If God created the world in seven actual days..?

Question

Then why so long?

A deity that is omnipotent could create a universe in less then seven seconds. Seven days seems too long.

Also how could there be days before a sun?

Answer 1

"If God created the world in seven actual days..?"

No, six days to be precise...

Answer 2

There was light before the sun. The question how could there be days before the sun is completely irrelevant because God having the power and ability to create the sun. Would have the power and ability to use the presun light to act as day and night.

You are right time (not timing though) is irrelevant to God. He exists outside of time and space. He has to because he created it.

But think about what 7 days is. It's our week. Days, months, years are astronomical observations. The week is not. God took seven days to teach us our week work for six and rest of the seventh.

Good question one is commonly asked. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

okay first the sun was created before the days began.

next god's omnipotence is not called to question in the seven days. im sure he could make it in less time but he chose to so thats it then.

but more importantly i doubt the whole story is meant to be taken literal. story telling is an important way to view genesis. the bible was pass down from generation to generation.

now let me take you back, it sounded like this.

long ago, god set out to make the earth. he created the sun and all this stuff and that was the first day on earth.

its not meant to be a list of facts, its a flowing story.

Answer 4

If you choose to take it literally, then it's 7 days. But if, however, you really look at the metaphorical side of it, the 7 does not necessarily have to mean "days" at all. it could simply mean 7 steps in the creation process.........and that still does place logical emphasis on the world being formed and structured in a certain order, as the scientists would agree. And even if the 7 is symbolic of a time period, what is 7 days in God's time might just be millions of years by human time.

Answer 5

Well, it was 6 days. *wink* He rested on the 7th. (I know, smartass answer). But I have to agree.. an all powerful deity should be able to simply create the whole thing in the blink of an eye.

Good point... it also says he created the plants before there was sunlight. If you read the 1st chapter it says God created the Light and said it was good, then a couple of days later created the sun, moon and stars. What was that 1st light if it wasn't the sun?

Answer 6

First, you cannot compare those 7 days with 7 days of today. Second, everything God does, has a clear logic - the events had to have a sequence and to describe the sequence He describes them in periods (called days for our ease of understanding). The logic is more apparent when you map the periods with major changes in the evolution of universe as described by science (Big Bang then Gaseos clouds, then cooling down then formation of planets then formation of water and then life). So He created the universe under certain principles and framework which human beings can discover and use to innovate their own stuff.
I have tried to capture a lengthy topic in one paragraph to ensure people dont get bored with details - if you are interested, there are a number books/study material available that helps in making the connection (and trust me, it makes a lot of sense).
Hope this helps.

Answer 7

God is unborn, that is "for God there is no past, present and future". The spiritual world does not grow, age, or die. Therefore, time is a concept of the material world only.

Now, the creator deity is a mortal being whom will also die at the desolution of the material world. He is the God whom took 6 days to create the world, and one day of rest. The only question to ask is "how long is one day for the creator deity?". It doesn't say 6 earth days' does it?

The lesson from this passage is that one should work for 6/7th of your time, and rest for 1/7th of it.

Answer 8

-God could have done it in a split second-why He chose 6 days will remain a mystery until the end.
-Days before the sun? Whats your point? He created light before the sun. The sun is "not" light, it does give off light as it burns. Plants could live quiet a while without the sun-one day would not be a problem for plants.

Answer 9

They were time periods, not actual days like we know them. He did these things described systematically. He made everything by gathering matter. It was done this way so non-believers could speculate how it could happen naturally. This way even the existance of it all wouldn't be proof enough for some. If we all had proof of everything, there would be no room for faith and therefore no reason to come here to be tested.

Answer 10

To cling on to a stubborn belief that the Bible is completely literal in a matter we know it cannot be stands in the way of spirituality rather than heightening it. It does nothing to spread Jesus' message or give more credit to God. It is a form of Bible worship that distracts from the real spiritual aspect of Judaism and Christianity.

Answer 11

sorry but yeah i think you are wrong, the stories in the first part of the old testament were not written down as such, like a diary or journal each day as things happened. no, they were passed down generation after generation around the campfires and on long hunts until someone recorded them, currently believed to be moses or his scribe and by then the story of course had changed many times as had the time and space perception.

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