God Created the Earth in Six 24 Hour Days

[Jimmy]

The Genesis account of creation should be taken literally. The Hebrew word used for day is translated as a "single 24hr. day." The people then would have not taken that word figuratively and neither should we. People try to warp that word to fit our societies beliefs on creationism and evolutionism by saying those days were millions of years and stuff like that but we just need to have faith in what God's word truly says and know that God has the power to do anything and if He wanted to create the world in 6 days, He could.

Also remember that God could have created the universe in 1 nanosecond if he wanted.

There doesn't seem to be any reason that God couldn't have created the universe to be only what we can see with our naked eye.  That is what the ancients thought.  There is no reason that God had to create the universe as large (~ 15 billion light years across) as it is.  He could have made it any size He wished. 

The question is not what God could have done.  It is what did God do.

[ex cathedra]

I have a hard time with this one.  It's because I believe in an old earth and a pre adamic race.  I'm not set in stone about that or anything but i don't think that God would have just created everything like it was already aged or something.  Because the calculations of the time of Adam to like Abraham wasn't millions of years so most of the stuff on earth that scientists claim to be millions or even billions of years old can't really be that old if Adam was the true first man.  So with all that to say, I think that the six days could really be 24 hour periods but there has to be some time somewhere else in there. 

but
God did create  Adam and Eve with age.  They were not infants But Adults
he also created Mature  tress Anamals  etc .


This may make some faint and cry foul that any religion could be so strict .

BUT
since evey member of   confessional lutheran synod's  has to  believe and confess in a 6 natural day creation along with every other doctrine of the bible also.

Wisconsin evangelical lutheran synod  has a web site that helps those that have questions about creation . Your welcome to view it.

and in the right column you can click on articles and read many of those interesting articles also.

It also has on the left side links to other creation websites.  With a CAUTION disclaimer .
http://www.lutheranscience.org/

[Wycliffes_Shillelagh]

The Genesis account of creation should be taken literally. The Hebrew word used for day is translated as a "single 24hr. day." The people then would have not taken that word figuratively and neither should we. People try to warp that word to fit our societies beliefs on creationism and evolutionism by saying those days were millions of years and stuff like that but we just need to have faith in what God's word truly says and know that God has the power to do anything and if He wanted to create the world in 6 days, He could.

I don't think they were doing interpretations at the word level.  That's done more at the chapter level.

The fact that the whole account is designed to describe a PROCESS of creation should, I think, be a tip-off.