Patrick, the originator of the 6 questions I stated in one of my first posts here appears quite unwilling to actually dig deeper into the nebulous topics suggested by his “questions,” but I feel that it is worth continuing here anyways.
Although he tries to deny it; Patrick is very busy quoting anti-Adventist sources as he asks these 6 questions, for eg, Canright, an ex-Adventist leader asks the same 6 questions, in very similar wording, in one of his books, and following that lead is every other individual who wants to object to the fourth commandment, using theories of evolution to destroy the Bible account of literal Creation.
A more modern day anti-Adventist cult leader, one Dale Ratzlaf, echoes these 6 questions on page 21-22 of one of his more “famous” books. Of course, it is easy to find web sites which also echo these anti-Adventist cults, and for Patrick to say he came up with these questions all on his own, makes his case appear quite weak on several fronts.
I find it amazing that Catholics here cannot even use their own official writings to oppose the Bible’s literal Creation story, of seven, literal 24 hour days.
When it comes to the source of Patrick’s “questions” it is worth noting as did Philip Melanchthon, in The Augsburg Confession:
“The truth cannot be gathered from common rumors or the revilings of enemies”
In summary, lets examine these 6 questions, one by one. As soon as the first one is discussed a bit, I will be happy to move onto the 2nd one.
Question: 1.
How is there light and darkness, evening and morning for 3 days before the sun and stars are created on the 4th day?
Answer: What the Bible says about Creation, on each of the seven days thereof, is sufficient. I have faith in the literal creation story, because of the written Word of God, and not just God’s Word in Genesis, but, rather, faith in God’s Word everywhere in the Bible which talks about or refers to the creation story, and the seventh-day Sabbath.
Patrick’s requested restriction of only using the text in Genesis 1 & 2 by itself to “answer” his venomous “questions” is not Biblically correct, for on any given subject, the entire Bible must be consulted in order for us to be able to say “the Bible says…"
Here is one of many questions about Patrick’s first "question:
" If all the other days clearly have “evening and mornings” why would the ones where it’s not as clearly or explicitly stated, (such as the seventh day) not also have the same 24 hours? What reason is there to say the number of hours in some of the creation days would be different? And what do you say it will “prove” if they were different, or if they were not literally 24 hours?
The real answer to your question #1 is because God says there was. God said there was “evening and morning” on those first three days, so there was:
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Gen 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Gen 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
We are told elsewhere in Scripture: “by faith we understand…” and this is certainly one of the deciding factors here for this question about how there could be “light and darkness” “evening and morning” for three days before God set the sun and stars in place on the fourth day. Gen.1:7 tells us that “God set them in the firmament of the heaven;” not precluding a source of light being possible on the first three days of creation.
In a similar way; we cannot prove the resurrection is going to happen; except by way of God’s written Word. But we know that it is so; for “by faith we understand…”
In facing this #1 question, it is the same: “…Through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” (Heb.11:3). In other words, science, and evolution cannot fully explain the literal creation.
The days of creation, including the seventh day were literal, 24 hour days, because the Bible declares it. There was “morning and evening” on the first three days. We have to trust that it is so because God declares it in His holy Word.
Is God’s answer not good enough for you?
Maybe the Catholic Church is teaching you to not accept some of God’s answers?
Catholics clearly support the
THEORY of evolution, which is anti-Biblical.
And whats really wild about all this is that Catholics often use their teaching re “evolution”, and related teachings of anti-Adventist cults, even going against their own church’s teachings on the Sabbath, to refute the Sabbath!
He didn’t reply to my post. May be making thigns up agaoin or reading one of Prophet White’s books!
into the text.