Did God Create in Six Days or Billions of Years?

Question

Before you answer this question, please read this article : http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v16/i4/six_days.asp

Answer 1

6 days

Answer 2

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~ Accept the limits
~ Let the known facts speak
~ The Creative Days—24 Hours Each? < < < < <
~ Faith, not credulity
~ Respect science; acknowledge belief.
Has Science Taken the Moral High Ground?
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The Awesome Universe—Where Did It Come From?
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~ So Mysterious, yet So Beautiful
~ 'Something is Missing' - What?
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~ A Whole World Destroyed!
~ Was an Ancient World Really Destroyed?
~ Flood Legends World Wide
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~ A Developed Civilization
~ What Went Wrong?
~ What Significance for Us?
~ The World to Come
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A Nuclear Scientist Tells Why He Believes the Bible
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Answer 3

A billion years.

The authors of that article have their heads burried pretty deep in the sand. They are just repeating the same tired old refrain, "Because the Bible says it, it is literally ture". Geeze - enter the 21st century!

Science has proven that the Earth is at least hundreds of millions of years old and that dinosaurs lived BEFORE man - not alongside.

The Bible consists of poetry, law, stories, parables, history, dreams, letters, and more. Some parts are steeped in symbolism, some are figurative, and yes - some are litteral. To take the whole Bible literally, however, is absurd.

Why is it so hard for some Christians to accept.that just MAYBE the creation story is not historical, but figurative; included to impart a lesson about man's rebelious nature and separation from God. I believe that Adam and Eve, Garden of Eden, Tower of Babal are all stories - not history. The great flood is part history, but probably was a localized flood - as it would be absurd for the Earth to be entirely covered with water to the height of Mt. Everest.

It never ceases to amaze me the mental gymnastics people will perform to try and defend their literal interpretation of the Bible.

A billion years!

Answer 4

A million years is like the blink of an eye to God. It was probably six days to God...but billions of years in the universe by our standards. We do not measure time like God does. We use our time measurement because of the rotation of the earth around the sun to mark time in a linear fashion for our convenience...God didn't create how we measure time...man did. A day is not the same as it is here on any other planet in our own solar system, much less the universe! Remember, He did not just create the earth...but the whole universe!

I am not going to read the article because I already have an understanding of this issue that suits me just fine...take it or leave it.

Answer 5

Of course it was six literal days. The meaning of the verse that so many reference (Psalm 90:4) is being twisted. For example, read it in some of the more common translations:

KJV
Psalm 90:4
For you, a thousand years are as yesterday! They are like a few hours!

NLT
Psalm 90:4
For you, a thousand years are as yesterday! They are like a few hours!

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

MSG (The Message)
Psalm 90:3
So don't return us to mud, saying, "Back to where you came from!" Patience! You've got all the time in the world—whether a thousand years or a day, it's all the same to you. Are we no more to you than a wispy dream, no more than a blade of grass That springs up gloriously with the rising sun and is cut down without a second thought? Your anger is far and away too much for us; we're at the end of our rope. You keep track of all our sins; every misdeed since we were children is entered in your books. All we can remember is that frown on your face. Is that all we're ever going to get? We live for seventy years or so (with luck we might make it to eighty), And what do we have to show for it? Trouble. Toil and trouble and a marker in the graveyard. Who can make sense of such rage, such anger against the very ones who fear you?


There are a few common, most used, and well-known translations. Do any of them have the equation 1000 days= 1 day? No. This verse is trying to convey the fact that God is not held in bondage to time, He lives in eternity, we live in a physical arena. I hope this helps, God bless!

Answer 6

Don't need to read it. Thanks for the offer though. It's very easy, I am not sure exactly which passage says this but it is a recurring theme that 1000 years to God is like the blink of an eye. So what may take God a "human" day to achieve can take literally billions of years in our perceived time. Hope that helps.

Answer 7

After God created the Universe, Earth, it's living creatures and Adam, he went to work creating a mate for him. When he got done creating Eve, He did it really well: He created one fine foxy lady.

God looked down at Eve sleeping beside Adam and sighed "Whoaaa-man"!!

Hence the word "woman" was born.....and life since never was the same.

Answer 8

Six days. You read Genesis as history. The word for day in Hebrew is "Yom" it is the same word used in the book of Jonah when he was in the belly of the fish for three days.

Answer 9

It says in the Bible that one day in heaven is like a thousand years on earth. To God it was six days. To you it would seem like six thousand years.

Answer 10

It was six literal days, "The evening and the morning were the first day...the evening and the morning were the second day...the evening and the morning were the third day..." How much clearer can it be?

And what difference does it make what man says?