RECONCILIATION

The following is an overview of the subject matter presented in this book. It is designed to facilitate easy understanding. In the chapters following this section, abundant biblical references support every new idea and concept found in this book.

Sally - 8th Grader

Lord, please help me; I am so confused. My mother and father told me you created man from the dust of the earth and my Sunday school teacher and preacher agree with them. I find my Bible sometimes hard to understand, but I have read in it many times that you did create man out of the dust of the earth. I want to believe that you created man but the thing is that my teacher at school and my school books say that at one time man was an ape-like creature that changed over time to become man. My books also say that man share 98.7 percent of the same genes as an ape. Lord, please tell me who is right and who is wrong.

Sally, your mother and father love you and so do I. Your Sunday school teacher and preacher along with your teacher at school also care for you very much. They would never tell you something that they didn’t believe in their own hearts. The problem is that people don’t open their hearts wide enough to let all the truth come in. Sally, don’t get me wrong, it is always a good thing to guard your heart and let only the truth in, but you should not reject ideas because you don’t like the way they make you feel.

Lord, how can I tell if something is the truth?

Sally, I have given you a fine mind. It is your job to study hard and learn.

Lord, how can I know that what I learn is the truth?

Sally, I have given you the Bible, which is my written Word. I promise you it is the truth. Do not receive any understanding that is not in agreement with the Bible.

Lord, does that mean that my mother and father were right in saying that man did not come from ape-like creatures?

Sally, to know the truth one must open his or her heart wide and search for it. Many people have read in the Bible where I created man with my spoken Word and dust of the earth and they are right, but that is only part of the story. People need to open their hearts to ideas that make them feel uncomfortable and then search my written Word for the truth.

Sally, I created man to be with me for companionship; therefore, I created man in my image and after my likeness. Someday you will be with me in Heaven. At that time, you will be given a new spiritual body, but your physical body will not be able to come to Heaven.

Lord, I don’t understand. Why did you create man with a physical body if only spiritual bodies can be with you in Heaven?

Sally, I created Adam and Eve as spirit beings with spiritual bodies, and I placed them in my Garden. Man did not receive physical bodies until after they sinned and I removed them from my Garden.

Lord, you said you made man out of the dust of the earth. Since dust of the earth is physical matter, why wouldn’t Adam’s body have been physical?

Sally, this is where you need to open your heart and seek the truth. Don’t let the truth that is already in your heart prevent you from knowing a deeper truth. Open your heart to the possibility that there are two kinds of dust of the earth, one spiritual and one physical. You know, Sally, you are also spiritual and physical.

Yes, Lord, I do know I am a spirit being within a physical body. When did you create the spiritual dust of the earth?

Sally, on Creation Day Three I spoke three “Let there be” statements which formed the laws of creation for all physical matter. Whenever physical matter is created, neutrinos are created. Adam and Eve’s bodies were created from neutrino matter.

Your body is not made of neutrinos but there are countless numbers of them flowing through your body and through all physical matter at all times. I realize scientists consider neutrinos as physical particles, but neutrinos don’t normally interact with physical matter, so I call neutrinos spiritual.

Lord, why didn’t you just say to your prophets that man was first created with neutrinos?

Sally, at the time I gave my words to my prophets, man was not ready for such high knowledge. I used the term dust of the earth to hide in my written Word this knowledge for when the time was right. Lord, I would like to know more about neutrinos.

Sally, your science teacher will be teaching you more about neutrinos later, but you can always search for more information through the library or internet.

Lord, how did you give man physical bodies?

Sally, a long time ago I had Adam name all creatures. Adam was a living soul; therefore, the names Adam gave to the creatures caused the creatures to develop higher souls or spirits. Higher souls caused creatures’ physical bodies to adapt to changing environments. After Adam and Eve sinned in my Garden, I removed them from the Garden as living souls or spirit beings. The spirit of mankind, in the form of the three sons of Adam and Eve, were made available to develop creatures on the physical earth. These creatures were the early ancestors of man.

Sally, I know you have heard many times that man is really a spirit being with a physical body. You have heard right. Your mother and father are right in saying that I created man from the dust of the earth with my spoken Word, and your teacher and textbooks are also right in saying man’s early primitive ancestors changed over a long period of time to become what they are today.

Lord, my parents told me that animals can change somewhat but they cannot change from one species or kind to another species or kind.

Once again, Sally, your parents are right to believe in my written Word, but they need to open their hearts to my higher truths and not let the truth which is already in their hearts prevent them from receiving higher understanding.

Please tell your parents I am so glad that they are teaching you from my written Word and are taking the time each week to take you to my House of Prayer, but also remind your parents that before I came to the earth in the form of a member of the man species, I was in Heaven in the form of God and was God. After humbling myself by taking on the form of a man, I died on the cross and rose again to give the man species the opportunity to become a new creature or member of the son-of-God species. With the help of God, one species can become another species. All things are possible for me.

Thank you Lord. I understand the things you have told me.

Sally, please remember that I created everything with my spoken Word, which created all the physical laws. The facts of nature must be in agreement with my written Word because I am not a liar or a deceiver. When you find something in the Bible that is not in agreement with scientific facts, it is time to open your heart and search for the truth. You can trust me and my written Word.

Sally, go to sleep, it’s your bedtime. I’ll always be with you.

Lord, please let my preacher understand what you have shown me. Rev. George is such a loving man and everyone loves him and his whole family so much.

Sally, write a letter about all that we have spoken about and give it to Rev. George. Tell my servant I will come to him and speak to him.

Goodnight Sally.

Goodnight Lord.

Lord! Lord! Is that really you?

Yes, George, I am here. What did you think of Sally’s letter?

Lord, you know I was both shocked and disturbed.

George, I am here to answer your questions.

Lord, I really believed you created man with a physical body here on the earth. Why are there verses in the Bible that are misleading?

George, you know the Jewish people are the apple of my eye and I love them very much. They had a hard time understanding my written Word concerning my coming to the earth as a Lamb of God. Like Christians today, they also allowed the truth that was in their hearts from what they read in my written Word to deny even deeper truth from entering in.

As you know, George, I knew my own people would reject me. It was all part of my plan to bring salvation to the Gentiles. Someday I will remove the blindness from the Jewish people and they will see in my written Word that I am not only God, but also the Son of God.

It has also served my purpose for Christians to be blinded for a time. George, I know you have often wondered how people who have studied my written Word for their whole lives could not understand that I was their King. Now the Christian community can truly empathize with my people concerning blindness.

Lord, the Jewish people rejected you and it led to a path for the Gentiles to receive you as Lord and Savior. Is the blindness on Christians today making a path for others to know you as Lord?

Yes, George, I have other sheep that must hear my voice. There shall be one fold.

Lord, it is written that you placed man upon the earth.

