If you are a true Biblical Christian and trying to understand Genesis, you should remain within the framework of the Bible and not apologize for it.
- You have an omnipotent God.
- You believe He can regenerate a decayed corpse cell by cell, molecule by molecule in less than mere seconds.
- You believe He can individually reset the state variables of every air and water molecule in a chaotic storm at sea.
- You believe he can fly and walk through walls.
- You believe He can flood the entire planet, stop and reverse its rotation without spilling any oceans, and do trivial things like parting the sea.
- You believe he can intervene to control the course of History at any time and is not constrained by any of His Laws of Physics.
Great. So do I.
Now, given that, why are you copping out about how He created the universe in the first place? If He says he did it out of order, He did it out of order.
Not saying that the Simulation Hypothesis that Elon Musk talks about is how God does it, but it provides a mental framework for grasping that a Creator might work like a Movie Producer or Video Game Designer and assemble all the parts of the final product in some arbitrary order and slap them together with his Multi Dimensional Rendering Engine incrementally in whatever order suits Him.
- Jesus plainly said we should believe what Moses wrote (John 5).
- Moses wrote that the ten commandments were carved in stone by "the finger of God"
- The fourth commandment confirms (in stone) that God created the universe in six days.
- The Genesis account of creation written by Moses says they were literal day-night cycles and that God did things out of order.
So, I'm going with "that's what really happened".
That leaves me with only one Working Hypothesis that fits ALL the facts, both scientific and scriptural.
We are living in God's matrix.
Originally published in response to this post by alexbeyman. I decided it was worth a stand-alone post to reach a bigger audience.