Six Reasons for A Literal Six Day Creation | Costi Hinn

Did God really create the earth in six 24-hour days? In this video, Costi Hinn shares six reasons why Christians can give a confident “yes” from our friends at Answers in Genesis.

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[beetlebayley]

Thanks for acknowledging the 7th day as the Sabbath day, created for Rest and to be kept holy. For God only made one day Holy. Man moved it to the 1st day. I choose the authority of God rather than ANY man's "authority".

[JonathanGrandt]

Not to mention that evening and morning was used to place a divide >>between<< days, and it isn’t used after day 7 because there is not another 8th day of creation following day 7.

[junglemoose]

The word for day in ancient Hebrew (Genesis was written in ancient Hebrew) has three literal meanings one of which is an epoch or lengthy period of time. Which literal definition of day do we go with? Which one makes the most sense?

[mrslakebrook]

Seventh reason to believe in a 6-day creation: this is a gospel issue. Death (even to animals) came only after the sin of man. The wages of sin is death, and it is the enemy that Christ will defeat. If "science" claim that animals lived and died for millions of years before man came into existence, then we deny the centrality of death in the gospel.

[Atomic_Chemist]

As a Christian who has studied geology and astronomy, the only conclusion I can make is that God created the universe as if it were already 13bil years old. Science has gotten the time line right, they just don't give credit to the creator.

[Terrylb]

Reading a language that’s thousands of years old translated into your language filtering it through your worldview lead the early church to embrace a geocentric view based on a literal reading of the text.

[jaguar]

Apparently there are new born planets forming in the universe today and none of them took 7 days to form completely.

It actually proves that planets take millions of years to form.

[tookie]

Cultural science has influenced those who think the 6 days mean 6 rotations of the earth. Materialists everywhere these days

[aaronfritz]

Everyone wants to put God in a box. If God’s perspective traveled on the event, horizon of creation, time would travel much slower than a perspective on earth. Perspective traveled on the event horizon. He created the universe in six days simultaneously perspective on earth he created the universe in millions of years

[Pj-fmoe]

#1, 3 and 4 Paul said we are still in God's rest, that day of rest is still going on now. Jesus when speaking of the sabbath mentioned that God is still active in his rest so Jesus continued to work as well. This makes the day of rest around 6k years so far. That means the other creative days were a minimum of 6k years long each. A day to God is also said to be "as a thousand years" so his day is not the same as our day and especially not a creative day.
#2 It makes no difference how many places it mentions 6 days for creation that does not mean that it was six 24 hour days.
#5 Doesn't even make sense, it doesn't say it was immediate....
#6 There is no need to counter evolution arguments with six literal days of creation, however old the earth is doesn't stop God from directly creating man when he did.

[mrquietstorm]

In order for there to be a day(morning) and night (evening) there needs to be some sort of light. Without a sun or moon there can't be nether

[Terrylb]

Both YEC and OEC believe in a literal 6 day creation

[junglemoose]

“Day” in Biblical Hebrew has at least three literal meanings.

[mrquietstorm]

The Bible never stated the world is On an axis lay alone spins. But it does day several times that the earth does NOT move (spin) the only thing that moves are the sun moon and stars. ur message is already wrong. Smh

[ralfbo]

I'm still not convinced that days HAVE to be literal. Not everything in scripture is literal. Can God create in 6 24 hour periods? Sure. Can he also create in 6 phases? Absolutely.

The phases make more sense to me. If God made things instantly, what did the other 23 hours and 59 minutes consist of? Why wasn't the earth created in one day? The idea of phases instead, is to assume the laws of physics never changed since God spoke light into existence.

Christians, do not be divided over this secondary issue.

[jillcolvin]

Oh Costi - Answers in Genesis is not a good source. Please examine the WHOLE vounsel of God's word rather than isolating Genesis from the other 65 books.

[scouterstu]

This fellow doesn't understand what he reads.
There was NO twenty four days, lunar month or solar year until God created the sun and moon on the fourth day. He would do well to be still and wait on the Holy Spirit to teach him rather than running around telling people what he thinks.
Much more could be said re time in the Bible but that would just create more human talking and no listening which leads to being lifted up as if on the "WIngs of an Eagle" and be taught directly, intimately by Holy Spirit.

[mathiswonderful]

Exodus 20: 11 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.
Above verse states that God created the heavens and earth in six days and rested on the seventh, clearly using the Hebrew word for "day" that is understood as a 24-hour period; this directly connects the Sabbath day of rest to the pattern of God's creation week, implying a literal interpretation of the "days" in Genesis 1 .
In Exodus 20:11 the activity of God is presented to man as a pattern, and this fact presupposes that there was a reality in the activity of God which man is to follow. How could man be held accountable for working six days if God himself had not actually worked for six days?
The fourth commandment constitutes a decisive argument against any non-chronological scheme of the six days of Genesis one. And a non-chronological scheme destroys the reason for observance of a six-day week followed by a seventh day of rest.
Furthermore, God commanded Israel to not bear false witness in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:16). If what God said of His own creative activity was non-literal, it plausibly amounts to bearing false witness. This utterance comes in a legal context (Exodus 20:1 is formulaic language for the period for the beginning of a treaty) in which God bears witness about His own creative activity. However, someone bearing witness to their own past activity in ‘non-literal’ way in a legal context seems to be a good way to define ‘bearing false witness’.
Finally, this command was a matter of life and death: the penalty for breaking the Sabbath was death (Exodus 31:15,  Numbers 15:32–36). Why would God say that failing to copy what He said He did amounts to the death penalty if He never actually did what He said He did?
Everywhere else in the Old Testament, when the Hebrew word for “day” (יוםֹ, yom) appears with “evening” or “morning” or is modified by a number (e.g., “sixth day” or “five days”), it always means a 24-hour day.
In fact, in Luke 13:14, in his response to Jesus healing a person on the Sabbath, the ruler of the synagogue, who knew the law of Moses, obviously referred to this passage when he said, “There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.” The sabbath day here was considered an ordinary day, and the six days of work were considered ordinary days. This teaching is based on the Law of Moses as recorded in Exodus 20, where we find the Ten Commandments—the six-day Creation Week being the basis for the Fourth Commandment.
Now, consider Exodus 20:1: “And God spoke all these words, saying . . . .” Because Jesus is the Word, this must be a reference to the preincarnate Christ speaking to Moses. As we know, there are a number of appearances of Christ (theophanies) in the Old Testament. John 1:18 states: “No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.” There is no doubt, with rare exception, that the preincarnate Christ did the speaking to Adam, Noah, the patriarchs, Moses, etc. Now, when the Creator God spoke as recorded in Exodus 20:1, what did He (Jesus) say? As we read on, we find this statement: “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” (Exodus 20:11). Yes, Jesus did explicitly say He created in six days.