Answers Bible Curriculum 2nd Edition Unit 2 Lesson 13
This week in Sunday school, we investigate the word “day” as used in Genesis 1 as well as the first four days of the creation sequence. Could the Genesis 1 “day” be legitimately understood as something other than a 24 hour period? What exactly happened on each of the first four days of creation? And what is the significance of the phrase “after their kind” as used in the text?
Our main text for this lesson is Genesis 1:1-19.
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all right well let’s begin good morning welcome back to sunny school you’re now meeting across the distance it was good to see many of you in person last week but I’m glad that we can continue to go through this study of God’s Word together last week we over viewed these six days of creation presented in the Genesis one account and we saw off first of all that this account in Chapter 1 is historical nereids it is a sequence of events that actually occurred in history and it’s reported that way in the text we also saw that the means by which God created is actually explicit in the Genesis 1 account it doesn’t just tell us that God created but not how no one tells us how God created God created by his word by command by Fiat we also saw that the sequence of events presented in Genesis 1 differs sharply with the sequence of events that’s suggested by modern secular scientific theory if you want to combine these two things together man’s modern theories and the Genesis 1 account you’re gonna come up with problems and you’re gonna have to reinterpret one or the other and usually what happens is the Bible gets reinterpreted well today’s lesson we’re gonna continue our look at creation by focusing on the first four days of creation and specifically specifically the idea of days the idea of kinds here’s our lesson agenda we’re going to look at the word day that Hebrew word yo that’s used in Genesis 1 we’re going to talk about objections to understanding this word as 24 hours consider whether those objections have merit and we’ll consider what specifically took place on the first 4 days of creation and associated with that we’re gonna look at the idea of kinds and note that today’s lesson is going to contain a fair amount of apologetic information for understanding Genesis 1 so there’s not going to be a separate application slide at the end the application is the information and the responses to objections that I’ll be giving you throughout the lesson all right well let’s now pray so I trust that everybody can hear me and I’m gonna move on alright so we’re gonna have to speed things up a little bit to make up for the lost time but talking about how words have multiple meanings in a language but you understand the meaning based on the context of how that word is used and this is true for the word day both in English and in Hebrew day has multiple meanings but we know the meaning of the word day by the context around the usage of each time that word is used and let me show you some example from the Bible where we see different meanings of the word day mm-hmm but how the meaning is still clear from the context so first Genesis 35 28 Genesis 35 28 so follow along in my apply to just so I know everybody is it says now the days of Isaac or 180 years what days mean in this context it doesn’t mean a 24-hour period it means a period of time days is defined for us in the sentence days these days belong to Isaac and they’re separately defined as 180 years the day just means a period of time actually a specific period of time but that’s what day means here a little bit of kiss 9 1 is another example Leviticus 9 1 now it came about on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his son and the elders of Israel hmm what does they mean here well this is a specific set of 24 hours and how do we know that well it’s a narrative passage we have an ordinal number placed in front of the word day 8 and that indicates and these things indicate that were part of a series or sequence so this is the 24-hour day the next passage numbers 1132 says the people spent all day and all night and all the next day and gathered the quail he who gathered least gathered 10 homers and they spread out for themselves spread them out for themselves all around the camp what is de meme and miss verse well this is just a daylight portion of a set of 24 hours how do we know that well because the context this time we have de presented alongside the term night if all day but we also have the word all all day and then we have all night and all the next day so we have this contrast this comparison between day night show showing us okay this is not 24-hour period this is just the daylight portion of the day and then one more please dance cue 7:14 please do 7:14 in the day of prosperity be happy but in the day of adversity consider God has made the one as well as the other so that man will not discover anything that will be after him what did it day mean in this verse well day is just a period of time how do we know that well look at how they described it is a day of prosperity and day of adversity this is not how we normally talk about the word day in fact if we think about prosperity or adversity they are not limited to a particular set of hours it’s not like okay this prosperity will end at midnight or this adversity will begin at precisely midnight no there’s just periods of time that can be a day or can be longer than a day could be years the point is in the time of prosperity or in the time of adversity you need to consider this counsel and this makes sense because of how wisdom literature operates Ecclesiastes