When God created the Universe in 7 days, did the day have 24 hours? And how would we know?

Question

Time measurement was introduced much later. How did God measure time?

Answer 1

Yes the creation account in Genesis 1 was a literal 24 day. And no time was not introduced later, it was introduced on the fourth day of creation. On the fourth day God created the Sun the Moon and the Stars. He said that these will be used to measure our days months and years. We still use the sun to count our days today. I.E. it takes 365.25 days for the Earth to revolve around the sun, that is one year. The lunar year is a 11 days short than a solar year, this is the method the Israelites used in Old Testament days. As far as God is concerned, He transcends time always and forever existing. Time was established by God for Man. God bless

Answer 2

The seven days of creation are not literal, but symbolic. Animals have been created on the earth for a long time, witness the dinosaurs. No one can deny the bones. But their age does not negate the basic truth that they were created ' according to their kinds', Genesis 1; 20 And God went on to say: “Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls and let flying creatures fly over the earth upon the face of the expanse of the heavens.” 21 And God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind. And God got to see that [it was] good.
Where the confusion comes in, is the thought that the world was created at the same time as man. Not true. Man is a late-comer. It is man who has only been on the earth about 8,000 years. If a chart is made of the long lives of the early men following the creation of Adam [ Genesis ch. 5] and tie it in with the geneology of Jesus at Matthew ch. 1 and Luke ch. 3, the age of man on the earth comes to 8,ooo years. Also it can be noted that the most long lived of all men, Methuselah, lived only four years longer than his own son, Lamech.
Genesis 1;1 states that God created the heavens [stars, galaxies, planets] and the earth. We still have not discovered the extent of those heavens.

Answer 3

Nowhere in the creation account of Genesis does it state that God created the universe in six literal days, {He 'rested' on the seventh}. So observed as fundamentalist 'Christians' do a exceptional disservice to both God and the Bible by asserting that it surpassed off over six twenty 4 hour sessions. this is in simple terms ludicrous. The time period 'day' became, and nevertheless is used to describe an unspecified era of time {as in 'my grandfather's day'} of route the creation procedure took billions of what all of us recognize as Earth years. The Bible does no longer contradict that favourite clinical truth.

Answer 4

When you read the creation story in the book of Genesis, you will notice that after God did each segment it says, "and the morning and the evening were the first or second or third day.

However, I noticed that the sun was not created until the fourth day, so........I wonder how long the "morning and evening" took before that?.

Just something to throw into the mix, I guess.

Answer 5

God knew the measurement of time already. He just gave the ability to measure time to humans much later.


Or some BS like that.

Answer 6

God has given the brain,senses to human so that he could discover,invent the things so your question is how did God measure the time .In Islam our morning start after Fa jar so our morning begins then and night start after Mag rib so according to this, God measure the time.I think so I haven't learn Quran on this topic.

Answer 7

all i know is that jesus used metaphors and somewhere in the bible it says that 1 year to us is like 1000 to God.

so in my opinion the earth being created in 7 days does not conflict with science. Maybe the earth actually was created in 7 days. or maybe it was 4.6 billion years.

there are those who take every single word of the bible literaly ...but i dont think that is the right way to look at things.

Answer 8

Time is the creation of human mind. To God it might have been 1 second, but according to our timeline it lastet for 7 days, 7x24 hours day.

Answer 9

There is so much mystery with that guy, but since the bible is just a book of metaphores I would say that 6 days is a metaphore as in he created it in stages.

Answer 10

The good book tells us this. We wrote the Book. Which ever religion u belong to,they knew their astronomy. Just proves the fact life is probably easier if u leave it to evolve by its self.We would still be monkeys.