Yes, George, I placed man upon the spiritual earth when I placed them in my Garden. Later, I placed man on the physical earth by placing them in the spirits of physical creatures. My written Word is the truth. One can only receive deeper understanding by not allowing the truth in their heart to stop deeper truths from getting in.

George, let’s play a word game. I will say a word and you will tell me how that word makes you feel.

Okay Lord!

Evolution.

Lord, I hate that word. It makes me feel like people are rejecting you and your written Word.

George, you have studied my written Word faithfully all of your life and there is a lot of truth in your heart, but you have been guarding that truth with negative emotions towards any knowledge that you believe is not in agreement with what is in your heart. Examine carefully all knowledge in the light of my written Word, but resist applying negative emotions while you search for deeper understanding.

Lord, it is written that one should let the peace of the Lord be one’s guide.

Yes, George, the peace of the Lord should be your guide, not one’s own negative emotions.

Lord, if I don't have peace in my heart, how do I know if it is you or just a negative emotion?

Ask me, I’ll tell you. George, can you imagine what your country would be like if both the Democrats and Republicans would search others’ ideas with open hearts? Can you imagine what the world would be like if everyone would open their hearts to the ideas of others?

Lord, how wonderful that would be. I have wondered for such a long time why it only took you six days to create everything and why the Bible is not in agreement with scientific facts concerning the creation of the universe?

George, I don’t lie and I am not a deceiver. If you were to understand my written Word correctly, you would know it is not in disagreement with scientific facts concerning creation.

Lord, so how long was a creation day?

George, your heart is closed. You have already decided that my written Word is true and that a creation day had to have been twenty-four hours long. Open you heart to the idea that a creation day has nothing to do with time and everything to do with my manifested spoken Word. My spoken Word manifested into things like light, firmament, gathered waters, dry land, and the lights in the firmament of heaven. These manifested words were the days of creation. For example, Day One was “light,” not the time it took to create light. Each day of creation had an evening and then a morning. In the case of Day One, darkness was the first evening, and light was the first morning. As manifested Word of God, the days of creation were the source of all laws in physics.

Lord, all that does make sense to me. I have never thought of it in that way before.

I know, George, your heart was closed to such wonderful understanding. Open your heart; you shall be delighted with what you will find. Get some rest, George, for tomorrow is Sunday and you have an important decision to make.

Yes, I know.

Lord, as you know, my cousin James teaches biology at the local high school. He has a tremendous interest in the creation of man. Will you let James know what you have shown Sally and me?

Yes, George. Write a letter to James and tell him all about what Sally and you have received from me.

Thank you Lord.

Goodnight George.

Goodnight Lord.

Yes, Lord, your servant hears you.

James, what do you want to know?

Lord, you told George that darkness was the evening of Day One, but it is not written in the Bible that you actually spoke the words ”Let there be darkness.” I know darkness was present before you spoke the words “Let there be light.” I also know it is written that you created everything, and nothing was created that was not created by you; so Lord when did you create darkness and why is it not written that you spoke the words “Let there be darkness?”

James, I am a Creator God. That is what I am. That is what I do. There was a universe before this present universe, and there will be another universe after this one. Sometime in the future, I will do what I did in the last universe. I will once again speak the words “Let there be waters” and “Let there be darkness,” which will cause both the heavens and the earth to melt.

Lord, you told Sally that you used the first three sons of Adam and Eve to create man on the earth. What part did the sons of Adam and Eve have in the creation of physical man?

James, I am three persons but yet I am only one God. Your spirit consists of mind, soul, and heart but yet it is only one spirit. The spirit of man, who was placed upon the spirits of some of earth's living creatures, was also three persons but yet only one spirit. When Cain killed Abel, the spirit of man went into the spirit of physical early man to give them the mind of man. With the mind of Abel or human mind, early man produced higher man-like thoughts. This same process can be seen when people receive the Spirit of Christ and form the mind of Christ. The higher thoughts of Christ are placed within their new hearts, which was given to them when they received Jesus as Lord and Savior. The higher thoughts produced with the minds of man were placed within spirit from Cain to develop the souls of man.

Seth was the third person of the man spirit who stayed in the presence of God. Through prayer, obedience, and sacrifice, early man was able to provide what was needed by the spirit of Seth in order to develop the heart of man. The first physical person who developed the mind of man, the soul of man, and the heart of man received the spiritual presence of Adam, or the name of Adam, and became the first physical man. This physical Adam proceeded to have physical children. The spirit of man was the source of the son-of-man species, not the physical children of Adam. The children of physical Adam had no need to marry each other, like many people have suggested. They married the children of early man. It would be similar to Christians marrying non-Christians.

Thank you Lord. I knew the true story of man had to be something like what you have just shown me but I did not know the details. Lord, I also heard that many scientists believe life started in the ocean around a vent. Is that true, Lord?

James, physical life forms in your world have physical bodies which are held together by electric currents. Electricity is released in chemical reaction within life forms as food is being digested. If the chemical reaction within life forms ceased, the life form would die and its body would decay.

James, I am the Father of spirits. On Day Five I created spiritual creatures. I applied these spirited creatures to what scientist’s call primitive life form. Spiritual creatures gave physical life forms the ability to become increasingly more complex life forms over time. Later, I created earth’s living creatures that were even higher spirit forms and then caused Adam to give them my breath of life as name spirit. Spirit earth’s living creatures were applied to the spirits of developing physical creatures to promote even higher development.

James, it is true that physical life forms first formed in the ocean, but it is also true that they could not develop without spirit and name from me.

Lord, I have another question. I understand in your written Word the story about Jacob’s flocks changing colors and that coat patterns were a demonstration showing that you protect and bless those who have a covenant with you, but I was wondering if this story is also about showing your people that animals do evolve?

Yes, James; however, there is another reason for my telling the story about Jacob and his flock. I wanted to show people that I created the process of evolution and I am in control of it. Jacob’s flock changed in one generation. This would not be possible under the current understanding of evolution. Remember, I caused Adam to give name spirit to spirits of all creatures. Name spirit gave the creatures the ability to adapt to changing environments.

Jacob changed the environment of his flock by taking rods of green poplar, hazel, and chestnut trees and pilling them to show streaks of white. Then he placed the rods in the gutters of the watering troughs. When his flock drank the water, their souls were satisfied. Information concerning the changed environment of his flock caused the name spirit that Adam gave them to change the DNA of the offspring.

James, I know you have often wondered how creatures could have changed so fast. You have read how I gave my people the desires of their hearts. In a way, I also gave my creatures the desires of their hearts.

Lord, everything that you have shown me makes so much sense. It is now easy for me to understand how some dinosaurs became birds

James, always remember that thoughts are important.

Lord, you have shown me so much, and I am very grateful, but could you answer one more question for me?

Sure, James, what is it?