proverbs etc they often speak in terms of Maxim’s and they’ll talk about the fool the wise man the day of such-and-such and they’re talking generally not about a particular one day or a particular person but such from these example the hope you see the understanding day is actually pretty straightforward you don’t need a PhD to figure out which meaning of the word day is meant in a particular passage you just look at the words and phrases used around the word now let’s consider how this works in Genesis 1 what is a day in Genesis 1 now we’re not going to read through the passage but you know that we have the word day appearing many times the text first 8 verse 5 verse 8 verse 13 verse 19 verse 23 verse 31 what is the sense of day in these verses well has to be a 24 hour day how do we know this well again what are the clues from the context we see that were given the elements of the day repeatedly in a text we have there is evening and morning the day is defined for us in terms of you evening a morning that represents the 24 hours of a day also the days presented within a narrative sequence of events which is usual for a 24 hour day and the days are all numbered with an ordinal number there was the first day there was the second day there was the third day we just do the same thing with this passage as we do the other passages in the Bible and receive grammatical context the word day indicates we have 24-hour days this is the plain sense of the text it’s not rocket science this is the sense of the Hebrews would have understood when they got ready to go into the Promised Land these were normal 24-hour days that God used to create the world but there are more reasons than just the grammar for us to take day at 24 hours in Genesis 1 let me give you four other arguments so a total of five reasons to take in 24 hour a day on the slide we should already be displaying we have the grammar cues which we just reviewed evening morning the number narrative sequence then there’s the pattern of the Sabbath okay Exodus chapter 20 verses 8 to 11 Exodus 20 verses 8 to 11 this is where we get some will we get God talking God Himself speaking and giving us the giving people of Israel and the Ten Commandments and one of them relates to Sabbath and look at the way that God articulates this command God says starting in verse 8 remember the sabbath day to keep it holy six days you shall labor and do all your work but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord that is Yahweh your God in it you shall not do any work you or your son or your daughter your male or your female servant or your cattle or your Sojourner who stays with you for in six days Yahweh made the heavens in the earth the sea and all that is in them and rested on the seventh day therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy you see here that God uses the fact that he created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh day and making it holy as the reason that Israelites must work in six days and then rest on the Sabbath day this sanctification the seventh day was no joke because we see just a little bit later on in the Torah an Israelite later violates the Sabbath by gathering wood on the Sabbath and he’s put to death God was serious about did the Israelites keeping holy this day that God made holy in creation but if this Sabbath commandment was based on only a symbolic creation account it doesn’t really tell the Israelites how God created the earth or how long it took to do so or if this Sabbath commandment is based on the original creation we’ve taking a length of time longer than a literal week then the reasoning that God gives to Israel for keeping a Sabbath makes no sense we’ve already noted previously that God could have commanded the whole universe to come into being in one moment we should ask why did God take so long why did he elongate his creation process into six whole days of work and then one day of rest I mean I didn’t actually need it to rest did he well of course not but was not the creation process specifically designed among other reasons for the institution of Israel’s Sabbath which would serve as a shadow pointing to the ultimate Sabbath rest found in God’s Son Jesus Christ the Sabbath picture and the Sabbath command are entirely tied up with creation taking the creation days as something other than 24 hours makes the Sabbath commandment totally arbitrary and we can’t just go down the wrath out that some do of saying well it was just seven periods he’s establishing a pattern of periods and he had these periods of work and creation and and they’re gonna have periods of work but they’re their periods are only going to be days oh that’s very arbitrary because if what God did add undefined period you didn’t really know what one period went to the next and there was no particular it’s not not limited to a day then couldn’t somebody said the same thing about the Sabbath alright maybe your Sabbath begins at this particular time but my Sabbath hasn’t gotten that long all right hasn’t begun yet how do you know when the Sabbath was supposed to start supposed to end how could you enforce Commandments about the Sabbath if the original the pattern that the Sabbath is based off of doesn’t have define period so the Sabbath pattern is another reason why we have to take the days in Genesis 1 a 24-hour days there’s also many Testament New Testament confirmed ow that boasts in the words of Jesus and the words of the Apostles that the way to understand days in Genesis 1 is 24-hour periods witness Moses says in mark 10:45 so mark 10 verses 5 week it says that Jesus said because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment