the sunlight, on whatever
foulness or corruption it may fall, remains uncontaminated, so the Son of Man,
amid all the temptations, guilt, and depravity of earth, continued pure and
unspotted. 6. As the light of the sun is unlimited and inexhaustible, so also are the
healing and saving beams of the Sun of Righteousness. 7. As the suns law of
gravitation extends over the whole solar system, so the law of love, proceeding
from the Sun of Righteousness, extends its authority over the whole family of
man. Gravitation exercises its dominion alike over the mightiest planet and the

minutest asteroid; so the Divine law of love, with equal hand, imposes its
obligations upon kings, and peasants, and beggars; its authority is no less binding
in courts and cabinets than in churches and families, its voice is to be heeded no
less by the diplomatist sent to foreign realms, than by the preacher who remains
among his flock at home. To all it speaks alike, in the name and in the words of its
Divine original, Love one another, as I have loved you. 7
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1: Dake Finis J, op. cit. p.83.

2: Gleason L. Archer, op. cit., p.61.

3: A. E. Knoch, The Divine Calendar, Concordant Publishing Concern, 15570

Knochaven Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91387, U.S.A.
4: C. A. Coates, op. cit. p. 10. 5: ibid,p.12.

6: ibid, p. 12.

7: Joseph Exell, The Biblical Illustrator, op. cit,

The Work of the Fifth Day

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open
firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living
creature that moved, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and
the morning were the fifth day (Genesis 1:20-23).
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Before the creation of any living creatures, God established the
necessary conditions to sustain life on earth. Subsequently, He created the
grass, herbs and fruit bearing trees. Next, God brought about the realignment
of the solar system. During this realignment, the sun, moon and stars were
set in proper order so as to make seasons possible. This was necessary for
the proper growth of both flora and fauna. As such, The first four days may
be regarded as giving the establishment of the conditions of life; then on the
fifth and sixth days life itself is introduced. The conditions of life are light,
atmosphere, food and rule. 1

On the fifth day, God commanded the waters to bring forth aquatic
creatures. He commanded and through the exercise of His creative power,
God created and, the waters brought forth, abundantly, after their kind. In
other words, God created sea creatures of all kinds, and also birds or
winged fowl to fly above the waters in the atmospheric heavens. The water
creatures were created after their kind. So also, the fowl of the air or
winged birds that God created were after their kind. In other words,
whatever creatures in the waters and the birds of the air God created was of
the same original kind that was earlier on the habitable part of the earth
prior to the chaotic conditions of Genesis 1:2. The re-current phrase after a
particular kind, repeated ten times in Genesis 1:11-25 confirms the creation
and existence of earlier life of a similar kind. In no way, the term after their
kind in these Scriptures has any reference to reproduction, per se. 2
Figuratively speaking, The light in which spiritual life is possible is
the revelation of God. Then the atmosphere suited to those who know God is
found, as we have already observed, in the circle of the brethren, where
spiritual affections are in activity. Then life must be sustained by food; this
is very essential. John 6 speaks of food the bread of life. And, finally, there
is heavenly rule; there is no lawlessness in the sphere of life. Darkness,
ignorance of God, idolatry, hatred and lawlessness; all that is death. But
when the light of God is brought in, love and obedience are set in movement
in an appropriate atmosphere, and sustained by suitable food, and under
heavenly rule, and there is life. 3
Life is re-created on the fifth day and we see a variety of fishes and
great whales and other creatures swarming in the waters. Next, the skies
were adorned with birds and fowl and every winged creature. These new
living forms definitely were after the same kind that is, similar to those
that were created earlier and were subsequently destroyed, at the time of
Lucifers rebellion. It is their dead remains in fossilized forms are now
discovered and hence the long ages attributed to these fossils could be true.
The Bible doesnt record the creation of any unicellular and other
simple forms of life during the work of the six days. In all probability, the
primitive life forms created earlier continued to exist in spite of the
deadening chaotic conditions of Genesis 1:2. Anyway, this is mere
speculation which could be true or not.

Further, As the fourth day corresponded with the first day so the fifth
day corresponds with the second day. Both concern the waters and the
heavens. Now, however, it is life in the waters and in the heavens.
We have seen how the nations are pictured by the waters, and Israel by the
land. After Peter tells the apostles and elders of the reception of the gospel
by the nations, and Paul and Barnabas declare what signs and wonders God
had wrought among the nations through them, James recalls the fact that
when Israel is restored there will be nations upon whom His Name is
called (Amos 9:12), showing that some of the nations of that day will have
believed previous to Israels restoration. Is not this the life in the waters?
And this life was the subject of prophecy. Isaiah speaks concerning Him, A
slight thing is it for you to become My Servant, to raise up the tribes of
Jacob, And the dispersed of Israel to restore, Behold, I give you also for a
light to the nations, To become My salvation unto the ends of the earth
(Isa. 49:6, C.V.).
And moreover, the nations, under Pauls early ministry, receive
spiritual life. The dove is the type of the Holy Spirit even as other birds of
the air represent evil spirits. So that spiritual life is most aptly represented
by life in the air, which was a part of the fifth days work.
The fact that spiritual life is continued among the nations during
this dispensation of the Secret does not interfere with the absolutely secret
character of this administration.
Each days work abides. We enjoy light within and from above; we

have conscience and revelation. The separation of the waters above from
the waters beneath (the second days work) still continues. The separation
of the dry land from the waters is still in evidence, for the mountain even
when cast into the sea can not be dissolved in it. So that while the work of
the present economy is concerned primarily with heavens restoration (of
which the Weeks Work knows nothing) we enjoy the fruit of the five
previous days work and especially that aerial life which brought us to the
borders of the celestial realms. 4
The creation of complex life on earth is a remarkable step in the
creative process. Verse 21 explicitly says God created them and rules
out the possibility that these creatures evolved through some ages-long
process. Together with the description of how God decreed their existence
by speaking the command, it demands that we understand the origin of these

creatures as an act of fiat creation, not an evolutionary process. 5

The creation of the fifth day, to some extent, figuratively displays
Gods spiritual works of the fifth millennial day. The fish in the sea
represent men in their natural state and element, from which they have to be
taken if they are to enter into the blessing of Gods Kingdom. The Lord
makes those who follow Him fishers of men (Matthew 4:19), and the seyne
cast into the sea is one of the similitudes of the kingdom of the heavens.
In this connection we find there are good fish and worthless, the good
fish representing those in whom there is divine work, who can be gathered
into vessels. And no doubt the net full of great fishes drawn to the land in
John 21 is a figure of the great gathering for millennial blessing in another
day. The net does not break then, and there is no suggestion of any worthless
fish in that net. While speaking of the sea we may remark that in the new
earth the sea exists no more (Revelation 21:1).
The sea, and the life connected with it, is only for time; but the earth
continues in the eternal state, it speaks of what is stable and abiding, what is
really of a spiritual order. The spiritual alone is eternal. 6
Moreover, On the fifth and sixth days we view a scene teeming with
life. God, having established the conditions of life, takes pleasure in
exuberance of life, and in growth and increase. Living souls are such as
can enjoy the conditions of life. Gods thought even as to unintelligent
creatures was that they should enjoy the conditions in which they were
placed on earth. As soon as living souls were created He blessed them; it
was His first moral act; and the evidence of His blessing was fruitfulness
and increase. This is the unfailing accompaniment of the energy of life. The
conditions of life in a spiritual sense are now established, and our exercise
should be to avail ourselves of them. In doing so, we shall enjoy the blessing
of God. 7 The coming of the dove, even the Holy Spirit at the beginning of
the fifth millennial day and entering into mens hearts, is further seen
spreading the Gospel Truth on the fifth millennial day, even unto our day.
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1: C. A. Coates, op. cit. p.12.

2: Jack W. Langford in a Personal Communication dated 20th January, 2012 stated that the
expression after their kind is only an expression of reproducing after their kinds.
However, the same expression after a particular kind in Genesis 6:20, 7:14; Leviticus

11:14-16, 19, 22, 29 certainly doesnt refer to reproducing after a particular or specific
kind. Rather, the expressions in these Scriptures refer to a specific category of the same
kind that would be there at that particular or at any other time. Similarly, the expression
after its/their kind in Genesis 1:11-12, 21, 24-25 doesnt refer here to any reproduction
of the same kind even though all living organisms are known to reproduce after their own
kind, ever since. Instead, in these Scriptures the earth was commanded to bring forth
(reproduce?) grass, herbs, plants and fauna after their particular kind which were there
at an earlier time, definitely prior to the chaos of Genesis 1:2.
3: C. A. Coates, op. cit., p. 12, 13.
4: A. E. Knoch, The Divine Calendar, Concordant Publishing Concern, 15570
Knochaven Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91387, U.S.A.
5: John MacArthur, Jr., The Battle for the Beginning.; op. cit. p.125.
6: C. A. Coates, op .cit. p. 14.

7: C. A. Coates, op. cit. p. 12.

The Work of the Sixth Day

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his
kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind; and it
was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after
their kind, and every thing that crept upon the earth after his kind: and God
saw that it was good (Genesis 1:24-25).
And 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 fowl of the
air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that crept upon the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the
image of God created He him; male and female created He them. And God
blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moved
upon the earth And God said, 'Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the
fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of
the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that crept upon the
earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it
was so. And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very
good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day (Gen. 1:26-31).

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God caused the earth or the dry land to bring forth all kinds of living
creatures as well as the creeping creatures on earth including all kinds of
reptiles; and every living creature He created was declared as good.
However, once sin entered into the world defiling Gods creation, God
designated certain creatures as clean and certain others as unclean. Then
the living creatures of the earth are seen in the vessel which descends as a
great sheet, bound by the four corners and let down to the earth, for Peters
instruction in Acts 10. Peter had to learn not to call any man common or
unclean. He had to learn the wide scope of grace, its universal bearing, and
to see that God had brought in the cleansing for men by the death of Christ
so that even Gentiles might have the forgiveness of sins, and receive the
Spirit through faith in Christ risen. 1
The work of the sixth day culminates in the creation of Man, named
Adam and then his wife Eve, towards the end of the sixth day. Genesis 5:1-2
complements and crowns it all by stating that In the day that God created
man, in the likeness of God made He him; Male and female created HE
them; and called their name ADAM, in the day when they were created.
The sixth day corresponds with the third. Both deal with the land.

Now, however, we have life on the land, and the Seed is seen as a Man. So it
will be. Even in these, the closing days of this eon, the nations have rejected
God just as Israel did before them. God will return to His earthly people and
all Israel shall be saved. Then He will bring forth the second Man, the last
Adam (of whom the first was but a feeble figure) Who will rule the whole
earth to His glory.2
Gods work on each day of the creation week has been purposeful.
Next, each days work is predictive. Each days work, therefore, points to
specific future redemptive and saving works during the six millennial days
under Satans control. As such, having predictive symbolism, we have On
the fifth day the waters swarming, and on the sixth day the earth bringing
forth living souls. Both the fish of the sea and the living creatures of the
earth have been taken up by the wisdom of God as figures to set forth the
present working of His grace.
All the work of the six days, up to the point of mans creation, was to
provide a sphere where man could be set in dominion according to the
thought of God. The creation of man was a most solemn and deliberate act.

God, as it were, takes counsel with Himself as to it. Let US make man in
our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, over the fowl of the heavens, over the cattle, over the whole earth.
Adam was the figure of Him to come; everything is to come under
the dominion of Christ. In Psalm 8 it is said of the Son of man, Thou hast
made Him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything
under his feet: sheep and oxen all of them, and also the beasts of the field;
the fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, whatever passes through
the paths of the seas. Every created being will be made subject to Christ.
And we see in Adam as a figure the character of the influence which He will
bring to bear. It is of interest to see that here the woman is, so to speak,
included in the man. Let US make man in our image and let them have
dominion God created man male and female created He them,
the assembly (CHURCH) is included in CHRIST; before the worlds
foundation God had chosen the saints in Christ; Ephesians 1:4. Having
made known unto us the mystery of His will ; to head up all things in
Christ in Him, in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being
marked out beforehand according to the counsel of His own will. That
answers to what we are reading in Genesis. We see Christ in universal
Headship at the end of Ephesians 1, and the Assembly with Him and His
fullness. 3
No man hath seen God at any time, John 1:18. That made it
necessary that One should come in as the Image of the invisible God. The
only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
The God whom no one had seen has now been seen perfectly in a Man, One
in whom has been fully set forth all that God is.
It is necessary to be guarded when we speak of 'likeness' in relation
to Christ because we must ever remember that Christ is God. And no doubt
we may see the wisdom of the Spirit in the fact that though He is definitely
spoken of in the New Testament as the 'image' of God, He is not so spoken of
as the 'likeness'.
But we may contemplate Him as the blessed anointed Man who
moved in love God-ward. The Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for
us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor, Ephesians
5:2. And He is able to give impulse to all that comes under His influence so
that it may be found in moral correspondence with God.

He will not only as the 'Image' irradiate the whole universe with the
light of God, but He will give such an impulse God-ward that there will be
'likeness' -- perfect moral correspondence -- with God in the whole vast
system of which He will be the glorious Head.
This 'likeness' will all be derived from Him. God is going to bring all
under the domination of that blessed Man. And He dominates by love, for if
He is the Image of God He is necessarily the setter forth of the love of God,
for God is love. Image is the revelation side, and likeness is more the perfect
correspondence with the revelation in a Man. Everything is to come under
the influence and domination of that Man, and under His rule and Headship
everything will be held for the pleasure of God. As we come under His rule
and Headship everything is adjusted.
One under the rule of Christ will be a good husband, father, mother,
child or servant; whatever natural relation he is found in will be filled for
the pleasure of God; and he will be right in the sphere of spiritual things
too. 4
It is blessed to consider that a day is coming when God will rest in a
scene which is the product of His own work -- a scene brought under the
influence of Christ, where everything is sustained by living food in the
energy of life, and marked by fruitfulness and increase. God will then find
pleasure in the result of His own work. 5
If we really take the time and effort to study the Genesis record of
creation, it will be clear that there is in fact an original direct creation briefly
described in Genesis 1:1 in the eternity past. How long this creation has been
in existence is not revealed in the Bible. There is not a single line in the
Scriptures or in the Volume of Nature informing us as to the antiquity of
the globe. 6. All we can say is that: In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth, filling the later with animal and vegetable life, as
the the Book of Stone bears witness. When it was created, and how long it
thus existed, Scripture does not inform us. 6 As a matter of fact, no one will
be able to convincingly inform us about the ages of the earth or of the
universe seeing that the same were created in the midst of eternity past
The age of the earth and or of the universe assumed to be about six to
ten thousand years is erroneously concluded from the chronological work of
Bishop Usher. His work, however, covers the recorded history of man and

has nothing to do with the age of the earth or of the universe. As such, The
measures of time in the book of Genesis refer to the age of man, not to the
earth at all; and hence it was an unhappy blunder of that otherwise able and
accomplished chronologist, Archbishop Usher, to date the first verse of the
Bible at 4004 B.C., for which there is not the slightest authority in the
sacred text. 7 Or, as stated by Spiros Zhodiates It is the work of
Archbishop Ussher,. His chronological labors were directed toward
affording an idea of the time that elapsed between certain events in recorded
history. For this purpose he took the year 1 A.D. the beginning of the
Christian era as his starting point, and calculated backwards as far as
reliable recorded history afforded good working ground. He reckoned as far
back as 4004 B.C., and then, finding no more available material in the form
of history, either written or inscribed, he had to stop. He did not mean to
imply that he had reached the point of creation at all. 8
Illusory Space-Time Continuum emerges from Timelessness. As
such, no scientific discovery or any speculation relating to long ages, should
ever disturb us. Again, such a situation perfectly meets the demands of
science for time and terms of life, unknown to man since he became a tenant
on the earth; for between the two first verses of Genesis, you are welcome to
measures of time as long as you choose, and to evolve principles and
conditions of existence which could only apply to pre-Adamic earth. 9
No one may suppose that such an interpretation is offered to save credit of
the Word of God; its statements are absolutely perfect, and it is well to know
that many centuries before geology could be counted as a science, and
before she ever presented a single difficulty, such early writers as Augustine,
Basil, Origen, and others held that the first verse of Genesis and the six days
of creation were entirely distinct. 10
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1: C. A. Coates, op. cit. p.14.

2: A. E. Knoch, The Divine Calendar, Concordant Publishing Concern, 15570
Knochaven Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91387, U.S.A.
3: C. A. Coates, op. cit. p. 13-16.
4: C. A. Coates, op. cit. p.19.
5: C. A. Coates, op. cit. p.20.
6: Walter Scott, op. cit. p.10.

7: Walter Scott, op. cit. p.15.

8: Spiros Zodhiates, op. cit., p.1.
9: Walter Scott, op. cit. p.10.
10: Walter Scott, op. cit. p.10.

Creation of the Sabbath

We finally come to the seventh day; the day on which God rested
from all His work, which He had made. By resting on the Seventh day,
God created the weekly Sabbath (Genesis 2:2-3). God did not whimsically
rest on the seventh day; nor did He rest on the seventh day so as to set an
example for man to physically rest on the seventh day after working for six
days. The creation of the weekly Sabbath was in accordance with His perfect
plan. As such, from the beginning itself only the physical rest on the seventh
day (and not on any other day of the week) has had and still has evangelical
overtones. The Seventh Day is evangelically unique.
Young Earth Creationists teach that God created everything in six
days and then rested on the seventh day so as to set a pattern of six workdays followed by a day of rest. Actually, the weekly pattern portrays an
evangelical message. When God created the heavens and earth it had to be
perfect, and so, necessarily, a completed creation. Lucifers rebellion
brought judgment on earth resulting in chaos. It is from this chaos that God
set forth to liberate the earlier dry land and make it suitable for vegetation,
animal life and human life. God did this all in six days. He rested on the
seventh day after His works of physical redemption and restoration.
Thus He established a pattern of seven day-week not necessarily to set
an example for man to work for six days and rest on the seventh day. The
physical work of the six days was meant to portray mens labor against sin.

The seventh day rest was to signify believing mans rest in Christ. He who is
in Christ ceases from sin and enters into Gods rest. Next, the weekly pattern
portrays Gods Saving Work during the course of six millennial days
followed by a millennial Sabbath rest. During this millennial Sabbath the
earth will be free from Satans misrule and enjoy peaceful Gods rule.
The very fact that God rested on the seventh day shows that the work
of the earlier six days was in fact an additional work. In a way, it was a work
of physical liberation during which the earth subjected to chaos consequent
to Satans rebellion was set free for mans habitation. It was a real physical
work against the evil forces of darkness during which God restored the
original life conditions on earth. And, God saw that it was now very good,
and then rested!
In a symbolic way, it pointed to Gods work against the spirit forces of
darkness for six millennial days, followed by the sabbatical rest for a
thousand years. During this millennial Sabbath of Gods rule on earth Satan
will be forced to take rest. The Ruin-Restoration of the earth was a foreshadow of what would happen to Adam's fallen race: Judgment and death
for sin, and then a restoration and new birth for those who receive the light
of Christ. It reveals the Gospel message to all people, in all nations, for all
times. 1
From another figurative point of view, as explained by C. A. Coates,
The judgment session in the garden introduced the first day, the flood the
second, Babel the third, Egypts plagues the fourth, Israels rejection the
fifth, the Dispensation of Judgment the sixth and the final judgment of the
Great White Throne ushers in the eternal Sabbath. This is the day which He
will bless and sanctify, and He will rest in all the work which He had created
in order to make it. Each item of earths restoration called forth Gods
approval, but the heavenly firmament called forth no such commendation
(Gen.1:7). But, at the last, when we displace Satans sovereignty in the
heavenly regions then all will be indeed: Very Good! 2
Evangelically speaking, The seventh day is figurative of the time
when everything will be put into suitability to Gods pleasure; it speaks of
the millennial rest of the wide creation. The seventh day stands in relation to
the preceding six days in which God had worked in a scene where disorder
and darkness had been, but He finally brought suitability to His pleasure 3.

