In the online biology high school course I teach, we had an assignment where each student had to present their worldview on Creation and defend it, whether they believed in Evolution or Creation. Many of them need practice defending their arguments, but that will come with time and experience. I had a couple students say they believed in Creation, but that the six days weren’t really days, just undisclosed amounts of time. This confused me, as the Bible states that God made the world in six days – why would you think the God of the universe was unable to accomplish that in one day?

We know that in Genesis 1, God creates dark and calls it night, and creates light and calls it day. After each creation, the Bible states that the evening and the morning were the (i.e. second) day.

As part of my reading for this week, I read Exodus 20, and noticed a passage I don’t remember reading before.

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”

– Exodus 20:8-11

This passage seems to be crystal clear about how long the creation days were. If the phrase “the evening and the morning were the (i.e. third) day” was not clear enough, Exodus 20 seems to be very clear. In the rules that God is giving the Israelites in this chapter, He made a side by side comparison of how the Israelites should spend their week. I don’t think God would have made such a direct comparison if creation had not been done in a literal day timeline.

Exodus 20 cemented to me that creation happened in a literal 24 hour time frame, as opposed to a belief (that seems to be popular after digging into it a bit) that God lied and did not create the world in 24 hour days, but rather undisclosed amounts of time. If you’d like to read my previous series on creation, you can check out the first article here!

What did you learn this week in your Bible studies?

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