The document summarizes Genesis 1:1-19, which describes the creation of light and darkness on day 1, the creation of the sky on day 2, the separation of land and water and creation of vegetation on day 3, and the creation of the sun, moon, and stars on day 4. It discusses debates around whether plants were created with seeds already present or in full maturity, as well as debates around apparent age creationism. The document also examines biblical references to God stretching out the heavens and implications for the speed of light reaching Earth during the creation days.
5. Genesis 1:9, Waters Gathered
Genesis 1:9 Then God said, "Let the waters
below the heavens be gathered into one place,
and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. 10
God called the dry land earth, and the gathering
of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it
was good.
Not the water above the sky
7. God Separated 3
Times
Gen 1:4-5 God saw that the
light was good, and he
separated the light from the
darkness.
Gen 1:7 So God made the
expanse and separated the
water under the expanse from
the water above it
Gen 1:9 And God said, "Let
the water under the sky be
gathered to one place, and let
dry ground appear.
8. Genesis 1:9, Let
Dry Ground Appear
This is after the seas are
gathered
Completely opposite of
atheistic, secular,
evolutionary cosmology.
Irreconcilable differences
Either hot rock cooled and
condensed vapor into
water or God gathered the
water to one place and
then said “let dry ground
appear” and it was so.
9. Genesis 1:9,…Let Dry Ground
Appear…
2 Peter 3:3-7 First of all, you must understand
that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing
and following their own evil desires. 4 They will
say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever
since our fathers died, everything goes on as it
has since the beginning of creation." 5 But they
deliberately forget that long ago by God's word
the heavens existed and the earth was formed
out of water and by water. 6 By these waters
also the world of that time was deluged and
destroyed.
10. Genesis 1:9,…Let Dry Ground
Appear…
Ps 24:1-2 The earth is the Lord's, and
everything in it, the world, and all who live
in it; 2 for he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the waters.
No Big Bang cosmology here.
"Psalm 95:5 The sea is His, for it was He
who made it, And His hands formed the dry
land."
"Psalm 95:6 Come, let us worship and bow
down, Let us kneel before the LORD our
Maker."
11. Let Dry Ground Appear, But How?
"Psalm 104:5 He established the earth upon
its foundations, So that it will not totter forever
and ever. 6 You covered it with the deep as
with a garment; The waters were standing
above the mountains. 7 At Your rebuke they
fled, At the sound of Your thunder they hurried
away. 8 The mountains rose; the valleys sank
down To the place which You established for
them. 9 You set a boundary that they may not
pass over, So that they will not return to cover
the earth." DLK, Like mashed potatoes, Noah’s also
12. Genesis 1:9-10, Double Blessing
Gen 1:10…God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:12-13 ….And God saw that it was good. 13
the third day.
Which day is the first day?
Double blessing on the third day, Tuesday.
No blessing on the second day, Monday. Amen!
So all good Jewish girls try to hold their weddings
on Tuesday, the third day, the “Day of Double
Blessing” and it was no different in Jesus time.
Why do you suppose the Holy Spirit arranged the
text to have a Day Of Double Blessing?
13. Double Blessing On The Third Day?
1 Cor 15:4 and that He was buried, and that He was
raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,"
"Matthew 12:40 for just as JONAH WAS THREE
DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY…"
Bible IN Five= Road to Emmaus Bible Study
"Luke 24:13 And behold, two of them were going that
very day to a village named Emmaus…. "21…it is the
third day since these things happened."
"Luke 24:27 Then beginning with Moses and with all
the prophets, He explained to them the things
concerning Himself in all the Scriptures."
Gen 1:10+12 the third day gets a double blessing
14. Double Blessing On The Third Day?
"Genesis 22:4 On the third day Abraham raised
his eyes and saw the place from a distance.“
"Hebrews 11:17 "By faith Abraham, when he was
tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had
received the promises was offering up his only
begotten son; 18 it was he to whom it was said,
"IN ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS SHALL BE
CALLED.“ 19 He considered that God is able to
raise people even from the dead, from which he
also received him back as a type."
