You CANNOT Deny the Six-Day Creation Once You Realize THIS

You CANNOT deny the six-day creation once you realize THIS. In this presentation, Ken Ham shares his answer to the common question as a Bible-believing Christian, “Could God really have created everything in six days?”
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[@jmc8265]

God could have created everything in a split second but he didn't in order to show/teach us something deeper.

[@Oandad]

What does the 7-Day creation story teach us? What's the deeper meaning?

[@dorahngarman3188]

So many things in view here. God was establishing that he would be the Sovereign ruler of all creation because he brought these things into existence. Second, God was displaying his Omniscient and Omnipotent attributes for Angels to observe and for mankind to later come to understand. God was also setting a precedent for what would govern man's existence on Earth, that there would be a time for mankind to work to provide for his needs and a time to rest.

[@shinnstoneer7]

That question is better focused internally. We're all on similar journeys and we're all at different places on that journey. God's word speaks to each of us in our place and time. To me, the 6 days of creation speaks to my need to be aware that I can't do most things in one go, especially the really important things. Even things that can be done quickly need to be done again and often soon. Things that last aren't completed in the snap of our fingers. Whether someone believes in God or not, the Word is always there and wise.

[@bcars6215]

@@Oandad Luke 18:17 the Lord Jesus speaking - "..Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein..." 2Tim 3:1 "..This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come...." 3:7 ".. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth..." Let us be as little children, dear readers. The Lord will lead us to all truth; we don't have to try so hard! Just believe; look up! Watch as He provides us with blessings like AiG and movies like "Is Genesis History?". We can hear the rocks in our own neighborhoods cry out, if we will just simply believe what the Lord says first and foremost!

[@HS-zk5nn]

exactly - to show work and rest

[@jonathancase9934]

Adding a little to Ken's comment about "day one". The first day in Hebrew reads "yom echad". In context, then, reading "there was evening, and there was morning, a day unified" so that evening is considered part of the day and morning was considered the other part, together they make a full day. The same word is used, for example, in Genesis 2:24 "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife and they shall be "besar echad" The two are joined so that they are unified. Then the description of the second day also uses evening and morning leaving us to understand the previous "yom" was not only complete, but it was first.

[@nelsonlighthouse8089]

... as it was before any of that was written... everywhere.... even outside the tiny part of the illiterate world that you think this particular god 'revealed' himself to, as other gods have elsewhere and everywhere... blah blah blah...

[@syzygycalalignment]

@@nelsonlighthouse8089 Your comment makes less sense than the comment you are commenting on. It contains no punctuation, which makes your comment truly, as you have described it, "blah blah blah."

[@nelsonlighthouse8089]

@@syzygycalalignment is English not your first language ... ?? Or are you american?

[@IndividualFreedomNet]

Thank you very much for sharing your light (insight)! God bless you!

[@thomasmaughan4798]

The sun was created on the 4th "day" so I wonder how there can be a morning and an evening?

[@mikerossi4741]

Yes, I’m a simple guy who gets frustrated when people try to take away from the awesomeness of my God. I love how He made light days before He made the sources that give light.

[@Swordsman69]

Hopefully they'll open their eyes before it's to late. ✝️😇❤🙏👣

[@PastPresented]

Try looking at it this way: God made the light of Heaven, but it was too powerful for Earth, so he substituted the Sun and Moon.

[@adamsmith7885]

the Sun gives light, but it's not the *source* of light. Even atheists believe light proceded the existence of stars.

[@graphicmaths7677]

@@PastPresented Do you have a source for that or did you just make it up?

[@davidh.7138]

He created energy and he created matter before he created the stars and planets. You have to understand the terms with the wisdom of 20th and 21st century cosmology and geology, not what YOU think the ancients meant with their very limited vocabulary.

[@globyois]

“We must start from the text first,” said the host. Excellent axiom to follow.

[@joszoet4003]

Depends on what hou read... Darwin..

[@CrazyCowMCISCOOL]

@@joszoet4003 😂😂

[@brianlove8413]

@@joszoet4003 Theory, still!

[@merrymuso]

WHICH holy book? Islam: the Qu’ran, 1.6 billion members Hinduism: Rig Veda, Bhagavad Gita, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, and Athava Veda, 1.1 billion members Buddhism: Dhammapada, Pali Canon, 376 million members Judaism: Tanakh and the Talmud, 14 million members Christianity: the Old and New Testament, and the Apocrypha, which are regarded as Scriptures by 2/3 of Christians (Catholics and Orthodox. 2.2 billion members) Sikhism, the Adi Granth, 10 million members Taoism, the Tao te Ching, 8 million members Baha’ism, the Kitab’i-Aqdas, 7 million members Confucianism, Analects, I Ching, Shi-King, Shu Ching, and Li Chi, 6 million members Jainism, Tattvartha Sutra, 4 million members Shintoism, Kojiki and Yengishiki, 4 million members Zoroastrianism, the Avesta, 3 million member Or the holy book you grew up and got indoctrinated to? The bible?

[@globyois]

@@merrymuso Even secular agree that the Bible more miraculous (and yes, atheist/secularist scholars have used that word to describe the New Testament) than Check on it, you’ll see. Now I’m not saying that such a thing that the God of the Bible exists, but to group the Christian scriptures in with those others you mentioned is facile, fatuous, and shows ignorance . . . no offense intended. Thanks.

[@annwynn4827]

Take an Astronomy course. You will be so overwhelmed, you will never question anything about God’s creation! Our human minds cannot comprehend any of the Creation. Just be in awe of God’s love and mercy and power!!!

[@brianlove8413]

Absolutely.

[@dgerdi]

When you consider all the „coincidences“ that must 100% fit to provide life in this form we know, can’t simply be coincidences.

[@davidgardner863]

If you took an astronomy course, you would know the universe is billions of years old.

[@romans3.25propitiation]

​@@davidgardner863 yep, which all equates to about nothing in the eyes and clock of Almighty GOD our Creator 😊

[@mchooksis]

@@dgerdi Why do you say that? What coincidences? There are no coincidences.

[@busker153]

It always astounds me to hear people ask if God could have created the world in six literal days. Dude, God could have created it all in an instant! It is just as valid to ask why God took so long to create the world.

[@joeysplats3209]

Just this morning I was marveling at the incredible creation I see around me every day. All the critters and how the Great Flood really did a number on the face of the planet. The basalt columns where I live, the aquifers and caves, the mountains...

[@robya.2223]

@@joeysplats3209 Yeah, the tumors killing childrens everyday.

[@merrymuso]

So WHO created god then?

[@tim57243]

​@@joeysplats3209People who believe in the Flood typically believe that God is good. Does this include you? If so, how do you explain how a good God could commit the near-genocide that was the Flood?

[@busker153]

@@merrymuso That is a stupid question.

[@TeleTonemonkey]

Love to all, since you are quoting the Torah, wishing you and all Semitic nations the best in these troubled times.

[@I_renounce_satan]

Man wants to believe according to their terms. God is above that.

[@timhallas4275]

How do you know that? Maybe God is OK with our terms. Who are you to say he is not?

[@PBAdventures146]

@@timhallas4275 The Bible determines that.. and it's quite clear what His terms are.

[@timhallas4275]

@@PBAdventures146 The Bible is not the word of God. You are worshiping a book.

