Introduction

Below is a verse-by-verse study of creation. It is the culmination of several years of researching how science and history back up what the scripture literally says.

 

Taking Scripture Literally

To take a verse literally, it need not be literally true. For example, Genesis 1:6 defines the sky as a vault below a water canopy. Embedded within the vault (i.e., below the waters) are the sun, moon, and stars within the vault (Genesis 1:14). That is what the scripture says.

 

Well, there is no canopy of water above the sun. It turns out that Moses was recording the Egyptian account of creation, recast in terms of the one and only God. So how does one interpret this literally? By asking how the account would physically appear from an earth-bound perspective. Approached this way, both the Egyptian perspective of Day 4 and a mainstream scientific perspective will produce the same essential physical appearance... a sun surrounded by a rich blue sky.

 

GeoCreationist Principles of Biblical Interpretation

Interpret scripture literally and accept the resulting appearance as true. The scripture may not give all the details, but the details it gives are recorded in order. Examples: 1)God created the heavens and the earth before saying, "Let there be light." 2)Men and women subdued the earth before God breathed life into Adam.

 

General

Scriptural Guide to Science - A careful reading of scripture produces amazing alignment with mainstream science

 

Creation Day 1

Genesis 1:1a - The scripture is clear: Jesus was God's agent of creation.

Genesis 1:1b - If the scriptures are literal, then the moon was created in verse 1, and the earth was covered in water and rain 3.9 billion years ago

Genesis 1:2 - Science and scripture agree that Jesus was with the Holy Spirit, hovering over the earth's waters on Day 1

Genesis 1:3 - According to the Hebrew meaning of "letting there be", Jesus stopped the earth's cycle of blocking the light from reaching the deep

Genesis 1:4 - Job, Proverbs, and Psalms confirm that allowing light resulted in a circle on an earth that had been covered in water and darkness.

Genesis 1:5 - Day 1 ended after Jesus rode the Holy Spirit like a chariot into the night... and on into the day.

 

Creation Day 2

Genesis 1:6-8 - After Day 1 saw the end of the meteor impacts, Day 2 saw the rain finally let up.

 

Creation Day 3

Genesis 1:9-10 - After the rains let up, plate tectonics took over in earnest. The mountains thrust up, and the seas retreated.

Genesis 1:11-13 - Through a symbiosis of multiple cell types, plant evolution could begin.

 

Creation Day 4

Genesis 1:14-19 - After the land and plants, the atmosphere cleared up enough to see the sun, moon, and stars.

 

Creation Day 5

Genesis 1:20-23 - After the KT Impact, the dinosaurs died. Without natural predators, sealife and birds could now flourish.

 

Creation Day 6

Genesis 1:24-25 - After the Grand Coupure, the earth produced cattle, creeping things, and beasts

Genesis 1:26 - In His Image - God told Jesus to let mankind develop the capacity for believing and obeying Him

Genesis 1:27-31 - Male and female were given a blessing to fill the earth and eat of all seeded fruit trees, before the Garden of Eden

 

Creation Day 7

Genesis 2:1-3 - After seeing His creation, God rested... and so did Evolution

 

Adam through Noah (before the Flood)

Genesis 2:4 - A summary of Evolution, from the earth's initial conditions to Adam

Genesis 2:4-7 - God breaths the breath of life into Adam

Genesis 2:8-9,15-17 - God puts Adam in the Garden of Eden

Genesis 2:10-14 - Eden's location is unknown, but scriptural clues suggest reasonable possibilities

Genesis 2:18-25 - Genesis 2 is not a second creation account; God makes Adam a helper

 

Genesis 3:1-5 - The serpent tempts Eve

Genesis 3:6-7, 17-19, 22-24 - The punishment for the Original Sin was a life of turmoil

Genesis 3:8-13,21 - Creating clothing from animal skins for Adam Eve was not a sin

Genesis 3:14-15 - The serpent loses his legs

Genesis 3:16 - God punishes Eve by increasing the pain of bearing children

Genesis 3:20 - Eve is the mother of all... in sin and redemption