Originally posted by BobRyan:
God is the CAUSE in each case. God SPEAKS and it is done - He commands and in EACH case - it stands fast.
And in EACH case - it happens in ONE "evening and Morning". ONE rotation of the planet. ONE sequence of Dark and then Light.
Gen 1
9 Then God said, "" LET the waters below the heavens BE Gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear''; and it was so.
10 God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, ""Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them''; and it was so.
12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14 Then God said, ""LET THERE BE lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;
15 and LET them BE be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth''; and it was so.
16 God MADE the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.
17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,
18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20 Then God said, ""Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.''
21 God CREATED the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
22 God blessed them, saying, ""Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.''
23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24 Then God said, ""Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind''; and it was so.
25 God MADE the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, ""Let Us Make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.''
27 God CREATED man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
But in case there is even the slightest doubt we read it AGAIN with unmistakable language about the CAUSE - and WHO is doing the MAKING
Gen 2
7 Then the LORD God FORMED MAN man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
8 The LORD God PLANTED a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
9 Out of the ground the LORD God CAUSED to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
19 Out of the ground the LORD God FORMED EVERY beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
God confirms this in His OWN summary - spoken in HIS OWN Words -
Exodus 20
11 "" For in six days the LORD Made the heavens and the earth, the sea and ALL that is IN them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
But as our OEC "hopefulls" observe "Why this is pure Naturalism promoted in scripture. It is exactly how all naturalists today express that process".
Blind faith - it is good to see that it still exists.
Bob
