we have 7 days in a week. why not it is 6 or 8 ?

Answer 1

I would LOVE 8 DAYS.

7 Ain't BAD tough

Answer 2

Calendars through the Ages:

Our seven-day week
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/week.html

What Is the Origin of the 7-Day Week?

Digging into the history of the 7-day week is a very complicated matter. Authorities have very different opinions about the history of the week, and they frequently present their speculations as if they were indisputable facts. The only thing we seem to know for certain about the origin of the 7-day week is that we know nothing for certain.

The common explanation is that the seven-day week was established as imperial calendar in the late Roman empire and furthered by the Christian church for historical reasons. The British Empire used the seven-day week and spread it worldwide. Today the seven-day week is enforced by global business and media schedules, especially television and banking.

The first pages of the Bible explain how God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. This seventh day became the Jewish day of rest, the sabbath, Saturday.

Extra-biblical locations sometimes mentioned as the birthplace of the 7-day week include: Babylon, Persia, and several others. The week was known in Rome before the advent of Christianity.

There are practical geometrical theories as well. For example, if you wrap a rubber band around 7 soda cans (or any other convenient circular objects). You get a perfect hexagon with the 7th can in the middle. It is the only stable configuration of wrapping more than 3 circular objects. Four, 5, and 6 objects will slip from one configuration to another. Ancients wrapping tent poles, small logs for firewood, or other ciruclar objects might have come upon this number and attach a mystical significance to it.

One viable theory correlates the seven day week to the seven (astrological) "planets" known to the ancients: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. The number seven does not seem an obvious choice to match lunar or solar periods, however. A solar year could be more evenly divided into weeks of 5 days, and the moon phases five-day and six-day weeks make a better short term fit (6 times 5 is 30) to the lunar (synodic) month (of about 29.53 days) than the current week (4 times 7 is 28). The seven-day week may have been chosen because its length approximates one moon phase (one quarter = 29.53 / 4 = 7.3825).

Answer 3

The 7 day week is because of creation.

The flood also covered the earth for 7 days.

Answer 4

7= Genesis

Answer 5

I guess it has something to do with the bible, because God made the world in 6 days and on the 7th day he relaxed.
So it came to 7 days a week.

Answer 6

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all thier vast array.

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, beacause on it he rested from all of the work of creating that he had done.

Genesis 2:1-3

Answer 7

Because 6 or 8 does not a week make. Score: 2pts.

Answer 8

Genesis 2 : 1-4 .. 1 -Thus the heavens and the earth were finished , and all the host of them . 2 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made ; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 - And God blessed the seventh day ,and sanctified it : because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 4 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created , in the day that the Lord God made the the earth and the heaven .....

Answer 9

there is sybolism in the number 7 and a spiritual significance. do a search on google or one of the other search engines and you can find lots of interesting facts about the number 7 and the "mythology" behind it.

Answer 10

because 7 is the number of completion....God made this world in 7 days...and then he rested...