Literary And Historical Context Of Genesis One

Genesis one can be interpreted in two ways, in both a literary and historical context, which help us understand the meaning of the book of the bible. It is known today that Genesis One is the creation story, where God created Earth, light, water, land, and animals in a course of six days. Then of course, Adam and Eve, which leaves the seventh day of the calendar as the day of rest, also known as the Sabbath day.
In a literary context God’s creation of the Earth and all that was in it was made to promote harmony and balance upon the formless void and darkness of the Earth. It is said that Genesis one is created as six stanzas for the six days of creation. The first three days are the forming and preparing, while the next three days were for
Implications are universal principles or truths that can be drawn besides the meaning that can be told through literary and historical context. One example of an implication that can be drawn from Genesis one is that God is the creator of all as told in the story. God’s order of creation was to create harmony and balance on Earth, which is perfectly and progressively created in the six days. It therefore leads to the seven-day week in nature. In the second to last day humans were made. Humans were created in God’s image and are to be the highest order in his creation. These implications still hold true
In modern science view it is said that the world is billions of years old, but the story of Genesis one tells us otherwise. We can balance the biblical assertion and the scientific theory of the origin of the universe by using two theories, the literary framework theory and the day-age theory. The literary framework theory says the story was told as a poetic account of theology. It gives us the reason to why God created the world and that is for praise, worship, and trust in him. However one problem that comes up is that Genesis one seems to provide a chronological description of the creation, but it does not line up with modern science. The solution to this problem is through the second theory, the day-age theory. The day-age theory says that there was confusion in the Hebrew word for “day” (yom). It could either represent a 24 hour period or an geological era of time. This theory lines up Genesis one with how scientists view the Earth has developed. Although yet that does not solve the problems in this theory. The text allures to 24 hour periods because it says the morning and evening of the blank day, so it does scientifically make sense. Another problem is how was it possible for plants to survive if the sun was not created until a later day or age. In the end it is an issue that puzzles us