How did God make the damn Earth in 7 days when you need a whole Earth to make a day?

Question

The Earth rotates in 24 hours to make a day.

Without the Earth being in existence, you cannot say something took a day, because there was no Earth to create the day.

I believe that this metaphore reflects the fact that God created Earth in what would be equivalent to seven days to "God".

It's all relative, seven days to God could be 7 billion years to man-kind's perception of time.

Just as 24 hours is a day to humans, 24 hours is 100 years or a lifetime to a fruit fly. It's relative... so, tell me how God made the Earth in 7 days before the Earth was completed to be able to actually make a day?

Is it 7 Earth days? Or 7 days to God (billions of years to us perhaps)?

Answer 1

a day of god is equal to 1000 days of human. 7 days means 7000 years so we should check howlong it did take earth to be earth with the help of sience. ı dont konow if there is any explanations about it by science but most probably they will find same answer.
and we can not know why he did cretae it in seven days why not a moment? then we have to ask why he make babies in 9 months why he dont send them in a moment to the earth. everything has an explanations but you know we dont have enough researchs about these things because we have to spend the money to the war-gun-luxury....etc.

by the way what will it prove to you ? one day or seven days.

Answer 2

With a godly instrument, he poked a star and there was the big bang. The sun was created, then the planets and all those rocks floating around in the universe.
All that happened in 7 days according to the bible which is written by man.
7 days could mean 7 seconds to God and the person who wrote 7 "days" could have misinterpret what God was trying to say.

Take a balloon for example. Fill it with air, take a pin and pop it. How fast did the explosion took? very very fast! how many millisecond? and that was just the big bang. Then the formation of planets, new stars and all those in the universe followed after that big bang.

So therefore i agree that.. yeap.. roughly 7 days the whole thing was created. I mean 7 twenty-four hours. 7 complete earth rotations. 1 week.

Answer 3

It could be that God made it in 7 Earth days, knowing how long one Earth day would be. Or it could be a metaphore. And it would seem as if there are two "begining"s of the world in Genesis.

But does it really matter? The Earth is here. It still is an interesting question, though.

Answer 4

Things that we normally cannot fathom are nothing to God's infinite knowledge & wisdom.I believe that those 7 days of creation were literal 24 hour days as we know them,the reason is this,after each creation for each day it says that there was a night and there was a morning,that it was so & so day(1rst,scnd or third day),a night & a morning are what our days made of .You have to notice also that vegetation was created before the sun,plants can last a few days without the sun but not billions of years,so those days must have been literal 24 hr days.

Answer 5

I'd say you're right - further proof that not everything in the Bible should be taken so literally:

"I believe in what has been called the "day-age" interpretation of Genesis one - that is, that each "day" is actually a long period of time during which God created life. This interpretation is not figurative in any way, but adheres to the scientific method in its analysis of the biblical texts. At its foundation is a literal translation of the Hebrew word, yom, which can mean a twelve hour period of time, a twenty-four hour period of time, or a long, indefinite period of time. The biblical basis for the translation of the word yom as long periods of time follow:
Literal translations of the Hebrew word, yom, like our English word "day," can refer to a 24 hour day, sunrise to sunset (12 hours), or a long, unspecified period of time (as in "the day of the dinosaurs"). The Hebrew word ereb, translated evening also means "sunset," "night" or "ending of the day." The Hebrew word boqer, translated morning, also means "sunrise," "coming of light," "beginning of the day," or "dawning," with possible metaphoric usage (1). Our English expression: "The dawning of an age" serves to illustrate this point. This expression in Hebrew could use the word, boqer, for dawning, which, in Genesis 1, is often translated morning."

And this:

"In Genesis, there seems to be a dispute on WHEN the earth began. In Gen. Chapter 1, there's a word in the Hebrew, "YOM," that seems controversial among scientists. Is "Yom" a literal 24 hour day or does it mean "A period of time"?

The word can mean both, depending on context. For example, take a look at the text of the ISV's current unpublished draft of Genesis 1:1-2:6, in which the word "yom" may connote a literal day in Genesis chapter one, but where "yom" clearly cannot connote a literal day in Genesis 2:4b:"

Yes, context IS everything.

Answer 6

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Everything else happened after he created the earth and the void covered in darkness started making days

Answer 7

The "decrease" apes from which guy developed did no longer stay to tell the tale; they are all extinct. No present day ape gave upward push to guy. guy is descended from an ape ancestor that lived six million years in the past and gave upward push to to strains, one maximum acceptable to people, the different maximum acceptable to the favorite apes. present day guy arose sixty 5 million years after the final non-avian dinosaurs died. that doesn't qualify as "presently," and there replaced into no era of co-existence. residing communities of chipanzees practice the comparable style of aggression that guy does. Chimps in one team will without problems kill chimps in yet another team. now and back a chimp in a residing team will kill yet another member of its comparable team, basically like people now and back do. the clarification for the tip-of-Cretaceous extinction experience is easily-understood. An asteroid approximately six miles in diameter struck interior the sea basically off the tip of the Yucutan Peninsula, leaving a huge scar, now noted as Chicxulub Crater, approximately a hundred and twenty miles throughout.

Answer 8

God figured this out after the fact. After he finished the Earth, he watched it rotate for awhile and then after it spun around completely about six times, he said to himself "gee, this thing spun six times in about the same amount of time it took me to make it." He put this in the Bible because he knew it would be in terms that we could understand. I'm sure he has like a master God stopwatch device that keeps track of time in terms of God's schedule - but we couldn't relate to that concept of time.

Answer 9

Hey Jon, that's why HE is a mysterious God. You can't just interpret every thing you find in the bible literally, it is not literature at all.
2 Timothy 3 vs 16-17: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

You don't refer to it as normal books we read, so leave that for God.

Answer 10

You are not the first to make this argument, read the closing arguments of Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial.