Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
John 1:3
Theistic evolutionists (TE) claim to believe in God. They may be Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Protestants from any one of several denomination (evangelical or mainline), Jews, Muslims, members of various cults or adherents to one of several other Eastern religions. What they are not can be stated with assurance, however, they are not believers in God’s Word (The Judeo-Christian Bible) and do not believe in the inerrancy, inspiration and infallibility of the Holy Bible. They change literal phrases to meet their preconceived world view. My question is this: “Upon what tangible evidence do you place your faith in the existence of God?”
As promised at the end of the last blog on this subject, we will now look at context in the use of the Hebrew word “day” (yom) as used in Genesis chapter One. Following each day of creative activity, the Holy Spirit inspired Moses (The acknowledged writer of the text) to number the day and add the phrase “morning and evening.” This occurred following each of the six days of creation. The only span of time in our human experience separated by and containing evenings and mornings, is a twenty-four hour, solar day; the time it takes the earth to make one revolution on its axis. To surmise a meaning for the six yoms other than twenty four hour days is to disregard a very prime rule governing grammar in literature composition; syntax. This will be explained in more detain in the next blog.
The text informs us that God created vegetation of all kinds on day three and also that He placed the sun in the universe on day four. Without vegetation the ability to trap the sun’s ultraviolet energy would not have existed. Since animal life, created on days five and six, and humans also created on day six, each depend upon the vegetation’s ability to trap the sun’s energy, no life could have existed if the vegetation had been deprived of the sun’s UV energy for an extended period of time. Just turn a tub upside down on your lawn and see how many days it takes for the grass to turn brown and die. Without the presence of the sun the vegetation would have died. To separate those two creative acts by millions or billions of years as the TE suggests is utterly, scientifically illogical and borders on the ludicrous. Have the TEs given us any reasonable explanation for this obvious disparity in their timeline? Furthermore, if Genesis One is allegorical, why not John 3 with the all important 16th verse?
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