Lord, why did you create earth’s living creatures on the same day you created man? Was it because you knew man would sin and be removed from your Garden in order to create the son-of-man species.

Yes, James, I knew man would sin, but there is more to it than the fall of man. I knew Adam would be giving name spirit to the spirits of creatures for the purpose of them adapting to changing environments. Remember, creation days were the manifestations of my spoken Word and the source of all physical laws. Creation days were not periods of time; therefore, even though I spoke the words that created earth’s living creatures on the sixth day of creation, earth’s living creatures were still part of Day Five.

Thank you so very much Lord for answering my questions. My friend Tom works in the Physics Department at the local university. Reconciling the Bible and science has been a goal of Tom’s for many years.

I know, James, I put that desire in his heart.

Lord, would you show him what you have shown me?

James, put in a letter all that I have shown Sally, Rev. George, and you and give it to Tom. Tell him I will be talking to him.

Thank you Lord.

Goodnight James.

Goodnight Lord.

Tom – Physics Professor

Tom, wake up. I want to speak to you.

Lord, is that really you?

Yes, Tom, I am here to answer your questions. What do you want to know?

Lord, the current theory of creation in science says that light was not the first thing created in the universe. I also know of several kinds of light that are written about in the Bible. What was the light you created on Day One?

Tom, I created light in the midst of darkness. Darkness was spiritual energy substance that was created when I destroyed the previous universe. When I spoke the words “Let there be light,” some of the darkness obeyed my spoken Word and became light. I used this light to create the spiritual world of light, or the Kingdom of Light.

Lord, why didn’t you tell your prophets so they could write it in your written Word?

Tom, would you give your five-year-old grandson the keys to your car?

No, Lord, I wouldn’t.

Tom, I love my children too much to give them information that they could use to destroy themselves. After your grandson has grown into a young adult and has become a responsible person, would you let him have the keys to your car then?

Maybe I would Lord.

Tom, the son-of-man species are now ready for a deeper understanding of what I created at the beginning of time.

Lord, what was the firmament you created on Day Two?

Tom, as you know, I called the firmament Heaven. There is both a physical heaven with stars and other planets like the one you live in and spiritual heavens with spiritual beings. The firmament I created on the second day was a type of spiritual space and energy.

Lord, what do you mean by spiritual space and energy?

Tom, when you think about space in this universe, you think of a place where physical objects like suns, planets, moons, comets, and meteorites can end up. If one of these objects ends up in a part of space, gravity will also be there. Firmament is the space where spiritual objects may be found. If a spiritual object did end up in a space that is firmament, there would also be spiritual energy there.

Lord, I know everything in this universe is made of energy, and information within energy is the source of all the laws of physics, so is your spoken Word the information within energy?

No, Tom, that would make Me the created. I am the Creator. My spoken Word created the information within energy and is also responsible for the maintaining of it. Tom, I know you have wondered how energy could change from one form to another and not lose its information. Well, My Word prevents that from happening.

Lord, on Day Three you caused the waters under heaven to be gathered unto one place and then you caused dry land to appear. I know the waters were the residue from the melting of the previous universe. What was the appearing of dry land?

Tom, when I spoke the words “Let the dry land appear,” gathered waters exploded into the curved space dimension that you call your universe. Gathered waters became scattered gathered waters, or dry land. As you know, dry land (physical matter of this universe) has two forms, mass matter and nonmass matter (a type of waters that is not H2O). Mass matter is strong nuclear energy with the capability of being in the form of mass. Nonmass matter is strong nuclear energy without the ability to have mass.

Lord, when you said “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit,” were you creating the electromagnetic force?

Yes, Tom, I was. Since plants are formed from elements, compounds, and mixtures; and they live on electromagnetic energy (light), there simply could not be any grass, herbs, or trees without the electromagnetic force.

Lord, there is one more thing that I have been wondering about. On Day Four you created the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night, and you placed them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth. It is known in the science community that our sun is a second or third generation star, not the first star ever made. Lord, what were the greater light and the lesser light?

Tom, you are correct. I did not create your sun and moon on Day Four. The greater light and the lesser light were of a spiritual nature. I placed them in the firmament that was spiritual space and energy. The greater light gave light to the Kingdom of Light and Heaven. The lesser light gave light to night or the physical universe in the form of the weak nuclear force.

As you know, Tom, the weak nuclear force is the fundamental physical force responsible for particle decay processes. It also governs interactions between hadrons and leptons. The important thing to understand about the weak nuclear force and the decay process that it governs is the mechanism by which stars release their energy as light. There could be no physical light upon the earth without the weak nuclear force.

Lord, there is another question that I just now thought of. Are there other people on other planets?

Tom, if I were to answer you, I would have to give you a thorn in your side in order to prevent you from having pride. I can tell you this. Man was first created as a spirit being and then placed upon the spirits of earth’s living creatures. If there were other beings out in space, their DNA would follow the same rules that your DNA follows. Man’s DNA is a product of law from Creation Day Five. I am the God that created the universe. My laws are universal, not local.

Thank you for all you have given to me. My friend Daniel is a writer and he too has a tremendous interest in creation. Will you show him the things you have shown to us?

I have been preparing Daniel and his wife Kathleen for many years for just this time. Tom, write them a letter.

Goodnight Tom.

Goodnight Lord.

God’s spoken Word created universal spiritual laws that created the laws of physics and the laws for life forms. The universe and all living things are the results of these universal spiritual laws.

Following the process of God’s spoken Word of creation, we shall see how the days of creation created the laws of physics and the spiritual laws of life forms.

Then, we will explore the process of evolution and the spiritual laws governing life. As a natural outcome of this discussion, the reader should come to an amazing understanding. If the Bible is understood correctly, there is no conflict with the written Word of God and scientific evidence.

We can let the Scriptures interpret the Scriptures, as God instructed us to do, or we can continue to apply our worldly understanding to the Bible and make God’s Word look foolish. Scientists have looked long and hard in their search for truth concerning our physical universe. If Christians are to know the truth concerning both the spiritual universe and the physical universe, they must also search long and hard. No longer can believers simply read Bible verses and apply their own understanding to God’s Word.

What does the Bible say about creation?

It is written that God created the heavens, the earth, and living things (including man) in six days. On the seventh day, He rested.

When God wanted to create anything, He would speak words, and His Creation would be manifested.

The Bible does not say how long creation days were. If creation days were only twenty-four hours long, evolution would have been impossible. On the other hand, if creation days were longer periods of time, God could have used evolution as a tool in creation.

Many Christians believe the days of creation were periods of time. Others believe the days of creation were only twenty-four hours long.

What does science say about evolution and the origins of our universe?

Scientists believe that about 3.8 billion years ago, all life evolved from simple bacteria from a single origin (Mayr 2001).

