Couldn't he just, you know, blink it into existence all at once?
this question especially for those that argue that 'god days' don't equal 'human days' in the Genesis myth or something.
2007-03-22 01:01:06 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Christianity tends to downplay the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent qualities of god. I believe in god, just not theirs. In fact, these 3 qualities are part of what makes me NOT believe in Christianity. Christians have a hard time understanding that I believe in god, but not theirs. They say, "Well, there's only one god!" True, maybe... but does that mean he's the one you believe in?
If an omnipotent god created the earth, it could have taken no effort whatsoever. Hence the fact that I don't believe god needs us to "follow" or "glorify" him.
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I love the "God took his time creating perfection" answer. Perfection? Look around you. Do you see perfection? The world is amazing, and beautiful. And human beings are amazing creatures with enough power to do good and/or bad all at once. But it's FAR from perfect. And you will argue that human beings themselves created alll the imperfections. But if God had created perfection in the beginning, there would be no way for humans to distort it.
2007-03-22 06:09:55 · answer #1 · answered by Godfather76 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question attempts to draw a correlation between omnipotence and time. Indeed, you seem to be trying to redefine the word omnipotent. It simply means almighty, all-powerful. There is nothing inherent in this word to connect it to time. Put another way, one might say that if God is omnipotent, it should not take him "six days" to create. That is not the definition of omnipotence.
Of course, the Genesis account does not say it took six days to create everything. Genesis 1:1 says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. That does not say six days, does it? The days have to do with preparation of earth for habitation.
And even if God could blink it into existence, your next question would probably be, well, why did he have to blink? Couldn't he just, you know, think it?
Hannah J Paul
2007-03-22 01:08:25 · answer #2 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
The word 'day' in Genesis is a bit of a mistranslation. The word used in Hebrew is 'Yom' which only means day if it is preceded by the appropriate modifier. Depending on the modifier used it can mean a variety of different lengths of time.
In Genesis 1 the word 'Yom' is used without a modifier. If I remember correctly this is the only place in the Bible where this occurs. So given that Moses, while very well educated for his time, was still a nomadic shepherd from a culture that had no concept of a number as big as a 'billion' he did the best job he could describing the beginning of everything.
Just throwing a little more blood in the water here.
2007-03-22 03:06:15 · answer #3 · answered by LX V 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
He could have taken as long or as short as He wanted. He just chose to take six days.
As far as God days and human days, the word for day in Gensis 1 in the original language is "yom." In Hebrew yom 98% of the time refers to a 24 hour day, and the other 2 percent of the time referes to a short period (up to 7 years). When yom has the modifier of an ordinal ("on the first day...on the second day...etc.) it always means a 24 hour day. Finally, when yom is modified by "there was night and then there was morning" it always means 24 hour days.
So, if you look at the original Hebrew of Genesis 1 it very clearly states that Creation took six 24 hour Earth days.
2007-03-22 01:11:57 · answer #4 · answered by Joel S 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well when you are all-powerful, and have an eternity on your hands, if you created the most spectacular universe in the blink of an eye you would have little more to do. By spacing it out, he had time to enjoy each phase.
2007-03-22 01:06:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No not at all, I can answer that question, but will you just dismiss it out of hand?
Anyway, God did so to set an example for us, Yes, He could make it all at once.
To work six days and rest on the 7th,
But you wont listen, your heart is seared against God, any explanation given you will just laugh at, so why do you even bother asking, all you wish to do is attack the faith out of hatred and bias and cover it up by calling it "trying to enlighten you" garbage
2007-03-22 01:15:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I haven't found the origin of the six days story yet. One day I will be able to answer that question.
2007-03-22 14:19:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, the union rule states that no universe can be created in less than 6 days.
2007-03-22 01:15:17 · answer #8 · answered by lunatic 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
because of the fact because of the fact the Artist of all Artists, He took His time to place His personalized effect on each little thing. If He had chosen, He would have snapped Him hands and had all seem directly. yet, like a number of discern, He took His time arranging the "nursery" for His toddlers.
2016-10-01 07:54:05 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to the bible a day in heaven is like 1000 years so some people think that God took 6000 years to create the Earth. You maek a valid point I guess he wanted to create the earth in 6 days
2007-03-22 01:05:18 · answer #10 · answered by ♫Rock'n'Rob♫ 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