Why was the universe created in six days?

Question

I mean, if he's omnipotent, couldn't he have created it in like, a second. Or at least four and a half days or like, two days?

Was there supposed to be a reason God took so long?

Answer 1

he was on spring break

Answer 2

And how do you know the six days wasn't six million years, or 60 million years, which felt like a very short time to an omnipotent God? After all, time is relative if you have no beginning and no end. Remember, when there was no earth and sun, there was also no day. Man wrote the Bible many thousands of years after the event as well, so you have to take the literal meaning and the logistical meaning in context.

Answer 3

Yes, why six days? Like bubbles in a cosmic ocean, countless universes reside like seeds within the skin pores of the Lord, and when He exhales, they all are manifest at once. And creates, maintains and destroys, all the countless Universes without any effort.

Answer 4

God could've created the universe in a fraction of a second, but He created it in six days!! Well, the scholars interpret that as indication to the human beings that they should not perform their own works in hurry. Rather they should exercise patience and care because impatience may cause damages to their work.

Answer 5

It wasn't created in six days because it has always been, this is just another exaggerated story that simply dose not exist, man simply cannot comprehend the age of our earth or the universe, God is and always will be, we simply cannot understand that concept, we truly are smaller than a grain of sand in this vast universe, and with a brain that functions on speculation, interpretation, myths, and heresay, we really have no knowledge of Gods kingdome or his creation.

Answer 6

Your answer is in Exodus 20:11. According to that passage, God rested to give us a model so we would rest on the 7th day as He did. You are most assuredly correct in that God could have done it all in 6 seconds if He wanted. Here's the passage and here is Exodus 20:8-11:

20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Answer 7

Because that is how long God wanted it to take. If he wanted it to take a second, then he would have made it in a second. If he wanted it to take four days or two days then he would have made it in four days or two days.

And it shows that we are supposed to work 6 days and have the 7th day off.

Answer 8

hence the reason why anyone says that it was six actual days is really demeaning and insulting G-d.

the six days are symbolic.

if the fact that vegetation was created before the sun dose not tell you that I have nothing I can say.

Answer 9

It wasn't a literal six days as we know them, but six creative days according to God's time.

Answer 10

Because if he worked for seven days he would'nt have a day to rest. Even God needs a break once in a while.

Answer 11

That's what the union stipulates, creation of the universe is a 6 day job with overtime.