Evolution is a complex subject, but for our purpose a simple explanation will suffice. In the process of evolving, parents produce more offspring than is necessary to ensure survival of their species. By chance, some of their offspring are formed with different characteristics than their parents. If the new characteristics give the offspring a better chance of survival, they will pass these characteristics on to their young.

Scientists also commonly believe all space, time, and matter came into existence as the result of an incredibly large explosion around fifteen billion years ago (Asimov 1984). As matter cooled, the laws of physics came into being. The universe we know today was created as the cooling matter obeyed the laws of physics.

Could the creation story of the Bible and scientific explanations of evolution be one in the same?

Science is the study of nature, and nature is the result of God’s spoken words; therefore, science is the study of God’s manifested words.

Why does there seem to be such an incredible difference between the two explanations?

The confusion lies in our understanding of the written Word of God. Readers of the Bible apply their own understanding instead of searching the Scriptures to find God’s intended meaning.

For instance, take the word “day.” In the minds of most readers, the word “day” means one rotation of the planet Earth, which takes twenty-four hours to complete. After searching the Scriptures, some readers understand that in the Bible the word “day” can represent a period of time other than one rotation of the planet Earth. An example of a period of time being represented as a “day” is the forty years Israel spent in the desert.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Psalms 95:8-10

Israel’s day of temptation in the wilderness lasted for forty years.

Another “day” in the Bible represents the law of God and has absolutely nothing to do with time.

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. Obadiah 1:15

The word “day” in this Bible verse represents God’s karma-like law. Obviously, this day could not be twenty-four hours long.

Reconciling the biblical story of Genesis with scientific evidence is virtually impossible without first understanding exactly what a creation day is. Obtaining knowledge of the true nature of a creation day is only possible through receiving a deeper understanding of the Holy Trinity. As you shall see, the Holy Trinity was the pattern used in forming each of the creation days.

God’s spoken Word, plus the substance of faith, created spiritual laws. These spiritual laws created the laws of physics by forming information within energy. Our universe, and everything within it, was created with the laws of physics.

Scientists are correct when they say that creation was the result of physical laws. These physical laws, however, answer to higher spiritual laws.

The two explanations, as you will soon see, are complimentary.

Are Christians required by God to study science?

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:19-20

In simple terms, in these verses God is letting us know that if we study the things already made, or nature, He will manifest or reveal understanding about His internal power and Godhead.

God requires us to study what He has made. Science is the study of nature or manifested things. Scientific theories belong to scientists, but scientific facts belong to God. There is no difference in truthfulness between Bible facts and scientific facts. If your understanding of the Bible doesn’t line up with scientific facts, you need to consider reevaluating your position.

Wise Christians do not doubt the truthfulness of God’s written Word, for it is never wrong. When their understanding of God’s written Word is in conflict with scientific facts, they don’t doubt the truthfulness of the Bible; they reexamine their understanding of what is written in the Bible.

Those who accuse scientists of being wrong and dishonest are making the church look foolish and evil. The world has not forgotten the church stance on the flatness of our planet and to its position in the solar system and its position in the universe, and they will not forget the church’s stance on evolution either.

How long were creation days?

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Genesis 2:1-2

There have always been questions in the minds of Bible readers. How did God create? Was there preexisting material? How long were the days of creation?

A small number of Christian fundamentalists believe creation days were twenty-four hours long. They also believe the universe is about ten thousand years old.

These believers often look to Exodus as proof.

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Exodus 20:11

Italicized words in the Bible were not part of the original text; they were added for the sake of clarity. It is my opinion that in the above Bible verse the word “with” would have been a more appropriate word to add than the word “in.”

I acknowledge that the Hebrew word used for “day” always represents a 24-hour period of time when it is used in the context that it appears in some verses early in the Book of Genesis. Personally, I believe all things are possible with God and that He can use the Hebrew language anyway He chooses.

In the more popular day-age theory, a creation day represents a longer period of time. This theory allows for a universe that is billions of years old. Millions of Christians share this belief.

Support for this idea that creation days were large periods of time with major events happening in them can be found throughout the Bible.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, Genesis 2:4

Some years ago in Oregon after visiting the John Day fossil beds, I overheard a conversation between two girls who could have been sisters. As they were walking to their car, the younger girl had a confused look on her face and said to the older girl, “I thought God created everything in six days. How could those bones be so old?” The older girl explained to her “The Bible does not say how long a day was when God created the world. A day back then could have been millions of years long.” Her answer seemed to satisfy the younger girl.

God’s creation days were not millions or billions of years old. Bible believers created this idea because twenty-four hour creation days did not agree with scientific evidence.

Could God have created everything in six, twenty-four hour days? Yes! Anything is possible with God (Luke 1:37).1

Did God create everything in six, twenty-four hour days? Not according to scientific evidence.

Who is right? Who is wrong? I am proposing that both sides are wrong. Creation days have absolutely nothing to do with time.

Before I say what I believe a creation day is, allow me to tell you a sad but true story from my youth.

One day I was walking to Bible study class in Creston Elementary School in Creston, Ohio. I remember thinking the thought “It is written in the Bible that God created everything in just six days. That’s ridiculous, how can anyone believe that way? How can I believe anything that is written in the Bible?”

How many others used this same excuse for not following God’s written Word?

What was the true nature of a creation day?

A creation day was not a twenty-four hour period nor was it a large period of time in which God created something. The days of creation had nothing to do with time and everything to do with creative Word from God.

Word from God manifested into things like light, firmament, gathered waters, dry land, and lights in the firmament of heaven. These manifested words were the days of creation. For example, Day One was “light,” not the time it took to create light.

Each day of creation had an evening and then a morning. Evenings and mornings were not times within days; they were manifestations of God’s spoken Word. In the case of Day One, darkness was the evening, and light was the morning of the first day. As manifested Word of God, the days of creation were the source of all physical laws in the universe. There will be more on this subject later in this book.

Have you ever considered that the days of creation could have been something other than periods of time? As we proceed through the days of creation, keep an open mind. After seeing the evidence, there will be plenty of time to make up your mind one way or another.

Are there patterns within creation days?

Each creation day was created with three sets of “Let there be” statements from God. This is a major piece of the puzzle concerning the biblical story of creation.

As with every puzzle, one has to find the correct pieces and place them in the correct places. In some instances, the “Let there be” statement was hidden (not spoken). In other instances, it was spoken but found within another day.

The good news is that the puzzle has already been put together. All we need to do is to take it apart, one piece at a time, and examine each piece, or “Let there be” statement.

The main thing to remember is that all creation days, sooner or later, have three “Let there be” statements from God. This pattern is repeated throughout the Bible. Whenever God wanted to create a new day or law, He would speak three sets of creative words, which manifested an evening, a morning, and a seed in the form of light.

