Do you believe the world was actually created in six days?

Question

Futhermore, does day imply that God creats with structure, rules and order? And a thousand days might also be alliterative? The concept of time, is it Godly or given from God to us because we need struture. Is the meaning behind a chronoclogical day sequence meant to give us a time period, or scientific journal, or was the author of Genisis intending something else.

Answer 1

I don't think time is an issue.

6 days...as in 24 hours

or six days in some sort of God sense...perhaps millions of years.. I don't think it matters.

The worth is in the Creator.

Answer 2

Not really. I believe in the Bible, I really do, but I also believe that because people back then were so primitive, that some things had to be brought down to their level. Try going back 6000 years ago, and tell those people that the earth was billions of years old. They wouldn't be able to comprehend BILLIONS, or even millions.

It's something I've always wondered about actually, if it happened exactly the way the Bible said, or if it was brought down to a more primitive level for the people.

Honestly, since I believe in both science AND the Bible, I can see how the creation of the earth would take eons. Sure, God COULD have done it in six days, but was it six of God's days, or six of man's? The Bible is not clear on this. All we can do is speculate.

God had nothing but time. When your existence is infinite, what's a million years?

Answer 3

No! I don't! The world developed over millions of years. The world is about 4.5 billion years of age, not a mere 6,000. I'm utterly amazed that people say "Yes! If GOD said it, I believe it!" God doesn't exist. The Law of Conservation of Energy states energy can neither be created nor destroyed. This rules out the possibility of instantaneous creation, and explains the lack of need for a "creator".

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I'm shocked at all the "well the day in Genesis didn't mean 24 hours, but a period of time". Then why would he have said "and the evening and the morning were the first day, second day, etc.? Moses said, regarding the Sabbath day, "and you shall work six days in the fields, but the seventh day shall be a day of rest to worship the Lord your God." Did Moses think people worked for eons and eons?

Answer 4

Do you believe that, according to Genesis, the sky is a solid mass that holds up the 'water above'? That light and day existed before the sun or that plants could live before the sun was 'created'?

It's all a load of bull, you're not sposed to take it literally, it's supposed to be symbolic, like the talking snake, do you believe that an actual snake told Eve to eat the fruit? And would she believe a talking snake? I doubt it, it's meant to symbolise that man listens to his doubts and chooses his own path away from God and is apparently cursed because of that.

The person above me has the right frame of mind. They didn't have any of this advanced thinking back then, they didn't even have a concept of zero (as in it is the absense of a number, not a number itself).

Can I point out that I'm not one of these creationists. I believe that the evidence for evolution more than stands up on it's own.

Answer 5

you have to look deeper. How could there be a "day" before the world was created? The Day,, i believe, stands for "a period of time" with start, a middle and an end. Could be ANY period of time. Remember,, to God " a day is like a 1000 years and a 1000 years is like a day". And 1000 years, some people say is a metaphor for a complete period of time.

Answer 6

The world was created in six days, this is true because it is in the Bible. The Bible is reliable because G-d wrote it! We know G-d wrote it because it says so in the Bible and we can trust the Bible because G-d wrote it... and so it goes on.

Actually this is errant and a wild misunderstanding of the nature of sacred texts in the community of faith. A simple reading of the first two parashat of Genesis will clearly illumine the mythological nature of the text. For example we see the complicated play with numbers and names. ADAM has the same numerical value as YHVH as the former was created in the image and likeness of the latter. The days 'call' to one another 1st calls the 4th, 2nd calls the 5th and the 3rd call unto the 6th; read it an see... Only the seventh has no parter and so is 'married' to HaShem. We may take this a step further and read it in Hebrew and we will see that as a unity it is a poem. This kind of 'song' was common at NewYear celebrations throughout the ancient Near East and a cursory glance at Babylonian and Assyrian myths will show us that Genesis is not original.

We must first learn to 'read' the text and only then will we have any hope in understanding it.

Answer 7

No Fppeater1 ! You didnt understand your bible! You were supposed to read between the lines and know that a day for God is equal to 989 Million years for us. The word day is merely a metaphor. Not to worry though, the bible due for release shortly after the second coming promises a handy metric conversion table for our convenience.

Answer 8

Well in our term of 24 hour days, no
The power of God would have been instant
Humans calculations after they discovered math = Yes

Answer 9

yes,

Q: How long was the "day" as described in Genesis 1 and Does the word "let" in Genesis 1 mean to restore?


Answer:

The Hebrew word for "day" ('yom') used in Genesis 1 to reference the seven days of Creation Week occurs a total of 2291 times in the Old Testament and, in 95% of these occurrences, refers to either a defined time period of short duration, a literal solar day (i.e., one rotational cycle of the Earth on its axis), or the daylight portion of one such cycle [as demanded by the context]. The other 5% refer to some aspect of another literal day--the prophetic "day of the Lord," either the literal day of Jesus Christ's physical return to Earth in power and judgment and/or His 1,000-year Kingdom reign over all the nations of the globe for an actual millennial period (also delineated in Rev. 20:1-7). Beware of those misusing the end-time meaning [consummation context] of the word 'yom' when interpreting the days of Earth's beginning [creation context].

It is also good to know that the word 'yom' always (100% of the time) means a literal solar day when it is:

(1) used in the plural form 'yamim' [845 times];

(2) preceded by a numerical adjective (e.g., first day, second day, third day, etc.) called a nominal or an ordinal in historical narrative [359 times in the OT outside of Genesis 1];

(3) modified by the phrase "evening and/or morning" [38 times outside of Genesis 1].

In addition, Genesis 1 is a tight (no-gap) chronology bound together by a Hebrew grammatical structure called the 'waw consecutive.' Note how each of the verses in Genesis 1 (except v.1 & v.27) begins with the word "And ..." (the Hebrew word, 'waw'). This literary device links all the days of Genesis 1 into a sequential unit of six literal days of creative work, finalized by a seventh literal day (in Genesis 2) of Sabbath rest--the basis for our work week of 6 literal days (Exod. 20:11). Besides, if God wanted to convey the idea of long, indefinite time periods, He would have inspired the use of the Hebrew word 'olam,' not 'yom' !

Furthermore, the word "let" as used in Genesis 1 never means to "restore," but instead has the meaning of "cause to be." As to how God did this, the Bible is emphatically clear that our Creator simply spoke the universe (time/ space/ matter) into existence, including the heavens and the earth, instantaneously by the eternal power of His omnipotent Word (Ps. 33:6, 9/ Heb. 11:3/ 2 Pet. 3:5). That is, God creates by divine Fiat, not by any process dependent on time. After this initial act (not process) of creation (Gen. 1:1), you will notice from the Biblical narrative that God is busy both forming and filling His cosmos:

FORMING FILLING
Day 1 Day 4
Day 2 Day 5
Day 3 Day 6

You will also notice that this chronological sequence in no way correlates with the presumed evolutionary scenario of those who wish to explain away God or those who seek to compromise His inerrant Word with the reasonings of man.

Answer 10

Could be...who knows the length of a day to God?