The days of Creation. As Christians, how do we understand them?   Are/were they literal, 24-hour days of time, as we in the modern age understand time, or were they perhaps a figure of speech?  Did God really create instantly, out of nothing, or did God perhaps create over a much longer period of time?  Can a person be a Christian and yet also believe in the evolutionary process?  Can more than one view be correct?  What is the position that is the most exegetically sound?

    Included for this discussion is a portion of Bryan Chapell's report, contained in the Spring, 1998 edition of The Presbyterian Witness (with their permission), as well as a number of responses to that report which were also printed in the Witness. All of these views do not necessarily represent the views of The First Presbyterian Church of Jackson or of The Presbyterian Church in America, but are provided in the interest of open, honest, biblical discussion.

    Additional discusssion of this important subject will follow as it becomes available.

Editor's Introduction
Byron Snapp

Covenant Theological Seminary '98 - '99 President's Goals and Report
Bryan Chapell

The Handwriting on the Wall.  A Reply to Bryan Chapell's "President's Goals and Report"
Jack B. Scott

My Pilgrimage Regarding Creation
Morton H. Smith

A Response of Dr. Bryan Chapell's '98 - '99 President's Goals and Reports
Grover Gunn

Animadversions on Alex Mitchell's View of the Westminster Assembly
and the Days of Creation
J. Ligon Duncan

Should Exceptions to Our Standards Be Preached or Taught in the PCA?
William Harrell

Q & A on Creation
Douglas Kelly
(contained in an earlier edition of the Witness)