[@PBAdventures146]

@timhallas4275 actually I don't worship a book at all. I worship the Author of the book. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word "WAS GOD" John 1:1. The Bible was inspired by the Holy Spirit to teach us about Christ so that we would ultimately know him personally and experience that relationship with the God of the Bible. We can see from Genesis to Revelation that was God's plan all along. The Bible teaches me about His character and points me to the Living Word. That's who my relationship is with.

[@EverettWilder-wr3xh]

We worship the God of the Bible , you worship Harry Potter, have fun with that.

[@technicalsupport4139]

A very important point you left out. Is the seventh day Sabbath which is part of creation week. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

[@hectorhernandez215]

Read book of Acts 2:46-47... and Acts 5:42. .also Revelation 4:8 Helen G. White forgot to mention those texts in her doctrine....The Father and Jesus work in Sabbath.... don't miss it Matthew 12:12...John 5:17.... Sabbath is Holy, working or not ....

[@statutesofthelord]

Excellent point. What is the point in a Sunday-keeper believing in a literal 6 day creation and then day of rest, when they don't Remember it every week like God said to?

[@statutesofthelord]

@@hectorhernandez215 hector, God upholds the worlds on the Sabbath. Yes. And he told us to refrain from work on the Sabbath. Do you?

[@hectorhernandez215]

@@statutesofthelord John 5:17

[@hectorhernandez215]

@@statutesofthelord explain New Covenant...Do you know it?

[@steveclauter6802]

Ken, I still remember meeting you in the Phoenix airport in the 80's. Thank you for your faithful ministry!

[@ingela_injeela]

That's why I appreciate you, Brother. Because you start with God's Word.

[@allenchang6185]

is it really gods word though? anyone can write a book and say its gods word and put vague "prophecies" to convince people it must be gods word i mean alot books have prohecies that came true too

[@ingela_injeela]

@@allenchang6185 I have personally never heard of any other such book, where prophecies written hundreds, even thousands of years ago, proved to be right on every single point, and wrong about nothing. But yes, you are right. Many books have claimed to be "from God", only, at closer scrutiny, they could be discarded. One big testimony to the accuracy of the Bible, is the history of the people of Israel. Archaeology keeps confirming more and more details, confirming the biblical narrative. There is archeological evidence, and also independent historical sources, that confirm the history of the Hebrews and Israel. And in particular the life and time of Jesus, is very well documented. Fulfilled prophecies is one strong reason to believe in the Divine inspiration of the Bible. Only in His first coming, Jesus fulfilled between 200-300 detailed prophecies about His life, death and resurrection, that were made hundreds of years before His birth. The earliest prophecy of the coming Messiah is found in Genesis!

[@Hwi1son]

Love you brother Ken. Thank you for everything that you do. Surely God has blessed you.

[@lynncraig3005]

Amen!!!! The scripture makes it crystal clear that God created everything in 6 days and rested on the 7th. But some people just don't want to believe it.

[@ThatBoomerDude56]

It's a choice between believing what you can see with your own eyes and believing what some MAN wrote about God.

I know I don't.

[@arc001]

No it doesn't , firstly, it's just a book and secondly, it's a highly interpret-able book and thirdly, it is really far-fetched not grounded in reality at all. Parts of it are but the super-natural parts aren't, no way to verify so your book is as clear as completely frosted glass. Sorry, just had to respond to what you wrote.

[@jhurt3824]

@@arc001or you could've gone for a walk instead of letting your struggles with Christian's own you

[@davidskolik5303]

It’s not that we don’t want to. Without proper evidence, we have to assume it’s improbable. Same as for the existence of leprechauns and unicorns.

[@cesiahsatterlee3093]

Thank you brother Ham! You are a blessing!

[@nnamrehck]

Excellent explanation!

[@jimthomas1989]

It was ? What about the difference in Time ? One day to God is 1000 years to us humans ! 2nd Peter 3: 8 It was 6000 years to us humans not 6 days , it was only 6 days to God !

[@heavenonthehorizon777]

Thank You Father God for Ken Ham and all his activities that help push the Gospel forward, for all the educational products he helps get out to the masses. Amen Thank you Ken.

[@peterwiebewall5608]

God being Almighty, could have created everything in one day, or in one moment. And He did create everything in six 24 hour days. The Bible says it and that settles it.

[@retiredbiker676]

Right.

[@davidjanbaz7728]

Your Ham interpretations are wrong : he doesn't understand the Theology of the Genesis texts: it's NOT a Scientific text so don't pretend those days R literal 6x 24 hours.

[@user-nh3pk1sh7e]

Exactly.

[@peterwiebewall5608]

@@davidjanbaz7728 God have mercy on your poor pitiful soul.

[@phantomrio5222]

​@davidjanbaz7728 IT'S SCIENTIFICALLY PROVABLE. I am the one who SHUT up and shut down that clown and fake Stephen Hawking with irrefutable scientific proof.

[@peterbassey9668]

I think the mistake we make is to reduce God to our size and attempt to work out what He can or cannot do: a classical case of breaking the Ten Commandments!! In this case, it is the one which demands that we do not make any image of God! But that's what we do here. Oh but rather than accept the image God has given of Himself, we remake Him and dictate what He can or cannot do. Very sad. As others have said here already, God could've made everything in a blink but chose not to for a number of now obscure reasons.

[@thomasmaughan4798]

"I think the mistake we make is to reduce God to our size" Hopefully I grow to his size.

[@HarmonicWave]

The problem is we make up meanings for things without letting the Bible define it's own terms, like saying a graven image is us "limiting God" instead of what it actually is, a graven image that is worshipped, like an idol, carving or icon, etc. It's not limiting God to believe what the Bible tells us about Him.

[@thomasmaughan4798]

@@HarmonicWave "without letting the Bible define it's own terms" Then of course you have the problem of defining the words used in the definitions of biblical terms.

[@heels-villeshoerepairs8613]

These books have been a part of my library for years now and are amazing, simple, and a must for every searching mind.

[@kennethtang514]

Man, as an evolution believing Christian, this is hard to swallow. I want to believe that evolution is God's mechanic for creation, but if it's literal days, then there is no space for evolution to be plausible.

[@jlm4295]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS EXPLAINS DEAR BROTHER GREETINGS FROM JOHAN D. A BELGIAN SERVANT SOLDIER OF ALMIGHTY GOD YESHUA HAMASHIACH JESUS THE CHRIST I'M SAVED BY GOD'S LOVE GRACE AND MERCY HALLELUJAH AMEN I PRAY, BE STRONG BOLD PROTECTED AND WELL IN YESHUA'S HAMASHIACH NAME AMEN

[@terrymoffett1356]

Thank you for pointing out the identifiers in each verse declaring what The Word Of God “SAID’ He did. ❤I really do appreciate that. MATTHEW 4:4 Man cannot live by bread alone, but by EVERY WORD that comets out of the mouth of God.

[@cipherklosenuf9242]

People write books. If a person writes a book that presents itself as speaking for a real eternal being that’s ok…right? Whoever wrote Genesis wasn’t actually created yet when God said things such as ‘Let there be…” but…that’s fine! No problem …correct? Or is this narrative just metaphorical? If it’s not literal that’s ok too…right?