Accordingly next, the weekly Sabbath has in view the millennial age
when all will be so ordered as the result of divine working that rest will be
brought into the very scene where all the disorder and darkness have seen. It
will be a triumph of God in relation to all the conditions which have come in
here as the result of sin and Satans power.4
The7th Day was proclaimed as something VERY special from the very
first two chapters of the Biblical account. Let us look closer at the
importance of the Seventh Day in relation to time. And on the seventh day
God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day
from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it
he had rested from all his work which God created and made."(Genesis 2:23 KJV) "For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and
all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed
the sabbath day, and hallowed it."(Exodus 20:11, KJV). It [is] a sign
between me and the children of Israel for ever: for [in] six days the LORD
made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was
refreshed.(Exodus 31:17, KJV)
With the context of those verses in mind, look at the following verses:
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the
Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
(2 Peter 3:8 KJV). And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment
was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for
the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not
worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark
upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with
Christ a thousand years."(Revelation 20:4 KJV)
The latter verse speaks of a time yet future, when the Lord Jesus
Christ will reign on the Earth with man for a period of 1,000 years before
the final judgment, the final destruction of Satan and Death, and the
beginning of eternity future. What these verses tell us is that the seven 24hourdays of Genesis are a prophetic "type" which when multiplied by 1,000,
gives us the length of time of the Biblical history of man from Adam until the
end of time as we know it. In other words, 7,000 years is the length of all
human history (but not all natural history) both past and future on this
present Earth. The past part of that human history to the present is roughly

6,000 years according to the Biblical chronology. That means there are yet
another 1,000 years ahead, which equates to a 1,000-year "Sabbath" of
rest(day 7, see Hebrews 4:9 ) when the Lord Jesus Christ will return, reign,
and rest from His redemptive work on the Earth as the King of Kings and
Lord of Lords: Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the first
resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be
priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
(Revelation 20:6 KJV) 5
The seventh day Sabbath portrayed the Spiritual Rest in Christ that
would be experienced by those who would believe in Him. It is thus fulfilled
in those who are truly converted and are in Christ as a saved people.
Next, the seventh day Sabbath portrays the saints spiritual rest in
Gods Kingdom at Christs second coming (Hebrews 4: 9, 11). The Bible is
silent about any Sabbath observance by resting from all physical work prior
to the establishment of the nation of Israel. However, once the Israelites
were set free from their bondage in Egypt, The Sabbath was afterwards a
very important institution, a special link between God and His people5,
Israel. Accordingly, it was to be observed as a day of rest as a reminder of
their deliverance from Egyptian bondage (Exodus 20:8-11). It was also a
sign of covenant relationship between God and His people (Exodus 31:17).
At the moment, only those who are in Christ are the true worshippers
of God. These worship Him in spirit and in truth without enforcing upon
themselves the observance of any specific day. In Christ, they labor against
sin and eagerly look forward to be received into glory at Christs second
coming and enjoy rest.
Christians are not commanded to observe any particular day of the
week as a day of rest and worship. The Christian Greek Scriptures are silent
about keeping any particular day as day of physical rest and worship. The
day early Christians observed, not by commandment but by choice, was the
first day, Sunday. The physical and spiritual benefits of a rest day can be
realized on any other day as well as on a Saturday. Christ and no Apostle
commanded to keep the old Jewish Sabbath or any other day, but did
command all men not to be bound by any particular day. (Romans 14:5-6;
Galatians 4:9-11; Colossians 2:14-17) 6
Christians are not required to observe the Sabbath as in the Old
Testament times. Nor are the Christians commanded to observe Sunday as a

day of rest. They fulfill the Sabbath requirements of physical rest when once
they accept Christ as their Savior in whom they are to find their spiritual rest
and freedom from sin, Satan, and the world under Satans mis-rule. As such,
the seventh day physical rest according to the Hebrew Scriptures is fulfilled
by spiritual rest when those under the Sabbath law believe in Christ and are
indwelt by the Spirit of the Risen Christ.
The spiritual realities relating to the seventh-day Sabbath observance
do find their expression through faith in Christ. These spiritual realities
indicate that Gods work of the six days culminating in Sabbath rest is a type
of Gods work for mans deliverance from the power Satan whose sin
brought chaos and disorder on earth that was earlier created perfect.
It was not simply to establish a pattern of seven-day week did God
create during the six days and rest on the Seventh day. As such, these aspects
confirm the truth of an original perfect creation and a later additional work
of the six days followed by Sabbath rest.
The foregoing account thus expounds the mystery of the evangelical
truths that lie embedded and dormant in the work of the first six days. The
planned and deliberate work of the six days retrospectively points to Gods
redemptive works. The pattern of six-day work coupled with the seventh day
Sabbath does make a proper evangelical sense. The original perfect creation,
once subjected to futility, had to be restored to accomplish Gods purpose
through Man!
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1: C. A. Coates, op. cit. p. 21.
2: A. E. Knoch, The Divine Calendar, Concordant Publishing Concern, 15570
Knochaven Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91387, U.S.A.
3: C. A. Coates, ibid, p. 21.
4: C. A. Coates, op. cit. p. 21.
5: The Sevens (7) of the Bible in Time and Nature
6: Dake, Finis J., op. cit.

A Literal Seven -Day Week

From the preceding account, it should be clear that the Creation Week
was made up of seven literal days. The fact that God named the light day
and the darkness night, ending each day with evening and each night with
morning proves the days and nights of the six days were as literal as all days
and nights since then 1 As such, Genesis 1 account is not a mere literary
device of creation epic adopted by Moses to make a radical declaration
that the God of Israel, completely unlike all the gods of the nations, did not
emerge from anything, nor was He ever part of the universe 2.
Next, the Genesis account is not a mere poetic sublime manifesto of
the true God as stated by Gleason Archer. According to him, Genesis 1 is a
sublime manifesto, totally rejecting all the cosmogonies of the pagan
cultures of the ancient world as nothing but baseless superstition. The Lord
God Almighty existed before all matter, and by His own word of command
He brought the entire physical universe into existence, governing all the
great forces of wind, rain, sun, and sea according to His sovereign will. This
stood in stark contrast to the clashing, quarreling, capricious little deities
and godlets spawned by the corrupt imagination of the heathen. The
message and purpose of Genesis 1 is the revelation of the one true God who
created all things out of nothing and ever keeps the universe under His
sovereign control. 3
Gleason Archer poses some pertinent questions that deserve our
attention and biblically appropriate response. He asks: Is the true purpose
of Genesis 1 to teach that all creation began just six twenty-four-hour days
before Adam was born? Or is this just a mistaken inference that overlooks

other biblical data having a direct bearing on this passage? To be sure, if

we are to understand Genesis 1 in a completely literal fashion -- which some
suppose to be the only proper principle of interpretation if the Bible is truly
inerrant and completely trustworthy -- then there would be no possibility of
reconciliation between modern scientific theory and the Genesis account.
Yet Genesis 1 allegedly teaches that creation took place in six twenty-fourhour days, at the end of which man was already on the earth. 4
However, the Bible itself interprets each single day as made up of an
Evening and a Morning. Each morning of light-period is called Day and
each evening of darkness is called Night (Genesis 1:5). This very clearly
distinguishing fact itself rules out any other interpretation.
Anyway, those who insist that the days of the creation week are not to
be taken literally are certainly wrong. Are there not twelve hours in the
day?(John 11:9a). Is it unbiblical or unscientific to insist on a literal
interpretation of a seven-day week, of seven 24-hour periods, as described
in Genesis 1:31-2:3? It is certainly unbiblical to presume that the seven days
of Genesis 1 were not each of 24 hours in length. Gods Word clearly de
fines each day as such, beginning with Genesis 1:5. By the way, what
discoveries in science prompt theistic evolutionists to deny the creation of a
literal 24-hour seven days week? When did the sevenday week originate
or how did time in the midst of timelessness or eternity evolve?
Reasoning further, Gleason Archer states: The second major aspect
of Genesis 1 is the revelation that God brought forth His creation in an
orderly and systematic manner. There were six major stages in this work of
formation, and these stages are represented by successive days of a week. In
this connection it is important to observe that none of the six creative days
bears a definite article in the Hebrew text; the translations the first day,
the second day, etc., are in error. The Hebrew says, And the evening
took place, and the morning took place, day one (1:5). Hebrew expresses
the first day by hayyom harison, but this text says simply yom ehad
(day one). Again, in v. 8 we read not again hayyom hasseni (the second
day) but yom seni (a second day). In Hebrew prose of this genre, the
definite article was generally used where the noun was intended to be
definite; only in poetic style could it be omitted. The same is true with the
rest of the six days; they all lack the definite article. Thus they are well
adapted to a sequential pattern, rather than to strictly delimited units of
time. 4
However, poetic style of expression in Genesis 1 in no way implies

that there were six major stages of work. Rather, it simply confirms the truth
of six literal days, albeit, in a poetic style.
On the other hand, by doing away with a literal week, well be doing
away with the seventh day Sabbath, which is typical of the millennial rest
soon to come. As stated earlier, the creation week is figuratively predictive of
the six millennial days during which Satan is allowed to labor. But, in the
seventh millennial day he will be forced to stop his labor of deceiving the
nations and take a compulsory millennial rest. Yes, Satan himself will then
be forced to take millennial rest in a bottomless pit (Revelation 20:2-3), no
more free to deceive the nations as he is doing right now, working overtime!
Symbolically, each single day of the creation week is figurative of the
six millennial days of Satans rule and mans struggle against sin, sinful
influences of the world, and Satan himself. At the same time, each single day
also symbolically portrays Gods spiritual work in the hearts of those
predestined to be saved during the course of the first six millennial days. As
such, by doing away with a literal creation week, the theistic evolutionists
are doing away with the evangelical truths portrayed by Gods work of the
first six days of the creation week.
God created the time as we measure it today in regular periods of 24hour days, seven-day weeks, lunar months, and solar years. Beginning with
the first week of Genesis 1, He did it by rearranging the solar system and
stars in relation to the earth (Genesis 1:14-18); and may be, the entire Milky
Way was also rearranged to that effect. The word evening means dusk or
night and morning means dawn or break of day and each is always used in
a literal sense. This proves that the day and night and light and darkness are
literal days and nights and regular periods of 24 hours regulated by the sun,
moon, and stars as commanded in Genesis 1:14-18; 8:22, Job 38:12;
Psalms 19:2; Jeremiah 31:35-37; 33:19-26 5
Whether one takes the seven-day creation week literally or not, Gods
Word itself interprets the creation accounts of the second phase as having
taken place in six literal 24-hour days. Exodus 20:11 clearly states that
in six (24 hour) days the Lord made {or re-fashioned or renewed (cf. Psalms
104:20) a disorderly and desolate earth of Genesis 1:2} the heaven and the
earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh (24 hour)
day. However, as proved earlier, the original perfect heavens and earth were
created instantly by fiat, In the Beginning, in the dateless past.

We need to keep in mind that the Bible interprets its own Scriptures,
here a little, and there a little. We dare not add to it any of our own private
interpretations based on traditional beliefs. Nor should we desperately
indulge in unscientific and unbiblical speculations and then foolishly
smuggle the same into the Scripture by wrongly interpreting even the
General Revelation.
However, instead of allowing the Scripture, here a little to interpret
Scripture there a little, traditional six-day creationists and theistic
evolutionists and others have been wrongly interpreting the creation
accounts through the grid of traditional beliefs.
It is actually wrong to interpret the Biblical account of the creation
of heavens and earth by fiat out of nothing (ex-nihilo) as stated in Genesis
1:1 and accepted by faith as such in Hebrews 11:3 as if it is a constituent of
Gods activity of Day 1. It is also unbiblical to further assume it is one with
or the same as the next Biblical account stated in Genesis 1:3 to 2:4b
relating to a later subsequent work of re-creation. This work of renewal
involvedre-shaping of a chaotic and empty desolate earth and re-ordering
of the solar system and the creation of new life forms.
Biblically speaking, Genesis 1:3 to 2:4a creation record presents a
wide angle view of all seven days of creation and deals with the creation of
man and woman as a single act. Then, in Genesis 2:4b-24 the author zooms
in on the sixth day, giving details which were not possible in an overview
like chapter1. The separate origins of man and woman are brought into
sharp focus. Therefore, chapters 1 and 2 are not chronological, but 2:4b-24
presents in greater detail some of what 1:24-31 merely summarizes. 6
Unfortunately, tradition-bound six-day creationists have overlooked
some of the important aspects of Biblical Creation Truth. On the other hand,
those who insist that the six days of the creation week should not be taken
literally have only added to the confusion. Next, six-day creationists have
hopelessly mixed up the two distinct creation accounts in Genesis,
erroneously assuming it all to be a single comprehensive creative act
completed in a brief six-day period. Accordingly, they will not at all
accommodate Lucifers rule prior to his fall of which the Bible clearly talks
about in Isaiah 14:12-14 and Ezekiel 28:12c-18. Neither are they able to
convincingly prove that Lucifers fall was sometime after the seventh day.
It may be convincingly stated that the Scripture not once asserts a

creation in six days; it is written, in six days the Lord made heaven and
earth (Exodus 20:11). The word create strictly used, is applied to the
production of things by the Word or work of God, apart altogether from any
pre-existing materials or matter (Hebrews 11:3), while the word made
signifies to shape or form existing material; these are the generations of the
heavens and the earth when they were created (bara in Hebrew, same as in
Genesis 1, verse 1); ( but were refashioned) in the day that the LORD God
made the earth and the heavens in six days (Genesis 2:4). The distinction
between creating and making is all-important in considering the
mutual relations of geology (or of astrophysics or paleontology) and the
Scripture account of creation. 7
Notwithstanding any blindly accepted vague scientific speculations
and conclusions drawn there-from, The evidence of astrophysics about the
age of the universe and from geology and paleontology about the age of the
earth does not prove an evolutionary process. Rather, it supports the
biblical witness and throws light and confirms the fact of a pre-Adamic
instant creation (Genesis 1:1, that may have lasted for ages) ---- of that
world without a human inhabitant, which had undergone various violent
catastrophes. All this destruction was a consequence of Lucifers rebellion
(Isaiah 14:12-14; Ezekiel 28:15; Luke 10:18). But, it was subsequently made
fit for the creation of man out of the redeemed dust of the earth.
God is SPIRIT who inhabits ETERNITY. He is outside of time and
space but is Omnipresent. The original pre-Adamic heavens and earth were
brought into existence in eternity past in a fully developed, completed state.
As such, the question of billions of years doesnt even arise as there could be
no time factor in the realm of eternity, the way we measure time on earth.
So one is left wondering as to how the evidence of astrophysics about the
age of the universe and from geology and paleontology about the age of the
earth in countless billions of years is arrived at. True empirical sciences
demand specific verified facts and not some fancy speculations.
Even to speak of any age of the universe is futile, since it was created
in timelessness in the dateless or ageless past. As such, the unscientific
guesses are untenable seeing that the universe was created in the eternity
past and not in any measurable time-period the way we measure time in
relation to the earths movement around the sun. In fact, no man can ever
accurately find out the age accurately. Accordingly, the guesses of billions of
years should not bother us at all. Nor do we have any scriptural warrant to
presume that the earth and the universe are about 6,000 to 10,000 years old.

As such, young earth or old universes are not biblically based concepts.
Even otherwise, if the speculated age of the universe and life on earth
in billions of years be considered as true and factual, then we may rightly
conclude that God created the universe to be as old as it is found to be as
stated by the scientists; just as He created fully grown flora and fauna and a
fully developed man to begin with. If not, How old Adam and Eve were on
the day they were first created? How old were the fully grown flora and
fauna on the day the same were created. If there were atheistic scientists at
the time of the appearance of Adam, they would have calculated Adams age
according to his appearance.
Contrary to atheistic and theistic speculations, there is now no further
development but deterioration as a consequence of sin. As such, the question
of whether it (evolution other than micro-evolution) is continuing even
today doesnt arise.
Next, theistic evolutionists are somehow convinced that The Bible
only tells us that God is Creator; it says nothing about how He created.
That is, They accept that Genesis 1 tells us that God has created all things,
but recognize that Genesis 1 does not tell us how the creation process has
unfolded or how long it has taken to unfold 8 Now, that is totally a baseless,
if not blasphemous, false conclusion. After all, God does tell us that He
created it all In A Beginning by fiat. And, as far as re-creation is concerned
it is clearly stated in Exodus 20:11 that He completed His work in six literal
days. During the course of the six days, He simply commanded and the earth
brought forth the flora on the third day; and the waters brought forth the
fishes and the birds on the fifth day, and so on.
Anyway, it is obvious that the theistic evolutionists have allowed
themselves to be deceived into believing and accepting evolutionary lies
disguised as scientific truth. May be, theistic evolutionists are presuming
that God did not tell us how He created man. But God does tell us that He
created Man out of the dust of the earth in Genesis 1:26-28 and 2:7. And,
next He tells us that by putting man to sleep, He removed his rib and created
the woman out of the mans rib (Genesis 2:21-23). That is HOW God says He
created the first Man and Woman!
Definitely, Adam and Eve (both called Ad-amah in Hebrew) did not
gradually evolve in course of time from some unknown mysterious fanciful
common ancestor. Nor does the Bible say that primordial life evolved and

developed into the various species over a very long period of time by
Natural Selection. Adam and Eve are not some imaginary mythical figures
that evolved from some common ape-like ancestors of the remote past. Its a
satanic lie, like it or not, to do away with the real humanity of Christ.
Most assuredly, and frankly speaking, There is no conflict between
science and the Bible. Real scientific discoveries must be distinguished from
theories, however. Science, especially geology, is still in its infancy and the
testimony of rocks uncertain. True statements of Gods Word must also be
distinguished from mans interpretation of them. When men finally agree on
the age of the earth, then place the many years over the historical 6,000
years between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, there will be no conflict
between the book of Genesis and science 9
And finally, wherein would the theistic evolutionists attempt to fit in
the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life in their
imaginary evolutionary processes? Are these also some mythical figures
conveniently adopted by Moses to give finishing touches to a sublime
manifesto?
They are left with no option, but somehow conclude these trees need
not be taken literally. Instead, they would perhaps accept the same as
mythical objects of some Creation Epic not to be taken literally. Likewise,
they may also state that the heavenly things and characters of the heavenly
city, New Jerusalem, as well as the future heavens and earth spoken of in the
Bible as some unfounded myths not to be taken literally. They need not,
along with the atheistic evolutionists, accept the miracles of Christ as well as
His Resurrection from the dead as literal and supernatural events.
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1: Finis J. Dake, op. cit. p. 83.

2: Creation and Evolution? op. cit. p. 8
3: Gleason Archer, Encyclopedia of Biblical Difficulties, op. cit. p.15
4: Gleason Archer, Encyclopedia of Biblical Difficulties, op. cit. p.30
5: Dake, Finis J., op. cit. p. 83.
6: Spiros Zodhiates, op. cit. p.1

7: Walter Scott, op.cit. p. 18.

8: Creation and Evolution?, op. cit. p. 8).
9: Dake, Finis J., op. cit. p. 76.

CONCLUSION
Unfortunately, the proponents of Young-Earth Creationism and the
modern adherents of the Traditional Six-Day Creationism have failed to
recognize the evangelical aspects of Gods physical works of the six days.
They cannot, as long as they are unwilling to acknowledge the biblical truth
of an instant perfect creation briefly described in Genesis 1:1.
Subsequently, they cannot or will not recognize and admit the fact that
the chaos mentioned in Genesis 1:2 is not a work of creation but of
judgment. They will not accept the fact that God actually next worked again
for six days so as to restore life conditions and create man after His own
image and rest on the seventh day. Anyway, in the light of Biblical Truth
here a little and there a little the evangelical truths that are hidden in the
very first chapter of Genesis clearly stand out. These evangelically-based
truths cannot be simply ignored.
In the mouth of two or three witnesses, any truth not only stands
confirmed and affirmed but its complementary facets also become
beautifully manifested. This makes it possible to get a comprehensive view
of the multi-faceted truth. So also is Biblical Creation Truth. In addition to
quoting earlier those who saw Gods six-day work as typifying Gods
spiritual work of six millennial days, it will be equally fitting to quote at
length what J. Taylor has to write in connection with Gods work of the six
days and the subsequent 7th day Sabbath. He states as follows:
The book of Genesis gives us the origin of things. The beginning here, no
doubt, refers to the same period as is referred to in John 1. It is the outset
of the divine operations. In John 1the Person of Christ is the subject. In the
beginning He was there. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word

was with God, and the Word was God.(John 1:1). The point in Genesis 1
is to connect the physical universe, what man is cognizant of, with God.
Verse 1 stands alone; it is not included in the operations of the six days. Of
the time that may have elapsed between verses 1 and 2, God has not been
pleased to tell us, but the second verse reveals a condition that one could
not believe was the original state of the earth as created by God. Chaos
and darkness marked it.
This state aptly describes that which resulted from sin in the moral system
of things. Therefore the operations of the successive days serve to show
how that out from a chaotic moral state God can bring the most perfect
order. Chaos and darkness describe the state of man's soul as away from
God, but God acts in this state, and the result is that the soul reaches His
rest. God said, Let there be light. (Gen. 1:3). This passage is directly
connected with the gospel in 2 ians 4.
Direct divine creative power is needed in the moral system of things so as
to bring order into it, and to render it suitable to God's rest; this power is
always in accord with the testimony presented to us. I think that each day
suggests a certain feature of the testimony, and the order in which the
work of each day occurs accords with that in which the truth is received
into our souls from the time the light first reaches us. The Spirit of God
was hovering over the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2). I think we may
connect this with John 3. At the end of John 2 it is stated that the Lord
knew what was in man; He did not commit Himself to men. That is, there
was nothing to trust in man; but the early part of chapter 3 answers to the
hovering of the Spirit. It is the sovereign action of the Spirit so as to
produce something for God where there was nothing. That of which a man
born again realizes the need at the outset is light. In verse 3 we get light.
Here it is no question of the kind of light.
When a person is in darkness he wants light. The presence of Christ as the
true light here brought out fully the darkness and disorder which prevailed
in the moral state of things; hence the need for the sovereign action of the
Spirit, and the gospel (the light commanded, as it were) following in John
3. The first day, therefore, is analogous to the gospel as first presented to
one born anew.
As to the second day: And God said, Let there be a firmament in the
midst of the waters and God called the firmament Heaven" (Genesis 1:6,
8). There can be no doubt that there is a moral point in this; that is, at a
certain time in the history of a soul heaven comes into view. Christ is in
heaven.

