Biblical Hexameron as the Gospel

Abstract

Biblical Hexameron is now often perceived exclusively as a cosmogonic text, which inevitably gives rise to attempts to interpret it only in the context of the modern natural-scientific picture of the world (which in itself is not true, since the scientific pictures of the world are in constant dynamic development). Therefore, for biblical apologetics, it seems promising, without denying the historicity of the narration of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, to consider it primarily as a special hymn-evangelism in the context of the entire corpus of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. The author tried to show that this quite traditional Church approach to comprehending the first chapter of Genesis allows avoiding not only the consequences of making artificial simplifications, which are inevitable in the construction of models of the concordance of biblical texts and natural science data, but also errors of interpreting Hexameron as «accidental», «outdated» or «extra» fragment of the Book of Genesis.