that’s from the beginning of creation God made them male and female for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and the two shall become one flesh they are no longer two but one flesh and when the context Jesus is repudiating the idea of divorce as understood by the Jews in Jesus’s day they thought you could divorce for any reason and Jesus goes back to the design of marriage and creation he says divorce was not part of God’s marriage design but in the way he articulates this argument he affirms 24 hours days in Genesis 1 because he says from the beginning of creation this is how God made man in female and this is how he made marriage now for that to be true there could not be long periods of time between day 1 and day 6 in the creation narrative the only way to have these things be true at the beginning of creation after all man was not made on the first day man was made on the sixth day and so was marriage for marriage and man should be part of the beginning of creation it couldn’t be we couldn’t be very long after the first day they acted the absolute beginning of creation the only way to keep these time period short and to keep man and marriage at the beginning of creation is to have the days of Genesis 1 be 24-hour days and this can’t be as some trying to maintain that oh we should understand his phrase and Mark as from the beginning of the human races creation know that that’s inserting something into the text that doesn’t have any clues that that’s the way we should take it in fact if we we won’t do this now but if we trace the phrase the beginning of creation or even the beginning in the beginning in the New Testament every other instance outside of this one refers to the beginning of creation and is not limited to the beginning of man so to a assert that this verse must be talking about the beginning of man not the beginning of creation and basically the ICG it’s just a force something into the text the text doesn’t doesn’t give you that it says from the beginning of creation that’s hope that’s Jesus’s whole point there was no time virtually no time when these truths about male and female in marriage were there was no time where these things were different because it’s right from the beginning of creation now there are other verses besides beep but this is I think one of the main ones there’s a fourth reason why we should take the Genesis one day the 24-hour days and that’s the problem of death and disease common corruption because long ages in the creation week while used to support evolution and the current popular interpretations of the fossil record they mean that death disease thorns cancer carnivore killing they were all present in God’s very good creation before the fall I mean that’s what the Falls were record showing that we see these things in the fall of that supposedly existed on the earth before man and before for the events of Genesis 2 and 3 now not only do death the storage carnivore behavior not only do they qualify obviously as not good for the contradicts the newness of the curses given to the world and to man as a result of sin and Genesis 3 and the explicit statement of the New Testament like Romans 5:12 therefore just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin so death spread to all men because all sinned and Romans 8:22 21 Romans 8:22 21 says for the creation was subjected to futility not willingly but because the human who subjected it in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God now again people will sometimes try to reinterpret err we explained these verses by saying I don’t know death just it was just human death that came through sin that’s not what Romans 5:12 says it says through one man sin entered the world and death through sin sin came into the world death came into the world yes death spread to all men because they’re part of the world and because they’re part of Hanneman is sin but this again we can’t read information into this that is foreign to the text it says it entered the world and that accords with a roman date said creation was subjected to futility that is not a good thing futility it’s very frustrating it is not a sign of a good creation and it’s going to be set free from this slavery to corruption one day to maintain long ages in Genesis want to see the days of something other than 24 hours you have to contradict these text you have to insist that not good elements were part of God’s very good creation before the fall and then is a fifth we in the next church history before the popularization of geological uniformity King and that just means that that’s the scientific assumption that whatever we see today is the way things have always been we can just read the processes that we see now to explain everything that’s happened in the past before the popularization of this idea in the late 1700s virtually every Christian theologian took the days of Genesis want had 24-hour days now understand that the age of enlightenment that’s the period where this this change in belief and this greater reliance on autonomous human reasoning understand that the Age of Enlightenment was not the first time that the church encountered naturalistic explanations of the universe’s origin it was a great quotation from early church father basil of Caesarea he lived in the fourth century so 300 AD and he laments the folly of those who distrust the Genesis account and suppose that the universe came about merely by the chance interaction of material elements and that sounds a lot like evolution in the Big Bang that idea was around not articulated in the same way but it was around and Basel this great