[@LUKEc16v31]

@@cipherklosenuf9242 Have you considered that Moses didn't make this up but that was revealed to him? for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. [2Pe 1:21 NASB95]

[@cipherklosenuf9242]

@@LUKEc16v31 Yes, that is the traditional argument. And it uses one Biblical source to support the supernatural narrative of another Biblical source. What other sacred text is convincing as a result of internal circular reasoning? What we reliably know about natural phenomena is permitting you and I to engage in this conversation online. That’s not the power of prayer or divine revelation…reality functions exactly the same regardless of one’s opinions regarding invisible eternal self aware beings. Secular scholars have insufficient evidence to conclude that Moses was a real historical person and the Exodus narrative is considered legendary. (That doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t some genuine historical influence, but critical scholarship doesn’t read Exodus as an historical account.) What are your thoughts? Is a real God ignorant of the facts and unworthy of fact tethered truth? An objective assessment doesn’t permit special pleading…faith does. The facts we have don’t support divine inspiration for any text. But why Shouldn’t faith be sufficient for the faithful? One can’t have it both ways.

[@LUKEc16v31]

@@cipherklosenuf9242 Doesn't matter what I think. Consider the following: [Luk 16:19-31 NASB95] 19 "Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day. 20 "And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, 21 and longing to be fed with the [crumbs] which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. 22 "Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. 23 "In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 "And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.' 25 "But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. 26 'And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and [that] none may cross over from there to us.' 27 "And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father's house-- 28 for I have five brothers--in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.' 29 "But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.' 30 "But he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!' 31 "But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.'" Bottom line: Jesus said if you do not believe the Scriptures, there is no other proof nor any amount of proof that will convince you otherwise. Call it circular reasoning. I'll trust the Scriptures to work in hearts, if I present them. It doesn't mean there are no reasons for faith. But the final step is faith. [Rom 10:17 NASB95] 17 So faith [comes] from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. [Heb 11:6 NASB95] 6 And without faith it is impossible to please [Him,] for he who comes to God must believe that He is and [that] He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

[@LUKEc16v31]

@@cipherklosenuf9242 My first reply to your comment had a lot of biblical citations. YT deleted it. Why would YT do that if the Bible is a collection of fairy tales about a made-up sky daddy? Now, that doesn't make sense. Are you sincerely looking for answers? If so, I'm willing to go forward. If not, have a good day.

[@tonygassner5406]

Ockham would surely agree. Our God is not a god of confusion, but of truth. Thank you for this concise fundamental explanation.

[@Wertbag99]

Ockham's razor says the simplest idea is more often correct, and in the case of this story the simplest answer is that it is a man-made legend. We know ancient people wrote legends, we know there were many ideas of gods and of different creation stories, so for it to be another one is a simple answer that doesn't need to posit supernatural beings, other dimensions, magic and that all the data from scientific enquiry is wrong.

[@michaeljones-bs9tn]

So important to always take scripture in context with the whole of scripture and Mr. Ham did an excellent job of explaining. To take one scripture of a “thousand years is like a day”, is short sighted and ignores the awe of that with God’s Word goes God’s power to “speak” creation into existence.

[@erichhonecker8548]

Brother Ken, I thank you and appreciate your ministry more and more every day!

[@geoffstokes]

Spot on Ken. Context, context, context.

[@user-ex4wx1rj7s]

When referring to Ken Ham's discourse (and more especially the books he's trying to flog), "context" should be written as two words.

[@davegaskell7680]

@@user-ex4wx1rj7s Top marks for that comment. It's a pity we can only give a thumbs up once.

[@user-ex4wx1rj7s]

@@davegaskell7680 Thanks ! It just goes to show that Ken Ham really can inspire me 🤣

[@intentionally-blank]

Brilliant! Thank you brother Ken.

[@oldtimerlee8820]

Thank you. Appreciate your ministry, you work. May God bless.

[@ancataut7891]

It is very strange that some people appreciate when they are lied to and manipulated with a story that never happened in reality. In fact, those people are lying to themselves.

[@mlamber7780]

@@ancataut7891 For example, like the story of evolution.

[@ancataut7891]

@@mlamber7780 There is evidence of evolution that is present even in your own body. For example the sinuses, the caudal bud and the perianal glands. Material evidence is indisputable by any sane person... Even in a court, whoever brings material evidence, won the case. Go to bed, sleep has been shown to help the brain recover...

[@mlamber7780]

@@ancataut7891 ~ Romans 1:20

[@ancataut7891]

​@@mlamber7780 Anyone can write anything in a book, including the authors of the Bible. This can never be proof of anything, can you understand? The physical evidence that exists in your body and that proves evolution, is overwhelming compared to anything anyone can write in any book. To understand this matter, two things are needed: to have discernment and not to be disconnected from reality...

[@nicl8749]

Ken we need more Christians like you, giving biblical truth.

[@davegaskell7680]

I like the use of the phrase "biblical truth" as a replacement for a word that's less polite.

[@Mberrybb]

Biblical truth meaning made up by humans

[@jimthomas1989]

How about biblical fact ? It says one day ! But a day to God is 1000 years to us humans 2nd Peter 3 :8

[@nicl8749]

@@jimthomas1989 no , In the creation, God created everything in 6 literal days, a day is yom in the Hebrew text, so it was 6 days also Peter was saying a day is as a 1000 years saying God is timeless.

[@jasongates-]

Whenever people say "COULD God have," they already showed fallacy, because to say "could" for God is to imply that there's something GOD could not have done. And God can do anything and everything but lie. Also, thank you for reminding us of "context," because people think "content" and they forget "context."

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

Your logic fails.

[@westerlywinds5684]

@@bite-sizedshorts9635 How so? The comment is very true.

[@scottdd2]

He lied about the apple.

[@TheMOV13]

@@westerlywinds5684 If God can do anything then it's perfectly reasonable therefore to say he could have done such and such. The person saying he could do such and such is not necessarily implying that there is anything he couldn't do, that's just you putting words into their mouth.

[@joeysplats3209]

Context is everything, except in certain situations.

[@John--qh9xl]

Thanks for all you do, Ken. All this time and I didn't know you were Australian. ☺

[@TickedOffPriest]

His Word answers all of our questions.

[@user-ex4wx1rj7s]

For example... Question: “What do we do with a man who gathers firewood on the Sabbath day?”. His Word (Numbers 15:35): “The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones”.

[@TickedOffPriest]

@@user-ex4wx1rj7s You are conflating Old Covenant with New Covenant. Nice try.

[@user-ex4wx1rj7s]

If “his word” answers all your questions, why is it that three-quarters of the comments here are from believers questioning (or mindlessly affirming) what the very first chapter of Genesis means? “God created the world in six literal days”. “No he didn’t: ‘day’ just means a long period of time”. “No, it’s a 24-hour day - if you don’t believe that, you can’t believe anything”. “God is outside of time”. "His time is not the same as ours". “St Peter tells us a day is like a thousand years”. “There was no time before God created the earth”. “What was the light before the sun was created?” “How was a day measured before there was the sun?” “Who wrote the 1st chapter of Genesis?” “God wrote it”. “No he didn’t, I believe Moses did”. “I think it was someone else”. “But God dictated it”. “It doesn’t matter”. “Yes it does, it’s God’s word”. “It’s not the literal truth”. “Yes it is”. “Genesis is just an allegory”. No it isn’t, yes it is, no it isn't, yes it... OK, let's just move on to chapter 2 where the nonsense really begins...

[@TickedOffPriest]

@@user-ex4wx1rj7s Because man is arrogant.

