Man created the concept of time, so just how long could a day be for God? If we look at the size of the universe, which he created, it could be many hundred thousands of years, or perhaps that's just a blink of the eye to God.
2007-06-18 19:41:05 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We get our time reference from the sun and the time it takes the earth to circle it but we don't know where God was "standing" when he created the universe
2007-06-18 20:02:00 · update #1
Good question. We have only the Bible as a reference and lets face it, in the beginning neither we nor our clocks were there, so where did our 6 days come from and is it a valid statement as compared to us and our time frames. I think I'd be tempted to ask God where his quality control angles were during all this creation.
2007-06-19 07:46:30 · answer #1 · answered by Gonealot R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A day on Mercury is 58.6 Earth days. The length of a day is relative to where/who you are. I toyed with this idea a long time ago, in an effort to reconcile science and the Bible. Then the concept of complex life from the start of everything began losing its sense, and I realized that trying to reconcile science and the Bible was a much larger task than I had anticipated. Also I was trying to bend too many rules to make it work. So props for the effort, but I'll tell you now from experience, it won't work.
2007-06-18 20:21:40 · answer #2 · answered by Sacred Chao 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The six days of creation were huge periods of time that God used to prepare the already-existing earth for animal and human habitation. If you will notice in Gen. 1:2 that the earth was already standing BEFORE the first "day" started. The earth and the rest of the universe may be millions or billions of years old.
2007-06-18 20:21:12 · answer #3 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis mentioned a thousand years as being a day to the Lord. Adam was to die "in that very day", but he lived over 900 years. Part of the confusion comes in that in English, as in Hebrew, a day can mean an age, as in our day. Even if you concider evolution, when the conditions are right, things usually happen relatively fast in nature, especially if it's set up that way. I read that they can't tell the age of bones, any from any other. They give the date of the earth around it and I understand that they now find life 10 thousand years. Who to believe? The creation of the earth was before days where created or mentioned. The Big Bang might not have been that simple and days and nights may have occured when the rest of the stars moved further away from each other. Of course I could be wrong, it happpens. The dating methods could be wrong if chemical reactions can be speeded up under certain conditions, similar to a catalist, like Intelligence maybe?
2007-06-18 19:56:26 · answer #4 · answered by hb12 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Hebrew word for day can mean a 24 hour period or a era like in the day of David. But the way to find out is look at the grammer. If the word is used with a number like first day or fifth day then it means one 24 hour period. There fore the universe was made in 6 days. My question would be why did it take Him so long?
2007-06-18 19:56:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It say in the BIBLE some where "A DAY TO MAN IS 1000 TO GOD. To tell the truth im not so sure every thing is real in the BIBLE rewrote by man. But If you where to take the word BIBLE and put it into a antagram it will say
B- Basic
I- Instuctions
B-Before
L- Leaveing
E- Earth
If this is only the basic what is the rest we may never know.
2007-06-18 20:01:17 · answer #6 · answered by clarkzila 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The creation stories in the Bible are just stories. The people who wrote it were trying to answer the question of were we came from. The creation story was just a way to help people understand the big picture. That God created everything. The time frame doesn't matter.
2007-06-18 19:50:02 · answer #7 · answered by Carmie C 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In historic hebrew, the term "day" advise "era". consequently, Jehovah God create the universe in 6 volume of time. as properly, the Bible states that a one thousand of years are like a million day for God. (Psalms ninety:4) For 1000 years are on your eyes yet as the day in the previous as we communicate while it quite is previous, And as a watch mounted in the time of the nighttime. (2 Peter 3:8) in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, enable this one actuality no longer be escaping YOUR be conscious, liked ones, that sooner or later is with Jehovah as 1000 years and 1000 years as sooner or later.
2016-09-28 02:04:17 · answer #8 · answered by gearlds 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sum of 9 normal baseball innings, 7 and a half football quarters, 14 average basketball games and a cricket match. Sorry about the sports analogy but that is the only way I knew how to put it.
2007-06-18 20:01:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psalms and Peter say that a day is equal to 1000 years.
But Holy Koran gives another perspective.
A day could be 1000 years or 50,000 years.
I guess there's no day and night in Heaven. So it's relative.
2007-06-18 21:01:42 · answer #10 · answered by Agil 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