do you believe God created the world over 7days?- my friend's question?

Question

my friend asked me to ask this for her

Answer 1

Yes.
It's all part of not being able to fathom how awesome God is.
I look at the order of the tiniest cell and it tells me that God can know me personally. When I look at the vastness and perfectness of the universe, it shows me how huge God is, and that He is infinite.
Before God existed, there was no time. God created time for us "finite" humans.

Answer 2

God first created everything But it all laid Void & darknes was upon the face of the deep, so this earth could have laid here as such for millions of years. But Now The scriptures is now breaking down the order of events, Gen1:14-19 shows that light was created on the 4th day, So we have to understand, how was time measured, There was not any 24 hour thing, if it was, how did God measure time up until the 4th day when he Created light, Therefore those days was a time period of 1000 yrs, for each day. & when God get to day 7th the bible said he rested, Now many religions today is saying that God rested on the 7th day due to him being tired, & also to God he was observing the sabbath, Both are wrong, first God never gets tired, second there was not even a law then about the sabbath, therefore God does not do anything for no reason whatso ever, so these days each one is 1000 yrs. The bible also says a day with the Lord is the same as 1000 yrs. So why did God rest on the 7th day, Not because he was tired & not because of a law concerning the sabbath & also that 7th day lasted 1000 yrs. So now we need to see what that day of rest represents, I will just give you one verse instead of a whole lot, turn to Revelation 20:4 (The last part) And they shall reign & lived with Christ a thousand yrs. That is His BRIDE living with Christ upon this earth for a thousand yrs. That is the millennium, But now while we are still alive our rest is in Jesus Christ, For he said whosoever will, let him come & I will give unto him REST. So those 7 days was 7000 yrs. Not 7 days with 24 hours, Because there was no light until the 4th day, so how would God measure a day as we look at it by the sun setting & rising, if there was no light until the 4th day.

Answer 3

I beleive that the Bible is the Word of God. I beleive that the word “day” in Genesis is not a literal 24-hour day; rather it should be understood as meaning a long indeterminate period of time or “epoch.” These epochs or creative periods
correspond to the geological and biological history of the earth.

Why do I not take the word "day" in Genesis in its literal 24-hr meaning? Very simple: The sun and moon by which we mark our 24-hr days were not created until "the fourth day" (1:14-19). So the Hebrew "Yom" here refers to other than a 24-hr day. It could simply be translated "time period." Besides, the whole Genesis 1 account is labled by the writer himslef as a "toledot" - that is to say, it is a genealogy.
The “toledot” formula shows that there has been a common tradition in the pre-historic cultures of the Middle East that understood the origins of the universe to be a series of generations. The creation account is schematically and logically arranged, grouping together ‘generations’ or ‘successions’, seven in number and calls them under the category of “days.”

Answer 4

The Genesis account states in verse 1 that "in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." There is no time specified here. That could have been billions of years ago. Beginning with verse 2, we are told of the preparation of earth for habitation. Not the creation of earth - the preparation.

As to the days, the account speaks of six time periods called days. Yet at Genesis 2:4 it speaks of "the history of the heavens and the earth . . . in the day that God made heaven and earth."

The Bible uses the term "day" in different ways. The Bible makes clear that it can refer to a thousand years or to twenty-four hours. It can also refer to a watch in the night. This should not be surprising to us inasmuch as we do the same thing. We speak of our grandfather's day. Clearly, we are not talking about a twenty-four hour period. We are describing his generation. And sometimes we use day to refer to the daylight period – and not the entire twenty-four hours of which a day is comprised.

There is no reason to conclude that the days for preparing earth for habitation and then creating life upon it were twenty-four hour periods. And there is no basis in science for concluding it either. Obviously, those creation periods were thousands of years in length.

Hannah

Answer 5

In light of the scientific evidence, no, not literal 24 hour days. The Bible says that a day to the Lord is as a 1000 years, and a 1000 years is as a day. So I believe with this, God isn't "confined" to a literal 6 24 hour day creation. I think the days refer to time periods.

Answer 6

Nope
He did all including Making Man and Women within 6days
the 7th day He rested

Genesis:chapter 1and 2

Answer 7

The Book says for us to get past elementary things.
In the Old Days, people had little understanding of the world around them. So they were taught in story fashion.
Today. People who get upset over people still believing
in childrens stories, are just as silly as those who still
believe them!

Answer 8

time is relitive
a day between the darkness to the next darkness
then we measure a day by the observable changes day two was the next noticable change the next day life
the next day ,a day is the notuiced change
a comparitive unit of change a measure the translators but call a day
on what day did the tree start to grow
on what day did it die
where was the clock ,the calender
the earth spun faster then it spins much slower then
but to understand the basic concept lets just call it a day
till we can say to the true precice measure of days it might have been.

Answer 9

Actually in 6 days and on the seventh He rested.

I recommend this website. It has a lot of great articles supporting a 6 day creation among other things.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/qa.asp

Answer 10

Days no, periods of time yes. Granted many say that 1 day to God is about 1000 years to us. If that's the case, then 7 God days would make sense. But, definitely not 7 earth days.