CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES
THE CREATION
DAY FIVE:
Psalm 104:24-25 "O LORD, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions— 25 This great and wide sea, In which are innumerable teeming things, Living things both small and great."
Genesis 2:19 "Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name."
Fifth Creative Day:
On this creative day, the waters and air separated on day two are filled with their respective inhabitants. They were brought about by Divine command! Evolutionists claim that birds came from a process of development originating with reptiles (Dinosaurs?). This is directly at odds with the Bibles revelation and cannot be harmonized. God declares that birds and fish are created at the same time; this fifth day of creation.
Text:
Genesis 1:20-23 "Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” 21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day."
Abound: This is literally to "swarm"; it from the Hebrew 'Sharatz '. Hence, the Lord has brought them forth in masses and abounding in nature.
Moses refers to them as "Living creatures" that is with life giving breath. This is to set them apart from the vegetation of day three.
Birds Fly: Literally, "Let winged creatures fly". However, fowls by definition in the Hebrew language include all winged or feathered creatures. We find them created from the ground (2:19).
God Created: Here the word created is the same word as used in verse one (Hebrew - 'Bara', to construct something out of nothing). However, as we look at the window into the last day of creation, we see that this designation is preceded by the term "formed" (Hebrew - 'Yatzar'); as in, formed out of that which He created from nothing (2:19).
In addition, it shows God put them here in their present form, by Divine Will, and not an evolutionary process.
Great Sea Creatures: This comes from the Hebrew - 'Tanninim' and comes from the root word, 'Tanan' and means to 'stretch'. The King James version translates this as whales; however, as we can see by its use in other places, the definition is much broader (it is used of serpents and crocodiles - Exodus 7:9; Deuteronomy 32:33; Psalms 91:13; Jeremiah 51:3; Ezekiel 29:3; 32:2).
This term is used by Moses to enhance our understanding concerning all aquatic life (fish, amphibian, etc...). This establishes that modern amphibians are not the evolutionary process springing forth from dinosaurs; but created after their own kind!
It was Good: God examined and judged; investigated its nature; tested their properties; contemplated their use; and admired their excellence in correspondence to His Divine plan and pronounced it GOOD!
God Blessed Them: To bless is to wish well. This Divine blessing had reference to their immediate ability to propagate and increase. By design, this blessing was infused into their nature to take root and constantly bear fruit after their own kind.
Summary: The waters and air separated on day two are filled with their respective inhabitants by Divine command. There is no hint of the ability to mutate. They were brought forth and continued to be productive after their own kind!
Nehemiah 9:6 "You alone are the LORD; You have made heaven, The heaven of heavens, with all their host, The earth and everything on it, The seas and all that is in them, And You preserve them all. The host of heaven worships You."
Acts 4:24 "So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: “Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them"
Acts 14:15 "and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them"