Does anyone honestly believe that Earth was created in 7 days?

Question

wow, i hit the 7 key instead of 6. the bi(b)le must be right!!

which is more ridiculous: 6 or 7?

Answer 1

Six days, and yes a lot of people honestly believe that. Scary, no?

As you can see, some justify their absurd belief by suggesting that God's concept of a day is different from ours. This is despite the fact that a day is objectively measured as the time it takes the earth to spin on its axis.

Answer 2

It was 6 day and actually there is no other way for creation to start unless it all came togeither in a very short time frame. All of the earths many individual systems are actually co-dependant on other existing systems so in face they can't exist over great times spans because of the co-dependance of the systems. Example: The majority of the seeds on the earth today require a animal host to fertalize them. And a large number require that the seed be germinated in the stomic of the host animal before the seed will yeild crops. Thus you can't have the plants and then millions of years latter the animals because they are a co-dependant system. This is just one example there are thousands of examples just like that. There is a nature order on the earth to every thing. Water falls from the sky then it is used to bring nutrients to the grasslands then the heat and the light. Once again take the water into the sky were it does all this again. In evoluation this system will not work. If the earth is all water then rain will stop the planet will cool and no life will actually exist because the system becomes unbalanced. The sea will become to acid for life. As there is no land the earth would drop in some 14C and the chemeristy of the earth will not allow life period. Like i said the earth had to be created in a very short time frame.

Answer 3

Do you honestly believe that a big bang created life and intelligence?

For a believer, it is not unthinkable to assume that the account of Genesis is literal. If one believes in God at all, and that He is eternal, unlimited, then not only could He create the world in 6 days, He could create it instantly.

He does not require time to do anything. If you look at the account of genesis and understand where the "week" came from and why God chose to create/work for 6 days and rest on the 7th, God can use time to set an example for us, not becuase He requires it Himself.

So the genesis account provides no problem for a believer that believes in an eternal God. Nothing is impossible for God.

A day to the Lord is like a thousand years and a thousands years like a day. God is not dependant on time, He is outside of time. We however are, as we are creatures and live by time, we have a beginning and an end. God does not. We are born and die, God cannot be born or die.

To try and fathom this from a limited human perspective is impossible. But what I find more hard to fathom is the idea that nothing can come from nothing, and that chance random process, and a series of mistakes coming from what ever matter we are told it came from, manages somehow to create life and the intelligence for life to unfold - the genetic code must have evolved too? How does anything reproduce unless it has the information in the first place in order for reproduction to take place? Where does the information for life begin come from, as it requires intelligence in order to create a world that has order, seasons and life forms, food and the things to sustain us.

The more you consider the evolution theory, the more bizzare it becomes. So if you laugh at the idea of intelligent design, you would have to laugh harder at the idea of unintelligent design. Where is the intelligence in an explosion? Have you seen order come from disorder? Since when does an explosion produce anything else other than a mess?

Answer 4

No. 6

Answer 5

No. The earth was created in the beginning not in 7 days (Genesis 1:1)

Answer 6

6 CREATIVE days. Yes. Which were eons long. Humans weren't around yet to talk about day and night, and for some of the days, the proper rotation of the earth probably hadn't begun yet. It was written from the standpoint of if there was an observer on earth.

The Hebrew, when Moses wrote of the Seventh day, used the "imperfective" tense of the verb for "resting".

Any language that uses an imperfective verb, well, this can mean that the action is still ongoing.

Let me give you an example. I speak Russian also, and Russian has the perfective and imperfective tense of their verbs. If I watned to say: "I have been speaking with my wife" for speaking, I would use the imperfective verb to show continuous action. That is, ga-va-REET'. But if I wanted to say I spoke with my wife, I would use the perfected verb, which is completely different. Instead of changing, as we do, the word for speak into spoke, I would use a different word. The perfected tense of "speak" ska-ZAHT. Meaning I spoke with her.

Moses used an IMPERFECTIVE verb when saying that God has been resting on the seventh day. In other words, Moses wrote that God is STILL resting on the 7th day. (It's also neccessary to note what the Bible teaches it means by Resting. Remember, Hebrew is a very poeticly concrete language in it's construction)

Some translations put vs 3 "And God proceeded to bless the seventh day and make it sacred, because on it he has been resting from all his work that God has created for the purpose of making.": HAS BEEN RESTING. In other words, the creative day is very long. The apostle Paul wrote that in his time, we were still in that 7th creative rest day.

But yes, in 6 creative days, of eons long, he made the earth ready for man (Though from Genesis 1:1; it was already here)

Answer 7

Yes there are people who sincerely believe with all their heart this is how long it took for the entire universe to be created. There are also those that believe that 7 days is a metaphor for a much longer period since "God" is omnipresent and days are irrelevant.

I do not believe either way.

Answer 8

Created in 6 days and God rested on the Seventh day. I honestly believe that and I am so impressed with His creation.

We should follow His example a lot more. New Year's Day could be a start. Resting, Meditating on God's Word and more importantly praying and listening to Him.

God Bless You and Happy New Year.

Answer 9

Depends on your definition of a day. We view a day as one period of light and dark. But if the sun was not created on the first day, who is to say what a day was back then. I believe the earth was created in seven periods (one of which was a period of rest), refereed to as days because it is the easiest way to explain than saying, well this took three hundred years and that took seventy five. We see things as is easiest to see them.

Answer 10

2 Peter 3:8–9 reads:
‘But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."

So 7 days in Gods time would be atleast 7,000 years our time.