ChristB4us
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@makesends @Gus Bovona @MikeukI am not here to speak for or against evolution - that is not my field.
I think it is very important for Christians who enter these discussions to do so with a good understanding of what the Bible does, and doesn't say, as I have seen too often over zealous Christians make claims that are not supported by Scripture or scientific evidence.
Okay then what does Genesis say about creation?
Genesis 1:1 is the topic with the following verses is how God did it.
Genesis 1:2-5 is the creation of light of the day for that evening and morning that first day. Time has been created. The earth was not there at all but just water.
Genesis 1:6-8 is the starting of the creation of earth of gravity by dividing the water planet from the upper atmosphere.
Genesis 1:9-13 is the completion of the creation of earth with the one large land mass and the sea all in one place on that third day.
Genesis 1:14--19 was when the universe was created as God created them to give her lights to govern the earth that fourth day
Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
That means the universe was not there in the beginning until that fourth day for God spoke and they came into existence filling the gaps with her lights to shine on the earth that day.
So can you tell the age of the universe and the earth by the speed of light? No. You cannot when in respect to His words that they did not exist nor had her lights shine on that earth until that fourth day.
And regardless of how scriptures were not originally divided by numbered chapters 7 numbered verses, this creation account did not end until Genesis 2:3
So when you read from Genesis 1:1... that is why the following verses is about how God created everything in verse 1.
Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 2:1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.