The creation account in Genesis. Any belief other than a “24 hour” 6 day creation week and one “24 hour” rest day is broken! How? Exodus 20:9-11. Let’s fix some broken thought:
Exodus 20:9-11 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, (10) but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. (11) For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
All OEC (old earth creationists; progressive creationists, day age theorists, gap theorists, etc.,) claim the 7 days during creation week are not regular days in a regular week. Those days are, for the sake of argument here, “indeterminate amounts of time.” For example one might say, “Well Genesis just tells us God took six ages to do his work. They weren’t actual days like we know them.” They say this so Genesis can seemingly be compatible with the big bang theory and evolutionary science. A failed theory to be compatible with another failed theory. More broken thought.
An exegetical reading of Exodus tells us we should work for six days and rest for one. Why? Verse 11 says it’s because, during creation week, in six days God created everything and rested on the seventh. If the days in Genesis are indeterminate amounts of time…then one of the Ten Commandments is telling us we must work for 6 indeterminate periods of time and rest for 1 indeterminate period. That’s a broken interpretation. But, if the days in Genesis are actual days like we know them today then this passage in Exodus makes sense. It’s the only way it makes sense.