When He was down here, He connected the souls of His people with
heaven. In the second day there is indicated another sphere, as distinct
from the earth, and this came out very clearly in the Lord's ministry.
Rejoice because your names are written in heaven(Luke 10:20); your
Father which is in heaven(Matthew 5:45); the Son of man which is in
heaven (John 3:13).
The earth comes into view in its own place. When we get clear as to
heaven we are prepared for the earth. We see in John 3 how heaven takes
precedence of the earth.

On the third day great stress is laid on what suggests resurrection. And
God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the
fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the
earth.(Genesis 1:11). Fruitfulness is in resurrection, Wherefore, my
brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye
should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead,
that we should bring forth fruit unto God (Romans 7:4).
The fourth day is a wonderful day for Christians: Christ is now known in
heaven as the source of light and rule. The light of the first day, doubtless,
came from the sun; this is so, at any rate, if applied morally, for there is no
moral light save what comes from Christ. The first day may be taken to
represent Christ as here on earth, and the light shone on all. Christ as Man
here inaugurates the day, and henceforth the day always attaches to Him,
so that when the Lord withdrew from the earth there was a formal
separation of light and darkness.
In the first day it is light as such: what it was, or its source, is not stated.
The light appearing, it is separated from the darkness. The day really went
with Christ, and the earth is left in total darkness. But the fourth day
provides for this, for the lesser light was to rule the night.
The lesser light points to the church, and inasmuch as the moon is not light
in herself, she cannot be light to the earth during the night unless she
remains in the light of the sun; so the church cannot be light now unless it
abides in the light of Christ.
The lights in the heavens were to be for signs and for seasons. Seasons
have reference to the course of things on earth. Eras of this world have
largely been introduced by certain human events; but divine eras are
regulated by Christ in heaven. The stars are representative of Christ, and
also of the saints individually. Scripture speaks of them in this way. Christ

is the bright morning Star, and they that turn many to righteousness shine
as the stars for ever and ever(Daniel 12:3).
It is just possible that stars may take in the Jewish remnant in the latter
days. The value of the stars is particularly seen during the night when the
moon is hidden. When the church is removed there will still be light,
though not so bright. In the fourth day we come into practical
righteousness as recognizing Christ as Lord in heaven.
In the fifth day we get life in a visible energetic way. Let the waters bring
forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly
above the earth in the open firmament of heaven (Genesis 1:20)-- the
activity of life in an intelligent way, one might almost say, although man
has not yet come into view. It is the introduction of life.
Following the course of the days in chapter 1, viewing them as indicating
the order in which God works in men's souls so as to lead them into His
Sabbath, it is evident that the sixth day brings the work to an end; for on
this day man is created so as to exercise dominion over all that had been
made. This was the completion, or top-stone, of what God had designed.
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them (Genesis 1:27). In type this is Christ and
the church as seen in (Ephesians 1). When this shall have been literally
accomplished, when Christ and the church are set over all things, God's
rest shall ensue. God will rest in his love (Zephaniah 3:17) but He shall
rest because His work is completed. The Sabbath is cessation from labor
(Genesis 2:2-3). On our side, on the side of human desire prompted by the
Spirit, there is nothing more to be prayed for when the King's Son is
recognized as on the throne. The prayers of David the son of Jesse are
ended (Psalms 72:20).
We learn from (Exodus 31:17) that on the seventh day God rested and
was refreshed. This may be applied to Christ as Man here on earth, for in
Him God rested. There was the expression of the Father's delight, and the
Spirit descended and abode upon Him. But in the full thought of it, the
Sabbath refers to the period when God shall rest (all His counsels
accomplished) in a renewed creation headed up in Christ.
Chapter 2 (Genesis) deals specially with man, his origin and nature: the
scene of delight designed by God for him; the law by which he was to be
governed there; his intelligence as indicated in his naming the animals,
etc. and finally the origin and nature of her who was to be his companion.
It is Christ and the church brought very close to our eyes. Chapter 1:26, 27
foreshadows Christ as man according to God's counsels, but chapter 2
presents the historical side. Viewed in this light, the church is derived from
Him. Adam's intelligence is particularly seen in the name he gives the

woman: This time, he says, it is bone of my bones and flesh of my

flesh: this shall be called woman, because this was taken out of man (Gen.
2:23). He recognized himself in her. The source whence she is derived is
the view of the church which this type furnishes. 1

Gods revealed Biblical Truth is multifaceted; this is true of creation

truth as well. As such, another spiritual aspect of Gods Creation Truth in
Genesis 1 wonderfully displays another beautiful facet of the same Creation
Truth. This aspect of creation truth does beautifully describe Gods original
intent for truly converted Christians: that the regenerated, converted and
restored Believers Life in Christ is truly a life of Separation.
A true Christians life is a sanctified life dedicated to God and to His
service. Such a dedicated life requires a pursuit of holiness. Gods works of
the first three days symbolically portray the principle of spiritual separation
in the life of a true Christian. And only such separated Christians, in
fellowship with those who are separated and sanctified by truth, truly abide
in Christ and bear much spiritual fruit. The separation aspect of the first
three days of physical creation followed by three days of productive fruitbearing land as typical of a true Christians life of separation and fruitbearing is convincingly explained by Jack W. Langford as described below:
THE DOCTRINE OF SEPARATION BEGINS
IN THE VERY FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS

The truth about the Christians separation unto Jesus Christ the Lord
actually begins with the physical creation as described in the inspired
record of Genesis chapter one. Herein we read of the breathtaking events
in the first week of the physical creation of God. In six successive days
God formed and made the physical heavens and earth as suitable for mans
habitation. The seventh day God ceased from His work. When one looks
carefully, he will see that the first three of those days can be characterized
by the word division or separation. Furthermore, the second three
days are characterized by God filling the sphere of separation created in
the first three days. Most Christians do not realize that the separation God
ordains in their lives is pictured and patterned after the separation God
ordained initially in the physical creationand this fact should illustrate
how vitally important the subject isGod is still creating today and
God is still ordaining separation today. Separation Truth is a vital part of
Creation Truth.

In II Corinthians 5:17 we are told Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is

a NEW CREATION; old things have passed away; behold all things have
become new. Here we discover that God is still in the creation
business. In fact, the apostle Paul had already stated (II Cor. 4:6) that this
New Creation process had begun just exactly like the original physical
creation process beganFor it is God Who commanded light to shine
out of darkness, Who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. This revelation
takes us back in our minds to the creation week.
THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED UPON

We also need to remember that this week of renewing the earth begins
with the activity of the Holy Spirit of Godand the Spirit of God was
hovering over the face of the waters (Gen. 1:2, literal translation). The
earth was said to be without form and voidliterally waste and
empty. In addition, the whole globe was submerged in water and
smothered by total darkness. It was over this bleak and abysmally
darkened chaos that the Spirit of God, like a bird, was literally
fluttering (see Deut. 32:11; Isa. 31:5 & Gen. 1:2). The Psalmist of old
reflected upon this scene by his words, You send forth Your Spirit, they
are created; and you renew the face of the earth (Ps. 104:30). So it was
with the Spirits activity, God spoke and said let there be light (Gen.
1:3) and the six days suddenly began. The activity of these days was
accomplished by the power of the Spirit of God.
So it is, as unregenerate persons our sin-darkened hearts and chaotic lives
were moved upon by the Holy Spirit of God, bringing to us the message of
Gods compassion and mercy, in order to persuade us to repent and believe
the gospel (II Thess. 2:13; Eph. 1:13 & Heb. 10:29). Thankfully, when we
first trusted in Christ for soul salvation there was a transformation. At that
point in time we were instantly made new creations in Christ. And then
the beautiful process of our separation began. As Paul stated in II
Corinthians 5:17,18 old things were passed away; behold, all things
have became newand all things were of God. God Who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness, Who has shone in our hearts to give the
light of the knowledge In the Genesis creation account there quickly
followed a
THREE-FOLD SEPARATION

As I said before, the first three days of Gods creative work of renewal can
actually be characterized by the word separation. On each of the days
God divides specific elements.

On the first day God not only created light, but He also Divided the
light from the darkness (verse 4). So it is, in that great separation
passage of II Corinthians 6:14-7:1, Paul says in a preliminary manner on
the subject of separation truth, And what communion has light with
darkness? What was true in the physical creation, that light cannot
cooperate with darkness, is most certainly true in the spiritual creation.
The spiritual realities that we see and learn in Christ are a light that
removes the darkness of Satanic influence. This is first of all the light of
spiritual realities chasing away the darkness of man-made religious
superstition from our souls. There is only a God-ordained division (or
separation) between light and darkness, either physical as in the physical
creation, or spiritual as in the spiritual new creation. Thus the very first
lesson in the Bible for a newly born Christian is to recognize the
separation between spiritual light and truth and spiritual darkness and
error. This is fundamental and is repeated for us many times in the
Scriptures. This is one of the foremost types in the Bible.
God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have
fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the
truth (I John 1:5,6). This truth is emphasized by many Scriptural
references. It would serve well to read all of them. See John 1:5; 3:19;
12:46; Acts 26:18; Col. 1:13; Eph. 5:11-13; 6:12; Rom. 13:12; I Cor. 4:5; I
Thess. 5:5-8; Luke 22:53; I Pet. 2:9 & I John 2:8-11. One who walks in
the light is walking in separation. When a person is regenerated, his
whole outlook on life changes. Traditional prejudices and hatreds are
replaced by the love of God that is shed abroad in our hearts (Rom. 5:5).
The believers whole outlook on life changes as it is illuminated by the
truths in the Word of God under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Perhaps
the most shocking illumination is the exposure of what true Christianity
really is. The major conflict in the life of Christ was between Himself and
the religious leadership of that day. Nevertheless, when a sin-darkened
mind has been illuminated by the truths from the Word of God, the light of
those truths will illuminate a totally new pathway in life.
It is clear from all these Scriptures above that a Christian must be
cognizant of the necessity of being separated from spiritual darkness in
life and religion. Unless that separation is put into practice, a believer
cannot walk in full and complete fellowship with Almighty God, Who
saved him from the guilt and penalty of his sins. The whole battle between
Christianity and the Devil is the battle between light and darkness.
Spiritual darkness is first of all religious subterfuge and invention; no
matter how pious and pretentious is its appearance, it is nevertheless
labeled by God as DARKNESS to be avoided. It is incompatible with
the true light of Gods revelation.

On the Second day God divided the waters below from the waters
above (Gen. 1:6-8). God established an expanse or atmospheric heaven
between the oceanic waters covering the earth and the water vapor that
would form a cloudy canopy around the earth. It will become obvious why
this separation is God-ordained in the works of the last three days. First of
all, the oceanic waters will be the sphere for all the fish and various forms
of sea life that God will make. The water vapor above will be a primary
source for the nourishment and growth of the fruit bearing vegetation that
God will plant on the earth. In addition, the atmospheric heaven will also
provide the breathing space for all the various life forms that God will
later place on the surface of the earth. Thus, this separation was essential
for providing two separate spheres for the physical existence of the
different forms of life on the new regenerated earth.
Like the light and the darkness of the first day, wherein the spirit of God
later attaches spiritual significance of good and evil, so it is that the two
watery elements are also spoken of in a figurative sense in later Scriptures.
These become very significant. The clouds above and the water below are
sometimes spoken of as two separate companies. On the one hand, Gods
presence is repeatedly described as being characterized by a cloud or with
the clouds of heaven. See for instanceExo. 16:10; 19:9,6; 24:16-18;
34:5; 40:38; Num. 11:25; Job 26:9; 22:14; Psalm 18:10-12; 78:14; 104:3;
Isa. 19:1 & Nah. 1:3. In addition the heavenly hosts are sometimes
depicted as clouds or being in the cloudsDan. 7:10 & 13; Matt. 17:5;
24:30 &26:64. Joyously, the saints themselves are said to be caught up in
cloudsI Thess. 4:17. And in another place the saints of old are
described as A great cloud of witnessesHebrews 12:1.
Therefore the cloudy canopy over the earth is figuratively spoken of as
representative of Gods presence, the company of angelic hosts and of the
saints themselves.
On the other hand, the waters below are often used to depict the restless
sea of earths humanity. The wicked are like the troubled sea when it
cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirtIsa. 57:20. The four
great world empires as different beasts are said to arise out of the sea of
humanityDaniel 7:2-7. In addition, Christ spoke of the turbulences that
will come upon mankind during the great tribulation, just prior to His
second coming. He thus spoke of the terrible unrest among mankind in
terms of the sea and the waves roaringLuke 21: 25.
In one of Christs parables He spoke of the drag net that was cast into
the sea and gathered of every kind. After being drug to the shore, the
good are separated and collected in vessels, whereas the bad are
segregated out and destroyedMatthew 13:47-50. Therefore, we can see

from the Scriptures that in a figurative sense, the oceans and seas represent
troubled, restless humanity.
Now it is true that for the time being we are in this wicked world, yet God
has placed it into our hearts that we are not really a vital part of it. We are
temporarily only strangers and pilgrims on this earth who are witnesses to
the world of Gods grace and mercy in Christ. Not only is there going to
be an ultimate separation between the saved and the lost into two different
eternal spheres, but also the spiritual significance of the separation that
took place on the second day of the Creation Week speaks to us of a
present separation that should exist between the saved and the lost. The
fellowship and association of believers together to strengthen one another
is one of the paramount truths of the church of Jesus Christ. When one is
saved, born again into the family of God, he will instinctively enjoy
fellowship with God and with Gods people. The old comrades of his lost
estate will no longer have the attraction that they once had. The believer
will no longer have the appetite for the ungodliness that he once enjoyed.
Consequently, his old friends will seem to slough off as he walks in his
new life in Christ. He will search out and associate with fellow Christians
who enjoy the things of God. This is illustrated by the new converts on the
Day of Pentecost, as recorded in Acts 2. They continued steadfastly in the
apostles doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and in
prayersnow all who believed were together (Acts 2:42 & 44).
The exhortation of Hebrews 10:25 is paramount, Not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting
one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
On the third day God divided the land from the waters and the dry land
appeared. In addition God caused the land to spring forth with all manner
of fruit bearing vegetation. The third days work will therefore speak to us
of separation so as to bring forth fruit unto God.
The darkened waters that had submerged the earth speak of judgment and
death. The second verse of Genesis chapter one described the earth as
being in a condition of waste and emptiness (literal translation).
Whenever those two Hebrew words, tohu wa bohu, are used together, it
meant judgmental destruction (see Isa. 34:11 & Jer. 4:23). Thus, some
careful teachers of the Scriptures have pointed out in the past that the first
scene after the initial creation of the universe (Gen. 1:1) is a scene of
destruction and judgment. In addition to the earth being waste and
emptied, it is submerged under waters and the whole was plunged into
intense darkness. Many have referred to this as the original chaos out of
which God brings order and form. Remember also that the Spirit of
God, by later revelations at which we have already looked (see the first

day), likened this to the condition of a soul-darkened sinner under Satanic

influence emerging into light and regeneration.
And now on the third day, the segregating of the waters into the oceans,
the rising and appearance of the continental land mass, and the placing of
a great variety of vegetation upon the land mass speaks of the believers
new life and fruitfulness unto God. As to the resurrection and separation of
our new life to a place of fruitfulness in Christ, the principle is expressed
in the words of the apostle Paul in Romans 6:1-23. We will just select a
few excerpts of that beautiful passage which describes the believers
identification with Christ in His DEATH, and then also RESURRECTION
to a position of FRUITFULLNESS in our lives before God. For if we
have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also
shall be in the likeness of His resurrectionknowing that Christ, having
been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion
over Himbut the life that He lives He lives to God. Likewise you also,
reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regards to
righteousness.What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are
now ashamed?
For the end of those things is death. But now having been set free from
sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your FRUIT to holiness,
and the end everlasting life.
TheApostle Peter spoke of the believers past life in these wordsFor we
have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles,
when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking
parties, and abominable idolatries.
In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in
the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you (I Peter 4:3,4). Then
in his second letter Peter adds that beautiful description of the fruitfulness
that should exist in the life of a Christian
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of
Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain
to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by
glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceeding great and
precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue,
to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control
perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness,
and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound,
you will be neither barren nor UNFRUITFUL in the knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ (II Pet. 1:2-8).

