“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day”
Ex. 20:11
“Hear now my words: …My servant Moses… is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
Num. 12:6-8
“Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female”
Matt 19:4
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Subsections
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Order of Contents
Where to Start?
Articles
Booklet
Books
Historical 4
On Creation from Nothing
Creationist Books
For Children
Devotional
Quote
How the Creation is Said to Groan
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Where to Start?
A Brief Overview
Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary – 6 Days are 6 Days no date, 15 paragraphs, with a commendation by G.I. Williamson
Reymond, Robert – ‘Seven Reasons for Six Day Creation’ in Systematic Theology, ch. 2, pp. 392-394
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The More In-Depth Scriptural Case
Gentry, Kenneth – In the Space of Six Days, from the Ordained Servant, vol. 9, no. 1 (January 2000), pp. 12-16, 20 short paragraphs
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The Exhaustive Scriptural Case
Gentry, Kenneth – Yea, Hath God Said? The Framework Hypothesis/Six-Day Creation Debate Buy 2002 172 pp.
Though this work takes aim at the popular Framework Hypothesis (that Gen. 1 is only poetic and not historical with poetic beauty), it also contains perhaps the best Scriptural case for the traditional, literal 6-Day viewpoint. At the same time, the work also decimates all non-literal interpretations of what Scripture clearly says. Part 3 demonstrates that the Westminster Confession’s ‘in the space of six days’ means exactly what it says.
For another excellent book length defense of the Biblical view of the length of Creation, see ‘Did God Create in Six Days?’ below by Pipa and Hall.
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Articles
1800’s
Bavinck, Herman – Creation from Our Reasonable Faith, excerpts from p. 170-173
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1900’s
Berkhof, Louis
On Creation HTML 1949 70 paragraphs from his Systematic Theology
On Creation in Six Days HTML 1949 25 paragraphs excerpted from his Systematic Theology
Young, E.J. – ‘The Days of Genesis’, part 1, part 2 Westminster Theological Journal 25 (1962-3) 1-34 See the historical background to these two articles in Gary North’s article.
Gentry, Kenneth – Reformed Theology and Six Day Creation no date, 22 short paragraphs
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2000’s
Batzig, Nick – [Geerhardus] Vos on the Historicity and Interpretation of Genesis 1 and 2 2013 32 paragraphs Including an extensive quotation from Vos’ Reformed Dogmatics
Williamson, G.I. – A Defense of Six-Day Creation 2013 31 paragraphs
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Booklet
Beek, Joel – What did the Reformers Believe about the Age of the Earth? Buy $1.75, 16 pages
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Books on the Length of Creation from Scripture
Pipa, Joseph and Hall, David – Did God Create in Six Days? Buy 1999 352 pages
This work includes contributions by numerous professors at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. See the ‘Look Inside’ option through the Buy link for the table of contents.
Young, E.J.
Studies in Genesis One Buy in An International Library of Philosophy and Theology 1975 105 pp.
Young was one of the great, early, Westminster Seminary scholars.
In the Beginning: Gen. chs. 1-3 and the Authority of Scripture Buy 1976 117
Historical
On the Whole of Church History
Book
Hall, David – Holding Fast to Creation Kindle 2000 241 pp. The hardcopy is spiral-bound by The Covenant Foundation. The work has chapters on the Early Church, Calvin and the Reformers, the Westminster Divines, the Enlightenment, recent debates and ‘A Biblical Theology of Creation’
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Early Church up to the 1800’s
Book
Brown, Andrew J. – The Days of Creation: A History of Christian Interpretation of Genesis 1:1 – 2:3 in History of Biblical Interpretation Series, vol. 4 (Brill, 2012) ToC Covers the post apostolic era to the debates surrounding Essays and Reviews (1860).
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On the Middle Ages
Lyra, Nicholas – ‘On the Division of the Bible & The O.T. Especially’ & ‘On the Beginning of Genesis’ from his, The Holy Bible with the Ordinary Gloss (Venice, 1603) col. 1
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On the 1600’s
Article
Goudriaan, Aza – 3.1 ‘Creation in 6 Days’ in ch. 2, ‘Creation, Mosaic Physics, Copernicanism & Divine Accommodation’ in Reformed Orthodoxy and Philosophy, 1625-1750 : Gisbertus Voetius, Petrus Van Mastricht, and Anthonius Driessen Pre (Boston: Brill, 2006), pp. 125-133
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On the 1900’s, PCA
Book
Reed, John – Plain Talk about Genesis: A Fresh Look at the PCA Earth History Debate Buy 2000 119 pp.
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On Creation from Nothing
Historical Theology
Goudriaan, Aza – 2. ‘Philosophy & Creation from Nothing’ in ch. 2, ‘Creation, Mosaic Physics, Copernicanism & Divine Accommodation’ in Reformed Orthodoxy & Philosophy, 1625-1750: Gisbertus Voetius, Petrus Van Mastricht, and Anthonius Driessen Pre (Boston: Brill, 2006), pp. 86-104
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Creationist Books
Whitcomb, Jr., John – The Early Earth Buy 1972 138 pp.
For Children
Guassen, Louis – Lessons for the Young on the Six Days of Creation 1860 135 pp.
Devotional
Myers, Andrew – He Made the Stars Also a collection of photography and poetic quotes about the stars
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Quote
Samuel Rutherford
The Divine Right of Church Government… (1646), p. 84
“For holiness in saints is a participation of the divine nature, but it is a temporary and a created participation; it is not the same very holiness that is in God, but [rather is] the created effect thereof:
And so the love I bear to any creature, because there is somewhat of God in every creature, and the love to our neighbor, commanded in the Second Table of the Law, should be the Love of God commanded in the First Table of the Law.”
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How the Creation is Said to Groan
Samuel Rutherford
The Covenant of Life Opened… (1655), p. 17
“1. Man is to be considered as a creature [and] 2. as such a creature, to wit, endued with reason and the Image of God; in either considerations, especially in the former, all that are created are obliged to do and suffer the will of God though they never sinned. It’s not enough to say that sun, moon, trees, herbs, vines, earth, beasts, birds and fishes cannot suffer the ill of punishment which is relative to the break of a Law, for the whole creation is subject to vanity for our sins, Rom. 8:20-21.
The servant is smitten and sickened for the master’s sake, and God may take from them what He gave them, [even] their lives without sense of pain and dolor, for all beings, yea [even] defects and privations, are debtors to the glory-declarative of God, Prov. 16:4; Rom. 11:36; yea, and no-beings [things that could be, but are not,] are under this debt.”
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“…by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men”
Rom. 5:12
“By the word of the Lord were the heavens made… For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.”
Ps. 33:6,9
“When Moses writes that God created Heaven and Earth and whatever is in them in six days, then let this period continue to have been six days, and do not venture to devise any comment according to which six days were one day. But, if you cannot understand how this could have been done in six days, then grant the Holy Spirit the honor of being more learned than you are.”
Martin Luther
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