Lesson 5 Flashcards
1
Q
What evidence is presented in this lecture to support the view that the days in Genesis 1 are 24-hour days?
A
- The text reads like historical narrative
- The meaning of yom as a regular day
a. Used with a specific number
b. Pattern of reference to evening and morning
i. Not used on Day 7
ii. A description of the eighth day does not follow
c. The obvious first impression reading of Gen 1
d. Moses’ comment in Exod 20:11 - Statements in scripture support direct creation within a short time period
a. “And God said . . . and it was so.”
b. NT statements
i. “But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female” (Mark 10:6)
ii. Mark 13:19; Luke 11:50-51 - The priority of special revelation over general revelation
- Problems of chronology are considered in the Regular Day view
a. Creation of light before the creation of the heavenly lights on the fourth day
i. The ultimate source of light is God, not the heavenly bodies
ii. “He wraps himself in light as with a garment” (Ps 104:2)
iii. “The sun will no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you, but the Lord will be to you an everlasting light” (Isa 60:19-20)
iv. “There shall be no night there; they need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light” (Rev 22:5)
b. Genesis 2 and Day 6: various views of the relationship
i. Genesis 2:5-6 describes the same conditions as Gen 1:2, “the unrelieved expanse of waters,” (Kidner 1966, 109-14)
ii. Genesis 2:4-25 resumes and expands Days 3b and 6b together (Futato, 1998)
iii. Genesis 2:4-7 further describes Day 6 from Gen 1.
They cannot be regular days (Archer, 1984; Collins, 1999)
They are regular days, but Gen 2:4-25 focuses on Eden, not the whole earth (Cassuto 1961)
iv. Genesis 2:4-7 anticipates the things affected by the Fall in 3:8-24 (Sailhammer 1996)
The meaning of siah and eseb
“Of the field.”
Wild plants (Gen 1) versus domesticated plants (Gen 2)
Adam names the animals versus naming Eve