THE SECOND THREE DAYS

COMPLEMENT THE FIRST THREE DAYS

Amazing as it may seem, when one carefully reads the first chapter of
Genesis he will note that, on the first three days of activity, God
absolutely does not actually create any physical substance whatsoever. In
the first verse of Genesis one, God created the whole universe, that is, the
whole heavens and earth. Of course this involves the physical substance of
the universe. But then upon the activity of the Holy Spirit over a darkened
chaos (verse 2), God speaks three successive days (24 hour time
periods) into existence (verses 3-13). During these three days there is not
any physical substance created. Instead, God is carefully, progressively
and systematically preparing environments as we have seen above.
In the first three days God is FORMING environments and in the second
three days God will be FILLING these environments. We can also express
this in another manner. The first three days are characterized by the word
SEPARATION, because in each case God divides or separates two distinct
spheres. The second three days are characterized by the word
PREPARATION, because God is filling each of these spheres in
preparation for earths inhabitants. Once the areas of separation have been
established, God proceeds to fill, in an orderly fashion, each of those
spheres.
On the fourth day God will fill the earths day and the night with
luminaries, the sun, moon and stars, which will function to rule the day
and guide the night. On the fifth day God will fill the air with birds and
God will fill the seas with fish. On the sixth day God will fill the land with
animals and finally create mankind who is designed to rule over all. So, in
all of this there is a perfectly planned sequence. Nothing is haphazard or
just thrown together accidentally. Not only is there a divine system to
Gods physical creation but there is also a divine system to Gods spiritual
creation as well. Let us briefly observe each of these second three days.
On the fourth day God orders or arranges the sun, moon and stars in
relationship to the earth. It has been noted by Hebrew linguists that the
word which is used only by God and means to create (bara), is not used
in this arrangement on this day. This word was already used in verse one
in relationship to the heavenly spheres; therefore it is not repeated here.
The sun, moon and stars had already been brought into existence in verse
one (In the beginning God created the heavens). Rather the word we
translate to make (asah) is usedGod made the sun, moon and stars.
This Hebrew word most often simply means to arrange or set in order.
God thus forms or arranges (makes) already existing materials or spheres

previously created. By this we would understand that the chaos which

involved this earth, described in verse two, also involved the heavenly
spheres as well. Therefore, on the fourth day God sets in order and
arranges the sun, moon and stars to properly function in relationship to the
earth.
The function of the sun, moon and stars in relationship to the earth is
spelled out. They divide the day from the night, are for signs and
seasons, and for days and years and lights in the heavens. In addition
they are said to rule the day and the night (verse 16). Thus the operation
of the day and night time periods made on the first day are now governed
and directed by the function of the sun, moon and stars made on the fourth
day. This function will serve to guide and direct the overall operations of
the miracle of life on this physical earth.
We have seen that the spiritual significance of the light and darkness made
on the first day found its parallel in mans consciousness of right and
wrong, good and evil, the will of Satan versus the will of God and
children of light versus children of darkness. Now on the fourth day,
typically, God actually sets guidelines that direct mans consciousness so
that it is not haphazard.
Mans conscience must be in tune with the guiding instruments that God
has specially designed. Conscience would be worthless unless it is
calibrated to respond to the standards God has ordained. The typical or
symbolic use of the sun, moon and stars is also well spelled out in the
Scriptures. In addition, the spiritual significance is in perfect accord with,
and parallel to, the physical function of these spheres in the sky.
We first see the spiritual or figurative significance of the sun and moon in
the dream of Joseph as recorded in Genesis 37:8-11. Joseph dreamed that
the sun and moon and the eleven stars would bow down before him. Jacob
immediately interpreted the dream as having reference to Josephs own
father as the sun, his mother as the moon and his brothers as the stars. The
dream was not difficult to interpret. It was unthinkable in Jacobs mind
that the two supreme guiding influences, the sun (father) and the moon
(mother), would bow down before one of lesser importance over whom
they rule. Indeed, the father and mother are the first and immediate
influences that God has set in our lives to guide and direct us from
childhood.
This theme plays an important part in the book of Proverbs. My son, hear
the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your
mother (Prov. 1:8). The father and mother are first and immediate in
the echelon of those who bring to us the guiding truths of the Word of

God. Woe be to those who would scorn this guidanceProv. 20:20 & 30;
17.
Indeed, the Word of God itself is represented by the sun, the moon and the
stars. That great Psalm which expounds to us the central theme of the Law
of the Lordthe Law of the Lord is perfect (Psalm 19)begins with
the introductory message from the heavenly spheres that speaks to all
mankind on the face of the whole earth, Day unto day utters speech, and
night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language
where their voice is not heard (verse 3). As one goes on to read this
Psalm he is held in awe as to the perfection, beauty and grandeur of its
messages. And make sure of one thingin obedience to them there is
great reward (verse 11). Looking through a great telescope into the
unfathomable depths of the starry heavens is like looking, by the Spirit of
God, into the unfathomable mysteries of the Word of God. In both we see
the startling arrangements and magnificent glory of spectacular truths.
On the fifth day God fills the two separate spheres He ordained on the
second daythe waters beneath and the atmospheric heaven above. Both
spheres now swarm with unique forms of life. The ocean now swarms
with fish and sea creatures. Likewise, the sky above is filled with the
flying fowl of every variety and kind. These are the same fish and fowl
that man knows today. No doubt their original beauty and perfection were
even more astonishing than what we see after the millenniums of the curse
have left its scars on Gods original beauty.
The amazing thing about these two life forms is that they both
characteristically defy the laws of gravity. The fish by their very unique
characteristics possess amazing buoyancy which allows them free access
to the very depths or the heights of the watery deep. They pass through the
dark curtains of the deep with smooth, seemingly effortless speed and
grace. There is nothing man has ever tried to imitate as complicated and
difficult as the engineering that goes into a submarine. And yet the modern
submarine is but a clumsy imitation of those efficient creatures of the sea.
On the other hand, the birds of the air soar with unbelievable perfection
through the currants of the air and sky. They seemingly mock the law of
gravity with their uncanny ability to wing their way through every ballet
performance imaginable in the sky. What person is there who has never
stood in admiration of these heavenly gliders and acrobats? Even the
Wright brothers who lay on the hillside to watch carefully their amazing
performances, realized man could never equal their perfection of control
over the physics and efficiency of flight. The smooth contours in the
elegant design of the birds have been carefully acknowledged by our
crafty flight engineers in even our most advanced airplanes.

It is interesting that the two forms of animal life that Almighty God first
creates on this newly regenerated earth both amazingly depict victory.
From the darkness of the chaos of the second verse of Genesis one, God
raises up the double image of victorious life. This is undoubtedly like the
truth emanating out from the depths of the darkness of death when our
blessed Savior arose from death to bring life and immortality to light
through the gospel. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation (II
Corinthians 5:17). Christ was victorious over death and that victory is
thankfully transferred to every blood-bought believer.
Amazing as it may seem, the two emblems of Christianity, according to
Church history, became the fish and the dove. The fish, in all probability,
became an emblem because the first Disciples of Christ were fishermen.
Peter and his brethren just so happened to be of that employment in life
(Matt. 4:18-22). And so today we often see the fish emblem to indicate a
Christian or Christianity. And then, since the Holy Spirit of God took the
form of a dove (John 1:32) when He came down upon Jesus Christ to
inaugurate and empower a new ministry, the dove, likewise, came to be
used, even in early Christianity, as emblematic of this new Divine
institution composed of Christs followers. Today we often see it used by
different churches and theologies as emblematic of Spirit inspired forms
and functions of Christianity. Herein the inspired words of the apostle Paul
should ring out in our remembrance, because it ties everything together
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the
law of sin and death (Rom. 8:2). The most significant testimony of
Christianity is that real, Biblical Christianity spells Victory. Thank God,
the One who engineered the original creation has likewise engineered in
every believer the buoyancy to overcome the laws of sins gravity.
On the sixth day God brings to a grand finale the week of renewal. Not
only is the animal kingdom on earth all made and perfected, but over them
all man is brought into existence with the supreme significance of having
dominion (Gen. 1:26 & 28) over every living thing on the earth. Man is
said to be created and made in the very image and likeness of God.
Consequently, it is not difficult to see the spiritual significance of the sixth
days work. God has ordained that the new creation in Christ be so
equipped as to Reign in Life (Romans 5:17). The spiritual truths
exemplified by the work of God on the previous day spelled out victory.
Because of victory the believer can be more than a conqueror (Rom.
8:33-39). Indeed, the apostle Paul tells us that all things aare yours in
Christ (I Cor. 3:21).
Because the believer places his faith totally in Christ, it is as it were that
we are created into the image of the One Who created [us] (Col. 3:9,

10), and again, the believer has been created in the likeness of God
(Eph. 4:24). In addition, every believer is Gods workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we
should walk in them (Eph. 2:10).
In summary it is stated Grace is now reigning through righteousness
(Rom. 5:21). What an amazing and spectacular sequence of blessings and
provisions. Not only is the believer created in the very image of God, but
he is also created to reign in life.
Please keep in mind that in the overall design of God, the work of these
last three days is clearly built upon the separation exemplified in the
work of the first three days. And so it is also true that Divine guidance
through the Word (day 4), victory in life (day 5), and the reigning
dominion through grace, are all brought to us by virtue of the principles of
separation. Only when the believer sees and walks in the principles of
separation can there be the fullest blessings from God, and the fulfilling of
the purpose of God for us in living out the New Creation. (2)
_______________________________________________________________________
1: J. Taylor, Snr, Volume 2, Readings in Genesis, New York, 1908, (reprinted from
Vols. I and II "Mutual Comfort", 1908/9) Pages 263 to 268.
2: Jack W. Langford , www. separationtruth.org

PHASE THREE

Creation in the Eternity Future

Creation of

New Heavens and New Earth

CREATION
Of

New Heavens and New Earth

Theistic Evolutionists are of the opinion that The Bible only says that
God created all things that exist; it does not speak to the question of the
manner of the creative process or how long the creative process took or
whether it is continuing even today (Creation and Evolution? op. cit; p. 7).
However, the Bible states that God saw everything that He had created and
made in the course of the six days and declared it all as very good. This
truth nullifies the myth that creative processes are continuing even today.
Atheistic and theistic scientists are aware that There is evidence now
that the whole world and all in it are degenerating and moving toward some
climax or judgment, instead of evolving upward into higher and better
forms. The tendency of atoms of high atomic weight to break up into other
atoms of lower weight seems to be the universal tendency of all matter.
Scientists declare that this is also true in the vegetable and animal
kingdom. (Finis J. Dake, op. cit; p. 83).
What does the Bible actually reveal? For we know that the whole
creation groaneth and travailed in pain together until now (Romans 8:22).
As a consequence of Adams sin, the present creation is subjected to futility
and eventual dissolution. As such, the heavens of Genesis 1:8, 14-19 and the
earth of Genesis 1:10 that are now are kept in store reserved unto the day of

judgment and the final perdition of ungodly men. Biblically speaking, the
present creation is doomed to decay and eventually end up in dissolution!
The heavens and the earth, which are now, which have been
restored and re-fashioned in the creation week, by the same Word are kept
in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of
ungodly men (2 Peter 3.7). Next, Peter tells us that the day of the Lord will
come in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are
therein shall be burned up (2 Peter 3:10). Other Scriptures also confirm and
complement Peters predictions about the approaching destruction on earth
and in the heavens (Revelation 21:1).
However, once the heavens and the earth that are now are destroyed,
God will create new Heavens and a new Earth and there will be no more any
sea. Apostle Peter looked forward to the creation of new heavens and earth
according to Gods promises in the Old Testament. He states: Nevertheless
we, according to His promise look for new heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelled righteousness (2 Peter 3:13). Accordingly, Apostle John
says And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea (Revelation 21:1).
Isaiah 65:17 states: For, behold, I create new heavens and a new
earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. Again,
God comforts His people by assuring them of their permanence in His
Kingdom just as the new heavens and the new earth that He will make after
the end of the millennial reign will remain permanently: For as the new
heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith
the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain (Isaiah 66:22).
The Question that remains to be answered by Theistic evolutionists is
this: Will God create the New Heavens and the New Earth with another
Big Bang? Or will God create soup of hydrogen atoms and then let it
gradually develop and expand into new galaxies in the course of billions or
trillions of years and the creative process continue endlessly in the future?
But then, God creates by fiat. He will certainly vindicate to His glory His
creative power by creating the new heavens and new earth by His sheer
command. This new creation will be witnessed by the resurrected saints or
Sons of God and then they will shout for joy.
Theistic evolutionists perhaps assume that God will use some

evolutionary process to bring into existence the promised new creation. May
be they also speculate that the lake of fire destined for Satan and his angels
and for the incorrigible wicked will be evolving from some soup of
exploding hydrogen atoms in the course of billions of years after the Final
Judgment. There can be no end to biblically unfounded assumptions once
the mind is given over. However, biblically based speculations are edifying.
Notwithstanding our speculations which may be right or wrong, God
is going to vindicate His power by creating new heavens and a new earth
instantly by fiat. This awesome event will be also witnessed by all the
atheistic evolutionists who are saved by Gods grace. And the new creation
will prove to theistic evolutionists that God creates by fiat, not by evolution.

New Heavens and New Earth

The Eternal Inheritance of the Saints
God worked in a phased manner for six days and rested on the seventh
day. This He did in order to portray symbolically His works of salvation in
the course of six millennial days and of spiritual rest during the millennial
Sabbath. However, when it comes to creating the new heavens and earth, it
will not be in six days, but instantly by fiat just as in the beginning.
The original heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1 were created instantly
by fiat after the creation of the angels. Lucifer and his angels, who were first
in heaven along with other angels after their creation, were then next placed
on earth in a Garden of Eden (Ezekiel 28:13) to administer Gods rule.
However, Lucifer himself did not submit to Gods rule over him.
Instead, in the course of time, he attempted to dethrone God and conquer the
heavens. As a result, Satans attempted but aborted celestial invasion caused
chaos on this earth and the wreckage of the universe.
God next renewed (Psalms 104:30) the face of the earth in six days for
the habitation of man (Genesis 1:3-31). In doing so, God first dispelled
prevailing darkness by commanding the existing stellar and solar light that
was obscured to shine upon the earth. Accordingly, He created simultaneous
day and night periods. Next, He created the atmospheric Heavens (Genesis
1:8) and restored the original dry land and named it Earth (Genesis 1:10).
Subsequently, He re-created life-conditions on earth that were necessary for
the sustenance of flora and fauna as well as for the habitation of man.

Finally, God created man. But unlike the pre-adamite men who were
perhaps created after their own kind, God now created man in His own
image and likeness. He then placed the man in the newly re-created Garden
of Eden to dress it and to keep it (Genesis 2:15). Male and female
created He them; and blessed them, and called their name Adamah, in the
day they were created (Genesis 5:2). But what is Adamah or Man?
And, why did God create man, more so In His Image and After His
Likeness? What was required of Man Adam and Eve --- when God first
created them? And, what was their potential reward from eternity to eternity
that they would inherit as result of their obedience?
God created man a little lower than the angels. Initially, before his fall
man was given dominion or rule over all the works of Gods hands. As King
David in Psalms 8:6 states, Thou - God - madest him man to have
dominion or rule over the works of Thy hands: Thou hast put all things
under his feet. So man was given dominion and ruler-ship over all things
and destined to be crowned with honor, majesty, and glory (Hebrews 2: 7-8).
To achieve such a supreme potential it was required of man that he
qualify and have all things put under him. Hence, God purposed that man
learn to have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moved upon the face of the earth (Genesis 1:2628). Man was given dominion rule over the earth over every living thing
that moved or crept upon the earth Serpent included -- before he could be
finally crowned with glory and honor. Accordingly, God commanded the
first man not to eat of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Yes, Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden to have dominion even
over Lucifer then changed to Satan by rebellion against God and bring
him eventually under his feet. This required mans obedience to God and
that he be always under Gods government (Genesis 2:16-17) and rule.
The first man Adam was asked to conquer Satan by rejecting his
rule which was now in opposition to God. By rejecting Satans rule, man
was to qualify to have all things put under his feet and there was nothing to
be kept back that would not to be put under his feet, once qualified.
But what happened? Adam weak as he was failed to resist satanic
influence and faithfully obey God. By obeying Satan, he disqualified himself

from being in charge of Gods creation that was put under him. Instead, he
brought himself and his progeny under Satans rule. Thus, man became
enslaved to sin. He lost therefore his potential ruler-ship over all things.
Satan then regained his lost ruler-ship bringing sinful men under his control.
And as a consequence of satan-induced Adamic rebellion, the restored
physical creation was next brought under bondage to decay subjected to
futility (Romans 8:20-21) and uselessness even as before.
Although man obeyed Satan, Gods purpose for man did not fail nor
was it revoked. Satans temptation and Adams yielding to it by disobeying
God couldnt nullify or thwart Gods purpose for creating man. Mans
rebellion was anticipated and accordingly God would carry out His plan.
Gods purpose for man to inherit all things was however delayed. It
required the second Adam, even Christ, to regain what first Adam lost and
the working out of Gods plan accordingly. Therefore, Now we see not yet
all things put under man (Hebrews 2: 8). Instead, we see Satan regaining
his lost ruler-ship and dominion over this earth (Luke 4:5- 6). Next, Adam
by obeying Satan became his subject and subsequently, all humanity became
enslaved to Satan and sin and death.
Nevertheless, God has been working out His plan, giving hope to
man. As such, though we see not yet all things put under man, we see,
Jesus the second Adam who was made a little lower than the angels for
the suffering of death, crowned already with honor and glory (Hebrews
2:9). Jesus not only accomplished what Adam failed to accomplish, but also
by the grace of God tasted death for every man thereby freeing man from
death that man had incurred upon himself by disobeying God.
Satan is still in control and, therefore, we see not yet all things put
under man. However, Satans purpose to rule the world has been defeated by
Jesus. Accordingly, Satan became disqualified from being the ruler of this
world. And through the substitutionary work of Christ man regained his lost
potential. As such, what has been lost as a consequence of Adams sin is now
appropriated by man by placing his faith in Christ.
But what exactly is that supreme potential? Is it to inherit for eternity
all things that we see now not yet put under him? Does God promise to
give saints the present heavens and the earth to accomplish their potential of
eternal ruler-ship with Christ? Does the Scripture Thou hast put all things
in subjection under his feet imply in the slightest they are to be used by

man for eternity once Gods plan on this present earth is accomplished?
There are many scriptures in the Bible which clearly tell us that the
present earth and the heavens will be destroyed. Instead, new heavens and
earth will be created. It is important to consider all these Scriptures first and
accordingly conclude about mans awesome potential.
Hebrews 2:6-8 doesnt describe that the present earth and heavens will
be given to man to be used for eternity. It just describes how all things are
put under mans subjection. Instead, we see now not yet all things put under
him. However, Scriptures clearly tell us that the present heavens and earth
will be burnt and removed from their place instead of being given to man.
King David wondered about the heavens (Psalms 8:3) as we do and
wrote The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament showed
His handiwork (Psalms 19:1). He was inspired to tell us in Psalms 102:25,
Of old hast thou laid the foundations of the earth; and the heavens are the
work of Thy hands. They shall perish, but Thou (and hence, the spiritual man
in Christ cf. Psalms 21: 4) shall endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a
garment; as vesture shall thou change them, and they shall be changed.
Paul also was inspired to quote the same Scriptures to the Hebrew
Christians as in Hebrews 1:10-12, And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast
laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the works of Thy
hands: They shall perish: but Thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as
doth a garment; And as a vesture shall Thou fold them up, and they shall be
changed: but thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.
Do these Scriptures really mean what they state? Did Paul merely
quote the Scripture from Psalm 102 to contrast the transience of the present
earth and heavens with the permanency and agelessness of its Creator
without really meaning to be taken it literally? Do the words perish, fold,
changed do not really mean what they actually should mean?
When we look into the starry heavens it becomes pretty difficult for us
to believe that all these works will be destroyed. But to God who stretchest
out the heavens like a curtain (Psalms 104:3), they are totally insignificant
like an old garment to be folded up, burnt, and replaced by a new one.
There is no Scripture to tell us that the present heavens and earth will
be given to man for ever. Instead, Isaiah 51:6 asks us to lift up our eyes to

the heavens above and look upon the earth below. The heavens shall vanish
like smoke and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell
therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever and my
righteousness shall not be abolished. Immutability of Gods salvation and
righteousness is contrasted with the impermanence and mutability of the
present creation. Obviously, the present groaning temporary creation will be
replaced by a new and everlasting one.
Will God destroy only the surface of the whole earth by burning it as
taught by some? Or will everything be burnt up and vanish like smoke
exactly as God says in Isaiah 51:6? Anyway, whether God meant the
original heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1 or whether only the heavens of
Genesis 1:8 and the earth of Genesis 1: 10 that are now will be burnt up is
somewhat uncertain. This uncertainty demands that we interpret the relevant
scriptures by keeping in mind that there are two generations of heavens and
earth co-existing at the moment.
In all probability, the heavens and the earth that are now as described
in Genesis 1:8 and 10 will literally burn on the day of the Final Judgment.
During this time, all the ungodly wicked along with Satan and his angels
will be thrown into the lake of fire soon after the White Throne Judgment
is over (cf. 2 Peter 2:9, Jude 6, Revelation 20:10). It is during this time that
the atmospheric heavens and the earth shall be abolished rather than the
original heavens and the earth which are destined to remain forever.
As stated by Peter in 2 Peter 3:10: The Day of the Lord will come as
a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away (disappear) with a
great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also
and the works therein shall be burned up. And, again in verse 12: Looking
for and hasting unto the coming of the Day of God, wherein the heavens
being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent
heat.
Next, Paul states in Hebrews 12:26: Whose voice then shook the
earth, but now he hath promised saying, Yet once more, I shake not the
earth only, but also heaven, And this word, Yet once more, signified the
removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that
those things which cannot be shaken, may remain. The shaking of heavens
and earth before and at Christs second coming as prophesied in Haggai 2:6,
Revelation 6:14, 15 seem to be only a type of what is yet to come in the

immediate future.
God has not promised to give the saints the present heavens of
Genesis 1:8 and the earth of Genesis 1:10 for eternal ruler-ship after the
millennium is over. Once Gods will is accomplished on this earth according
to the Scriptures all the physical works of God which are seen now will
disappear, being temporary (2 Corinthians 4:5-6). And, once the present
visible heavens and earth are dissolved, God will create new Heavens and
Earth by fiat, perhaps instantly, neither in six days nor in billions of years.
Even now, the present earth is still in the hands of Satan and his
angels who carry on with their evil works. Therefore, Satan says he has
power to give the present earth to whomsoever he wants (Luke 4:5-6).
But, that power is limited. It is given to him only for a short time.
Satans time is running short (Revelation 12:12). Soon he will have his rulership on this earth taken away from him and then imprisoned for 1000 years.
After that, he will be set free for a while when he will attempt his final attack
to conquer the kingdom of God (Revelation 20:7-9). But, he will be thrown
into the lake of fire along with all the ungodly men when it will be also the
time for the present earth and the heavens to pass away (Revelation 20:11).
Christ, being the Creator and Sustainer of all that is, will uphold the
present universe by the Word of His power, until the end; after which, the
heavens and the earth that we see now will be burnt up to give place to the
new. As Peter says, The heavens and the earth which are now, by the same
Word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and
perdition of ungodly men (2 Peter 3:7). The Scriptures are quite clear and,
therefore, the present heavens and the earth will be burnt up into smoke and
vanish and there will be no more place for them (Revelation 20:11).
So, what then does God promise to give us to be used for eternity if
the present physical creation is to be really burnt up? What is mans eternal
inheritance that Abraham and the saints of all ages eagerly looked forward?
Psalms 8:6 and Hebrews 2:8 state that God has set man over the
works of His hands and has put all things in subjection under his feet. And 2
Corinthians 4:15 says: All things are for our sakes, that the abundant grace
might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. Next,
Colossians 1:16 states that by Him were all things created, that are in
earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or

principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him.
Arent now all the things put under Christs feet except the ONE who
is in supreme authority? Yes, For He hath put all things under His feet. But
when He saith all things are put under Him, it is manifest that He is
expected, which did put all things under Him (1 Corinthians 15:27). As
such, all things put under Christ include everything (Colossians 1:16).
And as co-heirs with Christ, all these things are ours. For all things are
yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world (Gr. Kosmos), or
life or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours. And, you are
Christs, and Christ is Gods (1 Corinthians 3:21-22). Therefore, all things
that are put under Christ and to become ours include the things that are
temporal and those things that are eternal, not subject to corruption.
Now, which things are given to us to accomplish our potential of
eternal ruler-ship with Christ? Are we called now, to set our hope upon the
things we see the present heavens and earth as our inheritance for
eternity, as assumed by some? No, for Paul says, We look not at things
which are seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things
which are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18).
Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things
are passed away; behold all things are become new (based on hope, cf.
Romans 4:17). And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to
Himself by Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). And through Christ All
things are ours (1 Corinthians 3:21) and are for our sakes (2 Corinthians
4:15 and there will be nothing that will be left out.
But now we see not yet all things put under us. Now we only know
that the whole creation has been groaning in travail until now: and not only
the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit groan
inwardly as we wait for the adoption ( our birth) as sons, the redemption of
our bodies (Romans 8:22-23).
The whole creation now sustained by the Word of His power waits
with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God: for the creation was
subject to futility (uselessness), not of its own will but by the will of Him who
subjected it in hope; because (based on hope), the creation itself will be set
free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children
of God (Romans 8:19-21). The whole creation is now groaning being
subjected to futility or uselessness.

