I heard somewhere that in Genesis.. where it's telling about the days in which God created the earth.. that there was an error in translation. That the word the interpreted as "day" actually mean " million years".. what do you think of this theory?
In other words.. it actually took God 6 million years to make the earth and people.
2006-07-20 04:14:33 · 6 answers · asked by Imani 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't know how it can mean 24 hours.. cause they didn't know that a day was 24 hours.
2006-07-20 04:53:59 · update #1
The Hebrew word used in the creation account for day is 'yom'.
Everywhere else in the Bible this word means 'a period of time of 24 hours.'
2006-07-20 04:36:11 · answer #1 · answered by hippoterry2005 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time as we know it is simply a tool of measurement created by humans for humans. God is not on a calendar. Time does not exist in ultimate reality.
I can believe that the "day" spoken of in the bible was possibly a million years to us, or the blink of an eye to God. We can't contain the truth in our limited human consciousness.
2006-07-20 05:01:06 · answer #2 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MODERN SCIENTIST HAS EXPLORED JUST TIP OF THE ICEBERG ,where as reality iis not based on theories,one's experience matters most,and such experienced can only be gained thru deep meditation to unveil the secrects which even science will take million years to explain,but thru superscience of meditation,one can explore them in few years as per the wish of GOD.
2006-07-20 04:21:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no...that isn't a matter of translation, but understanding. the rabbinic commentators who said that the 6 days weren't literal were using a citation from elsewhere (psalms i think) which uses the same word "day" but explains that in god's eyes, a "day" is thousands and millions of years.
2006-07-20 04:19:05 · answer #4 · answered by rosends 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Day, year, eon.. it does not make a difference, since the bible is all MYTHS!
2006-07-20 04:16:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a metaphor, a parable, and should not be taken literally.
2006-07-20 04:19:02 · answer #6 · answered by Atheist81 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