[@user-ex4wx1rj7s]

@@TickedOffPriest I don't see where arrogance comes into it. You claim that "His Word answers all of our questions". I simply ask why, in that case, believers so clearly cannot understand what ought to be a very simple description of the creation : a description reduced to the bare minimum in which there should be no room (and certainly no need) for confusion. Everyone - no matter how sincere - is left guessing at how long a "day" is and how there could be "days" before the sun was created. How is that arrogance ?

[@IsaacS2010]

Excellent! So important to understand and to believe. We can trust what our God has told us in His Word.

[@paulbrower]

I find more to trust about God in a tetbook of physics, chemistry, biology, or mathematics.

[@cipherklosenuf9242]

Seriously? Or seriously well played?

[@Joshua-dc1bs]

Why do you believe the Genesis account is God's Word? Does the creation account state " created" or " created"? Clearly, the creation account is speaking in third person. It's just a creation story made by people who used a simple unit of time they understood (i.e., a day) to simplistically account for the formation of phenomena in the universe. These people didn't understand the natural processes (e.g., plate tectonics, supernova et cetera) that occur throughout the universe which cause the slow, gradual formation ("creation", if you want) of these things (i.e., mountains, nebula). In fact, the "creation" never actually finished. Creation is still happening. Right now, the naturalistic processes are still happening throughout the universe. It's just an ongoing process in the universe that never really "finishes".

[@Korkzorz]

You don't have "his"word... You have the word of men claiming to speak for god and literally no good reason to think god is involved in any of it Fun fact for you.. at the time the Jews supposedly escaped from Egypt (which there is no evidence for), Canaan was a part of Egypt all the way up to modern turkey

[@Raverraver9999]

Space time dilation explains how the universe can be 6+ days at the point of creation and 13.8 bil years(where earth is) simultaneously. Time across the universe is not linear and is affected by extremely strong gravitational forces.

[@stevenspeakman5363]

All these convoluted explanations. All you need is faith. If you have blind obedient faith you are sble to believe any old rubbish no questions asked or needed.

[@noweternity3101]

THANK YOU !!!

[@christchurchottawa]

Thank you Ken And aig ❤

[@paulthompson9668]

Are you being ironic?

[@olgamasango8270]

There is a God, He is alive and I thank him for my existence!

[@urbandad885]

People who think they know something are a constant irritation to those of us who actually do, but all is forgiven. Plod on.

[@aaronstately]

well put

[@torreyintahoe]

If you're listening to Ken then you don't know anything.

[@gwreevesReeves]

​@@torreyintahoeWay to turn off your brain, bud. Keep drinking that "Church of Big Science" kool-aid!

[@torreyintahoe]

@@gwreevesReeves The guy who believes in the talking snake trying to lecture the guy who believes in rational thought. You’re indoctrinated.

[@gwreevesReeves]

@@torreyintahoe Says the guy who believes in "Goo to You by way of the Zoo"? No thanks. I'm the rational one here. You should get a mirror.

[@CDGMR1]

I bough those books. Love them. Thank you so much!! We need them now more than ever before.

[@paulbeardsley4095]

Why now more than ever before?

[@andyt1478]

The coolest thing to me is He created an earth that already had age to it and a man and a woman fully grown and capable of bearing children. Amazing

[@MARiordan]

Absolutely unbelievable!!!

[@John-jd7mm]

@@MARiordan "unbelievable" as in "not believable"

[@Swordsman69]

If it's in the Bible, believe everything and every word, it's Gospel. 🙏❤✝️😇✝️ I assure you.

[@cephasrocks8516]

Please explain John 6:52-59.

[@user-ex4wx1rj7s]

“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exodus 22:18). “A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned to death, their blood is upon them” (Leviticus 20:27). “… everything and every word, it’s Gospel”, you say. Which is why until at least the end of the 18th century, the Christian world put to death (often under torture or by burning at the stake) women falsely accused of witchcraft. Not a single one of them was guilty. They could not be guilty because there is no such thing as witchcraft. Their executions were nothing more than collective murder, because “If it's in the Bible, believe everything and every word, it's Gospel”.

[@claytonsmith6148]

@@cephasrocks8516 This passages is telling us that to have eternal life you must except Jesus totally as the only way, through His work at the cross(death, burial, and ressurection). Where His body was broken through the beatings, being nailed to the cross, and the pouring out of His blood. This is a spiritual act by faith for mankind, for what Jesus did in the flesh. This must be excepted totally by faith: KJB Hebews 11:6, and those that operate in the flesh cannot understand the things of God. He only will allow a person who doesn't know Him, to understand just enough to get saved! KJB Romans 8:5-8

[@cephasrocks8516]

@@claytonsmith6148 With respect, I submit that you are providing me your interpretation of the Bible Scripture where Jesus says you must eat His flesh and drink His blood to have eternal life. If you are going to take the words of Genesis super literally, then you need to take these words just as literally.

[@iriemon1796]

Thanks, but you naked assurances are meaningless, I assure you.

[@thomasedwards5431]

Those that ask "COULD god?" believe in god. But not God. They do not believe in the infinite eternal omniscient omnipotent God.

[@williamjpellas0314]

This. Spot on.

[@danielholtxxl4936]

They don’t want to believe the Bible. If they believe the Bible’s creation account then they have to believe all the rest of it. So if they can discredit the first chapter they can ignore the rest.

[@thomasmaughan4798]

"They do not believe in the infinite eternal omniscient omnipotent God." You left out "omnibenevolent" and maybe some other omni's. Then you ought to define these words. Can God create a rock too heavy to move? Sure, then he moves it anway. It is easy to believe, or not believe, something so magical that anything is possible even the impossible. It loses MEANING and purpose.

[@johnjamesthomson1]

"But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day” (2 Peter 3:8)

[@syncronium3524]

I love this explanation so much. It pains me deeply to see so many Christians falling for the propaganda of the secular model of the age of the universe. You start falling into dangerous theology when you reject the biblical age of the universe and how the universe came into existence.

[@adamsmithyman7973]

Thank you Ken for staying true to the truth and sharing the truth. AIG is such a blessing.

[@philhart4849]

"Thank you Ken for staying true to the truth and sharing the truth. AIG is such a blessing." You speak only of your own truth.

[@davidskolik5303]

I think you better grab a dictionary and look up the word truth. Kenny boy is out to lunch.

[@nissimhadar]

AIG is a scam. Only a fool thinks otherwise

[@bobdownie.2806]

How could it be a day when a day requires an earth to exist? The revolution of the earth once is one day.

[@eotsis1]

Gen 1:1 God created ...earth

[@pgpython]

​@@eotsis1 that still doesn't solve the problem. Here is why : ‭Genesis 1:16-19 NKJV‬ [16] Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. [17] God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, [18] and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. [19] So the evening and the morning were the fourth day. So the writer is saying that the sun and moon didn't exist to the fourth day so there was nothing to denote the day and night in day one to three. This presents a serious problem how do you know a day passed problem because we know genesis wasn't written by God but is the inspired word of God so how did the writer know it was a day. Secondly how long did the day last, you may say 24 hours but if that was the case then the writer would have said that. After all in instructions for the construction of noahs ark, the ark of the covenant and the temple they are detailed measurements given leaving no ambiguity but not here. I simply don't believe the writer would have made this mistake and therefore it's not meant to be taken literally bible.com/bible/114/gen.1.16-19.NKJV

[@bobdownie.2806]

@@eotsis1 ok then.

[@gfinzer]

What a thorough explanation. Thank you Ken.