church father you saying hire people foolishly turning to this instead of trusting what Genesis said also the early Christians they lived in a time in which many ancient cultures claimed to have history that went back for tens of thousands of years I think Egypt said claimed that it was a hundred thousand years old and nations kingdoms they like to affirm how old they were because that seemed to give them more legitimacy I seem to get them more prestige and so they claim that they existed for thousands of years but Christians when they encountered these claims they confidently dismissed them and asserted the Bible’s history and they saw this as describing a universe that was less than six thousand years old there’s only during the Enlightenment that many Christians backpedaled on creation miracles and other aspects of the Bible that just didn’t seem reasonable according to new trends and man’s thinking but that should tell us something what God’s Word really inscrutable for 1,700 years were all Christians nearly all Christians misled when they understood the days of Genesis 1 to be 24 hour days that’s quite a claim that’s that has a lot to say about the Bible’s inerrancy or the Bible’s clarity if no one could understand it properly only until the late 1700s so to summarize we have an abundance of reasons for us to take the Genesis 1 days this 24-hour days there are clear grammatical cues in the Hebrew there’s creations relationship with the Hebrew week and Sabbath there’s the New Testament statements on creation there’s a problem of death and corruption in days that are longer than 24 hours and then there’s the witness of 1,700 years of church history so for these reasons and more we can be confident that the days of creation cannot be anything else than 24-hour day but before I move on I want to briefly respond to some objections about what I’ve just presented perhaps you’ve heard these objections or maybe you have them yourself what seem to be reasons that you just can’t take the Genesis 1 days or 24 hours here’s the first one I’ve got 4 view Genesis 1 can’t be talking about 24-hour days because the Sun wasn’t created an until day four there’s no Sun there can’t be deign there can’t be night so clearly this is a figurative account well the answer to this objection is fairly simple God made a 24-hour day night cycle without using the Sun in the first three days of creation that’s what he did and this is not a novel answer because it’s the same answer that early Christians gave to people who objected to the Genesis account modern man is not the first one to point out that oh it’s strange that you have light without the Sun but they said the same thing that I’m saying now on day one God caused light to shine on the earth supernaturally and this light must have been a directional light because there is also darkness with a supernatural source of light God call it the evening and morning to transpire on the yet unfinished but apparently rotating earth there’s no reason God could not do this I’m a straightforward sense Genesis one assumes that this is just what he did so you can still have days without the Sun because you’ve got got another objection Genesis 2:4 shows us that the days of Genesis 1 are not necessarily literal hmm okay well what does Genesis 2:4 saying it says it’s the account earth one day breccia hey that ok made earth and this is various and this is one and eat that’s right creation and then God resting on the seventh day but then verse 4 chapter God created everything in one day is this a contradiction just one account is not to be taken at the Stork form awareness well notice if you’re looking for the word day and does not have it in context does not have the same mark this is one don’t see number descriptions of morning and moreover this uses one and two versus one we’re explicitly seeing all those contacts indicating so we just interpret before they local context I think of what came before it in that Genesis 2:4 isn’t reference to a 24-hour day one of the other meanings which is a period of commit or a period and it’s talking about the period of traits when it says in the day they got saying what God created here in the period in which God created the earth and you can have another meaning of the word day but you always have to pay attention to the context clues a day doesn’t always and we have in Genesis that indicate by the way the phrase in Hebrew in the day that it can be translated idiomatically simply as when when it says literally in the day that that’s just the Hebrew way of saying when now we’re gonna see the same thing in Genesis 3 when God warns Adam that in the day that you eat of this fruit you will die oh if we if we’re not paying attention that to the context and how the word day and that multiple meanings will say well God was wrong because animate the fruit and he didn’t die I mean he lasted more than a day he lasted nine hundred years well again Dave being using different cents in the day that is just when when you did this fruit Adam you’re gonna die that’s gonna be the result that’s gonna be the consequence it’s not restricting the result or the consequence to a 24-hour period now one other or two more objections next one is well second Peter 3:8 says do not let this one fact escape your notice beloved that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like one day surely this new test never shows us that days can represent thousands or even millions of years in God ah well again let’s understand this person Peter in contact verse 9 of second Peter 3 is especially helpful it says the Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness but