Is a litteral week of creation impossble?

Question

I think the majority of Christians don't believe in a litteral week of creation. They think that scientific facts show that we had an evolution that took millions of years. Does someone know of any scientifically proved fact that inevitably says that living beings are the result of a long time evolution and that proves a literal week of creation impossible?

Answer 1

If you say that a literal week (24 hour days) creation is impossible then you are saying that God cannot do it. With God ALL things are possible. Why limit God's capabilities??

The passage containing the most serious implications in this matter, however, is Exodus 20:11. By announcing: “For in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is...,” the Bible makes it clear that the entirety of God’s earthly creation was brought into existence during those six days. The apostle John added that “all things were made by Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (John 1:3). If God created the Earth, the heavens, the seas, and everything in them in six days, what does that omit? It omits absolutely nothing! Add to that the statements found in Genesis 1:31 and 2:1, and the case is strengthened considerably. In Genesis 1:31, as He surveyed everything He had made, God proclaimed it “very good”—the Hebrew phrase representing completion and perfection. In Genesis 2:1, He then stated that the creation was “finished,” indicating an action once and for all completed, not continuing into the future.

The information thus presented may be summarized as follows: (a) God created everything in six days; (b) that creation was complete and perfect; and (c) the creation was finished. The implications of this teaching are clear. According to the Genesis record, no animals were created before day five, at which time God created sea-dwelling creatures and birds (Genesis 1:20-23). On day six (Genesis 1:24-25), God created the “creeping things” and “beasts of the earth”.

Answer 2

Actually the day part of the translation into english is the confusing part. The literal hebrew word translated day actually refers to unspecified period of time. Another words the day would end when God declared that everything that was created was just so. That is why using actually chronology found in the bible we can see that we are actually still living in the seventh creative day according to the account in genesis it hasn't ended. The bad part about the English Language and Bible translation is that English is not as descriptive as the languages it is translated from Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic. For example in the Christian Greek scriptures English is translated the Love just one way. However in Greek there are four different types of love that can be used. Is something does not make sense in the bible normally there is a good reason why, the creative days are a good example of this. Just looking at the light from stars we see at night would take millions of light years just to reach us, that sounds a little longer than one week of time. It is also longer than the 6000 years someone else mentioned. But fits perfectly with an indefinite time period that the original hebrew used. Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Days do not have to be 24 hrs. or 6,000 yrs. They can be much longer. The Bible seems to indicate they were 7,000 yrs. each. Plus there was no indication how long a time there was between the days. It says only one day ended. Another day began.

When someone builds furniture, they work on it and glue it. Then they go away for drying time. But, they come back to do more work, applying stain and finish and go away for drying. The point is the in between time is not counted as work time or day. the same could be said of the creative days. Science tells us it took many centuries for the planets to cool and congeal.

Answer 4

If God created the universe (which I believe), then He can do anything He wants. Including making the world in six literal days.

After all, He created the light before an object was created to display the light. To man, this sounds impossible, but with God, it is something He spoke into existence.

Answer 5

Who created that time line?

The length of the day has continued to change through Earth's history and the concept of time is man made for which man invented measuring devices and definitions. Indeed time changes constantly and each leap year another second is added to the atomic clock to keep it correct as the year gets infinitesimally longer.

Therefore fundamentalists and ideologues who insist on six days and a day of rest just lack the mental ability to realise they are thinking in today's time, not the time spans prevalent at the beginning and certainly not God's time. They simply lack the brain cells to think outside of a locked box!

Answer 6

No. God can do anything in an instant, but He exists outside time, so why should he have had to keep track of how long it really took from an earth perspective? There is no proof but that which is found in scripture, the WORD of God.

Answer 7

science itself shows that.

go to talkorigins. org.

light from stars over 20 million light years away takes 20 million years to get here. If we can see this light, it means the earth is older than a few thousand years.

Answer 8

Yes! All things are possible with God. Of course, that doesn't mean He did it in 6 days.......but, He could have.

Answer 9

That's a good question. If it was "6000 years to God", then why does the Bible say six days?

Answer 10

It is not impossible with God as the Creator.