Before there was people to decide that a day was one rotation on it's axis, how long was a day to God?

Question

Was the 7 days in the Bible truely 7 days as we know them to be or is time totally diffenent to an omnipotent being?

Answer 1

Well as far as I know a day start when the sun shows up and ends when it goes down,it has been like that since we started to talk,write and ponder on the world around us.So in my guess the bible's 7 days is the days that as we know it except if people lived in places like north or south poles or places where its sun 24/7 and night 24/7 depending on the seasons..in that case in those times.someone could think he/she lived for more than 1000 years..as a day would last 6 month..well something like that.

Answer 2

yes it was 7 24hour periods. I did this once but I guess you didn't see it.

The old testament is written in Hebrew, and in the Hebrew language the definition of a scentence is based on the words in it and not the placing of the words.
EX.. if I told you I needed a shoe for my left foot. What words would let you know I meant the foot on my leg and not a 12 inche span of space?

In Genesis there are a few words that qualify day as an actual 24 hour period
Genesis 1:5 God named the light "day" and the darkness "night." Evening and morning came. This was the first day.

The qualifying words there are Evening, Morning and first, those qualify the scentence as a 24 hour period, a day.
The same applies for vs. 8,13,19,23, each of those passages have 2 qaualifying words Evening and morning followed by a number 2,3,4 et .......
So yes the Earth was created in 6 literal days.

Another thing, God commands us to work 6 days and rest 1 well if a day was a thousand years it would be a silly command huh?

Answer 3

There are several theories about the Genesis account, all attempting to explain what happened in light of modern day science. I have a problem with the day being longer than one rotation of the earth's axis, because the first day is described as being a literal day. In any case it's a total miracle that the Earth was created in the first place, so why doubt that it was 7 days? Only God was there to observe that, so you either believe it or you don't. I think it's important to not treat the Bible as a scientific refrence book. That was not it's intended purpose. It's intended purpose was for God to show how he loved Man, and how he had a plan for our salvation. I think he explains things in the terms that the reader can understand in ancient times before science developed. That is not to say that it didn't happen that way. I think it is told in the spirit of truth, not deception.

Answer 4

Not only time could be different to a supreme being such as God but to a common and simple human being, many controled experiment in clinics says this is the case. Some have this theory that, time as we know it, is nothing but an illusion temporary created buy the physical sensors, and that what they perceive of time is a little less than a grain of sand in the middle of all the sands in the whole world. They say that If the universe is infinite so are its realities including time. It is believed by some that man has the mental capacity to by pass his five sensor and the little monkey brain he's working with in this plane to others time's realities. Some ancients believes talk about worlds withing worlds, universes withing universes all occupying the same "space", possible just because time moves at a different phase in each one of them, and just think of it, all could be grasp by man in a single leap. This gives us a little clue about what Jesus really meant when he referred to "heaven on earth". Supposedly, this is the mental state where prophets dwell and where they want to take mankind. Some modern scientist say that our little tridimensional physical universe we live in, is not the only reality to be known by man. So, to make a long story short, I'm sleepy, Moses was an Egyptian Initiates, we have not even began or try to fathon what he realy wrote in Genesis and the rest of the books. To interpret the seven days of creation as real days, is just plain stupid and ignorant of the subject been treated. The Star of David has the same meaning.

Answer 5

Order of creation
Here is the order in the first (Genesis 1), the Priestly tradition:
Day 1: Sky, Earth, light
Day 2: Water, both in ocean basins and above the sky(!)
Day 3: Plants
Day 4: Sun, Moon, stars (as calendrical and navigational aids)
Day 5: Sea monsters (whales), fish, birds, land animals, creepy-crawlies (reptiles, insects, etc.)
Day 6: Humans (apparently both sexes at the same time)
Day 7: Nothing (the Gods took the first day off anyone ever did)

Note that there are "days", "evenings", and "mornings" before the Sun was created. Here, the Deity is referred to as "Elohim", which is a plural, thus the literal translation, "the Gods". In this tale, the Gods seem satisfied with what they have done, saying after each step that "it was good".

The second one (Genesis 2), the Yahwist tradition, goes:

Earth and heavens (misty)
Adam, the first man (on a desolate Earth)
Plants
Animals
Eve, the first woman (from Adam's rib)



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How orderly were things created?
#1: Step-by-step. The only discrepancy is that there is no Sun or Moon or stars on the first three "days".
#2: God fixes things up as he goes. The first man is lonely, and is not satisfied with animals. God finally creates a woman for him. (funny thing that an omniscient god would forget things)

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How satisfied with creation was he?
#1: God says "it was good" after each of his labors, and rests on the seventh day, evidently very satisfied.
#2: God has to fix up his creation as he goes, and he would certainly not be very satisfied with the disobedience of that primordial couple. (funny thing that an omniscient god would forget things)

Answer 6

Certain words in the Hebrew language make the word "day" (Hebrew word yom) a literal 24 hour day or a period of time.

The Day of the Lord is a period of time, because there are no surrounding words to give it a literal meaning.

Morning, evening, first, Sabbath. These all make the word "day" a literal day.

For instance, you would never make the assumption that the commandment, "Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it Holy" to mean anything other than a literal 24 hour day. It would be silly to say remember the Sabbath 1000 years and keep it holy.

So, with that being said, let's look at the commandment in context.

Exodus 20:8-11
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

That commandment, refering to the Sabbath Day, immediately follows with "for in six days the Lord made the ..."

I don't think the Bible leaves any room for the interpretation to be anything other than a 24 hour day.

Answer 7

I don't think God created the world and all His creatures in 6 24-hour periods and rested a seventh. He could have done it over millions of our years or in the blink of an eye. I don't know for sure; I wasn't there, and He is capable of doing anything. Based on geological and other scientific evidence we have, it would seem that those seven days were much longer than seven of our 24-hour days. I don't think this is inconsistent with the Bible. The Bible had to be written in terms humans could understand. As for the rest on the seventh day, God doesn't need rest. He took it as a way of saying "it is finished" and establishing a much-needed pattern of work and rest for us.

Answer 8

I think it's funny when Christians try to make Genesis into a scientific argument by saying that a God day is about 1000 years or so.

Of course, this multiplying factor is mentioned nowhere in the Bible... Creationists made it up.

Regardless, it's even funnier because it hurts their argument, not helps it... God shouldn't be taking 7000 years to do ANYTHING, never mind 7 days. He's supposedly all-powerful. Why would he need to rest?

Answer 9

Hard to say. Another possibility is the "gap" between Genisis 1:1 and 1:2.

Old earth creation theory seems to be more likely than young earth, but to be perfectly honest no one will ever know.

Answer 10

One day can be a thousand years to God and a thousand years can be one day.
I am a Christian but do not believe the creation was done in the way we count days.
God is "I AM" which emphatically means NOW.

God Bless you for asking.