Jesus also used this pattern of three when He wanted Peter to head His church on earth. Jesus said to Peter, “Feed my lamb, feed my sheep, and feed my sheep” (John 21:15-17).2

When Jesus wanted the gospel to be preached to the Gentiles, He showed Peter in a vision all manners of four-footed beasts of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and fowls of the air and told him three times to rise, kill, and eat (Acts 10:11-16).3

In a later chapter called “Bible Mysteries,” we will see that even the number of the antichrist’s name, which is 666, lends creditability to the hypothesis that it takes three “Let there be” statements to make a day.

Why would it take three “Let there be” statements to create a single day? I think it has to do with the Holy Trinity. God is three persons but only one God. Or maybe it has to do with dimensions, or both.

How did I know there were three “Let there be” statements for each day of creation?

There are patterns everywhere in nature. Nature repeats itself over and over. The yearly growth rings of a tree, cell creation, and blades of grass are examples of things that can be found everywhere in nature. Nature is the manifested Word of God; therefore, God is responsible for the patterns we find in nature.

I noticed in Genesis creation days three, four, and six all had three sets of “Let there be” statements. Knowing that God is a God of order and knowing His fondness for the use of patterns, I wondered why all of the creation days didn’t have three “Let there be” statements within them.

After much searching, thought, and prayer I came to the realization that there are always three “Let there be” statements for each creation day even if they can’t be seen. Also, if a “Let there be” statement could not be easily seen for a certain day, there was always a good reason for it to be missing or hidden. As you will see in the following pages, hidden “Let there be” statements are extremely important clues to how God made His Creation.

God’s spoken words concerning creation are universal. These eighteen universal laws that God spoke in the six days of creation created the parameters that govern all creation. When God chooses to remove the eighteen spoken universal laws (six days of creation) that He used to create the world we live in now, our heavens and earth will melt into darkness and waters. Once again, God will be ready to speak the words “Let there be light.”

Was God the pattern for creation days?

God in the form of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit have much in common with a creation day in the form of an evening, a morning, and a seed light, or spirit and power.

Evenings are the beginning of each day and they are a kind of father of each day. Before God the Father spoke anything into existence, He was complete and lacked nothing. God the Son or Word and God the Holy Spirit are part of God the Father and came from the Father. Mornings and seed light also originated from evenings, which are the father part of creation days.

The Son of God or the Word of God is the express image of God the Father (II Corinthians 4:4). God the Father is complete and is law unto Himself. God the Word is God the Father’s law to others. They are opposites but still the same thing. God the Father is inward law to oneself; whereas, God the Son or Word is outward law to others.

Evenings and mornings are the opposite of each other but are still the same thing: a day. Mornings are the way evenings give their law to others. The Holy Spirit is the seed light or spirit and power of God the Father and God the Word. The Holy Spirit communicates the law of God to others. Seed light of a creation day communicates the law of a creation day to others.

Obeying the Holy Spirit causes those who obey to become images of God, or sons of God. Obeying the seed light of a creation day allows one to become an image of that creation day.

God first created man as Day Six, which was the law of God. Man of the Garden of Eden was created, as an express image of Day Six, by seed light or spirit and power from Day Six. Remember, Day Six was an image of God’s will, or God’s Word.

The following chart depicts the three parts of each creation day’s evening, morning, and seed light. (This chart is only available in the printed version of the book God Uncovers Creation.)

Was the seventh day a period of time?

According to what is written in Genesis 2:1-4, God rested on the seventh day after He had finished His work. God also blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Could the seventh day be anything other than a period of time?

To answer the previous question, we need to address three more questions. The first question is “What does it mean for God to have blessed the seventh day?” It seems to me that only a being, place, or thing can be blessed, not an inanimate object such as time.

The next question is “What does it mean for God to rest from His work?” God created everything with His spoken Word. When God rested on the seventh day, He stopped speaking laws concerning His Creation.

Now for the last question, “Who ruled over creation when God rested on the seventh day?” God’s spoken words that created the days of creation had authority and power to do God’s will. When God rested on the seventh day, He stopped speaking new laws and left His previously spoken laws or days to continue the day-by-day work of ruling His growing and changing Creation by maintaining information within energy.

The thing to remember is that God finished His work in six days but His Creation is still changing fifteen billion years later. Surely, the seventh day that God rested in is the Word (laws) He spoke to form His Creation.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, Genesis 2:4

Was light the first thing created?

Remember that each day of creation had an evening and then a morning. Evenings and mornings were not times within days. They were manifestations of the Word of God, or created things.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Genesis 1:2

Note that darkness and waters were already present in the second verse of the first chapter of Genesis, indicating that they both had already been created. We know the Word of God and the substance of faith was the recipe for the creation of both the darkness and the waters because we can see this in Hebrews 11:1-3 and John 1:3. Since they were created before God made the physical universe, both the darkness and the waters must have been nonphysical in nature.

The darkness mentioned in Genesis 1:2 could not have been lack of light as we commonly understand it to be. In Genesis 1:4, God divided the light from the darkness after light had been created. If darkness was just the lack of light, there could not have been any darkness after the light was created.

In Genesis 1:5, God gave names to the things that He had created. At that time God named the darkness “Night.” Surely darkness was a created thing.

Understanding that darkness was something other than the lack of light did not come easily to me. Bible verses of Isaiah 45:7, Matthew 6:23, and Matthew 8:12 helped me see the light, or in this case the darkness.

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. Isaiah 45:7

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew 6:23

But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 8:12

Surely the outer darkness in Matthew 8:12 must be some kind of substance, or some kind of light.

The evening of Day One was a created thing called darkness. It was not actually written, “Let there be darkness,” but in Isaiah 45:7 God said He had created darkness. Why were the words “Let there be darkness” and “Let there be waters” not actually written in the Book of Genesis when God must have spoken them? Maybe this universe was not God’s first attempt (Rothaman 1995). There is no way to know if other universes preceded our universe or not, but God is perfect, and practice makes perfect.

If there was an earlier universe, the waters present on Day One could have been the residue from that universe. It might be that darkness, which was also present on Day One, was a spiritual substance from spiritual heavens that was destroyed in the previous universe.

Maybe the words God spoke to create the darkness and the waters were spoken within the previous universe before the end of its time. Maybe the spoken Word that created the darkness and the waters caused the end of the previous universe. There have been some who have suggested that our current universe is just one in a long line of universes (Ronan 1993).

Some say faith is belief in something. Some say it is acting upon what one believes. One of the definitions written in Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition, is “belief and trust in and loyalty to God.”

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Hebrews 11:1,3

As we can see from these two Bible verses, faith is a substance. Does the word “substance” seem to be out of place when describing faith?

Faith is an invisible spiritual matter, something to be felt or believed. Substance on the other hand seems to be something one might expect to experience here in the physical world. But yet, we know the word “substance” can also be used to describe objects and situations.

