Christians, If god created the world in 7 days...?

Question

then why do weren't humans around over four billion years ago when the earth was?

i believe man because man has evidence and god only has a book

Answer 1

The largest Christian denomination in the world believes in evolution. The first people to reject a literal 7-day creation were Christians (in the 2nd century), and the first people to suggest the concept of evolution were Christians (in the Byzantine empire). Darwin was still a Christian when he formulated the theory of natural selection. Are you talking to all Christians, or just the minority of Christians (mostly American) who still believe in creationism?

Answer 2

In the original Hebrew rendition of the Book of Genesis, the word "days" in this instance is actually a phrase used in many other places throughout the Old Testament to describe an indefinitely long period of time, or an age. This is in accordance with the Old Earth theories that are much more scientifically sound than the English-translation of a literal 7-day week. What many Christian opponents of Old Earth theory do not know, is that Bible does not contradict scientific support for this idea.

Answer 3

I don't really understand your question, but, the earth was not created in 7 "literal days," they were 7 "creative days." In the bible, a day as perceived by humans is totally different from a day in God's eyes. Compare 2 Peter 3:8

Answer 4

Think about this: days are something humans experience by being on a planet with a sun circling around it. Presumably, God was not ON the planet while he was creating it, so "days" don't really come into play here.

Like all creation myths, it's just a tool to help you understand. We understand days. Being outside the universe and not subject to understandable, bite-sized chunks of time is not something we're prepared to grasp. If the model doesn't help you, throw it away.

Answer 5

God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th.

Answer 6

Forever-I think it's more about believing in SCIENCE than in the god that man created.

That's not to say there's no god. Just that the popular one is man made.

Answer 7

ok, study Genesis a million and you will see that that's actually 6 days... and confident they have been 6 days in simple terms as you and that i could think of of them... that 24hour-ish era we call an afternoon. The seventh day is the day He rested, that's why He gave the Jews a Sabbath... or a holy day of relax. something else they gained't actually admit to in public faculties is that the cost of sunshine isn't consistent. it is likewise a relative and variable speed. while making the calculations of the distances of stars from the earth, they provide the effect of being like hundreds of thousands of sunshine years away, while they probable are not. We anticipate the cost of sunshine would not substitute in area, whether all of us understand gravity impacts it and that once meditated it actually will strengthen in speed. bypass determine, we are able to manage the cost of sunshine without changing the medium it is going by way of. To make amends for irregularities of what's fairly reported interior the process the telescope, we could desire to consistently substitute the way we expect of related to the universe. The theories of dark remember and dark potential come into play. We see by way of a telescope in one area of the Galaxy 2 stars which seem to be too close. something could desire to save them from crashing into one yet another or doing something which we don't see happening... dark remember/potential. yet another extra available thought is to assert that the cost of sunshine actually slows down over the years and that from that's unique source is fairly plenty speedier than what we have faith it to be... calculate prevalent phenomenon like redshifts and blueshifts and we actually do choose a clean style to stipulate our universe. luckily, there are various creationist and non-creationist scientist which do no longer settle for our modern style which we use to signify the prevalent universe... they have started out paintings in this over 10 years in the past and that i've got yet to hearken to something, yet aparently the two aspects are cooking up something solid as a results of fact neither component likes the present dark remember/potential style. that's meant to be a style that's so radical that it is going to likely be like the days a helo-centric universe style challenged the geo-centric style. regrettably, i've got not been able to looking something new in simple terms yet. one subject i understand is the Bible is real and precise. ultimately all sciences will come to a minimum of one end... there's a God and He made us approximately 6,000 years in the past... genetics and geology already vouch for this on a extensive point.

Answer 8

The 7days theory is not reffering t original creation but to a replenishing period. That's what they don't overstand.

Answer 9

No wonder the world is a crappy place......how can you get quality out of 7 days of work? It takes years of planning and building to have something fully complete. lol

Answer 10

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I believe the bible said 6 days...on the 7th god rested.
He was very tired from "poofing" everything into existance.