[@TheLaw-mh4pb]

I think the creation of the Earth is more complicated than simply stating it took 6 days. To God a day is a 1000 years and a 1000 years is a day. We also know that time isn’t constant and varies as you approach the speed of light. Since God IS light, I think it is safe to say his time is not the same as our time. So my conclusion is that God may have created the Earth in 6 “days” but it is certainly possible that those 6 “days” were much much longer in terms of “Earth days”. Perhaps the 6 days that created the Earth are the equivalent of billions of Earth years

[@John-jd7mm]

"Perhaps the 6 days that created the Earth are the equivalent of billions of Earth years" That actually makes sense.

[@jalontf2]

"A day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day" Time as we know it is pretty insignificant to God. But in general I imagine Genesis' creation account being transcribed by Moses over the course of six days. Each day, God showed him one stage of creation. In any case, not something we should really be infighting about.

[@brianlove8413]

There is references to God's rest day, this obviously did not finish at the conclusion of a literal 24 hour human earth day as it was used with regard to Israel not entering his rest when he made them stay in the desert for 40 years, "they shall not enter my rest". I don't know how many years after the sixth day concluded this event was, but it wasn't literally the next morning. Referenced in Hebrews also, and Peter as being applied to faithful Christians as well A day as a thousand years, vis vis for sure, possibly a lot more than a thousand years also.

[@nooneyouknowhere6148]

So many people use that phrase to explain away a literal 6 day creation when that phrase is used to explain God is outside of time. God defined a day as a litteral 24 hour period and God said he created everything in 6 of those.

[@brianlove8413]

@@nooneyouknowhere6148 There were no Human 24 hour days when the creation account occurred, for starters, when does a day start? We use midnight to midnight, Israel used from 6 in the evening to 6 in the following evening. Something to look at regarding God's rest day. When the Israelites came out of Egypt, and were found to be wanting in God's eyes, he told them that they would not enter into his rest. We as Christians are also offered to enter into that rest, so his rest is still ongoing at this point, which indicates that a day in this case is far greater than our 24hr one.

[@nooneyouknowhere6148]

@@brianlove8413 I'm sorry. I am as guilty as anyone for getting caught up in arguing over things which do not matter, but distract us from our mission. We don't really serve our risen savior by arguing over this stuff. We are only instructed to go and make disciples. Period. We should focus our efforts on telling the good news of our savior. Not debating things which are in the past. The facts are; God created us for a perfect fellowship with Him. We through Adam, are born with a sin nature and thus out of fellowship. But God created a way for us to regain a right standing with Him through His true and holy sacrafice in our place. We have but to accept Him and repent. Then place Him as lord in our life and follow Him.

[@brianlove8413]

@@nooneyouknowhere6148 You are absolutely correct, but bear in mind that God gave us the written word to guide us and to understand him. The scriptures explain themselves, just as I pointed out the rest day, and if it as is stated, it explains the creative day without the need for a human interpretation/explanation, i am just pointing that out. Some people for whatever reason love to parse out words, which we were warned about not doing.

[@tamararivera7312]

Praise the Lord

[@merrymuso]

Which one? ALLAH RA VISHNU HORUS ARISTAEUS ATLAS CRONUS DIONYSUS EREBUS EROS GLAUCUS HADES HELIOS HEPHAESTUS HERACLES HERMES HYMENAIOS KRATOS MOMUS MORPHEUS BUDDAH or one of the other thousands of gods?

[@jasongates-]

@@merrymuso There is only one Lord. Humans believe different things.

[@TheSvRoma]

As hebrew speaker I can tell that creation in Genesis is written in such way so no one can confuse literal 24 hour day with anything else. Yet ppl keep debating this issue for 150 years.

[@krisv001]

Keep up the good work!

[@ratfinder7812]

I’m going to the Ark and creation museum in May 2024 thank you so much Ken for building these two places, it’s been my dream to visit ever since they were built…..

[@nathancook2852]

Why? The Ark Encounter contains many, many inaccuracies such as misrepresenting and flat out lying about the transition fossils we have. They claim a "kind" is similar to "family" while in Leviticus 11:13 it is used as "species. There is no way the number of species present on earth at the time could have fit on a boat that size, and the flood myth has been disproven over and over again. The story was stolen from others, namely the Epic of Gilgamesh. I have not been to the creation museum, but I am sure it contains inaccuracies as well given most thing Ken does is wrong and he only does the for $$$.

[@junepeyer1200]

❤ I’ve found (secularly) that some people are often ‘scared’ of the idea of a limitless, powerful God-I believe it’s a remnant of their own past trauma- maybe their abuser was functioning in a manner which appeared to be all powerful so to speak. As a Christian woman, I understand we may be in rebellion against God and our Savior. Be nice if these people looked at their traumatic pasts and begin healing to finally realize there’s a Father and Savior who will never abuse them and will never abandon them. I love this fact!

[@edwardhines2237]

Loved your comment my sister

[@junepeyer1200]

@@edwardhines2237 awww… thanks ! 😊

[@beckystuart3177]

God is light

[@scottperine9820]

You ignore the word of God. You are asking for his wrath. We've been given plenty of warning for what is coming. Praise God. Hallelujah to the Lamb. Glory to God.

[@nelsonlighthouse8089]

What a pitiful god that bestows wrath on those can think for themselves... you can keep it.

[@ricksmith2580]

“When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense, lest it result in nonsense.”

[@user-ex4wx1rj7s]

"No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall be admitted to the assembly of the Lord" (Deuteronomy 23:1). Plain good sense.

[@Terrylb285]

@@user-ex4wx1rj7s the four corners of the earth , a plain reading of the text supports a flat earth, the sun rises and sets , a plain reading of the text supports the sun revolves around the earth. This is my body , a plain reading of the text supports communion actually being Jesus body.

[@dorinamary7863]

Does a plain reading of the text also support the two-Gods theory of the Old Testament? ""Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?”-says the LORD Almighty. Malachi 1:9 "''I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me', saith the LORD." Amos 4:11 KJV "And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel." 1 Chron 21:1 "And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah." 2 Sam 24:1 KJV Who was ruling the world under the Old Covenant? "I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me," John 14:30 "We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one." 1 John 5:19 "Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out." John 12:31 "Concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged." John 16:11 The earth belonged to Satan after Adam fell. "Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, 'All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me'.” Matt 4:8, 9 "In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." 2 Cor 4:4

[@pineapplepenumbra]

@@dorinamary7863 More than 2 gods.

[@davidstinnett3889]

THE BIBLE IS ABOUT WHAT GOD SAYS HE DID! END OF DISCUSSION! Be blessed!!

[@timhallas4275]

"God said"? Isn't it interesting that God said "God said" in the bible. Does that not sound like it was written by men... not God?

[@PBAdventures146]

​@@timhallas4275 it was written by men.. inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Bible makes that quite clear. 2 Peter 1:21

[@philiprobinson2011]

And exactly when did God say this? Strange that he has not uttered one word in the last 2000 years.

[@PBAdventures146]

@philiprobinson2011 your understanding of God the Bible and Christianity is extremely limited clearly. Amazing how some people feel the need to respond to things they have no idea about.

[@philiprobinson2011]

@@PBAdventures146 I might suggest that your understanding is clouded by your blind faith, a faith based on no evidence other than the words and claims of other Human beings.

[@marshallgiles6255]

Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. Matthew 28 18 20 Acts Chp 2 38 Mark 16:16 God bless y'all.

