Postmillennial Worldview

PMW 2025-010 by Jame R. Hughes (Creation.com)

Gentry Note:
Creation is the foundation to all theology. This is significant for postmillennialism in that Creation leads ultimately to New Creation, and since the resurrection/ascension of Christ we are “new creations,” spiritually anticipating the consummate New Creation. Thus, the revelation of creation and the fall in Genesis is a crucial aspect of a full-fledged theological structure.

This article on the timing of Adam’s sin in Eden matches what I have long thought. It is a succinct presentation of this important feature of Adam’s failure in Eden.

How long were Adam and Eve in the garden?

When I have been speaking on behalf of CMI, I have been asked a few times, “How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?” A simple answer is to state that the Bible does not tell us the answer. However, we can draw legitimate inferences from other passages in the Bible and from what we know about current human biology which may help us provide a possible answer.

At the conclusion of the sixth day of creation, God declared all that he had made to be “very good” (Genesis 1:31). Since there was no sin in the perfect state at the end of that day, Adam and Eve were not expelled from the garden of Eden on the sixth day of creation. The events in Genesis 3—the fall of Adam and Eve into sin and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden could have occurred hypothetically on the next day, the first Sabbath—the seventh day of the creation week—or weeks or months after the first Sabbath. Continue reading →