How long was the first day?

Question

It's an accepted fact that there are 24 hours in a day. We know this by the rotation of the planet and the rising and setting of the sun. For all of those who take the bible as a historical document opposed to a proposed way of life; if the sun wasn't created on the first or second day, how can we assume that the time before was equal to the time after? Can you really rule out the possibility of that time being say, 10 million years, if the very thing that which you measure time with didn't exsist yet?

Answer 1

There's no actual way to tell how long that first "day" was, so it could have been 3 billion years for all we know.

Answer 2

Actually as the moon moves away from the Earth it is slowing the rotation. The day used to be as short as 18 hours. Geologists can tell this from the rocks that were created in the tidal pools. The fact that the moon is moving away about a foot a year has been confirmed by bouncing a laser off a mirror left by the Apollo missions. And the math will tell you how much this would slow the rotation. It all checks out.

Answer 3

Each day of creation had to be the same lenght. Why would you have 100 year day then a 24 hour day. Every day of creation had to be 24 hours long: not a thousand years, not 100 days, but 24 hours. That verse that says one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day is saying that there is no time limit to God. God is in no time realm. If saying each day was a thousand years on the third day God created grass and plants BUT he did not create the sun, the moon, or the stars until the fourth day. Plants can survive up to 24 hours away from sunlight but a thousand years is unheard of.

So to answer your question it was probably 24 hours.

Answer 4

But remember that God made the plants the day before He made the Sun. If it were not a 24 hour day all the plants would have died.

There was no one alive on earth to know what it looked like, but there was light and dark.

Answer 5

The day consists of "evening" and "morning". The dark part, and the light part. If it were dark for 100 years things would be a bit weird.

Answer 6

Dude, do you know how many translations or meanings on a word or a sentence that a Christian can give you? I sometimes don't understand how they translate one word or one sentence into something 1 or 2 pages long ;)

Answer 7

I think it lasted for less than a second according to God's time

Answer 8

then why did the "infallable" scripture say "day," and not "eon" (still not accurate but closer to scale) or "a number of days [years/whatever] beyond counting"?

doesn't work for me, but I respect the effort on your part. My goal is to add thought, not to derail.

Answer 9

You know, I just don't see how it can possibly matter how long the first day was.

It was just long enough not not one second longer.

Answer 10

I'd say that the first day was as long as God wanted it to be...be sure to ask him in heaven.