Do u believe god created the world in 7 days??

Question

not including the 7th day. I just think thaty there is to much evidence to prove this wrong. what do u think???

Answer 1

It was a HELL OF A JOB........lol. What is a day? 24 hours? Sunset to sunrise? Sunrise to sunrise? What about the North Pole where a "day" lasts 6 months? The South Pole the same. If the concept of a day is 24 hours.......then it would be a unit of measurement. Units of measurement are created by man. Therefore it could not have been 6 days or 7 days, because days didn't even exist since man at that time did not exist. The people that wrote all that tripe should have given that story more thought.

Answer 2

The Word of God says,

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved over the face of the waters. That's Genesis 1, verses 1 and 2.

And God said, Let there be light, and there was light...Verse 3.

Does it say how much time elapsed between the events and circumstances of verses 1 & 2 and the events in verse 3? No. It does not. It goes on to say in verse 4 that when He said, "Let there be light," and there was light that He also separated the light and the darkness, calling the light Day and the darkness Night, verse 5. When we see Him create night and day we also see the creation of the first day.

How has man told time since the earliest findings of man utlizing time? By night and day, right? Before night and day were created then there was only a void and darkness, therefore, there was no way to tell time.

So when we actually *read* the Bible rather than just assume that we know what's going on when God is creating life as we know it, then we have no choice but to be honest with ourselves and admit that there really is no way of knowing whether the heaven and the earth was created in the same day that God said, "Let there be light," and there was light followed by the creation of night and day - or if the earth stood formless and void for billions years, time-span-wise, before the separation of night and day as the first day. Why is there no way of knowing? Because God actually does not say. He does not say that billions of years passed between the creation of heaven and earth and the speaking of the light into existence. He does not say that heaven and earth and the light were created all in the same day. We can look and look and look - and we can even scour the ancient Hebrew in which the text was originally written and dissect it letter by letter - but an exact timeframe between these events is just not there.

Answer 3

No disrespect intended towards organized religion, but I find it hard to believe that what we know as the world (and even larger, the universe) was created in a mere 7 days. I understand the importance of faith and why people need to believe in a higher power, but there is no tangible proof or evidence that "God/Allah" created the world. As a matter of fact, there is no real evidence that these Dieties even exist. I know some may disagree with my opinion and and that is totally fine, I dont want to step on any toes but lets face it, we will never come to an agreement about this subject. Those who believe in it, will continue to do so. As much as you can produce scientific evidence to prove evolutionary theory, big bang, etc. someone else will produce their own evidence as to why those theories are totally wrong and that God is responsible for this beautiful planet that we live on. I have learned that we shouldn't try to change what a person believes in. What we should be doing is listening and trying to understand while at the same time maintaining our of integrity of opinion. Together we can focuse on solving the problems that affect us now and worry about what happens in the next life, when we get there. Take care : )

Answer 4

God did NOT create the world in 6 or 7 days, no matter how long those "days" were in length. That is a common mistake people make because of a failure to look closely at the Genesis account of creation. If you will notice at Gen. 1:1, 2 that the earth (as well as the material heavens) were already in existence BEFORE the first "day" started. The 6 creative days had nothing to do with the creation of the earth. Instead, they were vast time periods that Jehovah used to prepare the already-created earth for animal and human habitation. Before those days started, the earth could have been in existence for millions, if not billions, of years.

Answer 5

In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth.


At some time later God took 6 creating days (the bible doesn't say how long that day is) to prepare the earth for man and animals.

Day in the bible can mean 24 hrs, 12 hrs, 1000 years, a life time of an individual.

The preparation day is ???? hours long.

That's a different an interesting question.

Answer 6

There is reason to:
A) believe in an old age universe, and
B) believe that God created what was on the Earth in 6 24/hour cycle days.

Notice what the bible says:
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth"
---This is the first verse of the first chapter of the first book in the bible. The existence of the universe was created by God. How long did that take? Well, the existence of the heavens and the earth precedes the statement "God created the heavens and the earth" because created is used in past tense here. It could be billions of years. But notice the focus of the next verse.

"Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. "
---the focus is earth, and the point of reference if right above the oceans or waters of the earth.
---From this point on, the Sun existed and the moon existed. It would be illogical to have had some expansion of the universe (either from big bang or not, but definetly from a singularity) create the mass of the earth and not that of the sun or the moon or the milky way galaxy for that matter. Look at the point of reference. God is hovering over the waters. Then he said Let there be light! And there was light. God called the light day and the dark night.
The next day, God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day."
---Now we have a translucent atmosphere that allows light to penetere the atmosphere. That atmosphere was opaque before and would not allow sunlight to penetrate.
The next day God said "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
---This could only be done if plant-life could photosynthesize.
Notice what happens on day four.
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

---Now the atmosphere was transparent rather than translucent. God does not have to recreate the sun, but the text stated that God in fact is the Creator of the sun and the moon and the stars. Its a statement that God created everything that is visible and now we are affected by the gravitaitonal affect the moon has on us and the effect that ultraviolet radiation have on us as a result of a transparent atmosphere.

You see, the universe took billions of years to be where it was at (including the mass of earth as protoplanet), but only a few days to make protoearth a life-sustainable.
God didnt create the heavens and the earth in seven days. He created the universe, then in a matter of a few days, made it life-sustainable.

I used to think that each day was a stage or era, but then I read a little closer into the text, its order, focus and frame of reference, and deduced that God is not illogical, as our laws of nature are not illogical, but that If I adhered to the doctrine that the Sun was created on the fourth day, then I have to place the sun and moon onto the galaxy model after the creation of the universe, and that is completely illogical. It is simpler that the sun and moon were there with the earth at the point of creation when the universe was set in motion and that the opaqueness of the atmosphere of protoearth did not allow for sunlight to penetrate the surface.

Answer 7

Well, let's look at it this way. The Bible says a thousand years are like but a moment in God's eyes. So, let's say a moment is a second (actually, it is less than that). There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day. So.. you do the math. A day in God's time is far more than ours, as He is not in time. That is why He knows what will happen without having to influence it. That is why He is God. :-) Numbers 6:24 to you.

Answer 8

First of all Evolution is still a theory. It has never been 'proven', It was just hypothesized, by one man. And I can guarantee that Darwin now knows the truth.

And I absolutely believe that God created everything. Maybe He didn't do it a conventional 7 day period. But I believe the relevance of time is different to God than to us. But the 7 days is not a deal breaker for me. Whether it was 7 days or 7 years, God still created everything around us.

Answer 9

Yes I do believe. It can never be feasible to compare what God does on a human level. WE cannot create the world in 7 days, so what makes you think that God, our supernatural creator, cannot do it. Who are we to question this if we cannot even begin to concieve a thought close to his level and stature. Evidence may exist, but no scientific or technological 'theory' can explain the wonders of God. Analyzing the length of a day is totally irrelevant. Yes I do believe...and that is different to knowing.

Similarly, many of us know that Jesus died on the cross, but how many of us BELIEVE that he died for our sins. Think about it. Just questioning what God does is a sign that you do not believe. Accept, repent and believe and you will see him face to face in the next life my friend.

Answer 10

exactly what evidence are you looking at? the secular humanists "proof"???? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
after each day of creation god said "the morning and the evening were the 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc... day" Last time I checked, a morning and an evening were a literal 24 hour day. Those other verses that people reference about "a day being as a thousand years" is taken TOTALLY out of context; that verse is speaking to the fact that God does not live a physical, linear existence like mankind does, time is meaningless to God. He is GOD for crying out loud, He spoke and it was! why would the God of the universe take billions of years to do ANYTHING? all these other theories of how long it took is nonsense and just one proof of how infiltrated the church has become to humanistic thinking. besides, the only record we have is God Himself saying how long it took. There were no "unbiased scientists" recording their observations of creation.
go to www.answersingenesis.org and get some real proof
As a side note, although I know what I believe, it really has nothing to do with the real message, that of God's plan of salvation through Christ Jesus His Son....