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 Many say the universe is millions of years old. The bible however talks about God creating the universe in 6 days. That begs the question, what sort of a day are we talking about? What is the definition of a day according to Genesis chapter one?

People say there are three possible answers. The first is that these Genesis days are 24-hour days, just like today. The second view is sometimes called the day age theory. That position holds that the days are long periods (eons of Time). Meaning these days represent 6 successive ages. The third interpretation is one you might not have heard of but it popular among certain sections of the evangelical church and it is called revelatory days. The idea of revelatory days is that God did not create in six literal days, rather he revealed his creation over six literal days.

However, what I would like us to do is look at this passage just like we would look at any other passage in the bible. What I mean by that is I would like to do is go through these verses and apply the same rules of interpretation just like I would with any other passage of scripture. It may also be reasonable to compare the conclusion of such study and see how these views compare to each other.

Let me remind you, we were told last time the opening two verses of Genesis that, God created the heavens and the earth and when he did the earth was without form and void. As I suggested last time that as we progress through the rest of this chapter, we are told how God formed the earth and populated it with his created creatures. The first three days tell us about God creating light, the sky, the land and the plants. The second three days then run as a parallel to the first three days. Have you ever noticed on the first day he created light? But it will not be until the fourth day he will creates the sun and the moon.  On the second day he creates what we would call the sky and on the fifth day he will create the fish and the birds. On the third day He created the land and plants, but not until the sixth day will he create humanity and animals to roam around the world that he has created.

In this message I would like us to look at just the first  Over the next few podcasts we shall look together at the “days” of creation  Then I would like to finish by making a spiritual application of how this all might meaningfully apply to us living out our Christian faith in the 21st century.

This passage beginning in verse three tells us here that God created the heavens and the earth. So, let’s start with the first day.

 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

(Gen 1:3-5)

 Lets be clear here, when it’s talks about light here it is talking about the element of light, not what we would simply think of as a light emitting heavenly body like the sun. What he creates light on the first day, it is the elemental principal of light. God then saw the light was good, and he divided the light from the darkness. So evidently previously there was nothing, an absence of even light, and God spoke/commanded “let there be light”, and there was light. When the text tells us when he saw the light was good, it means the light was useful for something. It was declared good, because it had a purpose.

That was the first day, so what about the second day.