Creation week

Creation Week, as mentioned in the Bible, refers to the week that He created the universe. The length of time that people believe Creation Week to take is a good test of orthodoxy.heretic.

While there is no reference in the Bible that each day was 24 hours, it is easy to show what the chronology for the creation week should be, and where the confirming Bible stories are found. The answer is surprising because the creation week story is likley pointing at God's creation of mankind, even though he uses rather strange language.

The Sabbath Rest

The common literary feature of the creation week is that it is broken down into days. Different English translations have different styles in the English, but the main feature is the way the creation week is broken down into listed days. The following is the last verse in the first creation day.

Genesis 2:1-3 And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

This change in literary structure is important because it conveys an idea that is found in several other Bible stories: The seventh day is still continuing, it never ended.

The theology behind this change in literary structure is important. Mankind was created in day six, likely the last thing created in that day. Mankind then fell. God, in his mercy is at rest in this day of mankind's fall, but he is working doing one thing: Rescuing fallen mankind.