2006-11-20 09:08:38 · 36 answers · asked by Sir coffee 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. A day is a measured period of time and can be a thousand years or many thousands of years. The Bible's creative days allows for thousands of years of time each. Reasonably, each "day" of creation is the same length as the others, even as the days of the week are of equal length. So, the length of each of the seven "days" of creation is about 7,000 years, according to Bible chronology. Note, that Jehovah God proceeded to rest on the seventh day, and their is no indication the "day" had concluded. The "day" of God's rest continues now nearly 6,000 years. Also, their would be a thousand-year reign of Christ, yet to come.--Revelation 20: 1-6. For more information, go to this website: www.watchtower.org.
2006-11-20 11:57:01 · answer #1 · answered by Elisha Evangelia 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It does seem to be an awful long time for the all powerful master of everything.
Maybe s/he's a slacker (hence the day off) and easily distracted by what the other gods in the other dimensions were up to.
"Hey, what ya up to thar Zyxot?"
"Oh hey God. Yeah I've just come up with this silicon based life-form that actually literally feels the pain of others. I think it might be the answer to the whole savage idiot creatures killing each other problem."
"Woo. Thats pretty neat. Yep."
"Well, erm, hows about you? Hows that 'Earth' thing going?"
"Yeah. What? Oh! Er. Yeah great. Great. Y'know 'let there be light' and, er, other stuff. Yeah. I best... I best get back to that."
"Take it easy God."
"Yeah you to Zyxot. Hey, erm, what do you think of monkeys with guns as a dominant species?"
"It'll never work. Fur gets all jammed in the firing mechanism..."
You think he'd just say "abracadabra" and everything would just appear (in a puff of smoke of course) finished and up and running, fake dinosaur bones et al.
Maybe a day is a really long time for a god, like a nanosecond is to us. You know, the bigger the creature & the slower the heartbeat the more quickly time seems to pass.
So maybe God is like watching the whole world in constant x16 ffwrd.
Or maybe creationism is a lie invented by medieval monks to explain something they couldn't possible understand (existence) so that they could seem authoratitive and continue to control and extort the masses.
2006-11-20 09:32:00 · answer #2 · answered by Edit_Cat 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. The seven time periods spoken of were of unknown duration. They are called days for lack of a more definable term. In an account attributed to Abraham, the time periods are called just that, times. Thus, in six times did He create all things and rested on the seventh time. It is also in the writings of Abraham that we get the notion of a day for God being equal to a thousand years to us. Even that may be only a superlative way of saying a long time. It really doesn't matter exactly how long it took. We are here and the origins don't really matter to our ultimate destiny. Whether it took God seven days or seven thousand years or much longer to bring about the creation, what matters is that we know this was an organized event and not just a haphazard coincidence.
When we return to God's presence, we will find out how He did it and it will all make sense to us then.
2006-11-20 09:20:22 · answer #3 · answered by rac 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No of course not, no one knew what a day was, or what an hour was, and it's said that some of the first time keeping by man was by counting the moons, so when we say someone is a year old, they would have said they were 12 moons, this is how many people of the old bible were said to have lived hundreds of years, not so, more likely by the number of moons, think about it, it adds up, and makes sense
2006-11-20 10:29:49 · answer #4 · answered by ringo711 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the creative days are not literal 24 hour days as is commonly believed. 2 Peter 3:8 says that " one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day." Since God only created on 6 days, and rested on the seventh, creation took 6,000 years to be formed.
2006-11-20 09:15:50 · answer #5 · answered by danni_d21 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God created everything in 6 days and rested on the 7th. Whether or not you believe it is a matter of faith. But, Genesis clearly intended the days to be 24 hour periods. Everywhere else in the old testement the Hebrew word for day is used, it meaning is clear: 24 hours. That would make the earth about 6,000 years old. Nobody has proved, or disproved the earth's age even though the scientist would have you believe their "theories" are facts.
2006-11-20 09:13:31 · answer #6 · answered by Andrew 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
In my opinion, no. I do believe God created Earth, how that was done and how long it took I do not know. I do know that our interpretation of "time" is not the same as in Old Testament accounts. For instance 40 days and 40 nights was really considered "a very long time". I am one of those shocking and barely tolerated by my own kind Christians who do not believe that either the big bang or evolution theories are ruled out by the account in the book of Genesis. I believe its a very mystical (yes the church does have mysticism) and representational account passed through the years by word of mouth, long before any written accounts.
2006-11-20 09:14:48 · answer #7 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, one should not interpret the Bible to result in absurdity. A 1000 days in the eyes of men is LIKE just a day to God. Note the word "like". It is not equal. So the 7days in Genesis denote a very long time--millions if not billions- of years. The Bible is not a science book, by the way.
2006-11-20 09:11:34 · answer #8 · answered by Egyptian Prince 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
no he created in 6 days and rested on the 7th, but they were 24 hour days
2006-11-20 10:57:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
But, sadly, if you translate a day into geological time the bloody thing actually works!
I know as I've been trying to debunk things biblical for years - and yes, as six days it's hokum, but as a process which came about through eveolution, the days match scientific reality.
Begs the question how did the ancient Jewish elders know this?
It certainly makes my students think!
2006-11-20 09:13:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