“a type”= a Father who sacrificed His only
begotten Son, who was received back from the
dead on the third day
15. The Third Day, The Day Of Double Blessing
John 2:1 “On the third day there was a wedding in
Cana of Galilee…” Jesus 1st miracle
Luke 24:46 and He said to them, "Thus it is written,
that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the
dead the third day,
Acts 10:40 "God raised Him up on the third day…
Genesis 12:3 …in you all the families of the earth will
be blessed.“
"Acts 27:19 and on the third day they threw the
ship's tackle overboard with their own hands."
No hope, good as dead, then... "Acts 27:24 saying,
'Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before
Caesar; and behold, God has granted you all those
who are sailing with you.'"
16. The Third Day, The Day Of Double Blessing
"Leviticus 7:15 'Now as for the flesh of the sacrifice of
his thanksgiving peace offerings, it shall be eaten on
the day of his offering..."
" Leviticus 7:16 'But if the sacrifice of his offering is a
votive or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the
day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day
what is left of it may be eaten;"
"Leviticus 7:18 'So if any of the flesh of the sacrifice
of his peace offerings should ever be eaten on the
third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, and it
will not be reckoned to his benefit. It shall be an
offensive thing, and the person who eats of it will
bear his own iniquity."
After the third day Jesus is the only “peace offering”
17. Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown On
“Bring Forth Grass”
Let the earth bring forth grass. "The earth," or "the dry
land," which had been separated from the waters,
was as yet only bare soil, but it was about to be
stocked with vegetable life; and it is noticeable that
the trees, plants, and grasses-the three great
divisions of the vegetable kingdom here mentioned-
were not called into existence in the same way as the
light and the air: they were made to grow, and they
grew, as they do still, out of the ground; not, however,
by the self-developing powers of the earth, but
through the energy of creative power, without rain,
dew, or any process of labour or cultivation. But
nothing further is said and whether they were created
in full maturity or the seeds were deposited in the soil,
the quickening virtue was imparted to them by the
command, 'Let the earth bring forth, young
tenderness, grass, Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary
18. Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown said;
…But nothing further is said and whether they
were created in full maturity or the seeds were
deposited in the soil, the quickening virtue was
imparted to them by the command…
But what does Scripture say?
God didn‟t say “Let there be seeds” or “Let the
land bring forth seeds”, He said…
Gen 1:11 "Let the land produce vegetation:….”
If God wants vegetation does He have to make a
seed?
If we can clone from a few cells (DNA)…
20. Full Maturity Or The Seeds?
God creates with “apparent age”, “functional
maturity” Henry Morris, Defenders Study Bible, pg 5
Hugh Ross says it would be deceitful for God to
create like that., and that creation is the 67 book.
"Genesis 1:11 Then God said, "Let the earth
sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit
trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind
with seed in them"; and it was so. 12 The earth
brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed
after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with
seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that
it was good." "Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let
Us make man in Our image, according to Our
likeness…” with “functional maturity”
21. Genesis 1:11, Seeds, Seeds, See
"Genesis 1:11 Then God said, "Let the earth
sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit
trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with
seed in them"; and it was so. 12 The earth brought
forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their
kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them,
after their kind; and God saw that it was good."
When pollination occurs, the seeds start to grow,
kicking in hormones that stimulate growth of the
fruit.
22. Other Profound Questions
Did Adam have a bellybutton?
Did Eve have a bellybutton?
If God likes bellybuttons, could they have them?
Jesus had one, He is God,
Gen 1:26 Thenhave one less rib than Eve make man in
Adam God said, "Let us
our image, in our likeness,…
Did Adam have one less rib than Eve?
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
Gen 1:21 So God created ….every winged bird
according to its kind.
23. Other Profound Questions
This account isn‟t recorded in Scripture, the
Talmud, or the Mishnah, but I heard that Adam
woke up one night and Eve was tickling him. He
asked her what she was doing, she said she was
counting his ribs.
She wanted to know if there was any other
women.
24. Creation Days
Day 1 = “Light & Darkness”
Day 2 = "Sky“
Day 3 = “Dry Ground and Vegetation“
26. Sun, Moon, and Stars
Gen 1:14-15…let them serve as signs to mark
seasons and days and years,…
Days = earths axis
Month = moons orbit
Year = earths orbit
Week = ?