is patient toward you not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance Peters audience persecuted believers dealing with false teachers they were wondering about the parents slowness of God to keep his promise to come back to the earth and there were godless mockers who were saying that God was never going to come back and that nothing would ever change or has ever changed on the earth the Peter reminds believers that this is not the case things have changed a lot since the beginning of the earth and God isn’t slow at all and in fact God’s sense of time is totally different from ours it can’t even be fully described to comprehend it notice 2nd Peter 3:8 says that not only is a day like a thousand years but also a thousand years is like a day how can you both be true how can time for God be both really slow and really fast well that’s because we can’t fully understand God’s timing God is not bound by time but we can know that God is patient and that he does everything at exactly the right time come over we can hopefully we can understand that this verse cannot be a formula for understanding days from God’s perspective work God days as I’ve heard them called this this verse were such a formula we believe hopelessly lost because we have two contradicting formulas is a god day a thousand years or is it one one thousandth of an earth day which one are we to take and how do we know which one we are to take not to mention Psalm 90 verse 4 says that a thousand years I like I watched in the night for the Lord which is only about three hours so how do we define a God day it’s fruitless for us to try and figure out exactly what a god day is because God has an experience days like we do God is eternal God is infinite he is able to be in time and yet outside of time we could not figure out what it what a day for God is like because God doesn’t experience days like we do moreover it would be totally useless for any part of the Bible to talk to us in terms of God days as I say there’s really no such thing but if there were we couldn’t understand what is meant by those days because we don’t experience them so why even mention it talking in terms of God days it only makes sense of God were talking to himself but the Bible is not God talking to himself the Bible has got talking to us revealing himself to us therefore you shouldn’t use a term that only he would understand he uses the term that we would understand this is the pattern that we see in God’s revelation when he talks in terms of measurement stats he speaks in human terms I mean considers when God gives Noah directions on how to build the ark in Genesis he gives it to him in cubits let me give it doing some God measurement and Noah wouldn’t understand that mean that’d be counterproductive Noah would never be able to build a boat God speaks to him in terms of cuba’s we’re in going to the other side of the Bible in Revelation when the Apostle John is hearing about the measurements in the New Jerusalem he gets these presented to him in terms of stadia which was a measurement familiar in the Roman era again this is a human measurement God doesn’t speak in terms of some divine measurement that we could never figure out he speaks in human measurement in fact Revelation 21 verse 17 even said describing this measurement of that an angel is measuring and it says and he measured its wall 72 yards according to human measurements which are also angelic measurement now that’s that’s so interesting because the tech of telling us human measurements our angelic measurement at least in this incident so it is the same situation when God gives measurements of time in the Bible every time we have gone describing the passage of time it is in human terms it’s a way that we can understand how its specific but it is always in a way that we can comprehend it’s in our language it’s in days it’s in weeks it’s in months it’s in years God wrote the Bible to communicate to it that makes sense that he uses our measurements in his Bible therefore there’s no reason for us to understanding of the Genesis daily based on 2nd Peter 3:8 or Psalm 90 we can’t reduce Genesis of the days of Genesis God days or today’s from God’s perspective because first of all there’s no such thing second of all it would make no sense to talk to man in such a way especially maybe so liable to misunderstand that would definitely call the competence of God as a communicator into question one final objection Hebrews for sure that the seventh day of creation the day of God’s wrath never ended therefore the days of creation are figurative and not 24 hours well Hebrews 4 4 does say that God rested on the seventh day from all his works and also clarifies that sinners and those that don’t believe in God they shall not enter my rest Hebrews 4 9 further says so there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God and connected with this argument from Hebrews 4 is the observation that the seventh day in Genesis one is the only one in which we do not see the phrase there was evening and morning the seventh day so the argument is made all right God rested on the seventh day not it um yeah God rested on the seventh day there’s a Sabbath rest for the people of God and this day in Genesis 1 the seventh day is unique so it must be figurative it must not be 24 hours and therefore the other days must be like the seventh day they also must be figurative and not 24 hours well first of all let me say that it is a non sequitur it does not follow that the absence of the phrase evening and morning means that the seventh day never ended the absence of this phrase at most suggests that there’s something different