[@tymanmodel1018]

You all at Answers In Genesis need to make a CGI documentary called: Creation: Adam, Eve, and the Dinosaurs That would be awesome!!

[@velkyn1]

NO problem at all denying Ken's cult's nonsense. Just because his book of fairy tales says something, doesnt' mean it's true.

[@marcj3682]

It's easy to prove the truth of the Bible; you haven't connected the historical dots.

[@eugenelombard960]

​@@marcj3682 The trolls cannot think spiritually, so rather ignore them.😊

[@marcj3682]

@@eugenelombard960 Exactly, but it's fun playing with their logic, and historical knowledge, and watching them get tangled up in all sorts of mental gymnastics to make their monkey world work.

[@arc001]

@@eugenelombard960 Spirituality is not one thing, it relates to many different circumstances in which one feels connected to something more. Can be induced by drugs, music, hypnotic lights. We know now that it's simply chemicals in the brain making us feel this way. Why do you think Churches use moving music and often mood lighting etc. It's to get you into that state to make you think God is in the house. George Carlin was spot on about religion incl. Christianity. So whatever takes you there, know that it's very likely not God but simply a mental and physical state.

[@jhurt3824]

@@arc001who's we? I worked as a crisis psychological evaluator for thirty years. The entire research field in psych is a joke. Ever heard of Bennett Braun. Multiple personality disorder. I knew plenty of counselors who diagnosed that. It's science right. The goal in academia is to get published and come out with the new thing. How many times have we found out later that their research was muddled with inconsistencies. If you want to know what reality looks like I'd suggest working in the field you like. The truth may be eye opening. Not quite as pure as people make it out to be

[@guitarmeggedonit5232]

You break things down with logic and the bible, thank you!

[@user-ex4wx1rj7s]

There seems to be a slight problem of word-order here. Do you mean "your logic breaks down with the bible" or "the bible breaks down with logic"? Either of these positions is perfectly tenable.

[@cherylebersohl4847]

Thank you for such reasoned information that we can use when people challenge us. We need to be saying more than just a quick answer of, “God said it, so I believe it”. There is too much opposition to Christianity these days, we need to be prepared to give an answer!

[@jeffmoore3828]

Theological Word book of the Old Testament relates that yom, as used in Gen 1 is a length of time of indeterminate length. This dictionary is most frequently cited proof of OT translation.

[@Lonewolf---]

You CANNOT Deny Santa Claus Once You Realize THIS He sees you when you're sleeping He knows when you're awake He knows if you've been bad or good So be good for goodness sake. ~Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@jstube36]

The problem with the genesis creation account. Is it was written at a time when there was little knowledge of Geology, Anthropology, and actual History. That ancient story does not seem to fit with those Scientific studies. For instance it took about 700 million years for all the elements to be in place for life to be possible. The Sun existed about 100 million years before the Earth was formed. We also need to take into consideration the whole Genesis account. A writing that includes: magic fruit that opens eyes, a talking serpent, a Woman formed from a rib of a man, angels and demons making love to mortal humans, This is the language of fairytale and fantasy. That's why we have to ask questions like: Did God really say? or did things really happen as written in Genesis? Ken Ham always talks of foundations. And given what we know now compared to what we thought we knew. Maybe it's time to wonder if the foundation based on the Genesis account is as solid as once thought. Or simply not as infallible anymore.

[@Ice2Eskimos]

Don't confuse the length of the "days " of creation of life on earth with the age of the Universe and the planet. Gen 1:1 simply states that In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The 6 creative "days " are subsequent to the creation of the Universe with no time limit/ age given on that point.

[@jstube36]

@@Ice2Eskimos So maybe Jesus took 3000 days instead of just 3 to rise from the dead. Or did that really happen as written?Did God, according to Genesis, make it rain for 40 days and nights or 40000. Genesis clearly states that it was 6 literal days of creation while God rested on the sabbath. Hence the predication for the 4th/Sabbath Commandment. Then again maybe that Commandment was just a figure of speech or symbolic metaphor. Ken Ham often talks about people trying to fit the actual age of the Earth into the Genesis Creation. account. But I think it's more people trying to fit the Biblical creation account into with actual History. One way or another.

[@ancataut7891]

@jstube36 This individual is doing a practical exercise of psychological manipulation with his followers, whom he has literally brainwashed. He is a narcissistic manipulator by any standards.

[@TranscendentLion]

@@ancataut7891 Where's the manipulation? He/she is simply pointing to scientific facts - that does not make him/her a 'narcissistic manipulator'.

[@ancataut7891]

@@TranscendentLion Have you heard of "circular reasoning"? It is a logical error or a logical fault and this individual uses this process as a manipulation tool. Moreover, everything he says is a manipulative construction. Have you studied the field of psychological manipulation at all? Do you even know the basics? I am not referring to the dictionary definition of the term, but to the constituent elements, have you read anything related to this? Do you know what manipulation is and how a manipulator can be recognized in practice?

[@gordonmitchell729]

An excellent way to explain this. Great work! 🖖❤️

[@jimthomas1989]

Ken Ham ! 2nd Peter 3:8 One day is with the lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day So it was 6000 years to us humans and 6 days to God !

[@revv45acp71]

Ken, thank you so much for your decades of presenting the truth! May God continue to bless and use you. Please consider doing a promotional video for Andrew's amazing new videos presenting his recent work in Grand Canyon. People need to see that!

[@ancataut7891]

This individual is doing a practical exercise of psychological manipulation with your mind. Do you really not notice this extremely clear fact?! Wake up!

[@deborahw3680]

He could have created it in 6 seconds if He wanted to.

[@dixiewishbone5582]

Great thought! Man would need a modern computer to do that; of course, a dead object does not create life!

[@iriemon1796]

Then maybe He wouldn't have needed to rest! :D

[@wolfgangreinhart2325]

2.Peter 3.8 : But do not forget one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a DAY is like a THOUSAND YEARS and a THOUSAND YEARS are like a DAY.

[@true2life_SA]

Meaning God exists outside of time, He is not subject to something that He created

[@MSHOOD123]

I love my God LORD 🤍 🕊

[@felipekennedy3135]

The entire Holy Scripture is being written into my Heart from Genisis, to Revelation, as My and His Absolute Truth.

[@rlittlefield2691]

Absolute truth, yes, but is it the meaning that it means in Hebrew, or is the meaning of the language it has been translated into?

[@snowflakemelter1172]

Live in a fantasy world where its safe.

[@petervermeer.4904]

One day you will find out that is not the whole truth, definitely not the whole truth. Anyone can and may believe what they want. But many will be surprised eventually.

[@felipekennedy3135]

@@petervermeer.4904 I am Born of the Spirit of the Truth of God, and the entire 66 Books that makes up the Holy Scriptures is the Absolute Truth of God; His Inspired Words, then The Word, which is God, manifested himself in the Flesh and confirmed the entire Holy Bible to be His Words, that were spoken by the Prophets of the Bible. So i will just say this to you, There's two paths a man can choose, the Paths of Death, or the Paths of Life, it's your choice, and from what you just typed you are saying God is a Liar, and you are chosing Eternal Death. Shalom

[@Kate-wu9if]

Ty Brother Ken..appreciate you & all you do!

[@Roger_Rabbit_Adventures]

Spectacular Explanation 🙏 ✝️

[@yelrahkcorb]

This guy hasn’t aged since the debate 10 years ago with Bill Nye

[@christinefarrall9391]

Blessings Ken.