Ex 20:9-10 Six days you shall labor and do all
your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath…
27. Gen 1:16, He Also Made the Stars
Painting of the birth of a star , NASA image
28. Sun, Moon, and Stars
5 Reasons for them;
to separate the day from the night
signs to mark seasons and days and
years
to give light on the earth
to govern the day and the night
and to separate light from darkness.
29. Sun, Moon, and Stars
So, did God instantly provide Sun,
Moon, and Stars and the light from
them, or did it take billions of “light
years” for the light to get to earth?
Light years is a speed, 186,000 miles
per second. Speed is a ratio of time to
distance. Time is a variable, affected by
mass, acceleration and gravity. God
says He stretched out the heavens in…
30. Isa 42:5 This is what God the Lord says — he who
created the heavens and stretched them out,
Isa 44:24 I am the Lord, who has made all things,
who alone stretched out the heavens,
Isa 45:12 It is I who made the earth and created
mankind upon it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled
their starry hosts.
Isa 51:13 that you forget the Lord your Maker, who
stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of
the earth,
Jer 10:12 But God made the earth by his power; he
founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the
heavens by his understanding.
31. Creation Days
Day 1 = “Light & Darkness”
Day 2 = "Sky”
Day 3 = “Dry Ground and Vegetation”
Day 4 = “Sun, Moon, and Stars”
33. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth.
Bereshith (beginning)
Bara (Latin, Ex-Nihilo)
Elohim (God)
Shamayim (Plural/Dual, 1st. & 2nd. Heavens)
Erets (earth)
34. New creation cosmology
New creation cosmology
Refined time dilation model appears in Journal of Creation without fanfare
by Journal of Creation editorial staff
Figure 1. By now, the waters above the heavens (Psalm 148:4) are probably a thin veil of ice particles, or scattered planet-sized spheres of water covered with thick crusts of ice.
Published: 25 June 2009(GMT+10)
Unless you have attended one of Russ Humphreys‟ seminars in the last few months, or else read the Journal of Creation cover to cover, you probably missed the birth of a new creation
cosmology in the December 2008 issue. Quietly tucked into the back pages of an article by Dr. Humphreys on general relativity is a new answer to the light-transit-time problem—to
explain how light traveled from the distant cosmos and reached Earth, all during one ordinary-length day on Earth, the fourth day of creation. Humphreys used an equation he derived in
the August 2007 issue, a new solution to Einstein‟s gravity equations. The new solution accounts for the effect of the “waters that are above the heavens” mentioned in Psalm 148:4
(Figure 1), and the effect of God‟s creating the material of the stars during the fourth day (Isaiah 40:26).
When the sphere reaches zero radius and disappears, Earth emerges, and immediately the light that has been following the sphere will reach Earth, even light that started billions of light-
years away.
Accordingly, the model says that early on the fourth day, God‟s creation of Sun and planets nearby plunges Earth into a zone of timelessness. In the zone all physical processes,
including clocks, come to a complete stop. The spherical zone of timelessness expands out from the earth at the speed of light, engulfing the newly-created stars and galaxies. After
reaching the most distant galaxies, the timeless zone reverses itself and begins shrinking back toward the earth at the speed of light. As it does so, it uncovers the new galaxies, which
immediately begin emitting light again. Some of that light goes toward the center where the earth is, right behind the shrinking sphere of timelessness. Dr Humphreys: “When the sphere
reaches zero radius and disappears, Earth emerges, and immediately the light that has been following the sphere will reach Earth, even light that started billions of light-years away. On
the fourth day, “An observer on the night side of the earth would see a black sky one instant, and a sky filled with stars the next instant.”
An observer on the night side of the earth would see a black sky one instant, and a sky filled with stars the next instant.
This new cosmology springs from the same root as his 1994 cosmology in Starlight and Time, namely a cosmos with a center of mass, the earth near it (on a cosmological scale of
distances), and expansion of space. (Dr John Hartnett has two creation cosmologies that have these features as well.) However, Dr Humphreys likes his new model better than his old
one, saying it is clearer and simpler. Dr Hartnett agrees with that, saying that it solves the problem of time dilation for stars that are relatively near. We‟ve decided to make Humphreys‟
2008 Journal of Creation article available earlier than normal, here on the CMI website. He hopes to submit an article to the website soon explaining the new cosmology in simple terms—
no equations or graphs, but possibly some animated graphics. Warning: it will be understandable, but mind-stretching!
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