about the seventh day but we’re told explicitly in the text of Genesis what is different about the seventh day it is the day in which God rested from his work because he was finished likely the phrase is evening and morning were used as part of a transition statement between each day of creation and so we’re not necessary on the day in which creation is complete to say oh yeah absence the evening morning must mean it never ended that that does not follow that’s just importing assumptions it’s the text second of all the sabbath of rent described in hebrew sport is not the same that’s a Sabbath day it’s one rest that God experienced that first Sabbath the seventh day of creation just doesn’t do you continue it it can in the celebrate Columbus work last eternally I mean the Sabbath day wouldn’t be there’s been many recorded in the Bible and maybe you like if they without a true Sabbath this is actually the point of the writer of Hebrews in Hebrews for people of Israel even when they made it into the promised land they didn’t experience the – rest of God because the people had not done what God did that first Sabbath they had not rested from their work in Christ however Jew and Gentile believers do exactly as God did it creation they rest from work they satisfy themselves in the accomplished work of God this is what it means to enter God’s Sabbath rest and that is an eternal rest those who try to use Hebrews forward to extend the length of the seventh day and by extension the rest of the days of creation Genesis from one really bring two problems upon themselves one they confuse the Sabbath rest as the Sabbath day sex is not the same as the Sabbath day but two if these two really were the same the Sabbath rest is the Sabbath Sabbath day and they never ended the seventh day of creation would then be eternal meaning that the rest of the days of creation would have to be eternal – because the whole argument is okay whatever the seven-day is the other ones have to be like it come on you’re saying the seventh day is eternal and therefore that’s why it’s figurative then so much the other days be there also figurative an eternal and that creates a whole new set of problems that actually makes the sense that makes the sense of Genesis 1 impossible it makes it senseless so these objections are ultimately groundless let me say again that we can be confident in taking the Christians I’ve taken for 17 hundred years a days of creation and sequence of the days of the creation sequence in Genesis 1 our 24-hour day now let’s look at specifically what happened within the first four days the first 96 hours of creation now we’re going back to Genesis 1 now 2 verses 1 to 19 we just want to kind of get in some reform what happened on each day what happened on day 1 of creation well we see this in verses 1 to 5 in Genesis 1 God creates the formless earth with water God creates the empty heavens God creates time God creates light God also separates light from darkness and he names the light in darkness calls them day and night respectively what happens on day 2 verses 6 to 8 God creates the expanse or the firmament in heaven God separates the waters by this expanse there are waters below some waters above and God names the expanse he calls it heaven what happens on day 3 on day 3 God gathers the waters into one plate to let the dry land appear notice that land appears if it’s not created on day 3 God names the dry land earth and he names the gathered waters see God also creates vegetation all vegetation on day 3 that reproduces according to different kinds say more about that in just a second and then what happens on day four on day four God creates the lights of the heavens including the Sun the Moon the Stars and the Hebrew word for stars in verse 16 it would include anything that shined in the night sky so that would include the planets basically all the celestial bodies of the cosmos were created on day 4 and when these lights were created they are given a few purposes specifically mentioned in the text there to serve as agents that divide day and night they just serve as time markers signs for seasons days and years and they are to give a light to the earth so God pulls back his supernatural light and he has these celestial bodies provide the light now I don’t think we have time to go through these interpretation questions on the next page I’ll just actually summarize them one question that might come up from the Genesis one accounted what are the waters above on creation day two the most intuitive answer is that this is water visible in the air as clouds some have proposed that it refers to a canopy of water that once fell on the earth during the flood there are some problems with taking either of these two positions however because it says that heavenly bodies were placed in the expanse and the waters would be above the expanse that I mean the Stars and the moon they would be below wherever the water is and that clearly is physically impossible rover Psalm 148 verses 3 to 4 indicates that the waters above the heavens are still there they are part of the highest heavens and they are called upon to praise God that would seem to contradict the idea of these waters falling during the flood therefore someone suggested that the waters above describes a wall of water at the edge of the universe that is to suggest that the universe exists and a giant bubble if if we had more time I explained that what my position on that is I think that this does refer to just the water in the atmosphere I think this is talking from a phenomenological perspective and it’s not talking it’s not actually saying that the stars exist