Comment on: https://creation.com/the-creation-hyperbola
I
think there are a couple of possibilities in God's creating over six
days as we experience them (very clear from the 'evening and morning'
definition of 'day'). Firstly, God demonstrates that, while the eternal
creator, he is present and active in the world that we live in and is
created as the stage for our communion with him. God is 'here', not
distant. He is in our 'space' not some ethereal unobtainable place that
is incomprehensible to us (pace Plato, Aristotle and pagan stories in
general). Each day shows a sequence of events that commence with God's
will: with 'mind', and result in an effect, which God then evaluates. He
demonstrates that mind (a person) is the source, and not things
visible, as per Hebrews 11:3, and each stage of creation is complete,
established to get on with life and its cycles of reproduction,
ecological adjustment, and cultural development (for man). He also
demonstrates a creation where rational causality operates. Finally God
demonstrates that he is in fellowship with his creature-in-his-image,
reinforcing the 'imageness' that is exhibited in creative work: mind
applied to the creation. He adopts the same tempo that we are
constrained by the daily cycle that dominates our lives. God
demonstrates that he knows our limitation but nevertheless exhibit his
capability. Thus he shares, fellowships, despite our finitude, making
sense of the 'imageness' that allows the fellowship.
If
God had created instantly, it would seem to make God one with creation:
monism. If he 'created' through evolution (over long periods) it would
seem to absorb him into the creation, making him included in it.Either
way a creator disconnected from the creation and its creatures. We know
from Genesis 3:8 that this we have a fellowshipping God, not a god like
the pagans imagine, distant, impersonal, impassible.
The
creation in 6 days shows God separate from the creation and its
creator. He demonstrates this by describing the way he created. All of
God's acts in the Bible are public, and they are all about the
fellowship (or not) of man and God. The creation account is similarly
public. We weren't there, so the next best thing is its description
showing it was done in terms of the world that we are in. The creation
account, unlike any pagan account, is clearly in and about *this* world,
not some other figmentary world of which we can know nothing and cannot
make sense of in our lives denominated by the passing of time, location
in history and setting in place.