[@TheGuy030770]

Being how all life on earth is symbiotic, there cannot be any time between what one part is created till the next.

[@statutesofthelord]

Your premise is grossly mistaken.

[@stlouisix3]

I love Genesis.

[@xraargu6212]

Ken, I love your approach to explaining creation and the Bible. I don't always agree, but I find myself having to check my understanding when I hear your defense of the scripture. In case of the day argument, as my kids say when I ask "Cookies or ice cream?", "¿Por qué no los dos?" . I appreciate Schroeder's approach in "The Science of God". *If* the observer/author is being shown the past from the present (when Genesis is written) then time in the past (at creation), when the universe was more compressed, would be moving faster (much faster). So, the observer see's a day go by for each day of the creation story. I am not saying Schroeder is right, but the math roughly works out and that blew my mind, and appears to reconcile the day vs epoch argument.

[@TheLysineContingency]

Even if “yom” always means literal day in every other example (it is not), the question still remains as to whether that could be used figuratively in Genesis 1. For example, 1 Kings refers to the “outstretched arm” of the Lord. Now, if every other time the word “arm” is used in the Bible it was used in a literal sense, would it follow that the 1 Kings reference is to a literal appendage of God?

[@tds06001]

You're ignoring the context of when the word "Yom" is used in the Bible. If you watch a longer video of Ken Ham's where he is discussing this topic, he covers this very clearly. "Yom" means literal day when a number is attached to it, or when morning or evening (or both) are connected with it. Every other time in the Old Testament, when those conditions are met, "Yom" is used as a literal day. What’s different in the first chapter of Genesis, other than your desire to impose your beliefs on the text? You're free to believe what you want, but I think you probably realize that it's wrong to purposely misconstrue his argument to try and prove your point.

[@TheLysineContingency]

@@tds06001 how have I misconstrued his argument? He is saying that because Yom normally is used to mean a literal day, therefore it means a literal day here. But that doesn’t do anything to prove the language isn’t figurative. That’s why I gave the “arm” example

[@valerieanne223]

With A Mighty Hand and an Outstretched Arm His Love Endures Forever. Sing Praise. (Represented by Lamb bone on the Passover Plate!) THANKFUL +

[@TheLysineContingency]

@@tds06001 I can't view your reply for some reason. Idk if it is because there was a link in it?

[@anthonyb.2876]

The word "yom" is inconsequential, it's the context that gives meaning. Evening, morning, the first day. I could say "back in the day" or "it was the day after", etc. The same word is used, but we find out the specifics in the text. There's also Exodus 20:11 where the meaning is reiterated and repeated, referencing the 7 day week. I thought Ken explained it pretty well personally. What's interesting to me is that many times Christians and non Christians alike focus way too much on this issue. Not that it isn't important (or even necessary), it is, but that it's not the only hard to believe statement in the Bible. As if to convey that it's the only issue a person can struggle with in the text. And if we could simply get past that "craziness", everytjing else would be easy to digest. But you could make it 6 billion years and you'll soon be face to face with the parting of the red sea, water from a rock, a talking donkey, etc.. Finally culminating in the ultimate miracle, Gid in the flesh being raised from the dead. Sadly, I've also seen that once Genesis isn't literal, then neither is the flood, etc.. It then gives license to interpret any text in the Bible based on human probability or ability, limiting God's power and stripping Him of the very thing that makes Him so. I guess my point is this, believing in a literal 6 day creation is the least of my problems haha. I'll look foolish to the "world" for a thousand other things I believe according to God's word. What's interesting is (as MacArthur has stated), Genesis sets a precedent for the entire Bible. It confronts our heart with an immediate question, will we choose to believe? Even setting aside what we can see with your eyes. "For we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7). This is an obvious observation from the text of course, but the Lord makes it clear that while profitable, only the Spirit can convict someone of these truths. Not arguing, but thought it might help. Again, me personally, I'm perfectly fine with looking crazy for the Lord haha. He's given me ample reason to trust Him and His word. I don't expect to be able to (nor can I) argue someone into believing. But at the same time, we're called "to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence" (1 Peter 3:15). K, essay over 😊

[@tamararivera7312]

How simple is it. Even child can understand it

[@christopheespic]

Only a child*

[@ancataut7891]

@@christopheespic Correct!

[@ancataut7891]

@tamararivera7312 This individual is doing a practical exercise of psychological manipulation with your mind. Do you really not notice this extremely clear fact?! Wake up!

[@robsherwood5934]

Challenge accepted. You are wrong.

[@larryfromchicago6526]

”These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,“ ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭2‬:‭4‬ ‭KJV (Note “generations”)

[@5winder]

We're only here for six "days" (millennia)... then one day of rest in Jesus, then the devil has his last chance at us.

[@victoriaclark4853]

YHVH did create the world 🌎 in 6 - 24 hour days. Genesis 1:14…signs and seasons. I love seeing the Creation Museum out the window behind you Bro Ken. CR & The Ark are my 2 favorite places here in Grt Cincinnati.

[@D....A...e-fg8qh]

2 Peter 3:8 King James Version 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 6 God days, not man days. 6,000 years for creation. Not 6 24 hr days.

[@victoriaclark4853]

@@D....A...e-fg8qhno…o completely disagree.

[@D....A...e-fg8qh]

@@victoriaclark4853 good for you. You're allowed to deny the facts.

[@valaere891]

@@D....A...e-fg8qhHey bud, try read the entire chapter. It’s pretty short and it gives context to that statement; remember, in literature, context is king. Peter said that because people were basically saying, “Oh, His promise is never gonna happen, He’s just slow.” But Peter is saying, “No no. ‘the day (meaning time here, because nothing is specified, unlike Genesis) of the Lord will come like a thief’” (2 Peter 8.10). So when he says “with the Lord one day is as a thousand years” and vice versa, I believe he’s referring to how God is outside of time, so anything that’s slow or fast to us doesn’t mean it’s slow or fast for God; it’s on time. That’s what he’s saying there. Now in Genesis, you’ll have to look at the context again, just like Ken Ham was saying. There, Moses, prompted by God, made it very clear that he was saying a literal day, not an unspecified time. Does that make sense?

[@valaere891]

Oh, I also forgot to mention: If I remember correctly, the number 1000 represents completion in Jewish or Hebrew literature, which further supports how God’s plans are perfectly planned, on time. It’s like how 40 years of a king’s reign is the “perfect” number for a king, or the number seven is a symbol for many things (see Daniel, I think).

[@savemoney911]

Genesis 1:5 "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the FIRST day." (Not "one" day)

[@WhovianDave438]

The problem is, we do not know how long a Day of Creation lasts. The seventh Day of Creation began Genesis 2, and ended when Christ our God rose from the Dead; we are currently living in the eighth Day of Creation! ☦

[@adamsmith7885]

Exactly. Thank you Jesus for softening my heart so that I accept your word as a child does. ✝️ Sidenote, have you noticed how Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath? And how God exiled Adam from the garden to work the ground? God knew all along that Adam and his descendants would need the Sabbath! ✝️

[@snowflakemelter1172]

You need a gullible child's mind to accept these childish fantasies

[@user-ex4wx1rj7s]

I don’t remember the Bible saying anything about God softening people’s hearts, but it does tell us about him hardening hearts. For example, when Pharaoh was about to concede to Moses’ request to free his people, God “hardened Pharaoh’s heart” and then slaughtered all the first born sons of Egypt. We would call this a war-crime today. Likewise the God of the Old Testament makes it quite clear that the Sabbath is devoted to him and to worshipping him. Any work - even just lighting a fire - is to be punished by death, as is illustrated by the stoning to death (on God’s orders) of the man who gathered firewood on the Sabbath. Are you sure it’s your heart he softened?

