Old Earth Ministries Homeschool Series

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Old Earth MinistriesHomeschool Series

• Creation
• The Sixth Day

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Creation The Sixth Day

• The 6th day of creation is discussed by God in
  Genesis Chapter 1, verses 24 thru 31

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Creation The Sixth Day

• During the sixth day God creates land animals,
  including man

• Day Six began about the time the first land
  animals appear in the fossil record, about 250
  million years ago (250 Ma)

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Creation The Sixth Day

• And God said, Let the earth bring forth the
  living creature after his kind, cattle, and
  creeping things, and beast of the earth after his
  kind and it was so. 25And God made the beast of
  the earth after his kind, and cattle after their
  kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the
  earth after his kind and God saw that it was
  good.
• Genesis 124-25

• God created the land dwelling creatures on this
  day

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Creation The Sixth Day

• Day Six includes the creation of the dinosaurs

• Some creationists believe dinosaurs were created
  on Day Five

• However, Dinosaurs are clearly land animals, and
  recent research has all but proved that they were
  warm-blooded
• The great sea creatures, such as the Plesiosaur,
  were probably created on Day Five, and the
  dinosuars were probably created on Day Six

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Creation The Sixth Day

• And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
  our likeness and let them have dominion over the
  fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
  and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
  over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
  earth.
• Genesis
  126

• Near the end of Day Six, man is created
• Man is clearly the ruler of earth, even though
  many animals are larger. God gave man the
  ability to think, enabling him to rule the earth

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Creation The Sixth Day

• Before the creation of Adam, there were other
  human-like animals, such as Neanderthal and
  Australopithicus

• Evolutionists point to them as an evolutionary
  path from ape to man

• From a Christian perspective, they were not in
  the image of God as Adam is. In other words,
  they did not have an eternal soul, capable of
  choosing eternal life with God
• Just how human-like they were is debatable, and
  there will always be an argument surrounding
  their position in Gods creation

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Creation The Sixth Day

• So God created man in His own image, in the image
  of God created he him male and female created he
  them.
• Genesis
  127

God

• Many books have been written about the phrase in
  His own image
• Our short list of attributes for His image is
• Possessing an eternal soul
• Conscious of his existence
• Ruled by a moral code

Man
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Creation The Sixth Day

• And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
  fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,
  and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of
  the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
  every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
• Genesis
  128

• God commands man to multiply, and to rule over
  the earth
• Man has dominion over the creatures. This is a
  great responsibility
• We are responsible for the welfare of Gods
  creation, for the other animal species

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Creation The Sixth Day

• And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
  bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the
  earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit
  of a tree yielding seed to you it shall be for
  meat. 30And to every beast of the earth, and to
  every fowl of the air, and to every thing that
  creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I
  have given every green herb for meat and it was
  so.
• Genesis 129-30

• Man and animals are given plants to eat. This is
  often misinterpreted by young-earth creationists

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Creation The Sixth Day

• Young-earth creationists claim there was no death
  before Adams sin. They claim that only plants
  could be eaten based on Genesis 129-30

• First, look back at Genesis 128. Man was
  instructed to subdue the earth (and its animals)
• Young-earth people claim that all animals were
  friendly, and were kind to one another until the
  Flood of Noah

• If they were so gentle, then man would not have
  to subdue them
• For the animals to be subject to Adam, death was
  inevitable

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Creation The Sixth Day

• Second, God did not say they could not eat
  meatHe merely said that they could eat the
  plants

• Finally, looking at our modern food cycle,
  animals that eat meat, such as lions, are
  ultimately plant eaters

• The lions eat the grazing animals, which live off
  of grasses. Therefore, the lions nourishment
  comes from plants, through the grazers

• It is clear from the fossil record that there was
  much death before Adam

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Creation The Sixth Day

• And God saw every thing that he had made, and,
  behold, it was very good. And the evening and
  the morning were the sixth day.
• Genesis 131

"Very Good"

• Day Six ends with the statement very good.
  Young earth proponents say it could not be very
  good if there was death before Adam
• Death is a natural process of Gods created
  world, therefore God created death

Death ultimately unites the Christian with God in
Heaven
There are no Biblical problems with death before
Adam
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Creation The Sixth Day

• The sixth day of creation presents no problems
  for a person who believes in an old earth

This concludes this module on the 6th Day of
Creation