2- CREATION

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, One God, Amen

Lesson No. (2)

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Lesson:

CREATION

Question:
How can the account of the Bible that God created the world in six days
coincide with the opinion of geologists that the earth is thousands, even
millions, of years old?
Answer:
The days of creation are not 'solar days' as are our days now.
The 'day' of creation is an unknown period of time, it could have been a
second or thousands of millions of our years. This period was determined by
"....... so the evening and morning were...".

The proofs for this are many and we will mention a few of them:
1. The 'solar day' is a period of time between the rising of the Sun and its
rising again on the next day or between its setting and its setting again. Since
the Sun was not created until the fourth day (Genesis 1:16-19), the first four
days were obviously not solar days.
2. Regarding the seventh day, the Bible does not state that it is yet over. The
Bible does not say, 'so the evening and morning were the seventh day' and thus
thousands of years have passed from the time of Adam until now without the
end of the seventh day. Accordingly, the days of creation are not solar days,
but unknown periods of time.
3. On the topic of creation and its six days, the Bible states,
"These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were
created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,..."
(Genesis 2:4).
Thus the Bible sums up in the word 'day' all six days of creation.
Therefore, whatever is said by geologists about the age of the earth is
not contradicted by the Bible because it does not mention any particular
period.. The way in which the Lord looks to the measurement of time is
explained by Saint Peter when he says,
"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord
as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." (2 Peter 3:8)
Question:
In the book of Genesis there are two stories about the creation of man, the first
is present in the first chapter where it is stated that God created humans, male
and female; the second account is in the second chapter where Adam and Eve
were created. Do these two accounts coincide with each other?
Answer:
The account of the creation of man is one story, regarding the same man.
The account is mentioned as a whole in the first chapter but is detailed in the
second chapter.
In the first chapter the creation of man was a part of the creation
process as a whole, its details then came in the second chapter. The second
chapter then mentions the way in which Adam was created from dust, after
which God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; Eve was then created
from one of Adam's ribs. Chapter two also mentions the way that Adam felt
before and after Eve's creation as well as mentioning the naming of Adam and
Eve.
The two accounts are integral parts of each other, in the first one may
find the blessing which was given and the foods which were allowed to be
eaten. In the second, one may find how these were created, the names which
were designated to them, and the mention of paradise.

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