Six Day Creation?

How important is it that we believe God created in Six Days?

Many people don’t think that this is very important.

We live in a very scientific world and the scientists have supposedly proven beyond any doubt that the earth evolved over billions of years.

God’s Word to us opens up with the phrase, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”. (Genesis 1:1a)

Is this important?

If God lied to us in the first line of His letter to us, I’d have to say this is pretty important. If the first sentence in the Bible is a lie, why should we believe the rest of it?

This is why so many people want to prove that the earth wasn’t created. If God didn’t create then the whole of the Bible is discounted from the very first line.

So, why is a Six Day creation so important? For the same reason. God went to some pretty great detail to explain the days of creation as normal sun up to sun down days. Once again if this is a lie, why believe the rest of what is written? If God is a liar why do we need forgiveness of our sin?

Many people have a tendency to disregard the explanation of the beginning from Genesis. They don’t believe it has any importance to the plan of salvation. Just believe in Jesus the rest doesn’t matter.

I don’t think you have to believe in a literal six day creation to be saved. But with this being said, why would you believe that Jesus was God’s Son sent to save us if the rest of the book was a lie?

God slipped a line into the Ten Commandments that is very often over looked. In Exodus 20:11 God says, “For in six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy”.

I believe God placed this sentence in His giving of the Ten Commandments for a reason. The reason is people might in the future discount the book of Genesis. But they will keep the Ten Commandments well into the future.

Have you ever stopped to think about why the Ten Commandments are such a problem for our world? The last six are good rules and principles to live by. The first four are the problem. They tell us about God, they tell us about a six day creation, they cut to the core of who we really are and what we believe about God.

Now, with all this being said, I do not condemn people for not believing in a literal six day creation. If the person has come to Christ for their salvation and are believing in Him for their redemption and forgiveness of sin, it’s only a matter of time before the Holy Spirit will begin to reveal all truth to them.

I can’t explain how an all powerful, all knowing, always present supreme being can do the things God says He has done. I do though believe, without a doubt, that He told us the truth. God is true and their is no deception in Him. He loves us enough to tell us the truth.

I believe we must take God at His Word. To do anything less is not believing, by faith, in the God of Scripture.

So, is it important that we believe in a Six Day creation?