Below is an example of what Mormons think about Creation....and an Example of how they counter the Bible with their mystical writings....The Dangers of Mormonism....
"The book of Genesis speaks of each portion of the Creation taking place during one day.
The book of Abraham, in the Latter-day Saint book of scripture known as the Pearl of Great Price, uses slightly different terminology to describe the creative periods. After the day is divided from the night, mention is made of “the first, or the beginning, of that which they called day and
night.” (Abraham 4:5). Beyond that, the creative periods are designated as “the second time” (Abraham 4:8) or “the third time” (Abraham 4:13) that night and day occurs.
One author has written, “We therefore learn that periods of time for the Creation may have lasted 24 hours each, 1,000 years, or even millions of years. The periods of time are indeterminate in length; as one phase of the creation was finished, the next began. Therefore the age of the earth before Adam and Eve could have been great indeed.”
Bruce R. McConkie, an apostle of the Church until his death in 1985, shared these insights: “But first, what is a day? It is a specified time period; it is an age, an eon, a division of eternity; it is the time between two identifiable events. And each day, of whatever length, has the duration needed for its purposes… There is no revealed recitation specifying that each of the “six days” involved in the Creation was of the same duration." LDSblogs
They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us.
For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us;
but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
1 John 2:19
"The book of Genesis speaks of each portion of the Creation taking place during one day.
The book of Abraham, in the Latter-day Saint book of scripture known as the Pearl of Great Price, uses slightly different terminology to describe the creative periods. After the day is divided from the night, mention is made of “the first, or the beginning, of that which they called day and
One author has written, “We therefore learn that periods of time for the Creation may have lasted 24 hours each, 1,000 years, or even millions of years. The periods of time are indeterminate in length; as one phase of the creation was finished, the next began. Therefore the age of the earth before Adam and Eve could have been great indeed.”
Bruce R. McConkie, an apostle of the Church until his death in 1985, shared these insights: “But first, what is a day? It is a specified time period; it is an age, an eon, a division of eternity; it is the time between two identifiable events. And each day, of whatever length, has the duration needed for its purposes… There is no revealed recitation specifying that each of the “six days” involved in the Creation was of the same duration." LDSblogs