below the water in the Hebrew view these things would have been around the same level it almost kind of like when they look at the heavens it’s like the ceiling of the earth like the inside of a dome and they see the heavenly bodies and the water in the air all moving along the surface of this ceiling and this is not inaccurate the bible does sometimes describe things that we’re used to thinking about scientifically in phenomenological language it’s just like when we take sunrise or sunset that is accurate to describe the experience on earth even if scientifically speaking the Sun doesn’t actually rise or set that’s just the way it appears because we are rotating around the Sun mm-hmm I could maybe talk about that more another time but let’s come back to this idea of kinds notice the next question is what is the significance of plants bearing seed after their kind we see this phrase after their kind describing that the way plants are created on day 3 plants and trees producing speed after their kind what’s so special about this phrase would do significant it means that its first plant according to kind in a way its kind in other words when God he created vegetal kind they reproduce all their own kind this is something we can observe today we can scientifically classified distinct kinds of plants according to similar characteristics and according to fertility with one another whether plants are able to pollinate each other or not I think about the different kinds of peppers you’ve seen or eaten many different colors that many different shapes many different flavors yet they’re all peppers they’re part of the pepper conic Oh what about or think about wheat barley oats and rye they are also the same kind of plant they ever heard of the grain kind now if you plant pepper seeds you’re only gonna get a pepper plant or if you plant barley seeds you’re only gonna get a green plant depending on how you breed your plants you might see a car but you don’t see the plant you don’t plant a puppy and suddenly get a pumpkin plant this is what we see in the creation X in 1113 god-conscious that’s all the same time ever times the grain kind in kind the berry kind being kind etc these kinds did not yet have their great variation that we see today but within the first plant where all the genes all the DNA all the genetic information that would produce the great variety that we do see in the kind today now this is another way that the Genesis account contradicts what is asserted by evolutionary theory today evolution supporters the all life originating from one source and then branching out in various directions and according to evolutionary changes this branching and sub branching from this first common source that sometimes referred to as The Tree of Life from the evolutionary perspective the plant there was a first progenitor plants or plants and these first few plants evolved in multiple directions over millions of years these first plants produce plant offspring that changed kinds becoming new kinds of plants through evolution and that process has repeated until the present day but in contrast Genesis account that describes instead of describing a tree of life that describes what could be called an orchard of life now let’s get I don’t know if you’re looking at the slide already but I have two pictures of that the Tree of Life versus the orchard of life according to Genesis one all the different kinds of plants were present at the beginning and always reproduce according to their kinds displaying increasing variety as they reproduced but never changing times as we’ll see next week this new of animal created on day five and thick and it’s also true at man man is a kind dog is a kind the cat is a kind and animals don’t change kind they will increasingly vary but they do not change kind fundamentally animals are made plants are made man was made to reproduce according to kind and that brings us to the end of what I want to prevent you today let me just recap what what have we seen we’ve observed that there that’s Genesis 1 in an Bible for why the day the creation should be taken whole 24-hour day we’ve also discussed ant to the normal understand that’s one day to this straightforward understanding we’ve also looked specifically at what a cop what got accomplished the first four days of commute if you have comments or questions I welcome them please I know that there’s no format I’m eager to answer questions if I can do you believe that understanding this account properly will be such a great benefit to you and to God’s church but that’s all for this week next week we’re gonna look at Dave’s five and six or creation migration of the animals they’ve done man I hope you’ll be back then let me close in prayer God we we do behold you in awe again for what you did in creation well what you’ve done isn’t me and we still see that today even in the water mark like your amazing design with you you’re making beauty with your amazing goodness oh god these things are more to do that shows that we are B we must give you worship praise thanks and obedience god I pray that among your people at Calvary and anyone listening today and they’d be so pleased to submit themselves to you as the great God and they would love to serve you be obedient to you and to follow you to be conformed into the image of your son Jesus Christ and enjoy eternal life with you forever I’m pray that you’d be so gracious to accomplish this and bless the people as they continue to worship today in Jesus name Amen all right thank you all hopefully we got this internet thing success for next week but I look forward to seeing you then all right goodbye