There is no doubt God created the heavens including the stars.
As explained in Genesis 1:1.
The fact that they are included clearly in the creation week,
The “formless and empty” earth and the stars are included, but they are not included as being ‘made’ or ‘created’. They were simply mentioned as existing.
as well as the way creation is spoken of in the rest of the bible does not support cutting them out.
My Re-Creation theory does not cut them out, it simply explains them differently from your Different State Past theory.
What does that verse have to do with not knowing what a day is?
The verse was to show how God most likely revealed the creation events in Genesis 1 through visions since no human was present to observe the actual events.
The days of creation week were determined by the existence of day-light, and the earth in its “formless and empty” state existed before the first day-light and therefore before the first day and therefore before creation week.
I already supported it.
If the earth in its “formless and empty” state was not described in Genesis 1 as being “created”, and the stars were not describes in Genesis 1 as being “made”, this gives support to the idea that the six day creation events in Genesis 1 are not necessarily the original creation of the universe, but may simply be a re-creation of the earth’s biosphere since the earth and the stars appear to have been already existing.
ps 136: 7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever: 8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever: 9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
The “
great lights” mentioned here is referring to the “
two great lights” (the sun and moon) as described in Genesis 1, not the stars. The stars are only being described as ‘ruling’ the night along with the moon. They are not described as being 'made' during the six day creation events.
So they were made to do stuff for us,
Of course they were -- in the same way a commercial bus can be ‘made’ into a private bus for your personal use.
it is logical we were not arriving millions of years later after the fact.
Since the empty earth and the stars were not described as being 'created' or 'made' during the six day creation events, then the earth and stars could have existed for millions of years before those events.
If my Re-Creation theory is correct this would explain why the earth appears to some of us as being young and to others as being old. It depends on our perspective. The earth’s biosphere is younger than the earth’s rocks.
If Genesis 1 is focused on the formation of the earth’s biosphere, then the earth from the perspective of Genesis 1 will have the appearance of being young. Hence, 'Young Earth Creation', an idea which I accept.
If Science is focused on the formation of the earth’s rocks, then the earth from the perspective of Science will have the appearance of being old. Hence, 'Old Earth Creation', an idea which I also accept.
YEC and OEC are compatible, IMO, if viewed from both perspectives as explained in my Re-Creation theory.