But the creation will be set free even as the saints will be set free.
Together with the saints, the creation that is now groaning will obtain its
glorious liberty. As to how the creation will be set free from its bondage to
decay and obtain its glorious liberty is the same as to how the saints who are
now in bondage will be set free to enter into glory. And, that is by the
redemption of their bodies as born sons of God.
God will not preserve our present mortal bodies for eternity. We
know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a
building of God, a house which is from heaven. For we that are in this
tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed,
but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life (2 Co.5:1-4).
The whole creation is groaning and so we are groaning. We will be set
free from bondage to decay when we are changed (1 Corinthians 15:51-52)
to glory and given new bodies (1 Corinthians 15:44). So shouldnt we
conclude that the creation too will be set free from its bondage to decay
being temporarily subjected to futility even as our mortal bodies and
changed by a new glorious creation even physical free from bondage to
decay and, therefore, eternal?
Yes, the present creation we see now subjected to futility will pass
away after all things are fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but
my words shall not pass away said Jesus. We are therefore to set our hope
on things not seen (2 Corinthians 4:15) things to come based on Gods
promises. For we are saved by hope (so also, Gods creation subjected to
decay, cf. Romans 8:19); but, hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man
sees (as the present visible universe), why does he yet hope for? But if we
hope for that we see not then do we with patience wait for it. (Romans
8:24-25). Therefore, as Peter says, We, nevertheless, according to His
promise, look for new heavens and a new earth (2 Peter 3:13). And that is
our blessed hope as far as our eternal reward is concerned.
God promises to those who overcome an inheritance that is
incorruptible (1 Peter 1:4; 2 Peter 1:4). For as flesh and blood cannot
inherit the Kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit corruption (1
Corinthian 15:20) being things temporary subject to decay. God
promises therefore new heavens and a new earth not merely old heavens
and earth made new (or renewed).

That awesome promise is found in Isaiah 65:17: For behold, I create

new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered nor
come into mind (as it will be all removed). The new heavens and the earth
unlike the present temporal heavens and earth will remain for ever and ever
and, therefore, will be eternal (Isaiah 66:22). The promise to make all things
new for the saints inheritance is also made in Revelation 21:5: And he that
sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new to be then inherited
by all those who overcome (v.7).
Lucifer and his angels were the first to inhabit this earth and were
placed on this earth to administer Gods government. They failed to submit
to Gods will and are now, therefore, kept reserved to face the judgment.
Next, this earth has been the testing ground for the first man (Adam
and Eve). So also, it has been the testing ground for Jesus Christ the
second Adam and for all those who have been called. And it will be there till
its end, for all those who are yet to be called of God now and in the
Millennium and for those who will be resurrected at the Final Judgment. The
unsaved dead who have never heard about Christ are yet to be tested. That
will be during the period of the Final Judgment, once resurrected.
None of those who have been called of God looked to this earth as
their permanent inheritance. For all those died in faith, not having received
the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them,
and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on
the earth. For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seek a
country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that (country or earth) from
whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
But, now they desire a better (country or earth or heaven), that is, a
heavenly: wherefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He
hath prepared a city for them (Hebrews 11:13-16) and likewise, God will
create new heavens and a new earth. (Isaiah 65:17). Once the present earth
serves Gods purposes it will be burnt to make place for the new earth; and
thus the new earth will abide for ever (cf. Deuteronomy 4:40; Psalms119:
90; Ecclesiastes 1:4) will remain forever (Psalms 104:5; Isaiah 66:22).
The present visible universe is there to remind us as a type of what is
to come the eternal new heavens and earth, even as the present earthly
Jerusalem (country of Hebrews 11:13-15) is a type of the New Jerusalem to
come from Above even as the first material Adam was a type of the second

Adam Jesus Christ. The earthly man is to be replaced by a heavenly man,

earthly Jerusalem by an eternal heavenly Jerusalem, earthly Zion by a
heavenly Zion and so the present temporary heavens and earth will be
replaced by a new heavens and a new earth to be used for eternity.

The New Physical Creation

Exactly when will all the new things promised be created? When will
God create the new heavens and the new earth setting free the present
creation subject to futility or decay? And what is to take place before that?
All of Gods physical creation that is now has been groaning in travail
since Adams fall. We who are groaning in our fleshly bodies are waiting
now hopefully to put on immortality because flesh and blood cannot inherit
the Kingdom of God. And the creation that is now subject to decay will be
changed too for corruption (the present creation as our bodies) cannot
inherit incorruption (1 Corinthians 15:50). We will put on immortality at
Christs second coming (2 Corinthians 15:23). But the present creation with
many changes brought upon it, before and at Christs second coming, will
continue to exist until all things are fulfilled according to the Scriptures.
God said to His Son, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies
thy footstool (Hebrews 1:13). So Jesus is now sat down on the right hand
of God (doing the work of High Priest); from henceforth expecting till His
enemies be made His footstool (Hebrews 10:12-13). That means, not only
the whole creation and the saints are travailing as they wait for their change
but even Jesus Himself is travailing as He is waiting to see the saints and His
creation redeemed and made free from all bondage (Isaiah 42:14).
But that waiting will not be for long! For the LORD shall go forth as
a mighty man, He shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: He shall cry (like
a travailing woman), yea, roar; He shall prevail against His enemies
(Isaiah 42:13). And very soon Daniel 7:13-14 will be fulfilled and Gods
Kingdom will be set up on earth and then the Kingdoms of this world will
become the Kingdoms of our LORD and of His Christ (Revelation 11:15;
20:2-4) establishing the millennial rule on earth the dream of all the
prophets and the saints of all dispensations.

It is after the millennial rule that the time will come for Jesus to put
down completely and for ever, all His enemies. Jesus must first reign
(Daniel 7:18), till He hath put all His enemies under His feet (1 Corinthians
15:24; Matthew 25:31); as well as judge along with the resurrected saints
who will be then ruling under Him. During this judgment period, the Devil
and the fallen angels will be judged too, and then finally will be cast into the
lake of fire (Revelation 20:20), along with all the ungodly (Revelation 21:8;
Matthew 13:41-42, 25:41). Thus the author of death and hell will be cast into
the lake of fire (Revelation 20:14). And along with him, the last enemy
death will be destroyed too (1 Corinthians 15:25-26) in the lake of fire
(Revelation 20:14). As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the
fire; so shall it be in the end of this world (Matthew 13:40). All that Satan
and his angels had worked for will be annihilated (Daniel 7: 26; Rev. 20:10).
The time for the saints to receive rewards will then come. Then the
redeemed of the LORD shall return and come with singing unto Zion, and
everlasting joy shall be upon their land. They shall obtain gladness and joy
and sorrow and mourning shall flee away (Isaiah 51:11). Then the King
shall say unto them on His right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world
(Matthew 25:34). Then He shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God,
even the Father (1 Corinthians 15:24) and the righteous shall shine forth
as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father (Matthew 13:43).
Thenceforth they shall be His people and God Himself shall be
with them and be their God. (Revelation 21: 3b) and there shall be no
more pain: for the former things have passed away (v.4b). Again it is
written: And I saw a great white throne and Him that set upon it, and from
whose face the earth and the heaven fled away (as smoke?), and there was
no place found for them (Revelation 20:11). And He that sat upon the
throne said, Behold, I make all things new (Revelation 21:5). If God
created the present heavens and earth and gave the same to his first created
sons the angels will He not create new heavens and earth for His own
begotten and reborn sons who will be far above the angels?
All things, whose temporary types are now, will be made new and
everlasting. They that overcome shall then inherit all things (Revelation
21:7) and the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom
under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most
High, whose kingdom is - not only for a millennium - but is an everlasting
kingdom, all dominions shall serve and obey Him (Daniel 7:27).

Everything will be given to the saints. For unto the angels hath He not put
in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak (Hebrews 2:5).
Of course, the children of the kingdom will be given and put under
Jesus who will say, Behold I, and the children which God hath given me
(Hebrew 2:13). For it pleased the Father that in Christ, should all fullness
dwell (Colossians 1:19). And when all things will be subdued unto Him,
then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under
Him, that God may be in all (1 Corinthians 15:28). And, as from the
beginning of Millennium, henceforward, and for ever more the government
shall be upon His shoulders and the increase of His government and
peace there shall be no end (Isaiah 9: 6,7). Even so, AMEN!

EPILOGUE
MANS NEW CREATION
IN CHRIST

MANS NEW CREATION

Theistic Evolutionists devotedly want to Thank God for Evolution1.
They are fervently hoping that an understanding of the process of evolution
will actually enhance and intensify our appreciation of what God has done
and is doing through theistic evolution, of course. Not only Theistic
Evolutionists believe in a Creator God, but also endorse evolution as an
explanation for the development of life. Many believing scientists hold this
position, and the argument is well thought out 2. Not only the argument is
well thought out but it also sounds very convincing; yet subtly deceitful!
It should be obvious to any unbiased scientifically trained mind as
well as to the educated lay people that there is no real substance in the everchanging Theory of Evolution and can never be there. My response asks, is
evolution, defined by scientists as the development by natural means of all
life from one or more forms originally produced by abiogenesis, true? Only
when we prove evolution do we need to concern ourselves with
"harmonizing" evolutionism with theism. Evidence that this level of proof
has not been achieved includes the long list of scientists and others who
have abandoned Darwinism because they became convinced that the
scientific evidence does not support it.3
Moreover as Ernest Haeckel said, It entirely excludes the
supernatural process, every prearranged and conscious act of a personal

character. Nothing will make the full meaning of the theory of descent
clearer than calling it the non-miraculous theory of creation. Thus the
evolution-theory leaders are clear that no true evolutionist can be a
Christian or a Believer in the Bible. There is no place for God in evolution,
hence no need of a belief in sin, or a Savior, heaven or hell. 4
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1: Michael Dowd, Viking, 2008
2: John Halford, Ive been readingTheistic Evolution, Christian Odyssey, op. cit., p.21
3: Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. Theistic Evolution and the Creation-Evolution Controversy,
www.icr.org 4: Finis J. Dake, op. cit. 80-81.

The Theory of Evolution is a religious system subtly inculcated into the

educational system as if it were a true science albeit superstitiously accepted
by blind irrational faith. Actually, it is the work of those taken captive by the
god of this world who openly and daringly deny the true God of the Bible.
As such, the zealous high priests of evolutionary faith dressed in a scientific
garb are actually serving the god of this world who is the father of the
evolutionary lies. These lies are presented in the form of scientific
speculations instead of presenting scientific facts to prove the theory of
evolution in general and the Descent of Man from some common
ancestor, in particular.
According to the theory of evolution, man is not different from the
animals just a mere material, mechanical, or animal. However, The
presuppositions of mans strict materialism are based not on evidence
(which cannot prove or disprove the immaterial) but on denial by prebelief.
The theory of spontaneous emergence of mans distinct qualities is found
insubstantial. More substance is claimed for an older view of a Creator
revealing to man, who is His creation, a purpose for his uniqueness.5
Theory is only a theory its what we think, or a mere scientific
speculation! I am afraid that those of us who teach and research in
psychology often mislead our students on the matter of what is known about
man and what can be known about man through scientific methods. We are
prone to simplify issues and over-interpret data; we are reluctant to
emphasize the limits and tentative nature of scientific proof. Perhaps we do
so because we simply do not know better or perhaps it is because we wish to
enhance the importance of our research. Whatever the reason, the
regrettable result is that scientific evidence is too easily equated with truth

by many students and the general public. What is realized amongst

scientists, but poorly communicated to the public, is that proof by scientific
methods always includes the possibility of error. 6
Surprisingly, all these aspects are ignored by the theistic evolutionists
whilst embracing the atheistic theory of evolution. What is now left is to
boldly proclaim from the pulpits that God will be developing and evolving
saints in the course of the next billions of years and forget the rapture and
the resurrection of the dead and the creation of New Heavens and Earth.
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5: Mark P. Cosgrove, op. cit. p.64

6: Marty J. Schmidt, op. cit. p.71-72.

WHAT IS MAN?
All the work of the six days, up to the point of man's creation, was to
provide a sphere where man could be set in dominion according to Gods
thought. The creation of man was a most solemn and deliberate act. God
takes counsel with Himself as to it: Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the
fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over
every creeping thing that crept on the earth. The first revealed thought as to
man was that he was to be the image -- the visible representative -- of God
in the universe. God intended this peculiar dignity and greatness for the
creature of His delight. 1
Scientific exploration is of no use at all in viewing and answering the
question: What is man? According to the current scientific view, Man is a
biological machine complicated and intelligent but machinery
nonetheless. Admittedly, The mystery of human nature has been debated
through the centuries. Some theories have been helpful to man, others
harmful. Surprisingly, the accumulated wealth of knowledge from the past
several thousand years has advanced us only slightly in our understanding
of human nature. 2
In spite of our advanced technology in the fields of psychology and
biology, The difficult study of man still seems far from resolved. Dr. J. A.

Wheeler, professor of physics at Princeton, indicated in an article for

American Scientist that scientists still hope for a breakthrough in the
difficult study of man. He said: Today no mystery more attracts the minds of
distinguished pioneers from the field of molecular biology than the
mechanism of brain action. Participating in the exploration are workers
from fields as far removed from one another as neurophysiology, anatomy,
chemistry, circuit theory and mathematical logic. Many feel that the decisive
step forward is waiting for an idea, an as-yet-undiscovered concept, a
central theme and thesis. Whatever it will prove to be, we can believe that it
will somehow touch the tie between mind and matter, between observer and
the observed. Unfortunately, no breakthrough in the understanding of mans
nature seems near. 3
The search for truth especially in the understanding of human nature if
we are to remain objective demands answers. We need answers to questions
relating to the physical realities which can be empirically studied and
accepted. Again, we need unbiased answers to questions relating to unseen
realities, physical or spiritual, that cannot be observed but have to be
ascertained from the revealed Truth and then accepted by faith.
Unfortunately, neither true Science nor Philosophy can explain mans
awesome ability in creative thinking or his brains amazing powers of
abstraction. However, What characterizes man, as Man, is precisely the
presence in him of abstract ideas, of moral ideas, of spiritual ideas, and it is
only of these that he can be proud. They are real as his body and confer to
this body a value and an importance which it would be far from possessing
without them. If, therefore, we want to give a meaning to life, a reason for
effort, we must try to revalorize these ideas scientifically and rationally. 4
Comparative studies of mammalian brains indicate that mans brain is
in no way different from other mammalian brains. There is nothing extraphysical in the human brain to account for its ability to think creatively and
engage in abstractive reasoning when compared to the brains of other
mammals, such as the whales having much larger brains than humans. On
the other hand, mammals having brains much larger than the human brain
and having all the parts or components that make up their brains the same as
human brains are known to be dumb, rather than intelligent.
The human mind is more than biological machinery that we can take
apart and study just as we might take apart a clock and examine its
workings. Evolution by natural selection cannot account for the appearance

of intelligence in human beings or explain the human brains amazing

powers of abstraction; which brings in another unbridgeable gap between
animals and human beings vindicating creation and debunking evolution.
John MacArthur states, God created man (v. 27). Man became
a living being (Hebrew, nephesh) (Genesis 2:7). Like the animals, he
moved and breathed and was a conscious life-form. But there the similarity
ended. This was a creature that was unlike any other created being. Lower
life-forms could never evolve into this. And the distinctiveness of this
creature is perfectly reflected in the purposes for which God created him. 5
Man stands unique and distinct and simply doesnt belong to the dumb
animal kingdom. Unlike animals, he knows; and knows that he knows!
Obviously, Mans unique capabilities are impossible to explain by
any purely biological theory. The theory of evolution, for example, would
predict gradually reduced versions of all mans abilities in the animal forms
below him on the phylo-genetic tree of life. However, there is no gradual
transition from animals to man. So obvious are the discontinuities with
regard to thought and personality in the proposed evolutionary sequence
that some scientists and philosophers have proposed that these unique
capabilities have spontaneously emerged from matter, But, if there is a
biological mechanism that can account for the emergence of capabilities
like self-conscious thought, it has eluded our search. 6 Undoubtedly, The
materialistic, mechanical, and animal view of man is not only inadequate to
explain man, but it is also destructive to him. In a world obstructed by an
inadequate view of man and his problems, a fresh look at the nature of man
is a most pressing need. 7
As a matter of fact, Science has a particularly difficult time dealing
with issues of free will v/s determinism, and the immaterial soul v/s the
material brain, because science is necessarily limited to the study of
physically determined processes and reductionistic explanations. It is not
unscientific to recognize these limits. 8 To be honest and true to ourselves,
Let us not be afraid to admit that man is more than science can measure.
Admittedly, there has to be a non-physical component that aids the
human brain in its thinking capacity that distinguishes MAN as totally
different and superior than animals. And this undeniable non-physical
component is what makes man self-conscious, other-conscious and Godconscious. Further, mans deliberate choice to accept or to ignore spiritual
realities further confirms the presence of a non-physical spiritual component.

Animals cannot grasp spiritual realities so as to accept or reject the same.

