What is creationism according to the Book of Genesis?

Answer 1

The Book of Genesis tells us how God created the universe. Many creationists understand Genesis traditionally, which translates to Young-Earth Creationism. Some others interpret Genesis within their view of Old-Earth creationism, though that is a departure from the simple text. Still others do not reference Genesis, but merely point out that the universe must have had a Creator.

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Answer 2

The Book of Genesis does not talk about creationism, which is a modern concept that, in various ways according to interpretation, is based on Genesis.

The early Hebrews probably did not regard Genesis chapter 2 as historically true, but when chapter 1 was added after the Babylonian Exile this was probably also seen as an attempt to explain the unknowable. However, creationists insist that the creation stories in Genesis are literally and infallibly true - the trouble begins when different groups of creationists try to interpret what they believe Genesis means.

If Genesis is literally true, there can only be the one creation account, so the first creation story must harmonise with the second, and the contradictions ignored. Since the second and older story leads on to a genealogy that goes down through Noah to the end of the Judah monarchy, the world must be only a few thousand years old. Since the first story says that the world was created in six days, then it was so, although some creationists assert that the Hebrew word for 'day' actually meant 'eons'. Others, unable to read the nuances of the Hebrew language, assert that Chapter 1 is actually a second creation, and that God had already created the world billions of years ago.

Creationism is not defined by the Book of Genesis. It is paradoxically defined more by science, as creationists attempt to find plausible ways to believe the Book of Genesis within the constraints of what science has told us about the world.

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Answer 3

The Book of Genesis (ch.1) states that God created the universe and everything in it.