To better firmly hold a creationism standpoint, it is important to see there are two creation stories: one of heaven and Earth in Genesis 1:1 - 2:3 and one somewhere else on the first day of the first creation story, before life and other things were created in the heavens and Earth, in Genesis 2:4 - 4:26. Immediately after, the book of Genesis resumes with the conclusion of the first creation story, where Adam has been fruitful and multiplied and become many on earth.
So, on the first day of creation, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the Earth, where the Earth was without form and void. And here comes in the second creation story, which happened outside of the space and reality but within the timeframe of day one of creation. Humans were created by God (NOT stated here in the image and likeness of the (G)gods). The (G)gods were not limited like our sin-corrupted mortal bodies are now. They could do anything except usurp <edit>God's will</edit> with knowing good and evil but not sinning, and we could do anything so long as we did not yet know the knowledge of good and evil. There were generations of Adam within this second creation story, where everything was created and grew and evolved before it was brought forth within the rest of the timeframe of the first creation story in six days. By the time humans appeared on earth in the sixth day of creation, humans had already fallen in the first day of creation in the second creation story! Yet, God called everything that was created by day six, "Very Good" !!! And, where Genesis 5 starts, God still made humans in the image of (G)gods and the likeness of not (G)gods but of HIMSELF, DESPITE (or perhaps BECAUSE) THE FALL OF HUMANKIND AND CREATION HAVING ALREADY HAPPENED!!!!
Before sin entered into creation and messed things up (quite severely, especially over humanity's history), it is entirely plausible for each day to have brought forth perfect life very quickly, with genetic and form evolution happening within single lifespans within a day or days - the way things were intended by God - INSTEAD OF THIS REALLY-MESSED-UP FAR-FROM-PERFECT WORLD OF PAIN AND SUFFERING THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. That is why there is pain and suffering and death and the problem of evil, and God Almighty has even SACRIFICED HIMSELF as Jesus Christ of the Holy Trinity to fix how really messed up sin makes things. The very fabric and nature of reality and our experience of life on earth has become severely distorted because of sin (that is why the punishment of eternal (everlasting?) destruction seems so severe - because the consequences of sin are EVEN WORSE - the Bible even says it is a choice by spirits wandering and having no place to go but the lake of fire!). Instead of progressing genetically and individually and as a civilization co-habiting with other life on earth like a rocket, there has been barely any change compared to that for thousands of years with tons of problems.
The times back then before the widespread wickedness of humans and the flood would have been very different from today - all those (G)gods still running around with all those powers, even if fallen - the Earth would be a *very* different place with things very different for the people, plants, and creatures living back then. Even after the flood the Bible reports Egyptians using magic (of the gods) forgotten to today to do "scientifically-impossible" things. We can't assume that the extremely physically-limited and confined nature of the way things are in life today was the way things were necessarily before, such that the way things are happening and being and progressing today were the way things were happening back then.
It seems by the time Jesus Christ was walking the Earth in His ministry, the way humans experienced reality <edit> may have been </edit> largely similar to the way we experience it today, <edit> except with less brainwashing from "Science (Limitation by beliefs of the self, beliefs of the nature of reality, and beliefs of who is the or even whether there exists the divine/God Almighty), Technology (Limitation by dependence upon other things to accomplish and in the process learn what one could otherwise do oneself), Engineering (Limitation by habits of doing, obscuring perception / mindlessness, and limiting creative thinking), and Math (Limitation by learning made difficult?, especially with respect to application of knowledge to one's life)" limiting our perspective and awareness of what we truly are as humans, what we are actually capable of as humans (especially with God's Spirit guiding us to be Christ-like), and the gravity of the situation we are in as fallen beings created in the image and likeness of God. Why are things so different today especially compared to times closer to the beginning of creation (of heaven and earth)?</edit> The knowledge is hidden, corrupted, and forgotten from the masses, knowledge that was innate in the purity of sinless creation; <edit>we are educated to be nothing but relatively unchanging, limited, frail to insult and force bio-chemical machines with ourselves and reality ruled purely by those electro-chemical reactions. With this paradigm I have formulated from the plainest and most presupposition-free, most-faithful-in-the-inerrency-of-the-scriptures reading I could yet do of the first chapters of Genesis, it seems to make more sense in to have creationism, perhaps a young earth, rather than millions and billions of years of slow, boring incremental evolutionary change .</edit>
Stay safe my brothers in Jesus Christ of the Holy Trinity. Strive for the narrow way that leads to life. Peace and love
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