In the Bible, the non-physical component that aids the human brain
in its pursuit of knowledge both physical and spiritual knowledge - is
called the Spirit in Man (1 Corinthians 2:11). And, according to the Bible,
the spirit in man is what actually aids the human brain to grasp and acquire
the knowledge of the physical realities and spiritual realities around him, in
a way no animal can. As such, It signifies the appearance of a new
discontinuity in nature, a discontinuity as deep as that which exists between
inert matter and organized life. 9 Theistic evolutionists will do great service
to atheistic evolutionists if they do their best in filling this insurmountable
gap or discontinuity in nature and serve the beleaguered God of the gaps.
Scientists will never be able to explain the supposed evolution of man
with amazing powers of abstraction from any so-called common but dumb
ancestors without making themselves sound foolish if not plain arrogant. It
is the non-physical component rather the spirit in man which equips the
man with abstract intelligence. Next, it moves the hearts of men to delve
into the realm of the spiritual and the supernatural. The Christian view
maintains that the ultimate description of the nature of man must be one that
embraces his entire being and purpose. His physical nature must be
properly related to the physical world if his needs are to be met; and, in the
same way, his immaterial nature must be properly related to himself, his
neighbor, and his Creator if his most essential needs are to be met. This is in
good agreement with our psychological assessment of man. 10
Animals cannot grasp/understand and acquire knowledge of physical
realities because they lack the kind of spirit that is in humans. They are
not, therefore, self-conscious or other-conscious or God conscious, the way
men are. These human mental and soul-related aspects are a distinguishing
feature that separate intelligent man from dumb animals. And the ensuing
realistic gap or discontinuity can never ever be explained and accounted
for with any scientific evidence other than by indulging in speculations.
However, highly prejudiced atheistic scientists and evolutionists allow
prideful bias to restrict them from delving into the spiritual or to appreciate
mans spiritual thirst for the supernatural. Embarrassingly, Modern
uneasiness arises mainly from the fact that intelligence has deprived man of
all reason for existence by destroying, in the name of science still in the
cradle, the doctrines which up till now gave a meaning to individual life, a
reason for effort, a transcendent end to attain.11 Highly prejudiced atheistic

scientists and evolutionists will do to themselves a favor by coming to terms

with the spiritual realities of which secular science is unaware of. And the
only reliable source of spiritual realities is the Holy Bible the revealed
Word of the One who is supremely intelligent and omniscient.
Christian Psychologist Mark. P. Cosgrove convincingly concludes that
the more human nature is studied scientifically, the more apparent it
becomes that the best description we have of man is not new at all. In fact, it
is thousands of years old; and it is revelational, a disclosure by the Creator
to His creation. The Christian view of man has long recognized the material
and immaterial aspects to mans existence, his ability to make responsible
and irresponsible choices, and the image of God in his being. 12
According to the Bible, man has not descended from some common
dumb ancestor but is a distinct creation of God. And, God created Man after
His own Image and Likeness. As such, The first revealed thought as to man
was that he was to be the image -- the visible representative -- of God in the
universe. God intended this peculiar dignity and greatness for the creature
of His delight. But in this disclosure of the divine mind we must look beyond
Adam to the One of whom he was the figure.
God's thought was to have a glorious Head of the whole living
system, able to dominate all things and to hold them for His pleasure. Christ
is the "image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation (Colossians1:15)
That is, when He comes in He takes the first place as Adam did in figure.
Everything is to be gathered together in One; whether the heavenly or the
earthly, all is to be centered in Christ. Indeed nothing is right in the universe
that does not centre in Christ. 13
Man is uniquely different and distinct: Adam was "the figure of him
to come"; everything is to come under the dominion of Christ. In (Psalm 8)
it is said of the Son of man, "Thou hast made him to rule over the works of
thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet: sheep and oxen all of
them, and also the beasts of the field; the fowl of the heavens, and the fishes
of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas". Every created
being will be made subject to Christ. And we see in Adam as a figure the
character of the influence which He will bring to bear. 14
As such, The Christian view of man has long recognized the material
and immaterial aspects to mans existence, his ability to make responsible
and irresponsible choices, and the image of God in his being. .Today, after
all the scientific data has been discussed, we still declare with the psalmist:

What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that Thou
visitest him? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and
hast crowned him with glory and honor Psalm 8:4-5 KJV. 15
Mans unique potential lies in the fact that he or she is the Image
Bearer of his or her Maker, even God. However, through willful rebellion,
man has miserably marred the Image of God in him. As a result, he is
spiritually dead to spiritual realities. And no one who is spiritually dead
can know spiritual realities just as a physically dead person cannot know of
anything that is around him. The spiritually dead person has to be revived
from his spiritual death if he is to grasp spiritual realities.
Having been created in the image and likeness of the invisible God,
mans unique potential is to be in the spiritual family of God. Being all
spiritually dead, no man can be in the spiritual family of God, per se. He
needs to experience a spiritual rebirth and share the Divine Nature. As such,
mans awesome destiny is to share the Divine Nature and be spiritually reborn to inherit Gods Kingdom. However, one cannot achieve his or her
unique potential on ones own whilst willfully continuing in rebellion. A
person who is in willful rebellion is spiritually dead and as such he cannot
share the Divine Nature without experiencing a spiritual rebirth.
In other words, Just as a stone cannot develop and develop until it
becomes a plant; there is nothing from the inanimate kingdom that can
develop into the animate kingdom. And regardless of your theory of
evolution or your phase of evolution, there is nothing in the animate
kingdom of which man is the head that can do anything to become part of
the Spiritual Kingdom. 16 He is spiritually a dead stone and simply cannot.
But God can! He can convert stones into bread (cf. Matthew 4:3-4) or
is able of stones to raise up children unto Abraham (Matthew 3:9). And
this He can do not by any slow vague evolutionary process but by fiat, just
as He commanded and the earth brought forth the flora and the fauna. After
all, He created the original human beings from the dust of the earth.
Thankfully, it is not in Gods plan to raise children unto Abraham out
of inanimate stones. His plan is to use the existing rotten human clay and
mould it from the inside out through the work of the Holy Spirit in the
hearts of redeemed men and women. And that is exactly what God has been
doing through the risen Jesus Christ since the last 6000 years of human
history. And, God has been doing that in spite of all satanic religious

deception and human opposition, all along.

And right now, God is busy creating from the outside in a new life
inside man and help him be a member of His Spiritual Kingdom. But this
new spiritual creation is on His terms. It is by the work of the Holy Spirit in
the hearts of spiritually revived men and women who respond to God in a
loving obedience that is in-keeping with His revealed will for man. That is, it
is in those few men and women, who having been once regenerated, repent
and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior! And in doing so, God
replaces the stony heart in man with His own heart through the indwelling
spirit. Such, are said to be spiritually reborn who will then live forever.
To briefly summarize what has been stated so far, Gods purpose for
creating man after His own image and likeness is to allow him to eventually
inherit His Kingdom. However, man on his own cannot achieve such a goal
seeing that he is a sinner cut off from God. As such, there is nothing man can
do to inherit Gods Kingdom. Nevertheless, God Himself has made a
provision to enable any sinful man inherit His Kingdom. In order to deliver
man from being in bondage to sin, God himself through the sacrificial and
substitutionary death of Christ made payment of sins penalty which is death
and eternal separation from God. As such, any sinner who recognizes Gods
saving work on mans behalf and accepts the same by saving faith is
promised the gift of eternal life in His kingdom.
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1: C. A. Coates, op.cit. p.14-15.
2: Mark P. Cosgrove, The Essence of Human Nature, Zondervan Publishing House, USA,
1977, p.11.
3: Mark P. Cosgrove, op. cit. p.10, 14.
4: Lecomte Du Nuoy, op.cit. p.
5: John MacArthur, op. cit. p.162
6: M. P. Cosgrove, op.cit. p.67.

7: ibid,. p.68.

8: Mary J. Schmidt, Response: The Essence of Human Nature, op. cit. p.72
9: Lecomte Du Nuoy, op. cit.p.65).
10: M.P.Cosgrove, op. cit. p.69

11: L. Du Nuoy, op. cit. p.72

12: M.P.Cosgrove, op.cit. p. 5
13: C.A.Coates, op. cit.p.15.
14:M.P.Cosgrove, op. cit. p. 69.
15:C.A.Coates, op.cit. p. 15
16: Urlick Jelinek, op.cit. p. 15

A NEW CREATION IN CHRIST

Ever since the fall of Man in Adam and all along, God has been
laboring in the darkened hearts of men and women to make them into a new
creation through the work of the Holy Spirit and outshining of Divine Light
in them. Apart from divine light in them, human beings cannot grasp and
understand spiritual realities without the Spirit of God in him (1
Corinthians 2:12-16). And the Spirit of God is given only to those who obey
Him (Romans 5:12); and only such can understand the spiritual realities and
perceive biblical revelation with conviction and accept it by faith. Charles
A. Coates in his book An Outline of Genesis, Kingston Bible Trust, UK,
1991, p.4, states as follows:

In a spiritually fallen and ruined world, where all have come under sin and
death, there must be a movement of the Holy Spirit in the souls of men as
the starting point of any result for God. The new birth must be effected;
otherwise divine light would shine in vain. Of the natural man it is said,
there is not a righteous man, not even one; there is not one that seeks after
God.. There is no fear of God before their eyes, Romans 3:10-181
Therefore God has to prepare the way for Divine Light to come in by that
mysterious operation which cannot be traced. The wind blows where it
will, and thou hearest its voice, but knowest not whence it comes and
where it goes: thus is every one that is born of the Spirit John 3:7-8. The
preaching of the Gospel would effect nothing if God did not move
sovereignly in the souls of men by His Spirit causing them to be born
anew.1

God knew the end from the beginning. You see the first page of Scripture
and the last are in perfect harmony with each other. We get the tree of life
and the river in Genesis 2 and the tree of life and the river in Revelation
22. Now that shows me from the beginning to the end God has the same
things before Him. God does not change His ways. His dispensations may
change but God does not. Undoubtedly, the Tree of Life represents Christ
our Life and the river is symbolical of the Spirit of God. You see two
things in Christianity: the first, Christ is the object, and God never gives us
any other object but Christ in that sense; and the second, the Spirit is an
indwelling Person; that is, as we sometimes say, we have the Spirit
subjectively to dwell in us, and so in that way our souls, being watered by
the river, shall be a fruitful garden for the Lord.1

Next, in yet another book Miscellaneous Ministry, Vol. 30, op. cit.
pp.13-18, Charles A. Coates, states further as follows:
That is why the Spirit is given, to be the river of God in our souls, making
us fresh and bright and full of spiritual energy towards Christ and towards
God. Now it is a wonderful thing that when Christ came into this world He
was introduced in the same way in all the four gospels. In each gospel He
is introduced to us as the One who baptized with the Holy Spirit. Is not
that very striking? It is quite true Christ did not actually give the Spirit
until He was glorified, but everything that transpired in the life of Jesus
Christ was in view of this great fact that He was going to give the Spirit to
those that believe. But the gift of the Holy Spirit is a thing many
Christians leave out of account altogether. They hardly think of it. They
know perhaps there is something about it in Scripture but they know
nothing about it in their souls.
I put it to every Christian, 'Do you know anything about the gift of the
Holy Spirit in your own experience?' I do not ask how many books you
have read on the subject, or how much you know from the Scriptures, but
do you know anything about the river of God in your soul? That is a plain
home question. There is such a thing as the river of God in the soul of the
believer.
As I have said, you find when Christ came into this world, He became the
object of attraction. He was in this world an attractive object, a divine
object, and souls were attracted to Him. We see two of John's disciples
follow Him as thus attracted, and they say, "Rabbi ... where abides thou?"
(John 1:38). Then there was in the same chapter Simon, and then
Nathaniel, and in chapter 3 Nicodemus; these were all thus attracted; also
the woman of Samaria in chapter 4.

Beloved friends, God's object in attracting souls to Christ was and is that
they might receive from Christ the Holy Spirit; that they might receive
from Christ the well of living water flowing in their souls. That is the river
of God of which this river in Genesis 2 is the emblem.
Well, the first thing is to be attracted to Christ. I am speaking now to a
company of believers and it is my sincere hope that every one in this
company has been attracted to Christ. We have received a great many
blessings as believers through Him. If we have forgiveness of sins it is
through Christ; if justification, it is through Christ; if peace with God, it is
through Christ. There is not a single blessing we have but we have it
through Christ. But what is the effect that all this is intended to produce? It
is intended to make Christ precious to our hearts.
It has been God's great thought for us to make Christ precious to our
hearts so that our hearts may be taken out of the world and from ourselves
by the preciousness of Christ.
And suppose we are attracted to Christ, what do we find? That He baptizes
with the Holy Spirit and gives living water. He sends the Comforter. He
says, "He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly
shall flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38).
Now I want every Christian to see this; the gift of the Spirit is not a small
thing, not a secondary thing, not a thing that comes in as it were by the
way. It is the one great thing in Scripture, that we are drawn to Christ in
order that we may receive from Christ the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Well, what is the effect of the gift of the Spirit? I must be very brief now,
but I would like to leave upon every heart the immense effect of the gift of
the Spirit. We see in John 4, when the Lord was with the woman at the
well, He says to her, "Whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give
him shall never thirst for ever" (verse 14).
The first action of the Spirit of God in our souls is to keep us, if I may so
say, green and fresh towards Christ, to keep us from being withered. There
are several scriptures in the Old Testament in which God speaks of the
souls of the saints as a well-watered garden. Now God has a garden, and
your soul and mine is the garden of the Lord where the tender plants are
growing. And as in Genesis the river of God waters the garden, so the
Spirit waters us now. Not only is the tree of life the object of my faith and
love; but there is the river, God's blessed Spirit, to water the garden now.
How, let me ask, is your soul getting on? Are you dry and withered, or
green and fresh, spiritually green and fresh? The psalmist could say, "I am
like a green olive-tree in the house of God" (Psalm 52:8). It is a great thing

to be green there. But there is no natural tendency in you or me to keep

bright and fresh towards Christ. How often we find a young convert comes
to Christ and the blessed God makes Christ precious to him, and he goes
away perhaps from a meeting with his heart happy and his face shining
with joy. He has made acquaintance with Christ, and he goes out into the
world, and what is the natural course of things? Very much like a
sovereign among a lot of lead bullets. What happens? Do the bullets
become shining like the sovereign?
Oh, no, the sovereign soon gets to look as dull as the bullets. That is the
effect of the influences here. The spiritual shine is taken out. Thus we
often see a young convert get dull, so that we can hardly trace any
difference between him and a world-ling. Now the Spirit is given to
exclude the possibility of that by springing up as a well in our soul. The
Spirit is thus the divine spring, the river of God to flow in the soul, to
water the garden, to keep it green and fresh, and a fruitful evergreen for
God.
Oh, what a wonderful thing it is to have the river of God in the soul! What
a reality it is! Perhaps you say, 'I know nothing about it'. Well, I want
every soul to realize that the gift of the Spirit, as the river of God in the
soul of the believer, is a great reality. And I believe if your soul accepts
that, you will go away with an exercised heart and never settle down until
God has made it good to you.
You find in John 14 that the Lord speaks to His disciples for the first time
of their love to Him. He had spoken before of His love to them, but here
He says, If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will beg the
Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you
for ever". (Verses 15, 16). The Comforter was given in connection with the
fact that there were some in this world who loved the Son of God.
These are the people who receive the Spirit, people who love the Son of
God, and the Spirit comes in to maintain the heart of the believer in
freshness of affection for the Son of God. Is not that a wonderful thing, a
blessed thing? It is a comfort to me that I am kept not by some effort of
mine. If my heart is kept for Christ in the smallest measure, it is kept by
the Spirit of God. The river of God is there flowing in the soul of the
believer.
In John 15:26 He says, He shall bear witness concerning me. The Spirit
is the spring of all testimony for Christ. If a man or a woman is in any way
in testimony for Christ in this world, it is by the Spirit. And remember, the
testimony of Christ in this world is a wonderful thing. I do not mean
merely people preaching Christ -- thank God for such -- but if they do so
really it is by the Spirit. But there is a far more effective testimony than

that, and that is Christ living in this world, living in the hearts of His
saints. If Christ can be seen thus living in His saints in this world, with all
those beautiful, heavenly, spiritual characteristics and graces that came out
in Christ in perfection now coming out by the Spirit in His saints, is not
that a reality? What brings out all this beautiful fruit?
It is the river of God flowing through the garden of the soul to make it
fruitful and to bring forth the fruit of the Spirit --- love, joy, peace and so
on -- that the moral traits of Christ may be reproduced in the believer
through the effect of the river of God in the soul.
Then in John 16:14 He says, "He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of
mine and shall announce it to you". God has a wonderful world before
Him, not this present world of Satan's power. He has another world,
different altogether from this, in which Christ will come out as the Centre
and Sun.
It is God's coming world of blessing and glory, and the Spirit is going to
be the all-pervading power of that world. That is what we get in
Revelation 22, the tree of life in the midst of the street of the city of God,
and of the river which flows out from the throne of God and of the Lamb.
There is a time coming when Christ will be the tree of life for the universe
of God. Heaven will find its life in that blessed Person and earth will find
its life in that blessed Person. And God will gather together in one all
things which are in heaven and earth in Him. God will bring heaven and
earth to feed upon eternal life.
And not only will that, but the river of God be the vitalizing power, the
refreshing power of heaven and earth. As the hymn says, By the Spirit all
pervading, Hosts unnumbered round the Lamb'. (Hymn 14). The river will
flow out refreshing the universe. What blessed things there are to come,
and Christians are in the secret of them now, by being brought into the
knowledge of Christ, and brought into the current of the Spirit, so that they
are in the knowledge of God's mind in this the day of Christ's rejection.
How wonderful it is to see on the first page of Scripture that God gives us
a thought of everything which is to come to pass in time and eternity in the
tree and the river, Christ and the Spirit, showing He had everything ready
for His own pleasure. And if God has effected anything in my soul it must
be by Christ and the Spirit: Christ objectively, and the Spirit subjectively
forming me in correspondence with the One I look at objectively. May
God give us all to see the meaning of the tree and the river.

God forbid that the Divine Light of His Truth both in the Nature and
in His written WORD is not eclipsed by the atheistic evolutionary ideas, the

truthfulness of which they are not 100 per cent sure and are, therefore, still
groping in the darkness. And if the light that is in them be darkness, how
great is that darkness? (Matthew 6:23) Take heed, therefore, that the light
in thee be not darkness. (Luke 11:35). Next, what fellowship has light
with darkness? (2 Corinthians 6:15). To state it firmly, but lovingly, Any
denial of God and His plan for man in Scripture will damn the soul. If some
through ignorance of the Bible think that they can believe in evolution and
the Bible at the same time, they are highly deceived by Satan, the deceiver of
the world (2 Corinthians 4:3-4; 11:14-15, Revelation 12:9). One cannot
know the statements of both the Bible and evolutionists and believe both, nor
can he be neutral. He must take a stand either for God and the Bible or for
evolution and guesses. 1
Frankly speaking, there is no room at all in Biblical Christianity for
any vague scientific speculations or wild guesses in the garb of scientific
evidence to adorn Christian life. These are actually unscientific speculations
rather myths that are resorted to fill the gaps or to tie the missing links in
the evolutionary theory. But then, those who resort to these myths they do so
with the same kind of irrational faith one places in religious myths. As long
as these myths remain unproved, theistic evolutionists need not speculate
they will be looked upon as ignorant, unscientific or downright stupid. Or
else, they owe it to God to prove that the evolutionary theory is really true,
so that the ignorant Christians can be fully convinced of the evolutionary
truth and accept the same as the tenets of their Christian faith!
Anyway, woe be unto me, if I put darkness for light, and light for
darkness (Isaiah 5:20), knowingly or unknowingly, and in the process
beguile unstable souls or act as a stumbling block to their simple faith; or
else, deliberately continue to rob multiplied thousands of children of simple
faith in God and the Bible without a sting of conscience by degrading man
from creation by God in the image of God to a monkey ancestry.
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1: Dake Jennings Finis, op. cit. p. 81

APPENDIX A
Concerning the Hebrew Grammar of Genesis 1:1-2
By Jack W. Langford
Sometimes what appears to be a very bold, pontifical statement is
made usually by one who is strongly engaged in establishing a certain
opinion. Quite often this has the effect of numbing the motivation of any
who would oppose that view. Whether this is done intentionally, either in an
honest effort to open minds, or whether this is done in an effort to confuse
the honest investigator, remains to be seen. Nevertheless, such a pontifical
statement is made by Weston W. Fields in his book Unformed and Unfilled,
on page 86. There he confidently asserts, after a study of the Hebrew
grammar of Genesis 1:1 and 2, that the gap is grammatically impossible.
Of course, if this is true, we might as well close our Bibles and go home,
because it appears the matter is settled. However, I think we all realize that
pontifical statements do not always survive scrutiny.
In his younger years, Weston Fields was a student of Dr. John C.
Whitcomb, who taught Hebrew at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona,
Illinois. John Whitcomb, of course, co-authored the book The Genesis Flood
along with Henry M. Morris in 1961. This book, probably more than
anything else, spawned the modern Young Earth Creationist movement.
Later Arthur C. Custance of Canada produced the book Without Form and
Void in 1970. Custance advocated not only a strong historical basis, but

primarily a strong linguistic basis, for what had long been called the gap
theory. Weston Fieldss Unformed and Unfilled of 1976, as I understand, was
actually the title of his doctoral thesis. It very obviously was an attack on the
work of Arthur Custance, and secondarily, it aimed to confirm the
conclusions of his teacher, Dr. Whitcomb.
Others in the Young Earth Creationist movement have picked up on
this rather pontifical statement and echoed it. For instance, more recently Dr.
Jonathan Sarfati of the Creation Ministries International has confidently
stated, The Gap Theory . . . has not the slightest basis in the Hebrew of
Genesis. In fact, it seriously violates the tenets of historical-grammatical
exegesis (pamphlet, The Gap Theory). One would think that men who
make such bold statements like this must be very confident, if not infallible.
I can assure you, a little investigation proves that they are anything but
infallible.

