7 Days of Creation | Cartography Post - 6 Minute Read
Day 1: God creates everything. Physical, spiritual, time, space, etc. The earth is just a sphere of water, hanging in empty space. Then He creates light to penetrate the dark, thus creating Day and Night.
Day 2: God separates the upper water (the Pre-Flood water canopy) from the lower water (the oceans), creating the atmosphere in between.
Day 3: God draws the lower waters apart and dry land appears. Then He creates plants, trees, and all vegetation.
Day 4: God creates the Sun, Moon, and stars for light in the day and in the night, and to mark seasons and times.
Day 5: God forms all the creatures in the sea and air.
Day 6: God forms all land animals. Then He creates mankind in His image. He creates them male and female. Notice, He didn't create dozens of people for the supposed many "genders". Just Adam and Eve, the first man and woman.
Day 7: God looks on His creation and sees that it is complete, and rests. Not that He needed the rest, He is setting a standard for humans to follow; work is good and rest is good. Plus, by rest, I think it means He wandered about the Earth and space observing all the wonderful things moving in true harmony.
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I have been wanting to create a series of Biblical maps illustrating the story and depth of what God has done and is doing on Earth. Where better to start than with the creation of Earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.”
And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. - Genesis 1:1-5
How simple and honest is that? Approximately 6,000 years ago, God created the natural and the supernatural; space and time. Not the 13 billion years that evolutionist hypothesize. Do you actually know how the Evolutionary model starts?
In the beginning was absolute nothing (meaning not that there was an empty canvas that needed painted, but that there was no canvas, paints, brushes, or intelligence). But there is a huge wrinkle. The scientists go on to say, all the UNIVERSE (space and matter) did exist and was packed smaller than an atom (just because you claim it's smaller than an atom doesn't answer where it came from.)
Joke:
Person, "Where'd that dust pile come from."
Scientists, vacuum-packing it into a small square, "What dust? I see nothing..."
Back to the story.
BOOM! It all blows up, fiery particles flying in all directions. I admit that subjecting gasses to an explosion could cause stars, but what about planets and such. So now you have a canvas and black paint. If you equally mix all existing colors, you get a dull gray-black.
Next over billions of years those flaming gases cool and form solid matter (how many times have you found newly formed gold or minerals in your fireplace or barbecue pit?). Miraculously the colors have separated and you have more then just black paint. (Cause, you know, leave something long enough and it will fix itself. <- Evolution is responsible for teaching procrastination.)
So suppose the atoms did separate and then fuse together with others making different materials, flying immeasurably fast through space, how would they create the beautiful nature that we have today?
Here is a school project for you: Load all the colors of the rainbow into a shotgun shell (try keep them from mixing), then shoot a canvas. You should end up with the Mona Lisa... never fails.
To make a multi-billion years story short, out of lava came stone. Then from stone came water, from water came organisms (believe me, I drain any standing water that has algae in it, lest a gold fish or human form), from organisms came fish->amphibians->mammals->birds etc.
If such things were possible why did Evolution happen so evenly? Why aren't there fish-humans, dog-birds, mosquito-horses walking amongst us today? Where is the intelligent plant life and talking trees?
Because it is simply man trying to steal God's glory; denying that you and me are created in God's image, and that all of creation is God's precious handiwork. Can you honestly look in the mirror and say that you are a descendant of pond scum -> fish -> frogs -> apes -> neanderthals?
God created everything. The Bible is God's written communication with humans.
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." - 2 Timothy 2:16
And
"That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us." - Hebrews 6:18
Thus if God cannot lie then the creation account in Genesis must be telling the truth. The following is a direct quote from the Bible of the Creation account:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.
God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.”
And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. - Genesis 1:1-31 NIV
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