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take as long as six days to create everything? And why is it that God rested on the seventh day? Was he
tired after all this exertion? No, Psalm 33:6-9 states that "the Word made the heavens of the Lord . . . He
spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast." There is no hint of exertion here. Genesis
2:2-3 merely means that He ceased working because the created order was completed, not because He
was tired.

The commentary on these questions is found in Exodus 20:8-11, and it reads as follows:

verse 8 - Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy.

verse 9 - Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

But the seventh day is the sabbath (rest) of the Lord your God. In
verse 10 -
it, you shall not do any work...
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all
verse 11 -
that is in them, and rested on the seventh day...
Verses 8-10 speak of man working six days and ceasing from his work on the seventh. These are
obviously not eons of time but normal 24-hour days. A key word in verse 11 is for because it introduces
the rationale or foundation for the previous command. It continues by equating the time period of
creation with the time period of man's work week (six days plus one day) and states that God Himself
had set the example in Genesis 1. That indeed is the reason why the creation week was seven days —
no more, no less. The passage becomes nonsense if it reads: "Work for six days and rest on the seventh
because God worked for six billion years and is now resting during the seventh billion-year period." If
God is resting, who parted the waters of the Red Sea in Exodus 14? And what did Jesus mean in John
5:17 when He said, "My Father is working until now, and I myself am working"?

Sometimes, the claim made by theistic evolutionists is that we do not know how long the days were in
Genesis 1. In the first place, Genesis 1 was not way back but was only a few thousand years before the
writing of Exodus. Since the Earth is constantly slowing down in its rotation, the early Earth would have
been spinning faster, and therefore the days would have been shorter, not longer.

But the day-age people have overlooked something even more obvious here: Genesis 1 and Exodus 20
were written by the same author — Moses — at about the same time (ca. 1500 B.C.). Therefore, the
common authorship of both passages is evidence that he had the same time period in mind when he
used the word day. Furthermore, we might note that the Fourth Commandment was written by the
finger of God Himself on tablets of stone (Ex. 31:18; 32:16-19; 34:1, 28, 29; Deut. 10:4). If anyone
should have known how long the days were, it should be the Creator Himself!
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Nothing whatsoever on the pages of Genesis 1 and 2 allows anything but a six, 24-hour, solar-day
creation. It may offend the evolutionists, but that doesn't change the truth.

Theistic Evolution and the Day-Age Theory

Many sincere bible scholars feel a need to accept and fit the geological
age system to the creation account, and they have created the Day-Age
Theory as the best interpretation of Genesis 1. By doing so, they are

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