Creation Moments

Mark W. Cadwallader: How important is the fact of a six-day creation? Find out on today's Creation Moment. And now, here's our Creation Moment host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Many Christians are willing to accept what Genesis has to say about creation with one exception: they don't want to understand the six days as literal, natural, approximately 24-hour days. Did you know that there are other important portions of scripture that depend upon those six days being literal and normal days?

In Exodus chapter 20, verse 11, the Lord is giving the Ten Commandments to Moses. The Lord is explaining the principle of the Sabbath in this verse. God's explanation says that man shall work six days and rest on the seventh because the Lord himself made the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. Therefore, he blessed the seventh day. These words are repeated in Deuteronomy chapter 5, verse 13.

Surely, no Christian would argue that the Ten Commandments are poetry to be taken figuratively. The Lord is confirming here that his work of creation really occupied six normal days and that he rested on the seventh normal day.

If these days were actually long ages, then we would work for six long ages before we take some rest. We can be sure that this is not what the Lord had in mind. If the Ten Commandments are not to be taken literally because of this connection with creation, where does that leave us? Surely the creation days, by the Lord's own confirmation and commandments to us, are literal, natural, approximately 24-hour days.

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