Quote: The Literal Truth

There are many preachers, teachers and pastors who feel that it does not matter whether we read the six days of creation as six literal, 24-hour days or as six periods of time of millions of years. But it does matter.

It matters because if Genesis chapter 1 is not literal, then the rest of the Bible is not literal either. If your theology allows you to take liberties with how you interpret Genesis 1 then you will also take liberties with the rest of Scripture. Then maybe Jesus was not literally born of a virgin, did not literally die, or literally rise from the dead! No, the Bible says God created in six 24-hour days and the same Bible says that Jesus was born of a virgin, died for our sins, was buried and rose again on the third day. And it is all literal, real, and the undeniable, and the infallible testimony of a God who cannot lie.

Thus men change “the evening and the morning were the first day” (Genesis 1:5) into “it was a period of millions of years”. It is this same mindset which then denies a literal seven years of Great Tribulation, a literal thousand years of peace and a literal heaven and a literal hell. If you allow the devil to drive a wedge between the Word and truth in Genesis, he will drive that wedge home until nothing means what God intended it to mean. But the Bible says what it means and means what it says.

–Anton Bosch