First of All,
Surprising as it may seem, the fact of the gap is not dependent upon
any grammatical exegesis of the first or second verses of Genesis 1:1 and 2.
As demonstrated in the first SECTION of my study The Gap Is Not a
Theory, the fact of a gap is mandated by the clear hermeneutic simplicity of
observing the larger picture of the first chapter of Genesis. Herein the actual
boundaries are revealed concerning the nature and work of the six days.
The inspired Scriptural framework for each of the six days is clear and
irrefutable. The actual work done on each of the six days is specific, simple,
clear, and, again, irrefutable. Simply put, you cannot have a first day unless
you have light. There is no light in verse 2. The first day begins in verse 3
with the words And God said let there be light. We found that this is the
only allowable interpretation of the passageif taken literally! We also
found that this is how it has been long portrayed in historic Judaism. No
matter what grammar one uses, whether Hebrew, Greek, or English, the
conclusion is the same. The first day does not begin until verse 3, and that
leaves verses 1 and 2 in other epochs of time.
Consequently, the condition of the earth as designated in verse 2, and
whatever the relationship of its three clauses are to verse 1, does not

determine the beginning of the first day. At best, it only determines the
setting for the inauguration of the first of six successive days in the work of
renewal of the earth. The earth already existed without form and void (lit.,
waste and desolate), and darkness was upon the face of the abyss, and the
Spirit of God hovering over the face of the waters before the six days
began. In addition, there is no statement in verse 2 to the effect of just how
long the earth existed in this condition prior to the beginning of the first day.
Such is stated in every edition of the Pentateuch & Haftorahs distributed in
Jewish synagogues throughout the English speaking world today. In
addition, there is no indication in verse 1 of how long ago God initially
created the heavens and the earth. Hence, the gap or gaps are implanted in
the revelation.
Fields Explanation
Now let us look at the statement by Weston Fields. In explanation for
his assertion, Weston Fields makes the following observations regarding the
second verse:
We conclude, therefore, that Genesis 1:2a consists of a noun clause
which is circumstantial (subordinate and explanatory) to the main verb
of 1:1. This means that 1:2 is a description of the earth as it was created
originally, not how it became at a time subsequent to creation (pg. 80).
He continues to describe the And that begins the second verse
The waw copulative is also known as waw disjunctive (because it breaks
narrative sequence) or waw conjunctive (because it adds circumstantial
details). We have chosen to use the term waw disjunctive in our
discussion because that best describe its usage in Genesis 1:2 (pg. 82).
Gesenius also states that the noun-clause connected by a waw
copulative to a verbal-clause, or its equivalent, always describes a state
contemporaneous with the principle action . . These are very important
statements, for if Genesis 1:2, as both lexicons and grammars testify,
is an explanatory circumstantial noun-clause, describing a state
contemporaneous with the main verb, then there is absolutely no possible
way of salvaging the Gap Theory, a theory which must assert that 1:2
describes a state subsequent to the action of the main verb if it is to survive.
The grammar of verse two forces us to say that the earth was created
unformed and unfilled, while the Gap Theory alleges that it should say
the earth became unformed and unfilled after (perhaps centuries after)
it was created! It is grammatically impossible! (pg. 85 and 86).

Thus, Mr. Fields presents what he assumes is an ironclad argument

that would most certainly prevent the idea of a gap between verses 1 and 2
of Genesis 1. As I said before, others have picked up on this argument and
have repeated it as the sure death-blow to what they call the gap theory.
The only problem is
Even before young Weston Fields made his pontifical assertion
another older Hebrew scholar, of higher caliber at the time, had already
corrected this faulty assumption. Of course, most do not realize that this
whole argument presented by Weston Fields is based upon the assumption
that verse 1 supplies the verbal clause for the waw disjunctive of verse 2.
As we shall see, it is verse 3 that supplies the verbal clause and not verse
1. We will note this important fact as discussed by Edward J. Young in his
book Studies in Genesis One, written in 1964, which apparently was
overlooked by Fields.
First of all
Young brings out that the traditional and orthodox position concerning
verse 1 is that it is NOT a dependent clause with the main statement to be
found in verse 2. If such were the case it would lead to the reading When
God began to create the heaven and the earth, the earth was without form
and void . . . Now it is a fact that there are some new translations which
render the first verses in this manner. However, and on the contrary, the
orthodox understanding is that Genesis 1:1, as it stands in the traditional
Masoretic text, constitutes an independent clause which is not dependent
upon verse 2it stands alone, and is so translated by every ancient version.
In chapter 7 of his book, Weston Fields himself contends very effectively for
this traditional position. In other words, Genesis 1:1 must be translated In
the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (PERIOD). Verse 2
with its waw disjunctive is better translated But or Now, and it actually
begins a new thought! This is the way it is translated in the LXX (250 BC),
Josephus (First Century), etc.

Edward J. Young, in his Studies in Genesis One, emphasizes The first

verse of Genesis therefore stands as a simple declaration of the fact of
absolute creation (pg. 7). Having established that foundation, he goes on to
ask the question, What, however is the relationship in which verse 1 stands
to the following? He begins his answer by pointing to the three
circumstantial clauses of verse 2 and states, The particular time in which
this three-fold condition was present is to be determined by the finite verb,
with which these three clauses are to be construed. This, of course, is the
same principle that Fields later observed. However, Young gives us some
added information that Fields failed to mention; namely, that there are two
possible answers.
The Answer
Young then answers the question as to which verse supplies the verb
thusly: There would seem to be two grammatical possibilities. In the first
place, the three clauses might be construed with the created of verse 1. If
that were the case, the meaning would be that when God began the activity
expressed by created the three-fold condition described in verse 2 was
already present . . . We should simply be told that when God began to create,
there was the world before Him, desolation and waste, covered with
darkness and water, the Spirit brooding upon it. The work expressed by
created whatever else it might be, could not be that of absolute creation.
Although such a construction is grammatically possible, it is to be rejected
as unsuitable to the context (pg. 8, underlining mine. I have also replaced
the Hebrew verb script with the English created).
Young continues, The second possibility is to construe the three
circumstantial clauses with the verb And God said of verse 3. We may then
paraphrase, At the time when God said, Let there be light, a three-fold
condition was in existence. (Again, I have replaced the Hebrew verb script
with the EnglishGod said.) He goes on to give examples in the Old
Testament of circumstantial clauses which precede the verb with which they
are to be construed, e.g., Gen. 38:25; Num. 12:14; Josh. 2:18; 1 Sam. 9:11; 1
Kings 14:17; 2 Kings 2:23; 6:5, 26; 9:25; Job 1:16; Isa. 37:38 (page 9).
In conclusion, Young states, Verse one is a narrative in itself. Verses
231 likewise constitute a narrative complete in itself. In this narrative the

first verb is And God said [Eng.]. No previous verb in the perfect appears
(pg. 11). In this case, verse 2 is understood as circumstantial to verse 3 rather
than to verse 1.
In addition, Edward J. Young cites other earlier German Hebrew
scholars who support his observation, such as Otto Procksch (1913),
Karlheinz Rabast, Helmuth Frey (1953), etc. Therefore, Young explains, the
purpose of verse 2 is to state the condition of the earth at the time when God
says, Let there be light. In this regard, he states (pg. 30), It is true that the
second verse of Genesis does not represent a continuation of the narrative of
verse 1, but as it were, a new beginning. Grammatically, it is not to be
construed with the preceding, but with what follows (underlining mine). It
is to be noted that Edward J. Young was not a gap theorist. His observations
are objective and factual as to what he, as a Hebrew scholar, sees and
understands the text to be saying.
Bruce Waltke, in his work The Creation Account in Genesis 1:13
(BSac., July 1975, p. 226), states that he believes this is the only viewpoint
that completely satisfies the demands of Hebrew grammar. Along with him,
Von Rad, Genesis (pg. 47), says verse 2 consists of three clauses that are
circumstantial to verse 3 and describe the condition of the earth when God
spoke.
Allen P. Ross as well (Creation and Blessing, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Baker Pub. 1996) more recently says, This construction signifies that verse
2 is not the result of a development from verse 1 (pg. 103). He further states
that the syntax (waw-disjunctive) argues against that sequencethat is,
the idea that God created the earth without form and void (pg. 106). On
page 721, he further explains concerning the first word of verse 2Verse 2
begins with the standard formation of a disjunctive waw . . . The waw
introduces clauses here that are circumstantial to the main verb of the
narrative, wayyo-mer [And God said] of verse 3. While most circumstantial
clauses are placed after the clause they modify, Davidson says that at times
the concomitant event or clause is placed first with the effect of greater
vividness (A. B. Davidson, Hebrew Syntax [Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1902],
141, p. 188).
Arthur Custance was, therefore, absolutely right when he defended his
view as recorded in the Creation Research Society Journal (Vol. 8, No. 2,
Sept., 1971, page 137), in Genesis 1:2 at the time that the writer has in

mind, as he sets out to describe the reconstitution of the earth [verse 3], it
had become a ruin [verse 2]. Furthermore Custance brings out how the
LXX . . . translate(d) the waw of Genesis 1:2 with the Greek conjunction
de. Custance says, Liddell & Scott give but as the prime meaning. It is
used to call attention to the fact that the word or clause with which it stands
is to be distinguished (their emphasis) from something preceding. Thayer
says that it is a particle, adversative, distinctive, disjunctive . . . it is added
to statements opposed to the preceding statement . . . it opposes things
previously mentioned or thought of. This is exactly my point. In his work
of 1976, Weston Fields himself acknowledges this fact which is taken from
the Septuagint (LXX) translation. He says on page 83, Furthermore, for the
disjunctive idea there would have been no better word in Greek [than the
Greek de]. Thus, there can be no doubt that the translators of the LXX
understood the significance of the Hebrew waw disjunctive (pg. 83).
The translation by Josephus in the first century further substantiates
this particular conclusion. Josephus gave the translation, In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth. But when the earth did not come into
sight, but was covered with thick darkness and a wind moved upon its
surface, God commanded that there should be light (emphasis mine).
Notice that not only does Josephus begin the waw of verse 2 with But (de
in Greek) to disconnect and distinguish it from the first verse, but he also
immediately connects the second verse (by a comma) with the command
of God in verse 3. This, obviously, again shows they not only understood the
significance of the waw disjunctive, but also that they connected it with the
verb of verse 3 and not that of verse 1. Consequently, the requirements of the
Hebrew grammar are not only satisfied, but there is demonstration of the
proper connection with verse 3 from the very beginning.
Other present-day Hebrew scholars could be cited, but this should
suffice.
Context is sovereign
It has been properly observed by others in time past that the context of
a given passage of Scripture is the foremost authority for understanding and
establishing the meaning of a specific passage. Furthermore the contextual
understanding is open to any person with or without scholastic education. It

is possible that language experts can miss the revelation found within the
whole of context by focusing too closely at some speck of text. This has
been stated by another in the following words: Contextual sense is
available to anyone who understands the passage with or without knowledge
of the original language. A language expert who misses points of context is
not as competent as one working from translations but who gets the big
picture right. Best of all, of course, is the language expert who also gets the
big picture right. But context is sovereign for establishing the meaning and,
with care, anyone can determine that. This was stated by Gorman Gray,
from his book The Age of the Universe (2005), pages 170 and 171.
Consistency
The position of Weston Fields is actually the loser any way he chooses
to take the passage. On the one hand, he labored to prove that only a waw
consecutive could indicate sequential order. Since this is not the type of waw
found in verse 2, he postulates that verse 2 could not possibly be sequential
to verse 1. Instead, he assumes that verse 2 is the condition of the earth set
out in the time frame of verse 1. Therefore, he pontificates there could be no
gap between verses 1 and 2. However, lo and behold, the waw consecutive
does show up as the very first word of verse 3And (waw consecutive)
God said let there be light. Consistency demands that, according to Fieldss
own argument, verse 3 is SEQUENTIAL to verse 2. Of course, by now we
all know what that meansthere is a gap between verse 2 and verse 3! At
the time the earth existed in the condition described in verse 2, God spoke
light into existence in verse 3 to inaugurate a new time period beginning
with six successive days of renewal. Verse 2 states one time period of
unknown duration, whereas the waw consecutive of verse 3
SEQUENTIALLY inaugurates another time period of specified duration.
But then, on the other hand, in emphasizing that the and beginning
verse 2 is the waw disjunctive, he unwittingly proves that verse 2 is not to be
connected to verse 1, because, if anything, whether in the Hebrew or the
Greek, that is precisely what a waw disjunctive, or the Greek de doesit
disconnects. So inadvertently, whether he likes it or not, he has a gap
between verses 1 and 2 for sure! Surprisingly, as it turns out, it is more
surely the Young Earth Creationist position that is both contextually and
grammatically impossible.
So actually, in these first three verses of Genesis 1 we have three
distinct time periods revealed if we take the Scriptures literally: (1) That

time period when the whole universe, that which is expressed by the words
heavens and earth, was originally created. Every other time these words
are used in the Scriptures in connection with their origin or creation it speaks
of a finished, orderly product. How long ago this was done is probably
beyond our comprehension. The original creation took place simply, in the
beginning. (2) That time period in which the earth existed in a state of
waste and emptiness, submerged under water, and smothered in darkness,
until the moving of the Holy Spirit above the waters, and the voice of God
activated the first day. (3) That time period, wherein in six successive days
God prepares the already existing world for mans habitation. Herein began
chronicled time for mankind on earth.

APPENDIX B
Charles A. Coates eloquently brings out very beautifully the rich
evangelical and spiritual symbolism underlying the imagery of the physical
works of the first four days of Genesis 1, as follows:
Christ has brought in what I may call the conditions of life, and I
think we get them in figure in Genesis 1, so that He might prepare the way to
bring life into the world. It is very interesting to see that there are four
conditions of life in Genesis 1. For instance in verse 3, God said, Let there
be light. And there was light. Thus, Light is the first condition of life.
If light could be excluded from the earth for a very short time all
animal life would come to an end, for light is the first condition of life; and
that is the first thing in creation; and that is the first thing Christ brings in.
There is no natural life apart from light, and no spiritual life apart
from spiritual light, and Christ brings it in. He brings in the knowledge of
God in grace, and that is the first thing I need as a poor dark sinner. What is
the good of talking to me about man's intellect? I want the light of God; and
where is it? I find it in Christ.
We read in John 1:4, In him was life, and the life was the light of
men. And in John 8:12 He says, I am the light of the world. And now He is
risen and glorified at God's right hand, the apostle Paul can say, Because it
is the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone
in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:6).

Beloved friends, light has come in and has come into every
Christian's heart. It is the first condition of life. There is no spiritual life if
no light. How do you know God? You know him in Christ. Christ is the
image of the invisible God. You look at Christ and you see in Him the
fullness of the Godhead dwelling in a Man; God revealed in a man and that
man His beloved Son. Thank God for it. We are not in ignorance of God; He
has made Himself known in His beloved Son. No one has seen God at any
time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath
declared him (John 1:18). That is light.
Now look at verse 6 of Genesis 1 And God said, Let there be an
expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters
and waters. It is really the atmosphere.
God thus created the atmosphere -- first light and then the
atmosphere. I suppose every child can see that if there was not an
atmosphere there could be no life. We require an atmosphere to breathe.
Now Christ has brought in a new atmosphere for us to live in, and if I
may so describe it, I should say the atmosphere of a Christian's life is made
up of peace and love. When Christ came into this world these two things,
peace and love, came in His blessed Person. Divine peace and divine love
came in for the first time. He brought the atmosphere of it. How wonderful
that is!
And He then introduced His disciples into that atmosphere of heaven.
I have no doubt one thing the disciples knew while with Him was what it was
to breathe the atmosphere of heaven. When the Lord asked them, Will ye
also go away? Peter answers, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast
words of life eternal (John 6:67, 68). He knew then what it was to breathe
the atmosphere of heaven around that blessed Person. But then to have it
fully we must go on to resurrection; the ground of peace was not laid until
Christ died; but then every disturbing element was removed, every foe
defeated, and the blessed Victor comes into the midst of His disciples with
that sacred brow decked with the laurels of triumph and says, Peace be to
you (John 20:19). It was a new atmosphere, an atmosphere of peace.
What a wonderful thing, thus to be brought into peace! And by whom?
By Christ. Who could bring a poor sinner like me into peace but Christ?
And He has done it, blessed be His Name! And divine life and love, never

known in this world until Christ died (I mean in its fullness), has now come.
Scripture says, Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that
God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live
through him (1 John 4:9). Love came out thus, and now the proper
atmosphere for your soul and mine is the love of God. That is the
atmosphere in which we can live. Christ has brought it to us.
We have not to reach the love by some kind of effort. You may read
religious books with this object. There is one entitled The Imitation of Christ
written by a man who lived many years ago, where we may read a great deal
about the love of God, and which puts people on the line of making effort to
reach the love of God. I do not think this of any use; the love of God has
been brought to us by Christ and made known to us by His death. And thus it
becomes the atmosphere in which my soul can live.
We look now at verse 11: And God said, Let the earth cause grass to
spring up.... What we get on the third day is the grass, the herb, and the
fruit trees, and these were intended to be food for man and beast. That is
another condition of life. How long should we live if we had no food? And it
is a wonderful thing to see how Christ has brought in divine food for us,
spiritual food. And really everything that God has established in Christ is
intended to be the food of our souls.
Do you think we could feed our souls on the newspaper? I think some
Christians get shriveled up by reading so much of the literature of this
world, and thus they lose their taste for divine food. I do not think anyone
can enjoy the food of Egypt and the food of Canaan at the same time. If you
relish the food of Egypt you will not relish the food of Canaan.
In one word, Christ is the food of His people, and that is the food God
gives to us, and He has sent His servants to feed His flock with it. Every bit
of divine food is the ministry of Christ in some way or other. He sets before
us that blessed Person for nourishment of our hearts in divine intelligence of
Him. Is not that a condition of spiritual life? I am sure it is, and if a person
does not feed on divine food, he can know nothing about divine life.
One thing more as to the fourth day, verse 16, And God made the two
great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the
night. That is, if life is to be sustained in nature, everything must be under
proper control. Suppose things were not under proper control, suppose the

law of gravitation ceased to act for five minutes, what would be the result?
The whole universe would go to destruction. The created universe all
depends on the law of gravitation, and according to that law, the sun rules
the solar system, and everything is held in its place by the sun. The sun rules
everything because all the influences that make this world habitable are
under the rule of the sun. The seasons, seed time and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, are all under the rule of the sun.
Now there is something like that in the spiritual world. Christ is the
Sun of the spiritual world. Nothing is right that is not regulated by Christ. It
is a wonderful thing to see the place Christ has in it. God has put Christ at
His right hand and He is there as the Head of all principalities and powers,
angels and authorities and powers being made subject to Him; and Head
over all things to the assembly, which is His body.
He is the great Head and Centre of God's universe, and until our
souls come into their proper relation to Christ, we are lawless, because we
are not under rule, and if we are not under rule we do not enjoy life. It is one
of the conditions of life; there should be rule. We are all thankful in this
country for a measure of wise and righteous government. That is why the
conditions are so much better than they are in some countries.
Now, what a blessed thing to be under the rule of Christ. You see,
Christ has died that He might deliver us from the power of the law that we
might be married to Him, and that we might come under His control. That, I
suppose, is why the wife is to be subject to her husband; she is under rule in
that way, not a legal rule, but a rule of love. In the same way the assembly
and the individual believer are under the rule of Christ; hence the first
breath of spiritual life is expressed in the words "What shall I do, Lord?"
(Acts 22:10). That is a man coming under the rule of Christ.
These then are the things that come out on the first four days of
creation: first light, then atmosphere, then food, and then rule; and the next
two days are taken up with the introduction of animal and human life. God
first made the conditions and then He brought in life. Now Christ is the tree
of life because He brings in the conditions of spiritual life. He brings in the
light of God, a new atmosphere of love, the food, and then the rule. It is all
brought in, in Christ, and Christ is everything 1.
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1: Charles A. Coates, Miscellaneous Ministry on the Old Testament,

Vol.30, op.cit, pp. 9-13.