I am going to present a new idea or concept that might at first seem to be out of place, but give it time. Think about it. Like the word “substance” in Hebrews 11:1, you might end up liking it.

There is another aspect to faith. I think faith was and is previously manifested Word of God, which has accomplished its assignment and has been released to return unto God. Word returning to God is only possible if it has been judged to have completed its work.

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isaiah 55:11

Romans 10:17 tells us that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Why couldn’t the Word of God we receive, believe, and obey be judged by God to become faith? After all, the Word of God is a spiritual substance.

If faith is previously manifested Word of God that was judged to have finished its assigned task, whom or what does the judging? I think it is name from God that does the judging of previously manifested Word. The names of Day, Night, Heaven, Earth, and Seas were given to light, darkness, firmament, dry land, and gathered waters in order to judge previously manifested Word of God. Within each name there are sets of three “Let there be” statements from God. Faith combines with the Word of God, or “Let there be” statements, to form God’s creations.

How can we know there are three “Let there be” statements in the names from God such as Day, Night, Heaven, Earth, and Seas? That’s a fair question.

We know it takes three “Let there be” statements to make a creation day. If I haven’t given you enough evidence to prove this yet, just keep an open mind. Much more evidence lies ahead in this book.

Now, as for knowing that there are three “Let there be” statements in names from God, this takes a leap of faith. Readers must decide for themselves if they are willing to make the leap or not. I encourage you to do so. You can always jump back if you don’t like what you see over here.

How does faith work in the modern world?

Believing and obeying Jesus is the manifestation or completion of God’s Word. The name of Jesus releases completed words to be formed into faith substance. If the faith substance is judged worthy, the promises in the name of Jesus are received. Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith.

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2

It doesn’t matter whether it is the Old Testament or the New Testament; the pattern is the same. Receiving of name from God is first, obeying and forming faith are second, trials and temptations come next; and, finally, there is receiving the promises within the name.

God gave mankind the task of choosing whether to believe, trust, or obey the Word of God. What about inanimate objects? Do things have the choice to obey God?

Humans choose to use faith, and God judges their faith in order to bring forth promises or works found in the written Word of God. In the case of inanimate objects, I believe their faith is released as the result of becoming what God’s Word commands them to become. An example of this would be when God told the waters under firmament to be gathered unto one place, and they obeyed. As the result of their obeying God and becoming gathered waters, faith was released. God used this very faith and His words “Let the dry land appear” to form some of the gathered waters into dry land.

Until I started my search for the truth about Genesis, I had never thought about inanimate objects having faith, except for maybe mustard seeds (Matthew 17:20)4 and the Word of God.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Genesis 1:1-5

As you read the words written in the Bible concerning creation, please keep the following in mind. God spoke these written words at one time to a prophet who gave them to God’s people. The words He spoke to the prophet are not actually the words God used to form all of creation. They only represent the words God used to create everything He made.

You may ask what the difference is. The difference is that one set of words from God was used to create and the other set of words from God was used to give understanding to man concerning how God created. Knowing there is a difference between the words God spoke to create and the words He spoke to inform will help facilitate your understanding concerning creation.

God first formed the laws of creation in His mind and in His heart. After all, man was made in God’s image and after His likeness and like God we create images in our minds and hearts before creating anything.

How did God create light?

God used Word and substance of faith to manifest the images that were in His mind and heart into the laws of creation.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Hebrews 11:1-3

God gave birth to His spoken Word, which carried out His will. Within God’s Word was the instruction and power to accomplish all God desired. Nothing was created without God’s Word (John 1:3).5

Was light something other than sunlight?

Until I began my search for truth concerning the origins of the universe, I don’t remember ever entertaining the thought that the light God created on Day One could have been something other than the electromagnetic energy we receive from our sun. However, that is exactly what I am asking you to consider. Resist the urge to apply your mind’s understanding of light, and let the Scriptures interpret the Scriptures.

There are other examples of light in the Bible, such as this verse about spiritual light.

Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Colossians 1:12

As well, we see in the First Book of Timothy where Jesus dwells in a light no man can approach or see.

Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen. I Timothy 6:16

Paul tells us of the time when Jesus spoke to him, and a light from heaven shined with a brightness above the sun. No doubt, Paul was speaking of some kind of spiritual light.

At mid-day, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. Acts 26:13

The Bible is full of nonphysical light. In the First Book of John we see that God is a type of light.

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. I John 1:5

Considering the preceding Bible verses, the light of Day One could have easily been something other than physical in nature. Since suns or stars were not created until Day Four, the likelihood of Day One’s light being something other than the light of this world is all but certain.

Scientists tell us it is a scientific fact that light from the sun was not the first thing to be created. Since God doesn’t lie and is not a deceiver, it only makes sense that Day One’s light was a higher energy substance than the light of this world, or electromagnetic energy (Jones 1992). God rules the heavens, and the heavens rule the earth, or all physical matter. The light created on Day One was the spiritual energy substance that God used to create the spiritual world of light, or the Kingdom of Light.

If Day One’s light was not the same as the light of our world, why did God call it light?

If you wanted to describe the ocean to primitive people who never saw an ocean, it would be a good idea to start your conversation by calling a local lake a very, very, very small ocean. In giving the name of “light” to what was created on the first day, God was just giving us a clue to its true nature.

What do we know about light?

With help from the written Word, there are some things we know concerning the light of Day One. It was created in the midst of the darkness that was present before God started to speak the words that would bring forth His Creation. After being created, light was removed from the darkness.

We also know that light was created with the Word of God and the substance of faith. Since the Word of God is spiritual law and faith is a substance, the light of Day One was a spiritual law substance. God’s spoken Word is God’s will. Spiritual law substance is the image of God’s will. Each creation day is the image of God’s will, not a period of time.

Creation days or spiritual law substances cannot be seen here in the physical world, but they are the framework of the physical world.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Hebrews 11:3

How did God create images of His will?

God’s words are God’s will and spiritual law. Faith is God’s previously spoken Word that was judged to have completed its assigned task. Faith belongs to whomever or whatever obeyed God’s spoken Word to allow God’s spoken words to complete their task.

God’s words “Let there be darkness” created darkness. These same words were released as faith once the darkness had been created and the words were judged to have completed their assigned task. God’s spoken words “Let there be light” and His previously spoken words “Let there be darkness,” which had become faith, created the light of Day One.

I knew for years that creation days were spiritual law substances because the Word of God and the substance of faith created them. Then one day I read in the eighth chapter of Ezekiel where God took Ezekiel to a place that was between the earth and the heaven. The place where God took Ezekiel was an image of Jerusalem and the temple. In this place Ezekiel was shown that in order for God to punish certain people in the earth for doing evil, He had them punished in this spiritual place first. That led me to two understandings.

