Being God created the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh day, when did the calendar come into being, before or after the Bible?
2007-05-14 03:57:41 · 12 answers · asked by reverendrichie 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Before. The Egyptians particularly had a very good grasp of science. They used a calendar which consisted of 12 months of 30 days each (360 days). However, they also had a myth in which a naughty woman had an affair with the wrong man and was punished by being cursed so that she could not have her baby during any month of the year. (And for those of you who have been pregnant, being stuck in your ninth month forever would be torture.) Finally, one of the other gods took pity on her and added five more days to the year in which she could give birth. Thus the Egyptians used a 365-day calendar.
Literalists are not going to particularly like this answer, but the Old Testament is a collection of oral stories that includes mythology and history. Stories were often developed to explain the unexplainable, and even though, the stories may not be literally true they may contain certain truths.
To simplify, the world was created before the Bible. Accurate calendars were developed by pre-Mesopotamina cultures, such as the Egyptians.
2007-05-14 04:11:57 · answer #1 · answered by Barbara C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which calendar? The rising and setting of the sun has been tracked and used as a measurement for time for millennia. Do you mean a written calendar? Or just the basic distinguishing of different days? Or are you specifically talking about a calendar with a seven day week?
2007-05-14 04:02:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before the Bible, for they used a lunar canlender to know the days to plant and harvest. the Bible did not exsist as a whole until after the the apsotles wrote, it and compiled it. It was just a bunch of difrent scrolls painsakingly scribe or verbally passed down through the ages.
2007-05-14 04:04:10 · answer #3 · answered by Cookyduster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The calendar was in existence long before the Bible was written.
2007-05-14 04:02:22 · answer #4 · answered by Maverick 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Calender came first...but days were always in existence. So "creation" could still happen in a certain amount of time and still be the same with out an actual calender.
2007-05-14 04:45:44 · answer #5 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After creation, but before the Bible was started by Moses' writings.
2007-05-14 04:03:40 · answer #6 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the calendar came first. the calendar came into play in ancient roman times and ancient egyptian times before christianity even came known.
2007-05-14 04:02:19 · answer #7 · answered by Stephanie P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which part of the Bible?
The Ol' Hippie Jesus Freak
Grace and Peace
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2007-05-14 04:01:31 · answer #8 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the calender came first because God rules in the affairs of men so man had to be doing something.....
2007-05-14 07:49:29 · answer #9 · answered by sweet sensation 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am pretty sure the calender was first.
However, It was different in all parts of the world, and it is not how we know it today
2007-05-14 04:02:05 · answer #10 · answered by chersa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