APPENDIX C
Whether one admits it or not, theistic evolutionary thinking built upon
atheistic evolutionary concepts is an affront to an Intelligent Designer and
Creator God. It is totally contrary to the character of God, who on mere
speaking can bring into existence something from nothing (Hebrews 11:3)
and all that, at the same time, instantly as and when He wills it into
existence. No where in the Bible it is stipulated that God created and
subsequently chose to depend upon some magical evolutionary process
which is, indeed, a figment of mans fanciful evolving and constantly
changing scientific speculation, if not wild imagination. The Bibles view
is that God is the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth; this is no
happenstance.1
However, as is succinctly pointed out by Charles A. Coates, It is
evident that man cannot by searching find out God. God is too great for man
the creature to reach up to Him; and, in addition to this, sin has come in and
put an immense moral distance between God and man. If God remained
quiescent it is certain that man must be for ever in ignorance of Him. But
God has been pleased in infinite goodness to take certain ways of which we
have the record in Scripture, and of which Christ is the crown, so that we
might have the intelligent knowledge of Himself.
Indeed, it might be said that the whole of Scripture is the unfolding
of two things -- the ways of God and His purposes. His purposes were in His
mind before His ways began, and they will presently be displayed as the
issue and result of His ways in scenes of accomplished bliss. The purposes
of God show us the nature of His thoughts and delights -- they instruct us in
all that God has before Him for the satisfaction of His love. The more we
consider this great subject the more we shall discover in it the unfolding of

what God is in wisdom, power, grace, and love -- and all this while acting
for the supreme good of man -- and we shall plainly discern that Christ is
the Crown of all the ways of God, and this will make Him very great and
glorious in the estimation of our hearts.
The first great movement of God, of all His ways, of which is
presented to us in Scripture is creation. This must necessarily be so, or there
would be no creatures to observe His further ways, or to be brought into
infinite good as the result of those ways. The heavens and the earth were
created, and the latter prepared and furnished in every way to be the
habitation of man made in the image and after the likeness of God.2
But we miss the whole mind of God if we regard creation as anything
other than the formation of a vast scene into which Christ should, in due
time, be introduced. Hence we read that "By him were created all things,
the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the
invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all
things have been created by him, and for him. And he is before all, and all
things subsist together by him" (Colossians l: 16, 17).
Christ is the beginning and end of all the ways of God (Proverbs
8:22 - 31). Read the whole passage. It was in view of Christ that everything
was created, and creation will never be seen or understood in its proper
beauty and completeness until it is seen in relation to Christ -- finding its
Head and glory in Him in the day of completed reconciliation.
If I look around in creation now, I see the bondage of corruption on
every side, the result of man's sin. (Unless, indeed, I survey the heavens, and
see the glory of God there in perfection of beauty and order -- a striking
contrast to all the discord and confusion found on earth.) But it was all
made for Christ, and it will be seen in its true character and beauty when
He becomes manifestly its Head. When we come to the creation of man we
see a very distinct foreshadowing of Christ. It is expressly said that Adam
was "the figure of him to come" (Romans 5:14). Who but Christ could really
fill up all that was involved in being in the image and after the likeness of
God? Who but Christ could have all things put under Him to order
everything for the good pleasure of God? I do not enlarge on a truth so
obvious 3.
At the cost of repeating, God used a creative process to mold and

bring forth a living Man out of the dust of the earth and not out of monkeys.
And by using the mans rib, He created a full-fledged woman towards the
end of the sixth literal day of the creation week. And In the day that God
created man, in the likeness of God made He him; Male and Female
created He them; and blessed them, and called their name ADAM, in the
day when they were created (Genesis 5:1b -2). They did not evolve!
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1: Jelinek, U. op. cit. p. 2
2: C. A. Coates, Miscelaneous Ministry in the Old
Testament, op. cit. p.9
3: ibid.

God created Man for a purpose. Accordingly, In Genesis 2 we come

to the unfolding of God's ways. God has been pleased to take certain ways
in order to reach His end, and in the ways of God it was necessary that man,
God's creature, should be the subject of testing. I think that is very plain.
When God made man He put him in the Garden of Eden to test him.
People get strange ideas of what a beautiful place the Garden of
Eden was but, though that garden was a beautiful place, it was a place of
testing and was intended to be so. The tree of the knowledge of good and
evil was there and it was forbidden them. It was the test of man's obedience
and confidence in God and the penalty of death was attached to
disobedience.
So that the Garden of Eden, beautiful as it was, was a place of
testing for man, and I suppose everybody can see that when man was thus
tested he turned out a complete failure through disobedience, and thus fell
under the power of sin and came under death as the judgment of God.
And then when God was pleased to set up government and put the
sword of government in the hand of Noah after the flood, man despised His
government, and when God gave him His law he broke it, and when He sent
prophets man evilly treated them, and when He last of all sent His Son, Him
they rejected and crucified. And now that He causes His gospel to be
preached in this world, what do men do with it? They resist the Holy Spirit
and will not receive the glad tidings of the grace of God. God is testing man
from the beginning to the end and the result of the test is that at every point
man turns out a complete failure.
At every part of man's history he is an utter failure. The test began in
the Garden of Eden and is still going on, and that test is not the law but

Christ. The question for everyone is, "What think ye of Christ?" They who
believe on Him are the children of God, and the rest are accursed. You know
there is a solemn scripture connected with the gospel, "If any one love not
the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha" (1 Corinthians
16:22).
There is only one of two things for the sinner; if he will not have the
blessing he must have the curse. And why not be blessed? Because they love
the world and love to have their own way and will not submit themselves to
God. But the end of this is death. Death comes in as the result of mans
testing.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was forbidden, and
forbidden because man was not fit to touch it. It was too great a matter for
man to touch, and God knew very well if man attempted to touch the
question of good and evil he would involve himself in utter ruin, so God
forbad it. Well, they disobeyed God and the result has been a world of sin
and sorrow and death; and the world is established thus, as it were, under
God's eye today. That is the result of the testing of man. He has plunged
himself, and we have all plunged ourselves into sin and death and Satan's
power.
Now let me say there were two things in the garden not connected
with the testing of man; they had a place on another line altogether. The first
was the tree of life and the second was the river. These had nothing to do
with the testing of man. They were symbolical of what was in the mind of
God; and I do not think it can be difficult in the mind of any Christian to see
that the tree of life was a figure of Christ. I think it is equally clear that the
river was typical of the Holy Spirit. So that on the first page of Scripture we
see in emblem Christ and the Spirit as God's provision for man.
I do not see there could have been much meaning in the tree of life
for Adam in innocence. I do not think it could have meant anything to him.
What would be the good of the tree of life to a man not under death? It
seems to me the tree of life could only have its place when sin and death had
come in, and not before. But it is very interesting to see that before man had
come under sin and before he is tested, God had a provision in His own
mind that was in store for man against the time when sin and death should
come in.

And I believe, beloved friends, the whole of Scripture is the history of

how God has brought in Christ and the Spirit that there might be infinite
blessing for man and at the same time real satisfaction and rest for God.
And I think we get the climax in Revelation 22. There you get the tree in the
midst of the street of the city and of the river, and the river of the water of
life flowing out from the throne of God and of the Lamb. That is the climax.
It is a picture of the Garden of Eden; when worked out in its entire blessed
fulfillment you get the tree and the river again. Now, if we see really the
consequences of Adam having eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, we shall find the thought of the tree of life very precious. And I do
not think anyone would think much of the tree of life until he had realized
what was meant by the other tree.
You see, sin came in, in connection with the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, and death by sin, and not only that, but Satan's power.
People do not think of it, but it is a reality that Satan is the god and
prince of this world. They think as they look at members of parliament and
cabinet ministers that they are ordering everything as they like; but there is
a secret invisible power behind the scenes moving everything in this world,
and that power is the power of Satan. The Lord spoke of him as the prince of
this world; and Paul calls him the god of this world, and he speaks of him as
the ruler of the authority of the air, and the spirit that works in the sons of
disobedience. A man thinks he is doing his own will, but he is not; he is
doing Satan's will and using the power of Satan.
Now these facts have to be recognized. Sin has come in and death by
sin, but people regards death as a natural event; it is the most unnatural
event possible to happen. To call it the course of nature is an abominable lie
and a libel upon God. Not a bit of it! It is the judgment of God upon sin.
People do not die in the course of nature but under the judgment of God.
The wages of sin is death. God never created man to be a dying man;
death came in by sin. Sin has come in and death has come in and Satan's
power has come in. Now we are all involved in this matter; every one of us
is deeply affected because sin has come into the world.
A young man once said to an old Christian, 'I have found original
sin in the Bible'. The old man replied, 'Have you found it in your own heart?'
Now we have found sin in our own heart and not only in the Bible, and we
have come under death and as children of Adam we have fallen under

Satan's power. Why I dwell on this is to show that before Christ could be the
tree of life for us and before we could receive the Spirit which answers to the
river, this terrible question must be settled, the question of sin and death and
Satan's power. These things must be settled., I do not know whether they
are settled for you or not, but I know they are settled for God; and the way
they have been settled is such that the full blessing of it is available for us.
Christ is the tree of life and He is that after settling every question
that came in by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. How was it
done? Take the question of sin; that is the first point. I found myself as a
natural man in company with Simon Peter in Luke 5 crying, "Depart from
me, for I am a sinful man, Lord" (Luke 5:8).
Mark that word "sinful". How ready people are to say, 'Oh yes, we
are all sinners', but how few have the sense of being a "sinful" man -- full of
sin. Now how is that to be met? Why, only by Christ: it can only be met by a
holy sacrifice; and Christ, God's beloved Son, came into this world, born of
the virgin, born in holy flesh, that He might go to the cross and be made sin,
and in His sacrifice put it away. Has it been accomplished? Yes, blessed be
God, it has. There has been a sacrifice offered, atonement made, and the
benefit of it is open for every sinner in this world. And then take death; you
see, death has come in through sin. Well, we could not meet it. It is no use
talking of meeting death. Suppose you had all the medical men with all the
medical science in the world: ask them if they can meet the question of death
and set it aside?
Why, they would laugh at you. But Christ has come into the world
and gone into death and has tasted death for every thing. The Son of the
blessed God, upon whom death had no claim, for He was without sin, and
hence over Him death could have no power, for He was the Prince of life,
He has come into this world and tasted death for every thing.
What a wonderful thing! The very judgment that rested upon you and
upon me has been taken in love by the Lord Jesus Christ.
And what about Satan's power? There is the universal power of
Satan. Has Christ been able to deal with that? Yes, He has. In Genesis 3
God says, 'The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head'. No one
can meet Satan but Christ.

You know there is a great deal of wickedness in the way people speak
of Satan -- even among Christians. People speak of him in a frivolous way
and in a very light way that they would be afraid to do if they knew what a
great dignitary he is. You know the archangel Michael would not bring
against him a railing accusation (Jude 9).
There is only one Person who could bruise the serpent's head, and
that is Christ. He came into this world and into the place of sin, and was
there to bruise the serpent's head. True, the serpent bruised His heel; but at
that very moment his head was crushed beneath that victorious heel. Thus
Christ has annulled him that had the might of death, that is the devil, and
broken the power of Satan for ever.
Beloved friends, that is why Satan is not god and prince in my heart
and has no possession there, because the One who has broken his power has
a place there; and that is the only way Satan is displaced. It is by Christ
coming in. Now you see when these things came in by the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, sin, death and Satan's power were all met by
Christ going into death, and now Christ in resurrection is the tree of life.
Mark that, it is Christ in resurrection. It is in resurrection that Christ
is really precious to a sinner. When Christ was on earth the question of sin
was not settled, nor the question of death and Satan's power. But after He
had been to the cross, He came back in triumph, and it is really in
resurrection that He becomes the tree of life. As the scripture says, life and
incorruptibility were brought to light through the gospel (2 Timothy 1:10),
through a risen Christ.
Beloved friends, what a joy it is to think that Christ is the tree of life!
I am not now burdened by the thought of Sin. I see Christ having come into
death and been raised again by the glory of the Father; all the power of Sin
and Satan was broken at the cross, and the One who broke that power is
now known by faith in my heart as the tree of life. What a wonderful thing to
see that risen Person! Christ is the wisdom and the power of God.
You may remember in Proverbs 3:18 we read, "She is a tree of life to
them that lay hold upon her; and happy is he that retained her". Christ is the
wisdom of God to meet sin and death and Satan's power, and as I lay hold
on Christ, I lay hold really upon the tree of life. It is such a wonderful thing
to have a Person outside yourself! Many a true Christian is looking inside

half his time, but if you begin to look inside you are sure to get dull and
down in your soul and into darkness. It is a great thing to keep the eye on
Christ. Christ is the tree of life, Christ in resurrection.1
The second thing which strikes me in connection with the unfolding
of God's ways in Scripture is promise. This element was introduced as soon
as man had departed from his first estate. There was no occasion for
promises so long as innocence continued. Man was surrounded by every
good possible to him in the circumstances of his existence as an innocent
creature, and promises of a higher order of blessing neither would have
been appropriate nor could have been understood by one who as yet had not
the knowledge of good and evil.
But when the accomplished act of disobedience had proved the
success of the serpent in alienating man from God, and man had thus fallen
under the power of evil and the sentence of death, immediately the element
of promise appears in God's ways. It may be said that the statement that the
woman's Seed should bruise the serpent's head was not exactly a promise to
man, but rather part of the divine sentence on the serpent. But inasmuch as
it was a declaration of what God would bring to pass with a view to His own
glory in man's blessing, it certainly was of the nature of promise. And,
henceforward, promises form by far the most important and blessed part of
the Old Testament Scriptures.
It is impossible to go into detail on such a great subject without
extending the present remarks far beyond their intended limits. But it may be
said in general that the Old Testament promises fall into three classes: those
which stand in relation to sin and death and Satan's power in the widest and
fullest way; those which stand in relation to all the confusion which sin has
introduced here; and those which come in, in connection with the utter
weakness of man. I will give an example of each class.
In Genesis 3 we see the introduction of sin and death and Satan's
power. These three things go together. No sooner were they introduced than
God appeared on the scene with a blessed declaration of His own purpose
(Genesis 3:15). It is so all through Scripture. As different manifestations of
the power of evil and its fruits appeared, God met them with promises.
In the case before us, the serpent had no sooner shown his head than
God said, 'I will have a Man to bruise that head'. And as the history of evil

and of man's weakness developed, God met it all by promises. He pledged

Himself to remove the evil, and to put a corresponding good in its place.
So every manifestation of what was evil became the occasion for a
promise in which God engaged Himself to remove that evil, and to put in its
place what was good, and holy, and blessed.
It is a terribly solemn fact that sin, and death, and Satan's power
have come into the world. Men struggle in vain to get rid of these things. All
civilized nations are doing their best to improve the condition of things here.
They succeed, perhaps, in whitewashing the exterior a little, but under the
surface there are "dead men's bones, and all uncleanness" (Matthew 23:27).
These men try to grapple with death. People are deeply interested in
medical science and hail with delight every new discovery. They are glad to
think that death can be pushed back a year or two. But how impotent is man
in all this! Sin is here and men cannot remove it; death is here and men
cannot set it aside; Satan's power is here and men are glad to have it so. An
overwhelming majority is in favor of Satans rule, and prefers it to God's.
Satan says to man, 'You can go your own way', but if God were to rule He
would necessarily say, 'You must go my way'. Men say, 'We prefer to go our
own way, and not God's way'. They thus choose to be ruled by Satan.
How blessed to see that God has brought in Christ to meet the
question of sin, and to annul death and Satan's power! Christ has put away
sin, annulled death, and bruised the serpent's head. In contrast to sin and
death and Satan's power, He has brought in righteousness and life and the
kingdom of God. He is the Antitype of the coats of skin and the tree of life.
The promise of Genesis 3:15 finds its Yea and Amen in Him. Then in
Genesis 12:2 we have an example of a class of promises which have relation
to all the confusion which sin has introduced here. Sin and death and
Satan's power having come in, there is confusion here instead of blessing.
Everything is out of order. Let us make ourselves a name (Genesis 11:4) is
man's supreme ideal of happiness.
Many a man would be willing to sacrifice wealth, rest, pleasure,
health, natural affection, and even life itself if he could thereby make himself
a name. But it results in confusion, because it excludes God, and there is no
true happiness in it. Blessing is happiness conferred by God. God's answer
to Confusion was the calling out and blessing of Abram. I will ... bless

thee, and make thy name great (Genesis 12:2). God called him out of the
confusion to have true happiness, and to be made great in a divine way.
The world has but a poor idea of happiness and greatness; it is all
confusion if looked at morally. But God delights to make men happy and
great by giving them the knowledge of Christ. God made Abram's name
great by bringing Christ into his family. All blessing from God is centered in
Christ. Men are looking for happiness either in the Babel of sin's confusion
or in Christ. The world system often looks very attractive to the young; they
do not see the emptiness of it all; but it is all tinsel and unreality. There is
very little real happiness in the hearts of worldly people, with all their
pleasures. They get a certain amount of gratification for their natural tastes
but very little real enjoyment.
Viewed morally all is in confusion here because God has not His true
place in men's consciences and hearts, and there can be no real happiness in
confusion. Christ was here entirely apart from all the confusion of this
world. He loved righteousness and hated lawlessness, and therefore was
anointed with the oil of gladness above His companions. If men are led by
Christ it will certainly be in the paths of righteousness, and only in those
paths can true happiness be found or enjoyed. Christ is Lord of all and
Head of every man, and in confessing and obeying Him we get outside the
confusion of the world, and into the sphere of true blessing.
In a coming day He will have universal sway, and all confusion will
be at an end. He will order everything in righteousness, lawlessness will
cease, and therefore every hindrance to the full blessing of man will be
removed. Inconceivable happiness will pervade the universe when
everything is subjugated by the gracious power of Christ to the will of God.
Every kind of misery and suffering will be set aside, and the supreme
goodness of God will be the satisfaction and happiness of men. Then shall
be brought to pass what is written in Genesis 12:3, In thee shall all families
of the earth be blessed. Every element of confusion and evil will be
displaced by order and goodness, and everything will minister to the
unalloyed happiness of men.
With regard to the present time, Christ is presented to men in the
gospel that they may be attracted to Him, and thus morally separated from
this world of confusion. It is certain that God has more resource and power

to confer happiness than the world or its prince, and in believing on Christ
and obeying Him we come into blessing -- God-given happiness.
God gives what is worthy of Himself, and therefore the happiness of
those who receive from Him is immeasurable. The promises express God's
unnumbered thoughts of blessing towards man. They are all brought to pass
in Christ, and established through redemption in such a way that they can
never be overturned.
Then a third class of promises comes in by reason of the utter
weakness of man. For an example of this class I turn to 2 Samuel 23:1 - 5.
These were the last words of David. God's gentleness had made David very
great; many divine promises were connected with him; but he came to his
last words -- he was not suffered to continue by reason of death. Death is the
utter weakness of man.
The promises could not be established in a man who was going down
into death. David was not strong enough to hold the promises. He had to
recognize the necessity for another Person to come in who should be as the
light of the morning, like the rising of the sun, a morning without clouds.
There was One who could pass through the night of man's death and
condemnation, and rise to be the Sun of an eternal day -- One able to hold
everything for the glory of God and the blessing of man in the power of
resurrection. David had to turn from himself and his own house to Christ.
He was dying, and his house was not so before God, but he could turn to a
greater Person in whom everything should be established in the light and
power of resurrection. An everlasting covenant, ordered in every way and
sure is established in a risen Christ. Man in the flesh could not hold the
promises of God by reason of death, but David, by the Spirit, was in view of
One who could establish them and hold them for ever. Whatever promises of
God there are, in Christ is the Yea, and in Him the Amen.
In the world to come, death will no longer be a dark cloud resting

upon everything here. The blessing will be commanded, even life for
evermore (Psalm 133:3). The righteous will enter into life eternal. Men will
enjoy without a cloud the favor of God; death will be swallowed up in
victory. All this has been made known in the way of promise, and there is not
a single promise of which Christ is not the crown. It is He and He alone, in
whom and by whom all will be fulfilled. 1 Before the work of the six days
began there was a primary movement of the Spirit of God, hovering over the

face of the waters, in the earth that was desolate and empty and covered
with darkness; in which scene God could find no pleasure or rest, but move
and work, to bring Man into existence after His likeness. 2
As a matter of fact, through the physical works of creation of the first
four days, God brought into existence the physical conditions to sustain
physical life on earth, including that of man. At the same time, through these
physical works, God also symbolically portrays the spiritual conditions
necessary for the new spiritual creation in man through the indwelling of the
New Man, the second Adam, even our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The
next two fruitful days symbolizes Christians spiritual fruit-bearing.
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1: C.A.Coates, Miscellaneous Ministry on the Old Testament, Vol.30, Kingston Bible
Trust, UK, 1991. pp.18-24.
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