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Did God Really Create Everything In Six Days?

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As for me and my brothers and sisters in Christ, we know and believe that His Word is the truth.

As for Skeptics, they need to believe that this is not true in order to fit it into their agenda. They believe that it took billions of years for all this to come into existence being that they claim that God doesn't live and His Word is not true. Yet, they have failed to produce any kind of evidence or facts to support what they believe. And yet, they instead, choose to bombard us with ridicule, mocking, and insults because they can't comprehend the one true God as an all powerful being who can create such a vast universe and an earth that can support life.

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
The Gospel of John 1:1-5

Why can't skeptics support their claims; or rather, why do they choose not to support them? Are they ashamed of their belief system knowing that what they're believing is a lie? I have observed that when the skeptics are confronted with the truth, they run. They make up excuse after excuse as to why they run and then they start ridiculing us for what we know and believe is true. They bombard us with mocking thinking that this makes them better than us. In reality, all their ridicule and mocking makes them look like spoiled children with ignorance as their education. This is a highly illogical tactic in that it defeats their purpose and makes them foolish.

20For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Romans 1:20 & 21

Hatred has been known to distort the human mind and wisdom is replaced by foolishness. Skeptics and religious fanatics are a good example of that. God didn't create us to hate one another or to hate Him. He created us to love Him and to love one another. This was His perfect plan from the beginning and it will be His perfect plan in the end.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Not in a literal sense, no, of course not.

Apart from the absurdity, a literal interpretation is very insulting to the God it pretends it is defending; possibly even verging on blasphemy.

It also cheapens the unknown Genesis author and his own, Late Bronze Age, Hebrew culture. Unlike the intellectual and theological blindness of latter-day literalists, he seems to have [i]thought[/i] about it. Thought how to write a lyrical parable - perhaps based on much earlier oral traditions - that made some easily-understood sense to his flock, at a time when no-one had any of the technical knowledge we all enjoy. A purely mystical parable, not a scientific hypothesis; but one considerably better than their equivalents in most religions of their time.

It also insults we who will not obey the desperate literalists; whether we believe in their God, another God, or none.

I wonder how the Genesis author might react if he could come back now, perhaps 2500 years after his death, and see what we now know of God's creation. I think he would be not only hugely impressed and awed, but would immediately re-write his story to reflect its real scale, majesty and beauty he could not have imagined in the Bronze Age. He might find it taxing to learn to use a word-processor though....