THE SIX DAYS (HEXAEMERON)

 

By Gary Ray Branscome

 

          The words, “In six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything that is in them, and rested on the seventh day, for that reason the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and made it holy,” tell us that in six days God made “heaven and earth, the sea, and everything that is in them” (Exodus 20:11). The words of Genesis chapter one, “The evening and the morning were the first day,” (verse 5) “The evening and the morning were the second day,” (verse 8) “The evening and the morning were the third day,” (verse 13) “The evening and the morning were the fourth day,” (verse 19) “The evening and the morning were the fifth day,” (verse 23) and, “The evening and the morning were the sixth day,” define the word “day” by telling us that each of those six days had an evening and a morning (verse 31). And, the words, “God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw that the light was good: and God separated the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and called the darkness Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day,” tell us that “the evening and the morning” consisted of a period of darkness and light  (Genesis 1:3-5).

          I have just summarized what God’s Word plainly says about creation, and therefore, what God wants His church to believe and teach. However, Satan wants just the opposite, and one way Satan blinds people to the truth of God’s Word, is by causing them to regard the plain meaning of the words as nothing more than an interpretation. Furthermore, those who treat the Biblical account of creation as an interpretation are not being honest, because they are not trying to teach what the Bible says, but trying to make it agree with atheist ideas.

 

Evolution proper is atheistic and immoral, while theistic evolution is neither in accord with Scripture nor with the basic principles of evolution proper. To deny the inspired character of the Book of Genesis means to contradict the testimony of the divine, omniscient Christ, who accepted also this book as canonical. (Dr. John Theodore Mueller, “Christian Dogmatics,” page 181)