The 6 days of creation is interpreted as 100 years per day?

Question

If this is so, shouldn't we be going to church and resting every 700 years?

Answer 1

In biblical times, people thought that the earth and heaven were all that there was... and that the earth was essentially a 'terrarium' (you might want to look that up). They thought that the sky was a solid object, called the 'firmament', and that the sun, moon, and stars were affixed to it. So, essentially, heaven is 'on the other side of the sky'.

The story of Genesis is comprised of the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of an ignorant bunch of Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders, lifted from the oral traditions of other cultures, and crafted into a tale that incorporated some of their own folk tales and pseudo-history. This collection of ignorance provides the basis for the Abrahamic death cults of desert monotheism... Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The cosmological aspects of Genesis are perfectly understandable, if you contemplate it in the proper context. At the time the bible stories were concocted, the perception was that the earth was the object and the center of creation. Why? Because they had no reason to think otherwise. Today, as we advance science, we stand upon the shoulders of all the scientists that came before. Back then there were no shoulders to stand upon... so they did the best they could with what they had... their senses and their imaginations.

* They had no concept of 'outer space', and so they conceived that in the beginning all that existed were dark waters.

* They had no concept of 'nothingness'. Remember, the concept of 'zero' wasn't invented (discovered?) until thousands of years later. With that in mind, the term 'void', as it is employed in Genesis, can not refer to 'nothingness'... it can only be applied in its alternative definition, which is 'empty'. So, the waters were dark, formless and empty (devoid of content).

* They thought that all of creation consisted of the earth and an unseen 'heaven', and they thought that the sky was a 'thing'... a substantive 'firmament' (the sky) that was created by god to separate the waters and differentiate earth from heaven, when both were created.

# They had no idea that Earth was a planet, orbiting the sun.

# They had no idea that there is no firmament... that the sky is not a 'thing'.

(If you don't believe that they thought the sky was an object... a solid barrier... consider the Tower of Babel, that they were building to reach heaven. Apparently, God ALSO thought that the sky was an object, since it concerned him so much that he confounded their speech, so as to disrupt their project and keep them from reaching his domain. God must be pretty much of a dumbass, if he doesn't even know the actual configuration of the universe that he created. So much for the 'inerrant' bible.)

* They thought that the sun was a light that god had placed upon the 'firmament' to differentiate night from day.

# They had no idea that the sun is a star... the center of our solar system.

# They had no concept of 'stars' in the same sense that we understand them today.

* They had no idea that night and day were a consequence of the earth's rotation.

* They thought that the moon was a 'lesser' light that god had caused to travel across the firmament to enable man to differentiate the seasons, and provide illumination at night.

# They had no concept of the moon as a satellite.

* They thought that the stars were tiny lights that god had placed upon the firmament to provide for omens. (Some thought that the stars were 'holes' in the firmament that allowed the 'light of heaven' to shine through.)

# They had no idea that the stars were suns, just like our own sun.

# They thought the eyeball-visible planets (Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn) were 'wandering stars'.

# They had no idea that the planets were actually sun-orbiting bodies, just like earth.

* They had no idea that the earth, itself, is a planet.

# They had no clue as to the actual nature of the earth, our solar system, the place of our solar system in the galaxy... or even of the existence of our galaxy. (Up until very recently, we didn't even know that there were other galaxies. Our galaxy, when it was first known that there actually WAS a galaxy, was thought to be the whole universe.) From their perspective, the 'earth' and 'heaven' (i.e., whatever existed on the other side of the sky) represented all that there was. A terrarium.

I do not say this things to disparage what they thought back then. They were trying to do what science is trying to do today... trying to understand reality. Today, we have technology and disciplined meta-procedures (scientific method) to help us extract answers from nature.

Back then, they did not.

Today, we have 'theories' to provide consistent explanations for what we are able to observe in nature, supplemented and validated by the additional information that we are able to extract from nature by means of our technology, our disciplined methods and our intellectual tools (mathematics, logic). Most of our theories are incomplete, so we continue to work on them... because we know that they are incomplete.

Back then, they did not have disciplined methods, and they did not have the technology to extract answers from nature. The only information they had access to was what they could see with their own eyeballs. There was no technological knowledge base or scientific context in which to interpret their observations, so they had to appeal to their imaginations... and the 'supernatural'... in order to make sense out of what they saw. Actually, what they really achieved was deluding themselves into thinking that they knew the truth. Amazingly, over time, this delusion has become codified, institutionalized, and incorporated... complete with franchises.

Basically, Genesis can be thought of as a 'theory', concocted by people who were constrained by lack of technology, methodology and intellectual tools... but they sure weren't constrained by lack of imagination.

