Fact or fantasy - 6 days or 6 billion years

It's amazing to me that out of all books of the Bible, Genesis is the one book that is quite often attacked. I talked about the flood and how the Ark was built. Now I'd like to tackle the biggest and possibly most controversial issue of all time...the issue of Creation.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.   Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.  God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day..."  Genesis 1:1 - 5

You probably know the rest, the chapter goes on to describe the 6 days of creation.

 Now, the issue here is that this Scripture has been twisted and added onto by man. The Bible warns us in Proverbs explicitly not to do this.  

The Hebrew  word for day in this context is "Yom." In this context when associated with adjectives such as evening, morning or a number this word means a 24 hour day. The problem is that most people are reading into this that this means billions of years. If we think that way,  where did our 24 hour day 7 day week come from? 

You see we have our 24 hour day 7 day  week because God created them first. It was the Creator that made it that way the day, the month and the year are all set up by God from the solar system, but the week is set up from creation .His example of how to use our week is how He used it Himself.  He used 6 days to create all we see, and on the 7th day He rested therefore declaring by His own example that the seventh day was to be a day of rest. 

Do we EVER wonder about how to use the word day with how long Jonah was in the big fish? Three billion years???

Or maybe how many days Joshua marched around Jericho? Seven million years, or 7 thousand if you use the out of context argument that one day is like a thousand years…)?

Do you know the ONLY reason billions of years is even a concept (no science whatsoever) is because people wanted to be able to explain the world without God?  It’s called materialism. That’s it folks! There is no other reason. So as a Christian, if you aren’t angry as a hornet about this skewing of God’s very Word, there is something very wrong, and you now have something to be angry about!

I find it very sad how people have misinterpreted this Scripture and the others I've mentioned in the other Fact or Fantasy series. But what makes me sadder still is how many people actually believe this misinterpretation. 

The God I worship was there. He knows what He is talking about. And that is the God I trust my life to.

Let’s just say when Alexander had his “Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, I am glad I know it was only one 24 hour period!