[@789genie]

Amen

[@adamsmith7885]

@@user-ex4wx1rj7s "I will take away their heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh." Just because you don't remember, doesn't mean it doesn't.

[@adamsmith7885]

@@snowflakemelter1172 Where did I say anything about fantasies? You replied to the wrong comment.

[@danjdavid]

What a great, calm, reasonable explanation. Thank you Mr Ken Ham. So grateful for you.

[@CDGMR1]

Thank you

[@TacShooter]

While we're on the subject, "echad" here definitely means mathematical singularity, otherwise we have to question the translation of "second day", "third day", etc. It certainly does not mean "three [days] in one" and the "seventh day" certainly does not mean 7 x 3 = 21.

[@manamanathegreat4986]

The only thing that blows my mind is why people toss their money at this charlatan .... Boggles the mind how people can be soo naive.

[@vtwinjimmyful]

You call people naïve Have you bothered to study the Bible to at least have minimal understanding? Or are YOU just winging it in your ignorance

[@manamanathegreat4986]

@@vtwinjimmyful I have studied it.... and the history of the religion. Have you? How informed are you? Or are you just winging in YOUR ignorance and agreeing with the echo chamber?

[@user-ex4wx1rj7s]

@@vtwinjimmyful I was brought up with the usual handful of sugar-coated versions of a few hand-picked and carefully edited stories from the Bible. Reading it and studying it have since revealed to me an appalling compendium of evil, barbaric cruelty, injustice, hatred, intolerance and immorality.

[@manamanathegreat4986]

@user-ex4wx1rj7s Then you get it. Nice to meet someone with some intellectual integrity when it comes to the Bible.

[@dinotherugger4040]

​@@user-ex4wx1rj7s I wonder, where do you have the standard to judge what exactly is an appalling compendium of evil, barbaric cruelty, injustice, hatred, intolerance, and immorality? You contradict yourself. You have NO base or standard by which to judge what is good and what is evil? If I simply believed in the concept of "the survival of the fittest," then there should be nothing wrong with the killing off of those who are weak and a burden to society, right? I mean it's for the betterment of the future. But the God of the Bible has taught me that ALL humans are valuable and are made in His image (Genesis 1:27 & Psalm 139); therefore, I am to be loving towards others and seek the betterment of their wellbeing.

[@bingo7799]

If a day and evening is determined by planet rotation in the sun's light, how were there days before the sun was created?

[@adamsmith7885]

Then it necessarily follows that a day/evening is NOT determined by "rotation in the sun's light."

[@bingo7799]

@@adamsmith7885 I don't get dogmatic but it does seem to leave room for something other than a 24 hour day as we know them now.

[@edwardhines2237]

Does not the creator of time know everything there is to know about time. Those lights in heaven given for signs, seasons and days I believe were for our benefit to mark time.

[@edwardhines2237]

​@@bingo7799I would go along with you if the txt were not so explicit...here is another thing to bend your mind...why is the water pre-existing in the creation narrative.

[@ibperson7765]

@@bingo7799that’s a good point. Id say that the day itself exists and is created and the planet and sun follow it to mark and signal it in the physical realm

[@isahunnybee]

I love that! From now on ill ask them if they think God COULD do it? If so, why do they doubt it? And take it from there 😊❤

[@therooster6104]

God Almighty has the power to do as he pleases, he gave his son to us , who else does this for all humanity 🙏🏼🕊️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Hallelujah

[@snowflakemelter1172]

What was he doing during the Holocaust?

[@jonasmlgaard-asmussen9844]

I suppose you give as in sacrificed. Where is Jesus now then?

[@josephinestecak4945]

Why would a super power God have a Son, one asks? Just maybe it is a distortion in the translations, or made to appear that way to give people a simple but fantastical religion to follow. Until the real truth could eventually be understood or accepted. I say this not as a disbeliever but as one who questions everything and not just blindly follow.

[@RichardMorrow-mu6mi]

If the King James Bible was good enough for Adam, Moses and the apostle Paul it's good enough for me!

[@arturzathas499]

well it wasn't! said king wasn't even alive then.

[@reidveryan9414]

Adam only had the words of God spoken directly to him, and I assure you it was not in the King's English. We do not even know what language they spoke in the garden of Eden. Moses only received the pentateuch from God, and I assure you it was not in the King's English. Paul had the whole Old testament, the testimony of the apostles and the church, and direct revelation from Jesus Christ, and I assure you it was not in The King's English. Modern English didn't even come into being until over a thousand years later. English is a hodgepodge language made up of german, french, celtic tongues, Latin, etc... It's absurd to think that a translation made at the behest of a unsaved English monarch 1600 years after the final Revelation was given to the Apostle John and then disseminated to the church in koinonia Greek (in fact the whole new testament is basically written in koinonia Greek), and the Old testament was written even further back in Hebrew, is somehow more perfect in word and phrase than the original languages. It's a known fact that errors had to be fixed in the King James Bible years later, hence the new King James. No translation is perfect, but yet the perfect word of God is still spread throughout the world despite the imperfection of human language. Whatever God sends out his word to do, it will not returned to him void. Blessings.

[@danielnmaryannyoder]

​@@reidveryan9414well said, brother!

[@marcj3682]

@@reidveryan9414 "It's a known fact" LOL.

[@Terrylb285]

King James version was translating Latin into English and started in the late 1500s and completed in 1611.

[@robertgainer2783]

I thought this was satire at first, then I started to realise this guy actually believes what he’s saying. Incredible! The last thousand years of human enlightenment darkened in one mind through the sheer determination to believe the unbelievable. What’s next, a man living three days in the belly of a big fish? They are stories and metaphors. They don’t lose power just because they are not literally true. But they do lose power if you insist they are literally true.

[@chrisnestor7219]

So how do they lose power if one insists (as more people than I think you could imagine do) that they are literally true?

[@robertgainer2783]

@@chrisnestor7219 When you have answered that question for yourself, you will be enlightened. Nothing I can say will convince you, you’ll just have to wait until the penny drops.

[@GraemeHT]

Exactly

[@John-jd7mm]

Agreed. Bible stories are probably stories that ancient people made up in order to educate their children ("mommy, where did we come from?") and all of that. Since no one knew the answers, people made up stories. Same in every single human culture throughout history, all over the planet. Check out Joseph Campbell's "Power of Myth." He explains this in greater detail. (BTW, the 'kid stories' thing is my own conjecture, not Campbell's)

[@chrisnestor7219]

Well, the sticking point for me became the fact that Jesus actually lived. These writings about him in the New Testament are from witnesses.

[@johnhubert339]

Einstein observed that all matter was related to the speed of light (E=MC2). He made calculations of matter based on the speed of light. When God said: "Let there be light", He wasn't talking about light alone, but He set the parameters for the speed of light which is the mortar from which all matter is made.

[@gregorydotson6776]

God is The God of Order. And He does things decently and in Order. There is no shadow of turning with Him. His Power and Glory of Wisdom , Understanding , Knowledge and Discernment is Limitless. With a Word God Created all things in the Fullness thereof.