How long is one of God's "days"?

Question

Can you use the Bible to back up your belief?

Answer 1

At Hebrews 4:1-10 indicated that God’s rest day was still continuing in his generation, and that was more than 4,000 years after that seventh-day rest period began. This makes it evident that each creative day, or work period, was at least thousands of years in length.

Answer 2

The concept of time only exists as a human construct in this world of relativity as a tool of measurement. In reality, there is no such thing as time. It is always today, it is never yesterday or tomorrow. God is in the dimension of the absolute, where there is no time. Therefore a day could be the blink of an eye, a milisecond or a billion years to us. Time is infinite. No, I can't use the bible to back up my belief. My beliefs are not based on the bible.

Answer 3

No one knows for sure, especially during the days of creation. The 24 hour day was not one of the first things established. Also, the Bible tells us at 2 Peter 3:8 that one day is with God as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. God's timing is not like ours.

Answer 4

God exists outside of time, so he doesn't have a day. A Biblical day has always been the same length. People only question that to make excuses for mistakes and inconsistencies in the Bible.

Answer 5

Well, since you are asking me to use the Bible, we'll have to take it from the perspective of the Jews, the Old Testament mainly being about them, right?

Sooooo, a day in the life of a Jew is sunup to sundown, about 6 am to 6 pm. If God has a day, it's about that long too :)

Answer 6

For a thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night. (Psalm 90:4)

8But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
(2 Peter 3:8)

Hope this helps!!

Answer 7

The Old Testament uses the Hebrew word "Yom" which is often translated Day in English Bibles.

This word Yom can refer to (a) a 24 hour day, (b) an approximately 12 hour period of daylight, (c) an unspecified period of daylight, (d) an unspecified but extended period of time -- which could be thousands or millions or even billions of years long.

God uses different frameworks depending on the context (of his activity or the discussion of his activity in the Bible). Depending on the context, the concept of "Yom" refers to different lengths of time (as mentioned above).

Apart from this (framework above), it does not appear to be meaningful to define God as experiencing "days".

Cordially,
John

Answer 8

Centuries, when you leave your body you are on a different time plane that co-exists with this time plane. And there are more then two planes of time. I think there are many strata of time that flow along at different rates. Like a stream or a raging river. We are on the raging river going so fast, God is the starting point so time is very slow for that plane. Man created the idea of time to explain the expansion of the universe and to explain the changes going on. I think Jesus said something about 11 heavens or something and many mansions, I doubt if he meant actual apartments,lol or houses.

Answer 9

Great Question, and I do not think I know the answer.I believe it not to be what we call a day, i.e. 24 hours.

This also brings up some interesting debate. How could Methuselah be 900+years old? Was a year then shorter than our current year?
Noah started to build the ark at 125...........
I'll be watching this for the responses

Thanks,

Mark

Answer 10

It's all metaphor and symbolism -- to concentrate on specific words in the creation myths misses the point: the creation myths are meant to express that which can't be expressed with words. Therefore, symbolism is used. Unfortunately, taking these symbols as literal robs people from using the symbols as tools to get a direct experience. To use the standard analogy: it's like getting a map that tells you how to get from NY to Boston and thinking that the map itself IS equivalent to your arriving in Boston (as opposed to USING the map as a means to get from NY to Boston).