6 seconds 6 days 6 thousand years...

Just a quick thought here. God being God, what kind of time restriction can we put on Him in order to create?

The answer is obviously that we can not put any restrictions on God. We serve a God Who can do as he pleases, and for God the time frame that he chooses is not arbitrary but revelatory and because he also tells us about it in the Scripture it is both General and special in its revelation content. Although, not much is made about these time frames in most systematic theologies, the truth of its revelatory content is still maintained.

The 6 seconds view (which no - one I know really holds) indeed would favor the power of God and also perhaps the idea of speed to the cross theology. It is true that 6 seconds can be held as a possibility - baring of course the plain fact that God told us that the time frames included evening and morning and those are on anyones count longer than a few seconds.

The 6 thousand year view (remember a day is to the Lord as a thousand years... yada yada yada) perhaps shows a long suffering God - but maybe more like a slow god. This view stinks with anything biblical - but goes quite nicely with secular science that wants to nod to some kind of creative start - but is really seduced by evolution in the end.

The 6 day view makes sense with the historical phenomenon of the 7 day week. It also has nicely on it's side the fact that Genesis actually says DAY 1 etc. The theology of redemption is also built in nicely to this view with the repetition of redemptive acts that happen on the 8th day, or to put it another way - the first new day.

I suppose that the "book binders" really don't care what view one takes concerning the time frame - since time is not the working framework for them. I wonder then if that means anything goes? Could day 1 have been 4hrs long and really connected with day 4? Could day 6 have been 12 weeks long to account for the vast amount of activity on that day? Are we to think that the historical possibilities are endless and non effected by the redemptive work of creation? Seems questionable to me to hold that Gods word in creation is literary artistry meant to show God's kingship figuratively and can not be understood to relate to what we know as time frames, and therefore has little historical traction. For this is exactly what liberals have been saying for years concerning the resurrection account.

Lastly, the 666 was intentional =-)