The first one was that creation days, which are spiritual law substances, are actually the images of God’s will and the framework of the worlds. Secondly, I realized I needed to create good images in my spiritual heart because good images led to good things happening here in the earth, and bad images led to bad things happening here in the earth.

Did each day have both an evening and a morning?

The morning portion of the first day was light. Light was removed from the darkness, or evening part of the first day.

Every day had an evening and a morning, even if it was not written in the form of a “Let there be” state¬ment. For example, in Day One, “Let there be darkness” was not written, but we know darkness was there. According to Isaiah 45:7, that darkness was a created thing. We also know that darkness can be a type of light.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew 6:23

What was the last thing created in each day?

Eventually, every day also produced more than an evening and a morning. It would also issue seed in the form of light from that particular day, which I shall refer to as seed light. In the case of the first day, God divided the light from the darkness. The seed light of each day was always divided from the day in which it was created. This is a major key or clue to understanding Genesis.

Each day of creation reveals secrets that are hidden in the other days of creation. When I found a clue in any one of the creation days, I would then try to apply it to the rest of the creation days.

Seed light from creation days has a lot in common with the seed of this world. Seed allows new plants to become images of their parent plants. The same law that created the older plants also created the new plants. Seed light uses the same three “Let there be” statements, which created the day it was issued from to create images of that day elsewhere.

Seed light also forms images of their parent days by passing along the law of their parents; therefore, seed light can be considered to be the seed of creation days.

As we proceed in our discussion of creation days, the subject of seed light will be examined thoroughly.

Why were evenings and mornings opposites?

Every creation day had an evening and then a morning. Evening and morning are two parts of one thing, a day. I want you to notice that they are opposites. Darkness was the evening of Day One, and light was the morning of Day One. Can any two things be more different than darkness and light? Yet, together they are one thing, which was the first day.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. Genesis 1:6-8

What was firmament?

The Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary in the back of my Authorized King James Version of the Bible define the word “firmament” as being an expanse. The dictionary (Merriam Webster 1993) has two definitions for the word “expanse.” The first definition is “firmament,” and the second one is “great extent of something spread out.”

One can easily picture an expanse as an ocean on a calm day, an open prairie, or a flat desert. Even a spilled bucket of water on a flat surface could suffice as an expanse.

Every day had an evening and a morning within them; and, eventually, a seed light was divided from each day. Since firmament was created in the midst of the waters in the same manner as light was created in the darkness, the waters were the evening part of the second day since darkness was the evening part of the first day.

What were the waters?

Firmament formed in the midst of the waters. The waters of our universe were created sometime after our universe was born. The waters that were present when God spoke the words, “Let there be light,” could not have been H2O. Prelight waters were an energy substance that the Word of God and the substance of faith used to form prephysical energy and then physical energy. In the Bible, water is sometimes referred to as spirit (John 4:13-14)6 and sometimes as people (Revelation 17:15).7 Therefore, it isn’t surprising that water could be something besides H2O. It seems reasonable to believe that the waters were the evening part of the second day of creation, and they could have been residue from a previous universe.

What was the nature of firmament?

Firmament also has different meanings. The firmament we are considering caused the waters to divide; that is, it gave law in the form of force to the waters. Therefore, firmament was probably a spiritual substance that released its energy to give law or force to the prephysical world.

God called the firmament Heaven. There is both a physical heaven with stars and other planets like the one we live in and spiritual heavens with spiritual beings.

Since light was a spiritual law substance that was probably placed within the Spirit of God, and physical suns and planets were not yet created, it would be reasonable to believe that firmament was also a spiritual law substance where God placed the spiritual heaven. Firmament, the morning of Day Two, must have been a type of spiritual space and energy.

What does it mean that firmament was a type of spiritual space and energy?

When we think about space in this universe, we think of a place where physical objects like suns, planets, moon, comets, and meteorites can end up. If one of these objects ends up in a part of space, gravity will also be there.

Firmament is the space where spiritual objects may be found. If a spiritual object does end up in the space that is firmament, there would also be spiritual energy there.

Were the waters opposite of firmament?

Let’s take one more look at my theory of opposites. On Day One, the evening (darkness) was the opposite of the morning (light). Maybe all evenings are the opposites of all mornings. If this is true, the evening of Day Two (waters) would have been the opposite of the morning of Day Two (firmament).

No longer does one have to choose between the truthfulness of the Bible and the reliability of scientific evidence. You are about to see for yourself that one can be a Christian and still have an open mind to scientific evidence.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:9-10

What was created on Day Three?

According to my hypothesis, the days of creation were manifestations of God’s spoken Word, or images of God’s will, which were the sources for the fundamental forces of our physical universe. Fundamental forces created our universe and our planet Earth. Think of the third day as the creation of our universe, not just our planet.

The laws of physics obeyed on our planet are also obeyed everywhere in the universe. If I were to go outside, pick up a handful of soil, and then examine each atom, no atom would be unique to the planet Earth. Atoms consist of at least one electron and one proton, which are held together with electromagnetic force. They exist alone or in combinations and are building blocks of everything that we see (Jones 1992).

Scientists say it is a fact that our planet and our bodies are made of elements formed within suns that went supernova (explosion of a large star) (Gribbin 1999). God’s Word cannot disagree with scientific facts, for they are both God’s laws. With this statement in mind, Day Three must be about the creation of the physical universe, not just the planet Earth.

If the planet Earth was the only planet to be created when God said, “Let dry land appear,” when did he create all the other planets and non-star heavenly bodies? Did He speak one planet at a time into existence? Why didn’t God mention when He created them? Surely when He spoke dry land into existence, He created what would become our universe, not just our planet.

Were the waters an energy substance?

As previously stated, the waters were present before God spoke on Day One. Chances are good that the waters were residue from a previous universe. In any case, they could not have been H2O. Scientists know that the waters (H2O) of this physical universe did not manifest until some time after the universe started to form. Whatever the waters were, God used them to create both the heavenly universe and the physical universe.

God’s spoken words, “Let the waters under heaven be gathered” along with the waters under firmament, manifested into a substance called gathered waters. Gathered waters were the evening of the third day of creation. Gathered waters became the cosmic egg from which our physical universe was hatched.

Today, physicists believe a pure form of water was present before the big bang, which is in perfect agreement with God’s written Word (Salanitri 2005).

According to my hypothesis, evenings and mornings were opposites. Since the evening of Day Three was gathered waters, the morning of Day Three would be scattered gathered waters (dry land).

God said, “Let the dry land appear,” and caused the substance of gathered waters to manifest into dry land, the morning of the third day. It happened with a bang—a big bang—as described by scientists. The gathered waters exploded into the curved space dimension that we call our universe. Gathered waters became scattered gathered waters, or dry land. Dry land (physical matter of our universe) has two forms, mass matter and nonmass matter (waters).

