Why is there 7 days in a week?

Question

Thank you utuseclocal, that's what I wanted to hear "It is a verified fact that the 7 day week existed long before Christianity came into being."

Scott b, there are 30 days in a month, because the Moons phase takes about 30 days.

Answer 1

I believe I already posed this question, adding the request for any scientific evidence in support of any answer. I have yet to receive any satisfactory response. There have been 7 days in the week, every week, in all of recorded history. We have scientific reasons for the day, month and year but there are none for 7 days in a week. China and other nations have even tried to change and alter this fact, but all failed miserably. That means there is only one logical reason for 7 days in a week; God created the heavens, Earth, seas and all that is within them in 6 days and rested on the seventh day.
It is a verified fact that the 7 day week existed long before Christianity came into being. There are 7 day weeks all over the world and have been since the beginning of recorded history. Even atheistic Communist countries have and always had 7 day weeks. All cultures and all religions and all nations on Earth have 7 day weeks.
PS> While it is true that the days of the week were indeed named after pagan gods -which were named after 7 planets- this really doesn't answer or address the question at hand. Why are there 7 days in a week? The days were named after gods but there were already 7 days in a week long before that occurred. The days in ancient cultures were also named after various, yet different gods. But the fact remains that there were already 7 day weeks being observed long before this and the days were simply given names -though a few cultures only numbered the days
The ancient Israelites folowed the prophetic calendar which observes 7 day weeks and 28 day months, with 1 extra month per year. That is why Passover doesn't fall on the same day -according to our calendar- every year.

Answer 2

because the moon was used to count time, a 'moon" or month was 28 days usually and there were 4 quarters in every month thus 4 weeks of 7 days. However, I don't know where the term week came from. By the way, there are 13 moon cycles in every year with a few days left over, most ancient cultures used these extra days as holidays.

Answer 3

Before TV, people did a lot of star gazing at night. The 7 days of the week are named after the celestial objects seen in the sky that are not stars in a relative fixed position, namely, the sun, moon and the planets visible to the naked eye. Sunday is named after the sun; Monday, the moon; Tuesday, Mars; Wednesday, Mercury; Thursday, Jupiter; Friday, Venus; and Saturday, Saturn. It is easier to see which days are named after which celestial objects if you look at the Spanish words for those days. Only Saturday and Sunday are better clues in English.

Answer 4

The most common belief in Judeo-Christian circles is the story of Creation as told in Genesis--God created everything, the heavens and earth, the oceans and land, etc. in six days and rested on the seventh, and made that the tradition. It is more likely rooted in the lunar cycles, the closest approximation in days between the quarters of the moon's phases, i.e. new, half(first quarter), full, and half(third quarter), then back to new moon again. It isn't exact, but pretty damn close.

Answer 5

here u go.

Blessings
David

The Gregorian solar calendar is an arithmetical calendar. It counts days as the basic unit of time, grouping them into years of 365 or 366 days. The solar calendar repeats completely every 146,097 days, which fill 400 years, and which also happens to be 20871 seven-day weeks. Of these 400 years, 303 (the "common years") have 365 days, and 97 - the leap years - have 366 days. This gives an average year length of exactly 365.2425 days - or 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds.

The motivation of the Catholic Church in adjusting the calendar was to have Easter celebrated at the time that they thought had been agreed to at the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Although a canon of the council implies that all churches used the same Easter, they did not.
The Gregorian calendar improves the approximation made by the Julian calendar by skipping three Julian leap days in every 400 years, giving an average year of 365.2425 mean solar days long, which has an error of about one day per 3300 years with respect to the mean tropical year of 365.24219 days but less than half this error with respect to the vernal equinox year of 365.24237 days. Both are substantially more accurate than the one day in 128 years error of the Julian calendar (average year 365.25 days).

Answer 6

God didnt make seven days a week.
People first saw the each time the moon change shape, Monday was always the start (Moon day) and Since there was a day for the moon, people long ago wanted day for the sun too, thats why at the end of a moon change, its SUNday. This happened somewhere in egypt, I think.

Then they made calenders and the arabs used it, but they named days by numbers.

Then somehow the calender went to eurpoe and they there beleive in Christ and all, and named it as what we call today.

I think people in the old days just like the number seven...its like a blessing or deja vu, you know?

Answer 7

The first pages of the Bible explain how God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. This seventh day became the Jewish day of rest, the sabbath, Saturday. Extra-biblical locations sometimes mentioned as the birthplace of the 7-day week include: Babylon, Persia, and several others.

Answer 8

Good quesiton. Why not eight days in a week?, why not nine!? Well the cycle of sunrise to sundown based on 24-hour intervals is called circadium rythms that is exhibited by many organisms. I truly believe the calender was simply created to suit the needs of business$$, or else we would be living each day like cave man and not on a schedule. But in North America we rely heavily on schedule and "certain" hours. Going back to cave man days each day was enjoyed through circadium rythms for what it was until the next day (from sunrise to sunset) with no schedule and no bookings to fufill the needs of "business men".

Answer 9

Probably because in the christian religion God was supposed to have made the world in seven days. Or rather, he made it in six days and then rested on the seventh day (that's why Sunday is considered a day of rest).

Answer 10

Better yet, why is there 30 days in a month?