Who ever said that one of God's days is 24 hours? It could be that his day lasts for millenia, right?
2007-04-01 15:30:25 · 8 answers · asked by Cave Dweller 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If someone believes that he's a Christian, he has to believe that the Bible's use of "Day" was a 24 hr. day. The Bible clearly teaches that Adam's sin brought pain, suffering and death into the world. Before Adam sinned, according to the Bible, nothing died.
If you accept the evolutionary theory, that the world is 4.6 billion years old and life started three billion years ago, than you have pain, suffering and death coming before sin, which is contrary to Biblical teaching.
Jesus promised that one day He would return to restore the Earth back to the way it was in the Garden of Eden. If you believe evolution, that was a time of death and sickness.
Anywhere in the Bible, when it talks about days, and it's modified by a number, such as one day or two days, or has the words evening and morning, it always means a 24 hr. day.
2007-04-01 15:37:59 · answer #1 · answered by ted.nardo 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God's time is not as human time. Having said that, the Bible states that the Creation of the entire cosmos (universe) took place in six days. It is clear from the context that these were literal days, not figurative. Experts have failed to build a biblically-defensible case otherwise.
Moses writes:
Exodus 20:11 - "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it."
According to Genesis, the sun, moon, and stars were made on the fourth day of the creation week. There have been many attempts to stretch the creation days into vast periods of time in order to accommodate Scripture with secular science. However, the problem is not with Scripture, but with our attempts to rationalize and understand the creation week, something that cannot be done by finite minds! There are many details of God's creative plan that simply cannot be compromised with current scientific opinion.
2007-04-01 22:47:34 · answer #2 · answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So what do you make of the SIX times the Genesis 1 text says, "Evening and morning, the Nth Day"?
Don't you think that God has already told us SIX times how long the day is? Evening and morning constitutes one day! How else do you think God should tell us then? Specify that it is 24 hours? For people who refuse to take God's Word seriously they would then ask, "How you know that God's hour is the same as ours?" The ONLY reason why anyone would doubt that it is an ordinary earth day is because they have already sold out to evolutionary theory. They have trusted in the fallible opinions of men who wasn't there and does not know everything, instead of God who was there and knows everything and told us how He made everything.
2007-04-01 23:00:27 · answer #3 · answered by Seraph 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not? If God can create the earth in 6000 years or 6 days, what difference would it make? Who would we be appeasing? Does it make creation more acceptable? It doesn't. Evolution will never fit the biblical model. They cover their shortcomings with time, and lots of it. That way no one will ever see a live example of it. Their faith is as great as ours.
When days are used in other scripture they refer to just that - days. Just stick to what all early church people believed and taught.
2007-04-01 22:55:59 · answer #4 · answered by JohnFromNC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because it makes sense when he created plants (on day three) before he created the sun (day four).... don't the plants need the sun for photosynthesis to happen? If a millennium or even a decade or even a year was the case, there would be no reproducing plants to speak of
2007-04-01 22:36:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is not the problem though....
Evolution says death brought man into the world.
Bible says that man brought death into the world.
I also, do take that time literal. Because throughout the Bible it says in six days. All throughout.
2007-04-01 22:35:17 · answer #6 · answered by Chris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Sir I don't know where you get the Idea Christians take it literally creation can be 7 thousand years and he is not finished with us at all.
2007-04-01 22:35:41 · answer #7 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That has never been an issue to me when deciding if I follow Jesus or not.
However, I believe that God is all powerful and He can do everything what is His nature. : )
2007-04-01 22:37:53 · answer #8 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