CHAPTER 9 KEY TERMS

Biblical Creationism Evolutionism

Literal View Long-Day Theory

Gap Theory Progressive Creationism

Theistic Evolution Genealogy

Young-Earth Creationism Fossil

Sedimentation Old-Earth Theory

CHAPTER 9BIBLICAL CREATIONISM

WORLDVIEW

• The perspective with which someone views everything in life

•Biblical Creationism

• The belief that God created the universe (the Earth, life…)

• Evolutionism

• The belief that the universe happened by chance

• The universe we see today is a product of billions of years of random processes changing and shaping the universe 3

WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES

•God created by direct acts

• Genesis 1-2

• John 1:3 “All things were made by Him”

• He created everything from nothing – “Ex nihilo”

• Genesis 1:31 “it was very good”

•God sustains His creation

• Col 1:17 “by Him all things consist”

• Psalm 104:14 “He causeth the grass to grow”

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WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES

•God reveals His power through His creation

• Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork.”

• Romans 1:20 “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:”

•God revealed the sequence of creation in the Bible

• Genesis 1 describes what God created each day of the creation week

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WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

•God specially created man

• Genesis 2:7 “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul”

• Genesis 1:26 “And God said, let Us make man in Our image…and let them have dominion…over all the earth”

•God created man, and man is responsible to God

• Psalm 100:3 “The Lord He is God: it is He that hath made us…”

• Colossians 1:17 “by Him all things consist”6

WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

•God’s creation is degenerating

• Genesis 1:31 “God saw everything that He had made, and it was very good”

• Genesis 3: 19 “for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return”

• Psalm 102: 25-26 “all of them shall wax old like a garment”

• Isaiah 51:6 “Earth shall wax old like a garment”

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DAYS OF CREATION

• Taken from Genesis 1

•Day 1: Light and dark (vs. 3-5)

•Day 2: Firmament, divided waters (vs. 6-8)

•Day 3: Land and Plants (vs. 9-13)

•Day 4: Sun, Moon, Stars (vs. 14-19)

•Day 5: Flying animals, Sea animals (vs. 20-23)

•Day 6: Land animals, Man (vs. 24-31)

•Day 7: God rested• Vs. 1-3 8

CREATIONIST VIEWS

• Literal View

• The creation week was made up of seven 24-hour days

• This view agrees with scripture

• “evening and morning were _________ day”

•Compromised Views

• Gap Theory

• Progressive Creationism

• Theistic Evolution

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CREATIONIST VIEWS

•Gap Theory

• Believe that there was a gap between Gen 1:1 and 1:2

• Possibly billions of years between the two verses

• First creation was destroyed, and that is when the earth “became without form and void”

• Problems:

•Why would God destroy a previous creation that was “good”

•Would previous creation have included sin and death, when sin entered the world when Adam sinned (Rom 5:12)

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CREATIONIST VIEWS

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•Progressive Creationism

• Creation occurred over a long period of time

• At certain times, God created different batches of animals

• Problems:

• Ignores the literal reading of Genesis 1 (evening and morning were ___ day)

• Also violates Rom. 5:12 (death came from Adam’s sin). This view suggests millions of years of suffering and death before Adam was created

CREATIONIST VIEWS

• Theistic Evolution

•Mixes Bible and biological evolution

• Accepts that God created, but God used evolution as the method for creating the diversity of life we see today

• This process had to take millions of years

• Problems:

• Ignores literal reading of Genesis 1

• Ignores that man was a direct creation (Gen 1:27)

• Violates Romans 5:12 (death was result of Adam’s sin)

• Limits God’s omniscience and omnipotence12

REVIEW

•Days of Creation:1. Light

2. Firmament, divided waters above from waters below

3. Land, Plants

4. Sun, Moon, Stars

5. Flying animals, Sea animals

6. Land animals, Man

• Literal View

•Gap Theory

•Progressive Creationism

• Theistic Evolution13

AGE OF CREATION

•Old-Earth Theory

• The belief that the Earth is millions or billions of years old

• Young-Earth Theory

• The belief that the Earth is around 6000-10,000 years old

•Genealogy

• A listing of a family history

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EVIDENCE OF THE FLOOD

• Fossils

• Remnant of an organism that has been preserved by natural means

•Sedimentation

•When materials settle out as a moving substance slows down

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GENESIS FLOOD

•Rained on the earth for 40 days and nights

• The actual flood lasted almost a year

• The catastrophic nature of the flood produced wide spread death and sedimentation, producing fossils

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