why did it take him 6 days to create everything? shouldn't he have been able to just snap his fingers and everything would be done? what's even more interesting is when people try to defend the young earth theory and say, "well, in the bible it says one day was like a thousand years." so instead of 6 days it was actually more like 6000 years for creation to take place? isn't that sort of limiting what god says he did even more? if he said one day, shouldn't we take him at his word?
2007-06-06 18:25:21 · 20 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think they say that so they can believe it was all done by an invisible man in the sky and they can argue with science.
They love the stories of the Bible and take them so literally!!
or...
it's very difficult for an invisible man in the sky to snap His fingers?
2007-06-06 18:31:18 · answer #1 · answered by gawd0 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hey J.C., God didn't even have to snap His fingers He simply SPOKE and it came to be.
You know, if you were an artist, you would take your time to create a nice picture, enjoying the process and the result. You wouldn't just rush from one production to the next. I believe God is an artist and He enjoyed creating the earth-- a bit at a time. Because it says in the Genesis record that He said it was good. He enjoyed making all that He made-- stepped back and looked at it with pleasure-- and the next day added to it.
I have learned to take God at His word and it has been the most comforting experience of my life.
2. Cor. 1:20 "For no matter how many PROMISES God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God."
2007-06-07 06:04:45 · answer #2 · answered by Friend of Jesus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
those are the types of questions that i ask myself all the time. Christianity is an institution that does not support questioning the basis of the faith so it's not likely that you will get many educated answers from a christian. they will probably just say something cliche like........"God works in mysterious ways." the bible depicts God doing several things that i wouldn't imagine an all powerful being doing. Why flood the earth to rid it of evil people??? why not just make the bad ones disappear??? why create an evil talking serpent in the garden of Eden so he/she can trick the first people into disobeying God? the bible never once says that the serpent was Satan......so it had to just be a creation of God. if the fruit of the forbidden tree gave the knowledge of good and evil...........then why would God be mad at Adam and Eve for eating the fruit???? THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THAT THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT!!!! there are a million examples, but hey, what can ya do?
2007-06-07 01:41:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus, himself, explained that The Fathers time is not like our time and 'a day is as a thousand years'. Do we take "a thousand years" literally? I don't. If He had said 'one day on earth equals one thousands years to God' or 'The Father's time is 1000 days for every 1 day to us'. Then I would take that literally. But He said "one day is as (like)"
That is not limiting God or diminishing His ability. Everything stated in the Bible, I believe, happened at some time. But we must be careful not to put it all into a small box and demand that it belongs in that box, and only that box.
There is only one way to The Father: through Jesus. That is the one most important thing that we all agree.
2007-06-07 01:45:53 · answer #4 · answered by howdigethere 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are some denominations that are screwed up like that and think that everything we can see;taste;feel etc... is no more than 6000 years old. when if they look at the diamond that may be on a piece of jewelry if its natural they'ld know that it took millions of years to form. the crude oil that we complain about the price of took millions and millions of years to form. I think god put it there like that in a way that the ppl of that period could understand it.
plus that hole 6 day thing is like alot of things in the bible a parable for something else. it never at any point says that the idea of one day is 24 hours. the concept of time has always been mans doing. God is a timeless being adam and eve were too; that is until the forbidden fruit nitemare. a day to us is like a thousand years to god. so in our mind that would be 365,000 days but to god it would be 365,000 x 1000. and on and on.
2007-06-07 01:44:19 · answer #5 · answered by gnr_tj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're being ignorant. The old biblical hebrew word that was translated to "day," actually means; "period of time." No-one knows for sure what the exact age of the earth because all science is flawed. It all boils down to a simple question of faith. Are you willing to believe and accept that God created the earth and mankind over six periods of time?! God isn't bound by time, he is above all things. He took six periods of time because he is God, and we're not.
2007-06-07 01:36:13 · answer #6 · answered by bluesman6885 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not about how fast he could do it, why would he care how long it takes, time isn't a factor to him so it shouldn't matter to him how long it takes.
The time it took him really only applies to what he created so there must have been a good reason to perform each stage of the creation process at differnt points in time. I'm not really an expert on creating a universe so I can't say what that reason would be.
2007-06-07 01:32:57 · answer #7 · answered by Dane_62 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Take him at his word eh? Are you saying that God wrote the Bible? Because that's not the way he explained it to me.
Here's the deal. Lots of people, throughout the hundreds of thousands of years people have been around, have written down things they wanted God to say and (surprise surprise) said that he was the one that said it.
Did he create the world in six days? It's not too likely... but we can be sure that he created it. It's here ergo we're here ergo he's (or she's) here.
2007-06-07 01:34:04 · answer #8 · answered by dirtypoolskater 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We have an ongoing creation. God is not finished with his creation as of yet. We have the creation story of seven days which might not be six literal days and we have the creation of mankind bringing man to his righteousness and his 7th day the Millennium which is one thousand years also called the day of the lord... The Bible is miraculous in it's spiritual truths to those who love he truth.
2007-06-07 01:33:10 · answer #9 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
some say God takes his sweet time in his creation.
Contradicted with Omnipotent.
some say God has a plan for doing thing.
Contradicted with Freewill.
some say God is difficult understand.
Contradicted with Bible is word of God.
2007-06-07 01:50:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