How Long Is A God Day? Could One God Day Be 2.6 Billion Years Long Or Only 24 Hours? How Do You Know For Sure?

Question

How Long is a God Day? How many days did it take to make the Universe? Could a God Day Be Longer than 24 Hours? How Can Anyone Tell For Sure? The Bible Does Not Give The Length Of A God Day As 24 Hours. So How Do Christians Think They Know For Sure? Could A God Day Be 2.6 Billion Years? Or Could One Day For God Be 100 Million Years. How Can Anyone Say For Sure Without using Faith As An Easy Excuse For Knowing For Sure Because No Where In The Bible Does It Say That A God Day Is 24 Hours?

Answer 1

A "creation" day can last an indefinite time span. There are several examples in the Bible about how "day" can have the connotation of a period of time that is not necessarily 24 hrs. For example, Genesis says that on the seventh day of creation God came to rest and in relation to this the Apostle Paul mentions in one of his letters that "we are still living in the resting day of God". So that last "day" of creation, the seventh day, streches up to our days.

Answer 2

How Long Is A God Day? Could One God Day Be 2.6 Billion Years Long Or Only 24 Hours? How Do You Know For Sure?

Answer 3

The days of creation mentioned in Genesis are literal 24-hour days, the text tell us so in several places. There is also reference to 'a day with the Lord is as a 1000 years', it means that time means nothing to God. He is outside time, we are in time, so the day is for us. The way we can tell for sure, is that is just what the text says. God did not Say we had to understand it , He just stated it. In Genesis 1: 5 it says "...there was evening and there was morning 'the' first day". Notice the definite article 'the', it leaves no doubt that this was the very first day ever. In Ex. 31:17 it says 'so in six days did the Lord create the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed". If those days were 2.5 million years, then God took a long break. They were literal 24-hour days. Any Hebrew scholar will attest to the translation being a 'day' not a long period of time.

Answer 4

It's 24 hours hon.

The Bible speaks to us in ways we can understand but always with absolute truth, that's the beauty of God's Word. If it says a day, it meant sunup to sundown. A night was sundown to sunup. Easy, simple, not hard to comprehend.

Here's the part you are missing, check the time periods through Genesis 1 to 3. Throughout chapter 1 you are given a daily update on what's going on, a blow by blow account of how God made the world in 6 days (that's about 144 hours btw) then rested all day the 7th. Then take a look, the very next time period given is when the serpent approaches Eve. (Chapter 2 is really just a recap of the first 6 days anyway).

My Bible says "Now the serpent was more..." So you tell me, how long is "now"? Some bibles say "Then the serpent who was...", so how long is "then"? Being that Adam was made in God's image, and one of the images of God is immortality, can we not assume the period between the 7th day and "now" was perhaps millions of years?

So rather than argue what is plain text, try looking for other time periods perhaps overlooked by previous counters of time.

Answer 5

The Hebrew word for day is Yom (not necessarily correct spelling). It is true, that Yom can be used to describe a period of time, but in the Genesis account, the days (yoms) are numbered.

That's my point. See, Yom can only be used to describe a period of time when it is NOT numbered.

Now, on a different note: time with God.

The Bible says that a day is like a thousand years to God and a thousand years is like a day. Basically, it's saying that where’re stuck in time, not God.

I've experienced, as has everyone that time is a nuisance.

In conclusion, GOD IS REAL!!!!!! Whether this earth lasts for 2.6 Billion more years is up to him. He wants to give you every opportunity to come to him.

He loves you, more than you could ever imagine. The best answer that I ever got to a question was this:

God is infinite, we are finite.

Talk about louder than words.

Answer 6

Genisis was written by people who literally believed the world was flat. Do we think that's still true? An interesting thing I heard on the History Channel was that if you go back to the original hebrew text, the word for "God" actually means, "Gods" and so genisis is supposed to take place because of multiple gods, not one. In much of the earlier things you can see this, how God says he's jealous of other gods, or how he doesn't say he's the only god in existence, just that you should only worship him (first he says to put him above any other god, which doesn't even mean you can't worship others) and leave the others to worship the "lesser" gods.

Answer 7

Time is a creation of god their is no beginning or end 24 hours is just the time that the sun takes to rotate around the earth and remember the bible was written by man so they could only interpret what they knew at the time. so time is just a measure we use not a measure god uses he created time so you will never have a true answer just scientific guesses

Answer 8

Since God dwells in eternity, one needs to understand that eternity is outside of the time domain. Time is a physical property and eternity is timelessness--ie zero physical restraints. The Bible says that a day is like a thousand years to God and a thousand years a day. In a poetic way, the Bible is saying that to God, time is moot.

beekay-That is a very good and honest question. The answer lies later when He established the Law to the nation of Israel. God commanded 6 days of labor, one day of rest. Jesus made it clear that the Sabbath was made for man--ie his benefit. So though God did not need six days to create (could have done it in 6 minutes) the heavens and the earth, just as He really did not need the "rest" on the seventh, he did so to establish a prophetic pattern of 6 and 1. Six days of work, one of rest. Six years of tilling the land, seventh lie fallow. Six thousand years of servitude of the earth under sin, seventh (millennium) of freedom and rest.

Joe Shmoe - "Genisis was written by people who literally believed the world was flat." Excuse me, it's spelled Genesis and it was written by one man, Moses. As for a flat earth, the Bible noted that the earth is a sphere and sits on "nothing" more than 2800 years ago! So where is your "flat earth" scriptural text to prove your accusation?

Isaiah 40:22
It is [God] who sits* above the sphere** of the earth

Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
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*Hebrew "yashab" - meaning dwells or inhabits. dwells above the circle of the earth - ie inhabits the heavens.

**Hebrew "khoog" - meaning circle in 2 dimensions and sphere in 3 dimensions. Note: a flat disk wheel (owphan) or circle (cabiyb) are used elsewhere in scripture, but are not sphere (khoog).

Answer 9

There is no way to know for sure how long one day is to God. No one knows this except for God. Faith is not an "easy excuse." It is just the way it is. For a Christian, faith is the most important thing. There is no way to prove or disprove the length of a "God day"

Answer 10

i assume youre talking about in relation to creation and how it doesnt fit in with our scientific facts. What i have always learned is this. simply that the creation of seven days is a story. Maybe true maybe not. The only thing that really matters from this story the only lesson that we really need to pick up is that god created everything and most importantly he created man and woman in his own image. it doesnt matter whether it took him 6 24 hour days or 6 2.6 billion year days