whats the definition of ''one day'' in Biblical terms?

Question

many ppl in YA Religion category said '' one day '' in Biblical terms can be a few hundred years


is it true ??

eg Genesis In The Beginning


God created the world in 6 days


many ppl in YA Religion category said '' one day '' in Biblical terms can be a few hundred years


how true is this ??



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Answer 1

there are quite a few interpretations on how long exactly is a 'day' during creation. some say its a 24-hr period. others, few hundred to a few million yrs. u may want to try the following website. it deals with alot of qns regarding creation. it also host writings by Charles spurgeon.

Answer 2

Definition of HELL hell (hµl) n. a million. a. in many cases Hell. The abode of condemned souls and devils in some religions; the situation of eternal punishment for the wicked after dying, presided over via devil. b. A state of separation from God. 2. The abode of the lifeless, pointed out with the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades; the underworld. 3. Hell. Christian technology. Mortal perception; sin or blunders. 4. a. A subject or place of evil, distress, discord, or destruction. b. Torment; discomfort. 5. a. The powers of darkness and evil. b. casual. one that reasons hardship, discomfort, or annoyance. 6. a pointy scolding. 7. casual. exhilaration, mischievousness, or severe spirits. 8. a. A tailor's receptacle for discarded fabric. b. Printing. A hellbox. 9. casual. Used as an extensive. 10. Archaic. A playing abode. --hell intr.v. helled, hell·ing, hells.

Answer 3

I don't mean to offend anyone..
BUT...
The language of Genesis is confusing because it's pretty much just made up nonsense. It is, in essence, the wild imaginations of goat-herders a couple thousand years ago.

When you think about it in that way, the fact that the language is somewhat enigmatic doesn't seem so far fetched.

So, you can struggle to decipher meaning from those ancient scriptures (that you know make zero sense), OR you can just relax and disregard those aspects of the Bible. Every word of the Bible isn't important, frankly.

Answer 4

Day? This flexible use of the word " day " to express units of time of varying lenght is clearly evident in the Genises account of creation. Therein is set forth a week of six creative days followed by a seventh day of rest. The week assigned for observance by the Jews under the Law Covenant given to them by God was a minature copy of that creative week ( Ex 20:8-11

In the Scriptual record the account of each of the six creative days concludes with the statement " And there came to be evening and there came to be morning " a first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth day. ( Gen1:5,8,13,19,23,31 )

The seventh day , however, does not have this ending, indicating
that this period during which God has been resting from his creative works toward the earth , continued on. At Heb 4:1-10 the apostle Paul indicated that God's rest day was still continuing in his generation, and that was more than 4,000 years after the seventh-day rest period began.

This makes it evident that each creative day, or work period, was at least thousands of years in lenth. As a religious encyclopedia
( Vol. 1, p, 613 ) observes: The days of creation were creative days, stages in the process, but not days of twenty-four hours each " -- Edited by Schaff, 1894.


The entire period of the six time units or creative " days " dedicated to the preperation of the planet Earth is summed up in one all-embracing " day " at Gen2:4 " This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of there being created ,
in the "DAY" that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

The apostle Peter writes that one day is with Jehovah as a thousands years and a thousands years as one day. (2Pet 3:8 )
for man , a 1000-year period represents some 365,242 individual
time units of day and night, but to the creator it can be just one unbroken time period in which he begins the carrying out of some
purposeful activity and brings it on to its successful cnclusion, much as a man begins a task in the morning and concludes it by the day's end

Hope this has been of some help, if you need more understanding
feel free to E-mail me.

Sincerely yours,

Fred M. Hunter

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Answer 5

Technically, there were a few days there without any sun or earth (the basic elements for measuring a day) so the first few days of creation could be as long as you like.

Answer 6

Among Christian Theologians it's generally accepted that one day to the Lord is equal to one thousand years to man. Subject to so much debate that anyones conclusions are almost as valid as anyone elses. Religious dogma from various sects will argue this point endlessly.

Answer 7

Yeah, I agree 100% with Buggatron. I would have said basically the same thing, but he beat me too it.

So yes, what Buggatron said is correct.

Answer 8

It's 100% false. Not true at ALL. People say, "Oh, when God said, "one day" He must have meant, "thousands of years." They say this because they believe in God and evolution. They believe that by a day, God means significantly more time, because this is the only way they can squeeze evolution in with God.

Now, Why do people squeeze it in there, and can't seem to anywhere else? Because God says in the Bible, "[To God] A day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day." This means God is outside of time, an illustration for us. This does NOT mean that God literally means that when He says, "day" it means, "thousands of years."

You see, some people believe God used evolution to start life. They do not believe He is all-powerful, or simply want to believe in God and Evoluion. But God is all-powerful. God said all he did was SAY that He created animals, and there were animals. Not, "Let me make creatures and crawling things" and God planted the basic seed of life to start the process of evolution until an evolved."

By the way, Evolution has holes blown in it the size of a mammoth. Non-Christian scientists have actually met to discuss evolution. They didn't all conclude that they believed in God, but they ALL decided that the evidence pointed to intelligent design, and that there was definitely something wrong with the hypothesis of evolution.

Anyway, by creating the world in six days, and resting on the seventh, God was also setting an example for us. He was showing us to work six days of the week, and rest and praise Him on the seventh. (This isn't to say that we should take it to the extreme, like not being able to push elevator buttons or only being able to walk a certain amount of steps in a day.) Just to take that day for rest and recreation.

So, what you heard is completely false. God created the Earth in a LITERAL six days, and a day in the Bible means a LITERAL day.

Hope I helped!