Was the World Created in Six Days?

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  “The Biblical Account is Self-Authenticating and Self-Attesting”

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  “But What Does the Bible Say?”
  

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  “The Reference to 2 Peter Builds the Argument Against 6 Literal Days”
  

The Reference to 2 Peter Builds the Argument Against 6 Literal Days

Joseph Amodeo

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Regarding Answers in Genesis (AiG) seeks to present 2 Peter as "cancelling out" the argument defending that the six days account was meant to be read as a figurative/symbollic account, I believe that a careful read of the scripture from 2 Peter only further supports a figurative reading of the Story of Genesis. For example, AiG points out that 2 Peter is often cited as stating “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years," which they believe is 'cancelled out' by “and a thousand years as one day.” Now consider these two verses; in essence when viewed together, these verse profess that God is Lord who does not act within the confines of "time," and nor is He limited by such "time." Perhaps Answers in Genesis provides us with the greatest argument in favor of understanding the Story of Creation as being a symbollic telling of the world's beginning.

In essence, from this passage from 2 Peter, we learn of a Lord who is limited by the borders of time, but rather it is God who brought time into being. It is also within this passage that we learn that the Lord would never be limited or confined to 'six days.' Perhaps the greatest argument in favor of a symbollic reading of Genesis is that creation never ceases -- Lord is never thwarted by time -- in other words, Lord continues to serve as the intelligent designer even throughout our modern age.

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"Yes" Answers in Genesis

• The Biblical Account is Self-Authenticating and Self-Attesting
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• Man and Sin Had to Come Before Death and Destruction
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• God Established Seven-Day Week as Pattern for Mankind
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• Science Has Not Ultimately Proven Millions of Years
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• Answering the Question of Light Before the Sun's Creation
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• Millions of Years Limits God More Than Six Days Does
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• Why is the Genesis 2 Account Different?
  2
• Science and the Earth's Age
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"No" Gary Hurd

• An Introduction to Creationism
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• Creation ex nihilo and Distant Galaxies
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• Creation ex nihilo and the Earth
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• The Age of Rocks, Not the Rock of Ages
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• The Six Day Creation is Incompetent Theologically
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"No" Joseph Amodeo

• The World was Symbolically Created in Six Days
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• Let's Not Make a Mockery of the Christian Faith
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• The Theology of Time
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• Genesis 2 as Evidence
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Most Objections

• The Biblical Account is Self-Authenticating and Self-Attesting
  6
• God Established Seven-Day Week as Pattern for Mankind
  4
• Science Has Not Ultimately Proven Millions of Years
  3
• Answering the Question of Light Before the Sun's Creation
  3
• Why is the Genesis 2 Account Different?
  2
• Science and the Earth's Age
  0

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