Mass matter and nonmass matter also come in two forms or types. One type of mass matter and nonmass matter is observable and the other type of mass matter and nonmass matter cannot be detected with scientific equipment. Twenty-five percent of mass matter and seventy percent of nonmass energy are dark or undetectable.

What do scientists say about the big-bang theory?

Galaxies are moving away from each other. By reversing the motion of their expansion, scientists can estimate the time when our universe exploded into existence. They believe the big bang occurred less than twenty billion years ago but more than nine billion years ago. Fifteen billion years ago seems to be a reasonable estimate for the beginning of time.

Scientists don’t know if the big bang was preceded by a big crunch (the compression of a previous universe) or just popped out of nothing (Rothaman 1995). I hypothesis that there was a previous universe, and after this universe ends another will follow.

This universe will end in the same manner as the last universe ended. God will speak the three “Let there be” statements that were not written in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. These are “Let there be darkness,” which will melt higher spiritual energy or spiritual light; “Let the heavens melt,” which will cause the heavens to melt into the waters that will later be above firmament; and “Let the earth melt,” which will cause our universe to melt into the waters that will later be under firmament. All the melting will be caused by the loss of information within energy.

In the universe that will follow the universe we live in, some confused fellow will wonder for years why these three “Let there be” statements were not written. Surely God must have spoken these statements in order for darkness, waters above firmament, and the waters under firmament to have been present.

Was Higgs field created by the words “Let dry land appear?”

Scientists believe a field that is responsible for particles receiving their mass permeates our universe. They named it Higgs field after Peter Higgs, a Scottish physicist. Since the big bang was the beginning of mass matter, it makes sense that the words “Let day land appear,” caused the Higgs field to be created.

What was dry land?

Gathered waters and dry land were not two separate things; they were two parts of one thing, which was Day Three. I think gathered waters is strong nuclear energy without the ability to have mass, and dry land is strong nuclear energy with the capability of being in the form of mass.

Strong nuclear force operates only within the nucleus of atoms, which it holds together. A nucleus consists of protons and neutrons. Protons are positively charged with electromagnetic energy. Neutrons are really only protons that are neutral; that is, they don’t feel the electromagnetic force. Protons repulse each other with tremendous force. It’s the strong nuclear force that holds nucleus (protons and neutrons) together. On a darker note, it is strong nuclear force that releases the power of atomic bombs (Jones 1992).

How did electromagnetic force come to be?

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. Genesis 1:11-13

When God spoke those words to the earth (dry land, or our physical universe), dry land exploded or decayed into particles with electric charges to create the electromagnetic force (Jones 1992). The electromagnetic force is the fundamental physical force responsible for the emission and absorption of photons and for interactions between charged particles.

Electrons and nuclei (protons and neutrons) are held together to form atoms by the electromagnetic force (Coulomb force). In nature, atoms can be found in about ninety elements combined to make compounds, and compounds combined to create mixtures.

Since plants are formed from elements, compounds, and mixtures and they live on electromagnetic energy (light), there simply could not be any grass, herbs, or trees without the electromagnetic force.

Where does the force of gravity come from?

Before dry land appeared, God spoke the words “Let the waters under heaven be gathered together.” These words caused the waters under heaven to be attracted to itself, which caused the waters to become concentrated.

God’s spoken words, “Let dry land appear,” caused gathered waters to transform into energy matter of our universe. Gravity or curved space is a residue affect of the force, which gathered the waters together. The force of gravity is trying to return dry land back into its original state of being gathered waters.

Why is there a struggle between mornings and evenings?

Light (morning of Day One) was opposite of darkness (evening of Day One). Firmament (morning of Day Two) was opposite of waters (evening of Day Two). It is only reasonable to believe that dry land (morning of Day Three) was opposite of gathered waters (evening of Day Three).

Mornings and evenings are engaged in struggles that will not stop until our universe ceases to exist. It is this struggle that gave each creation day the ability to do its work.

In a way, it is like the relationship between men and women who are made opposite of each other so they can have children. Mornings and evenings were also made opposite of each other so they could produce seed light to produce images of themselves.

Can we share the name Earth?

Before moving on, we need to emphasize a very important point about Day Three. When God gave the name Earth to dry land, He was naming all physical energy (matter and nonmatter), not just our planet. As long as one is locked into the belief that the name Earth belongs only to our planet, Genesis will always be a mystery to that person.

A long time ago, man gave up the belief that the Earth was the center of the universe and that all the heavenly bodies rotated around it. Today, for the sake of increasing our knowledge, we must share the name Earth with the entire universe, or all physical matter.

What’s in a name?

We need to return to the subject of name. Why did God call light, Day; darkness, Night; dry land, Earth; and gathered waters, Seas? What purpose did this giving of names serve? Remember, at that time there were no people. It is written that when God does a new thing, He first tells what He is going to do.

Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. Isaiah 42:9

Could the giving of name by God have been an announcement of what He was about to do? Maybe the name given by God prepared the way for the coming of a promised thing from God. Maybe the promises of God are within the name given.

Name from God was Word from God. As seen in the following Bible verse, Word of God and the substance of faith were used by God to create the worlds.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Hebrews 11:3

Whenever God wanted to create a new thing, He spoke words, or names.

Name from God gives the receiver of the name the ability to give faith back to God. Faith is needed to receive the promises of God. For example, the name Heaven gave firmament the ability to give faith back to God. Faith from firmament was used to bring forth promises of God within the name Heaven. The three “Let there be lights,” which God spoke on the fourth day, were the promises within the name Heaven.

The names Day, Night, Earth, and Seas caused light, darkness, dry land, and gathered waters to manifest days seven, three, six, and five. Days one and two were created after God named the previous heaven and previous physical universe with Spirits of God.

Were the previous heaven and the previous physical universe given names?

Allow me to explain why I believe that both void and the waters were each given a Spirit of God for their name. Names are words from God; therefore, they are spirits from God. God’s Word is spirit and life (John 6:63).8

It is written that there are seven Spirits of God that go to all the earth (Revelation 5:6).9 If there were less than seven name spirits, I would be wondering why.

Remember how dry land was created and given the name Earth before gathered waters received the name Seas even though gathered waters was created first? Also, remember how light was created and given the name Day before darkness received the name Night even though darkness was created first? There is a pattern here. After considering this pattern and the need for seven name spirits, adding another Spirit of God to the puzzle was a logical choice.

When did the Spirit of God arrive?

I would like to address a question that puzzled me for many years.

Wasn’t darkness already created before the Spirit of God arrived upon the face of the waters? If so, how could darkness be the evening of the first day? My puzzlement started and finished with the word “moved.” Moved did not mean arrived, it meant to flutter or to shake. The Bible does not say when the Spirit of God arrived at the scene. As far as I can see, the two Spirits of God, who were not mentioned by name, could have been spoken within a previous creation. They could have caused the end of a previous creation.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Genesis 1:2