What is the literal view of creation?

Answer 1

We have to watch out for assumptions in our Bible reading. The "days" of creation should have been translated as "times" or periods of indeterminate length. The "days" of creation were not 24-hour days, much less consecutive ones.

Of course, God works according to natural and eternal principles, and we have the evidence of geology, so naturally creation took billions of years. There doesn't have to be a discrepancy between science and faith.

Answer 2

By literal view of creation, its assumed you are referring to the literal interpretation of biblical text without the influence of mans doctrines and ideas, that is what Will be provided, however I will mention where some of those mens ideas originated form which will help the reader understand more clearly how to distinguish when they are hearing the truth and when they are listening to mans fiction.

To understand Literal Biblical Creation, on must understand and study the Biblical texts of both the old and new testaments. Further they must understand how the believers in Greek philos-sophos doctrine and its dialectic deceive people concerning creation.

First: What is written in the biblical text concerning Creation. We will define this in three events. The creation of earth, the creation of souls and the creation of flesh man.

First is the creation of the earth. Many biblical scholars attempt to cram all of the events which have and will occur into one earth age. That simply is not true. There are three distinct earth ages or eons which are given and defined very plainly in the third chapter of the second book of the Apostle Peter. Further its defined that a day with our Father is as one thousand years to flesh man. Many proclaim that this earth was originated in vain or in a state of chaos which evolved into what it is today. That is simply not written, the literal translation is given in Isaiah 45:18 where our Father states emphatically he did not create this earth in vain, he created it to be inhabited. So the literal translation is that there are three distinct earth ages or eons and the first two were created to be inhabited in every detail. What our Father does not mention is the time frame of the first earth age. What is written in Proverbs 8:22-23 is that wisdom was with our Father before he created what we call earth.

Second is the creation of the souls and their bodies, This is stumbling block to most people as they do not understand their body contains a soul which transcends this earth age. The account is well written and defined by Paul in the fifteenth chapter of the first book of Corinthians. There the Apostle Paul goes through a lengthy explanation of the soul and its two bodies. You have an eternal heavenly body which never grows old or wears out, and you have this flesh body which dies because its temporary. We are only here in the flesh on probation in order to choose through freewill to set thing right with our Father who created us. Afterword our soul returns back to the Father who gave it, Ecclesiastes 12:7. Jeremiah 1:5 states:

"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before Thou calmest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations"

Now how could our Father know this person Jeremiah before he was ever conceived and known him to a point where he could sanctify him and ordain him a prophet? The literal answer is common sense, Jeremiah existed in that first earth age. That is the argument which Paul makes in 1st Corinthians chapter 15. Our father made all of our souls and he knew us in that first earth age. But what went wrong to cause us to come to this state? That answer is written in the 12th chapter of the book of Revelation in the 3rd and 4th verses, where we learn Satan, that great red dragon cast down 1/3 of our Fathers children. He deceived them into worshipping him not our Father. The corruption of Satan is well defined in Ezekiel chapter 28 where he is given as the King of Tyrus (rock) and then the prince of Tyrus, there we learn Satan claimed to be as God and in Revelation we learn he deceived 1/3 of our Fathers children into thinking the same. Our father ended that nonsense with the destruction of the first earth age which is defined in Jeremiah 4:22-28 and 2nd Peter chapter 3:5,6.

Third: In order to be fair to all his children our Father required that we all must pass through this flesh life with the freewill to choose what we will believe. That is the purpose of this flesh life. We are on probation and our future, the existence of our souls in the 3rd earth age (called the eternity), is based upon our works which we perform in our flesh life. We all should be working toward the goal of achieving a passing grade which will allow us to continue in that 3rd earth age, in the same body which we possessed in the first earth age, that eternal heavenly body. Read Revelation chapter 20 which defines the conclusion and judgement. We are each and every one judged according to our works. Our works are are rights of passage into the next earth age. Nothing else will be used as access rights but our works.

The fact that our Father created us in these flesh bodies is documented in the 6th chapter of the book of Genesis.

In very short vernacular:

1) We all existed in the first earth age in our heavily bodies, with our Father, completely content and happy.

2) Satan was created as a cherub, wiser than Daniel, who allowed himself to become deceived by his own wisdom and acquisition of riches. He was deceived to the point he though himself equal with our Father. Satan used his wisdom to deceive 1/3 of our Fathers children who turned to him as if he were our Father. Battle ensued and Satan lost, then a decision, what happens to the 1/3 who were deceived by Satan?

3) Answer we all must go through the flesh life and possess the freewill to choose either Satan or our Father & Christ our savior.

4) We will all be judged according to our works which are those rights of passage to re-acquire our heavenly bodies and move into the 3 earth age (also known as the eternity). Those who don't make it are destroyed in the lake of fire. That's how it is written in the 20th chapter of the book or Revelation boys and girls. So if you are thinking you will exist forever in a place called Hell, well that is simply not written. You either make it according to your works at judgement or your soul is destroyed. The beauty is if you truly believe, you can be forgiven by Christ of your bad works, and they won't count against you. However you can't con Christ either, he can read your thoughts and knows if your are genuine in your request for forgiveness. All your works are documented by the angels in the book of life. Forgiven works are erased.

That's the literal translation in a very short and quick definition which does not even scratch the surface of all that is written in our Fathers word concerning this subject. In the book of Ezekiel the order to prophets and teachers is this: " speak with my words unto them"

Answer

Biblicists are always forgetting that there also a creation story in Job 38 which directly contradicts the stories in Genesis. So which "literal" do you want?

Answer 3

There are many 'literal' views of creation, depending on what is being regarded as literally true. The biblical literal view holds that the world was created in six days, just a few thousand years ago and that Adam and Eve were the first people God created, just as the proponents of this view believe The Bible to say. The problem with the biblical literal view is that this is not literally what the Bible says.

The most important issue is that there is not one but two distinct and entirely incompatible biblical creation accounts in Genesis: verses 1:1-2:4a and 2:4b-20. Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that pious readers, believing that the text cannot contain contradictions, ignore the major disjunctions between the two creation stories and tend to treat the second story as the fuller, more detailed account of the creation of man (and woman) that the first story simply reported. But that then ceases to be literal.

To have a literal view of biblical creation, one of the creation stories must be chosen from the two. If for example this is the first story, we must scrupulously avoid reading into any facts or notions taken from the second. An entirely different literal view of biblical creation can be held by taking the second bibilical creation story and ignoring the first.

A literal scientific view would be entirely different again. Literally, around 11.3 billion years ago, the universe was formed, apparently from a 'Big Bang' event. Stars began to form as hot gases coalesced and eventually the sun, a relatively young star, joined the many stars in the universe. An older and larger star in our neighbourhood eventually reached the end of its life and exploded as a supernova, an avent that astronomers observe from time to time in the universe. Some of the heavy elements from that supernova explosion were captured into orbit around the sun as an accretion disc. That accretion disc broke down into several smaller masses one of which, around 4.54 billion years ago, would become our earth. Life eventually formed and evolved into the species we know today.

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Answer 4

There are millions of literal views of creation , only 7 are taken seriously.