How Long Really Were The 6 Days of Creation?

Question

6 24 hour days? 144 60-minute hours.
Or is there some other measure.

The Bible also says that Moses and his contemporaries lived to 8 or 900 years? Is this the real figure?

Answer 1

The Bible clearly teaches that God created in six literal, 24-hour days a few thousand years ago. The Hebrew word for day in Genesis 1 is yom. In the vast majority of its uses in the Old Testament, it means a literal day; where it doesn’t, the context makes this clear.

The context of Genesis 1 clearly shows that the days of creation were literal days. First, yom is defined the first time it is used in the Bible (Genesis 1:4–5) in its two literal senses: the light portion of the light/dark cycle and the whole light/dark cycle. Second, yom is used with “evening” and “morning.” Everywhere these two words are used in the Old Testament, either together or separately and with or without yom in the context, they always mean a literal evening or morning of a literal day. Third, yom is modified with a number: one day, second day, third day, etc., which everywhere else in the Old Testament indicates literal days. Fourth, yom is defined literally in Genesis 1:14 in relation to the heavenly bodies.

The genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 make it clear that the creation days happened only about 6,000 years ago. It is transparent from the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 (which give very detailed chronological information, unlike the clearly abbreviated genealogy in Matthew 1) and other chronological information in the Bible that the Creation Week took place only about 6,000 years ago.

Exodus 20:9–11 blocks all attempts to fit millions of years into Genesis 1. “Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy” (Exodus 20:9-11).

This passage gives the reason for God’s command to Israel to work six days and then take a sabbath rest. Yom is used in both parts of the commandment. If God meant that the Jews were to work six days because He created over six long periods of time, He could have said that using one of three indefinite Hebrew time words. He chose the only word that means a literal day, and the Jews understood it literally (until the idea of millions of years developed in the early nineteenth century). For this reason, the day-age view or framework hypothesis must be rejected. The gap theory or any other attempt to put millions of years before the six days are also false because God says that in six days He made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them. So He made everything in those six literal days and nothing before the first day.

Answer 2

Without going in depth, each day of creation was about 2 billion years as we understand time. There is a word translated called "toledoth" which means "vast generations" and is used in reference to the "history or generations" of the earth in the "day" that God created the earth. The six literal 24 hour day makes no sense when all the relevant information is taken into account and read properly. The actual age of this earth is somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 billion years. How is it possible for the earth to be only 6-10,000 years old when radio-carbon dating has dated certain substrata and fossils found in it to be over 100,000 years old? The literalists do much damage when they fail to recognize between that which is literal, and that which is metaphorical. Worse yet, when anyone fails to research the symbolisms used all through the bible. As for Moses, I don't remember how old he was when he died, but according to biblical accounts, Adam was 930 years old when he died, I think. Man was designed to live forever until the fall happened. God infused our form with eternal life, originally. All that was lost after the fall of disobedience in the garden. After that, our life expectancy dwindled down to what? 70-80 years? Actually, I think that's too long to live in this cess pool called humanity.

Answer 3

I am a muslim and from what i know , an hour in heaven can be billions of years for us on earth. But don't want to be wrong. Only thing i can say that it did take GOD 6 days but that doesn't mean in earth time. You already know space time is different than ours and i can bet GOD wasn't on earth when he was busy with his creation. Oh by the way , you all should be asking what was before men!!!! Nobody asks that ..,,Jeeeez!!! We weren't his only creation, why is it so hard to accept. And we are not alone on earth. Go figure. Heres a Tip.....they are called the Jinns. If you want to know about them go read Quran...i bet may of you dont have the heart even to do that...then why ask these silly questions....and expect the answers to be in the wrong place..lol no offence.....PEACE!! I mean it ^_^ um dont shoot me..hahahaha

Answer 4

The problem was that the story of creation was taken from the Sumarian tablets that predate any written bible. They had a 7 day celebration of the creation of the earth. A few decades told over the campfire and 7 days of celebration of the creation became 7 days of creation. The bible version is a fairy tale.

Answer 5

2 Peter 3:8-9 (New Living Translation)

8 But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. 9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.

Answer 6

In Genesis it says "[5] And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."

Day and night, evening and morning. Sounds like a regular 24-hour day to me.

Answer 7

Before the fall of Adam and Eve, time as we know it did not exist. The days of the Creation took approximately 1,000 years each of our time for completion because biblically it supports that theory.

Answer 8

for God they went faster than days go for us...theyre always 24 hrs for humans according to sunup etc...ppl did live longer before pollution

Answer 9

Did you witness it, if not somebody is trying to make God!