1. What Is the Timing of Creation?
Q & A
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What Is the Timing of Creation?

2. Introduction Roots of the Controversy? NATURALISM vs. SUPER-Naturalism
Facts & Biases
NATURALISM vs. SUPER-Naturalism

3. Introduction
Genesis 1:1-31

4. What Is the TIMING of Creation?
The CROSSHAIRS of INTERPRETATION:

5. Context
Correct
Interpretation
Semantic Range

6. CONTEXT CHECK? Examine something Paper to pay bills Mark on a list
Square pattern
Move in chess
Semantic Range

7. CHECK? Checkbook Check that off the list Checked shirt Check my engine
Checkmate
CONTEXT
Correct
Interpretation
Semantic Range

8. What Is the TIMING of Creation?
The CROSSHAIRS of INTERPRETATION:
Hebrew for day = yom
Semantic Range…
Context in Genesis One?

9. What Is the TIMING of Creation?
Context for yom in Gen. 1
There was evening and there was morning…
First day… second day… third day…
24-Hour Day

10. What Is the TIMING of Creation?
Context for Genesis One
Appears in Book of History

11. What Is the TIMING of Creation?
Context for Genesis One
Appears in Book of History
The Historical Necklace…
Each section of Genesis linked to the rest!

12. What Is the TIMING of Creation?
What about Dinosaurs?
Gen. 1:20-25 (Fifth or Sixth Day)
Job 40:15-24 and Job 41:1-34
The Unfortunate Footnotes & Laughable Interpretations

13. What Is the TIMING of Creation?
What about Dinosaurs?
Could Behemoth be an elephant, rhino or a hippo?

14. His tail sways like a cedar?

15. His tail sways like a cedar…

16. Could Leviathan be a Crocodile?

17. Will traders barter for him
Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?

18. If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!

19. Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?

20. His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone
His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

21. The Behemoth: He ranks first among the works of God
The Leviathan: Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature without fear.
Both appear to be colossal animals that lived at Job’s time that are now extinct.

22. Interpreting Scripture with SCRIPTURE
Compatible with OLD Testament
Compatible with JESUS
Compatible with NEW Testament

23. Interpreting Scripture with SCRIPTURE
Created by God’s Command
Our Week & the Sabbath Day like Creation Days
Adam and Eve were at the beginning

24. Interpreting Scripture with SCRIPTURE
Created ex nihilo – “out of nothing.”
No Death before Adam’s sin

25. Conclusion What the Bible Teaches: What an AWESOME CREATOR!
6-Day, Young Earth Creation