How Long Were the "Days" of Creation? - Kenneth C Herrmann - December 1958

Kenneth C Herrmann

Were the days of creation week "ages"? People insist that God could not set the world in order and create life forms in six literal days! Why? Why has doubt about creation entered Christian minds today? Why do men in this "enlightened age" reject the unmistakable meaning of the Word of God? For over 3000 years men of God have believed the literal meaning of the account of creation recorded in Genesis 1 and 2. To them the Scripture said that in six days, 24-hour days as we know them, God created the heavens and the earth and rested the seventh day. Holy men of old rested on the Sabbath day believing that it had its beginning as the final day of that creation week - that it was a memorial of creation. For 3000 years righteous men have dared to take God's inspired record at face value. No record is found of "ages" rather than days of creation in the ancient history of the Hebrews or of early Christians. Why, then, does an "enlightened age" reject the truth of literal days of creation? - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library