Today, we try to interpret Genesis in the context of what we know to be true of the universe... galaxies, stars, planets, moons, gravity, orbits, inclination of the earth's axis, planetary rotation, etc. They problem is that Genesis can't be interpreted in terms of those things, because Genesis was written by men, based on oral traditions, and those men did not know about those things. They could only write about what they could see and what they could guess about the reasons that lay behind what they saw. In any event, it provided them with a mechanism to quell the innate anxiety that comes with fretting about how and why they came to be here.

They guessed wrong.

So... I think that the cosmological aspects of Genesis require a literal interpretation... no metaphors... no allegory... no hidden meaning. The key, though, is in understanding that the literal interpretation does not lead to a description of the way things ARE... it leads to a description of the way they THOUGHT things are. It leads to a naive description of reality, concocted by people who were doing the best they could with what they had.

It is absolutely appalling, though, to realize that hundreds of millions of people, TODAY, including participants in this forum, BELIEVE that this ignorant bovine excrement is actually TRUE.

Answer 2

I'm taking this verse a little out of context, but I believe that God's time is so different from ours that we cannot comprehend, so it illustrates my point:

"It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority" - Acts 1:7

I don't believe that the first 'six days' were actual 24-hour periods, nor do I believe that it was any set time that we know about or can comprehend. God is the Creator, therefore He took as long as He wanted.

I'm not sure where you read that it was interpreted as 100 years per day, but I don't think that's right either.

Answer 3

It could also be interpreted as 1 second for every day shouldn't we be going to church every 7 seconds.

In reality creation took millions of years of genetic permutation.

Answer 4

That's what the theistic evolutionist believe because of the verse that a day is a thousand years to God; but it's taken out of context. God has always been and alwyas will be, meaning God doesn't know time. The earth was created in, literally, 6 days.

Answer 5

genuinely, the staggering explination/ theory i have heard for the way guy might want to stay so long is that on the time of Adam and the old testimate the earth's outer environment became particularly humid, even to the point that it became icy in chilly parts, starting to be, and inflicting a greenhouse type of result that could want to have allowed guy to live to inform the tale a lot a lot longer than at present. This also starts a theory to describe the finished flood, which became defined not as rain, yet that water poured from the heavens and struck the earth with great rigidity. It also says water got here from the floor, which ability it had to be compelled up from the floor. It is going on to talk about how volcanic interest might want to have led to the ambience to regulate and set off the "rain", or perchance a meteor. as far as an actuall calculation to reveal the size of a "god minute", i do not imagine were gonna ever confirm that one out. --you;re on the right song in spite of the reality that. people get the incorrect theory about god only making issues seem in introduction with the aid of vauge wording interior the old testiment. Even such issues as evolution might want to easily be the way god chosen to do it. i imagine in case you favor to stumble on a calculation for "god time", you should seem at how lengthy, in theory, it took for guy to conform, destroy that down into 6 days, and now you've an increment of our time to benefit to gods time.?! shop in concepts in spite of the reality that...... it really is depending on the concept of evolution. it would want to also be interesting to attempt it on different theory's too. only shop in concepts god isn't a wizard, he's god......superNATURAL,

Answer 6

Grace unto you and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord JC.

Be not ignorant of this: 1 day [is] as 1,000 yrs
(Gen 1 x 6; Gen 2:17; Psalms 90:4; 2Peter 3:8)

Adam died (before reaching 1 day = 1000 yrs),
in the day he ate both good(grace) + evil(law).

"AND" (also be not ignorant of that also told)
1,000 yrs [is] as 1 day (1 day called "Easter")
(Acts 12:3,4,5; 2Peter 3:8; Rev 20:2,3,4,5,6)

Note: Peter is only man called Satan in the Bible.
Peter(Satan) was chained in prision for one day.
When the 1000yr day was past, he was loosed.
Rev 20:2-6 allegorically described in Acts 12:3-5.

Which things are an "allegory",
and a "mystery" to solve, "in time",
lest "all (the KofG within you) perish".

POINT: "grace is SUFFICIENT"(no law req'd).

The "grace' of our Lord JC with you all. Amen.

Answer 7

In the Bible it says that to God a day is like a thousand years, And a thousand Years in like a day. These days could acually be millions of years long,

read the web cite

Answer 8

Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Seems pretty clear; six 24-hour days for creation. You may not agree with it, but the Bible teaches it.

Answer 9

NO!
one day to God is as a 1,000 years to man and a thousand years of man is but 1 Day to God.

and yes there will be rest every 6000 years, his rest is comming soon

Answer 10

I'd just like to point out that DuckPhup should get Best Answer Of The Year....

Duckphup, I too, am absolutely appalled. And I am honestly embarrassed by my fellow man, for the same reasons.

Answer 11

I have never heard that, but the bible says that a day is to the Lord as a thousand years.