God and Genesis 1st Chapter Verses Disprove the Young Earth Theory

No, I'm not God. But stay with me to find out the simplicity of what I have realized. It continues to baffle me how people will be led to believe anything. Sometimes children tell little white lies to gauge how long they can "fool" each other. God didn't create adults to be so easily misled. Though I guess if someone claims something must be true, someone else will go to his or her grave believing, no matter how bizarre. I can't think of any reason, under the sun, moon or stars, why so many adults believe in the Young Earth Theory.

If you're not up to speed, some people take the creation account, in the Bible book of Genesis, literally. God created the world in 6 literal days, and the universe is only 6000 years old. That is the base of the Young Earth Theory...

The Young Earth Theory relies completely on the prospect that God's creative process, explained in Genesis, be taken literally word for word with no symbolism, figurative speech, or dumbing down of the scriptures involved. "Literally," also implies that the order of things created, stated in the Bible book of Genesis, must also be taken into account.

What if the Bible is just the word of man? Men back then knew almost zilch about how the universe works. But would Moses really dumb down his work? If the Bible is the word of God, then it is inherently dumbed down so that man could understand it. Still, certain creationists insist that if we look at the account closely, we will see what they see.

So, let's analyze this, shall we?

Genesis chapter 1 verse 1: insists that God made the Heavens before anything else, and He made the Earth second. There can be no argument with this so far as Young Earth Theorists are concerned.

So other than God and the Heavens, nothing in existence can be older than Earth?

Verse 3: God brings about light.

Verse 4: God divides light and darkness into day and night.

Remember, God has yet to create the sun or the moon thus far. Young Earth Theorists must conclude that God made 12 hours of sunless day and moonless night for His own sake. If this certain cycle was considerably longer or shorter, than the typical days we experience today, certain creationists must be misinterpreting scripture.

There was no life on Earth. So, for the sake of whom else would God initiate a 24-hour day? Without the cycle of our solar system in place, God had no reason to measure his creative process in 24-hour days.

Or am I to believe God would be so limited as to measure His work on a 24-hour cycle, such as a man would, lest everything will inexplicably fall apart? At this point, there is no solar system, or universe. In this analysis, according to Genesis, God has yet to create other planets, the sun, the moon, or the stars...

Now one could argue that God made the sun, the moon and all of the stars in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1. After all, these things are heavenly bodies. But wait, one could only argue that way until they read Genesis chapter 1 verse 14.

Genesis Chapter 1 verse 14: clearly states that God went on to make luminaries in the heavens (the sun and moon) to divide day and night. But God already divided it once already in verse 3 of Chapter 1.

I guess he decided that first division wasn't very good. * Erase. * Genesis verses 14 through 19 are the fourth day of creation. However, one has wonder why God didn't create the sun and moon the first time, if it only takes a day or so to do...

Genesis Chapter 1 verse 11: On the third day God created grass, vegetables, and trees. So grass has actually been around one day longer than the sun, moon and stars. Finally there is a need for the 24-hour cycle. Unfortunately, as mentioned above, by the time of Chapter 1 verse 11 the sun and moon didn't show up for another day.

Genesis Chapter 1 verse 20: God decides to put living souls on Earth.

But how much organization does the creation account really show? Can this be taken literally? Or was Moses just telling his people what happened in no particular order and in a manner that he and they could grasp? What difference should it make to them if the creative process took days, or billions of years? The people who walked with Moses, the man credited with writing Genesis, saw God work miracles first hand.

"What need for faith?" I ask.

Is it feasible that God's people in Biblical days based their faith off of the creation account, and took Genesis verses 1 through 20 literally?

Chances are low

A God, wielding the power to set an operable universe into motion, would conceivably be more organized. The Young Earth Theory paints the picture of a limited God, reliant on a 24-hour cycle even before the creation of the sun and moon.

Unacceptable senselessness is only adequate to man.

It is noteworthy that Biblical writers were accustomed to writing figuratively. For one thing they, and people in general at the time, had a very limited knowledge of science, and the workings of day and night, the sun, the Earth, and the moon.

None of them were too interested in basing faith on a literal 6-day creation account.

Should people today base their faith off of the Young Earth Theory?

Sounds pretty risqué, especially when God had no need to create the universe in 6-days if He has existed for all time.

I ask thee, "What was God doing before then? Planning and plotting out His procedure for creation?"

Let me see. God plans the universe for untold billions of years. God creates an orderly universe in 6 days, without having to apply organized arrangements during this creative process...

Unacceptable!

Senseless!

Or was God actually a baby, just conceived with ultimate power, Whom just decided to unsystematically throw chaos into order?

Sounds sort of Zeus to me, but proof of God's existence does not rely on the Young Earth Theory, or the "Young God Theory." There are plenty of Christians not supporting the Young Earth point of view. Many can argue/debate, the existence of God just as whole-heartedly and intelligently as any Young Earth Theorist.

I know because I've seen it.