Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis and this is Dial In.

In this episode, I sit down with Professor and Pastor Paul Twiss and ask him to provide evidence for a six-day literal creation.

Let's dial in.

Paul, I wanted to ask you a question regarding the nature of the creation narrative.

People today are growing up in an environment where much doubt is cast upon the interpretation

that they might have of scripture if they hold to a six-day literal creation

because they've heard things like, well, there's a complicated Hebrew narrative structure here,

or it's poetry. So you can't really, you know, read six-day little creation of face value

because it's too complicated in the poetic sense. How do we respond to that in a biblical fashion?

And what are even the necessary things we need to understand from a language perspective to be able to rebuttal that?

Yeah, there's lots we could say. It's a very good question.

Genesis is just an incredible book, and the beginning of Genesis is profound.

Moses writes, in the beginning, God created the heavens of the earth.

And in many ways, he's responding to the other creation narratives that were in existence

at the time that would put people on a par with gods and would suggest that in some way that

these gods weren't all powerful.

And Moses responds and says, let me tell you the true

creation narrative. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. If I can zoom out a

little bit, the book of Genesis, if you read it from beginning to end, what you'll see many times

is this statement in the text, these are the generations of. You see that 11 times throughout

the book of Genesis, and it's the main way the book of Genesis is structured. The very first time

you read it is actually in Genesis chapter 2, verse 4. These are the generations of the heavens

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