There are few subjects that bring more heat than the current debate in Christian circles concerning the meaning and historicity of Genesis 1-11 and especially the 6 days of Creation. Even in the Reformed world in which we inhabit there is little coherence on this issue. One of the ways each side tries to buttress arguments is by pointing to historical examples of people who either held their position or at best did not agree with the position they are arguing against. For those of us in the Westminster tradition it is especially important to understand what the Divines themselves understood by “in the space of 6 days” and what it meant to the authors of the Confession in chapter 4 of the Westminster Confession of Faith.
This discussion flared up again recently when the Rev. Danny Hyde notified the blogosphere that this dated article by Robert Letham that attempts to show what the church believed “in the space of 6 days” to mean from Origen to the Westminster Assembly. There is only one problem. David Hall in a an audio message you can listen to here (that predates Letham’s article) shows definitively (also in a book you can buy here) that the claims made by Letham in his article concerning the Assembly’s views on the 6 days are at best misleading.
