Does the bible say God created the universe in 7 days to teach about going to church on Sunday?

Answer 1

The day of rest is the Sabat which is Sat but who listens to god anyway?

Answer 2

Church leaders took the solemnity of the 7th day Sabbath and sought to transfer it to Sunday, declaring that they had the authority to change even divine laws, because they were church leaders and for this part, Emperor Constantine imposed the first Sunday law in AD321:"On this venerable day of the Sun, let the magistrates and people in the cities rest, and let all the workshops be closed" This was incorporated in the Church council of Laodicea in AD364.
People wonder what difference does a day make? It is much more than a day, it revolves around God's Commandments-His Law. Its an issue of loyalty and alliegance. And when God is in our hearts, it is a pleasure to do His will. Will we be obedient to God or to human tradition?
Remember the Sabbath, God said 'remember' because He knew that we would forget! it is the only commandment that recognizes God as our Creator and we as His creatures.
IF YOU LOOK AT ANY CALENDAR, IT IS CLEAR THAT SATURDAY IS THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK!
Throughout the centuries, the day in the English-speaking countries that we call Saturday has always been the seventh day. The introduction of Sunday as the 7th day on some European calendars occurred in the 1950's for the convenience of business, since the work week there begins on Monday.According to the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich, England, and the US , the weekly cycle has never changed.In more than 140 languages around the world the day 'Saturday' in English is some form of the word "Sabbath"(example:sabado-spanish/sabbota-Russian)
The Sabbath is a weekly reminder that God is our Creator; it is not an obligation but a gift.Follow Jesus and God's Law rather than human teachings. It will lead you right into the arms of Christ.

Answer 3

The Bible says God created the universe in 6 days. He rested on the 7th day. The Sabbath is Saturday. In the Old Testament time, God demanded rest on the Sabbath. In the New Testament Jesus was raised from the dead on the third day which was a Sunday. Sunday was also the first day of the week. So Christians began to give the first day to the Lord and worship on Sunday. The Bible teaches that we are in the Age of Grace. God forgives us for sin. Our sin has been paid for by the blood Jesus shed on the cross.

Answer 4

Not to do with going to church exactly.
Genesis 20:11 says:
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

God created the universe in 6 days and rested for one day to set the pattern for our week. Interesting that everyone on earth uses the 7 day week. It's the only time measurement not based on astronomy - year, month and day all relate to sun, moon, earth rotation.

This passage also refutes those who claim that God created the universe over millions or billions of years. The six days of creation are clearly 24 hour days, otherwise it makes a nonsense of the above passage.
In Exodus 31:17-18 we read that these words were inscribed by the very finger of God. !

Answer 5

I don't understand your question. God is so powerful that He could have created the entire Universe in 1 instant! But what has that do do with making 1 day holy? Are you complaining about Christians worshiping God on Sunday instead of Saturday? I am a Christian and think you have a good point if that is the case but with just that one sentence, how do you expect anyone to know what question you are asking?

Answer 6

Just to clear it up a little, God created the earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th.

I'm not sure if He did this with the purpose of making the Sabbath but He did, later, tell the Hebrews to honor the Sabbath and keep it holy.

Today, we meet not on the Sabbath but on the first day of the week. The New Testament tells us this and it also helps us give God the first of everything. (We give him the first day of our week.)

Answer 7

Absolutely not! Which is why Saturday is the Sabbath, as a memorial of creation, as well as a sign of the sanctification of God's people. Ex. 20:9-11 and Ex. 31:13.

Answer 8

The 7 days has something to do with work. God only worked 7 days in his ENTIRE life... and so should we I guess.

Answer 9

No, the Bible doesn't say anthing specifically about going to church on Sunday. That's a tradition where early Christians met on Sunday or the Lord's Day as a replacement for keeping the Sabbath and to celebrate the day that Jesus rose from the dead.

As to God creating the universe in 6 days and resting on the 7th day, there are many ways to interpret Genesis 1. Here's one way that has some support among Biblical scholars.

Wiseman’s basic argument is that the six days do indeed represent days of 24 hours, but they are not days in which God created the universe, but days in which he revealed truths of his creation to an individual at the dawn of history over a period of six days.

We now know a great deal about ancient writing in Assyria, Babylonia, Ur and Egypt. There are over a quarter of a million cuneiform tablets now scattered in museums around the world, going back to 3,500 B. C. They deal with mundane issues of personal, family, and business matters and well as issues of state. Wiseman gives impressive evidence to show how the whole structure of Genesis fits so well with the way tablets were written in ancient times, tablets that could well have been handed down through several generations. Moses would have been in an ideal position to edit these.

Evidence he assembles to support the view that Genesis describes six days over which God revealed these truths rather than six days in which he created the universe include, very briefly:

The ten-fold “God said”, analogous to the “Ten Words” God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, which he suggests are God’s revealing of the history of Creation, not the acts of creation itself.

The Hebrew word for “made” which simply means “did”, not “create”. What God “did” was to reveal this particular truth on this particular day.

The writing of each day would be sufficient to write on one tablet. Babylonian accounts of the Creation were written on six tablets.

Babylonians had a tradition of early man being instructed in the truths of creation over six days.

The beginning and end of each tablet fits well with what we know of ancient tablets. Genesis 2:1-4 would be the colophon, which came at the end of a series of tablets.

The giving of names (i.e. “God called”) makes sense if these names were given for man’s benefit. The giving of names indicates that God is telling the story.

The word “rested” in 2:2 would be better translated “ceased”. The early Septuagint (Greek) translation of 2:3 supports the idea that it was not the work of creation, but the histories of creation that God ceased. God ceased his revelation on the seventh day in order to enable man to rest, not himself. Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27). If God instituted the Sabbath at the dawn of history, that would explain why it is mentioned several times before Sinai (e.g. Genesis 7:4; 8:10; 29:27, 28; Exodus 16.).

The Babylonians and Egyptians had a tradition of the truths of creation being revealed to the first man. The Jews had an early tradition of these truths being revealed to both Adam and Enoch.

The Hebrew words for “evening” and “morning” would be better translated “sundown” and “daybreak” and simply indicate the period of night between e ach of the six days when man was allowed to rest.

Wiseman points out seven difficulties that are eliminated by the above interpretation:

(1) God giving names—we now see the reason for this. (2) ‘God said’—the whole account was a revelation to man, just as the two final statements of what ‘God said’ are stated to have been. (3) The ‘evenings and the mornings’ are now seen to be, quite naturally, for man’snightly rest. (4) The seventh day on which God ‘ceased’ was for man’s sake. While (5) all the days, including those in the fourth commandment and the seventh day’s rest, are seen to be natural days, there is no need to give these days exceptional duration, and this (6) disposes of the idea that (a) the day of rest was instituted a few hours after Adam had been created (b) that it was the end of a long geological age, or that the seventh day is one of some thousand years. And (7) it resolves the old conflicting ideas about the ‘light’ of day one being present before the ‘sun and moon’ of day four and all its related problems.

Reasons which Wiseman gives for believing that Genesis 1 is very ancient are:

The absence of mythical or legendary matter such as occur in all other accounts of Creation.
All the references in this first chapter are universal in their application and unlimited in their scope. We find no mention of any particular tribe or nation or country, or any merely local ideas or customs. Everything relates to the earth as a whole and to humans without reference to race. Every other account of Creation includes such references.
There is no mention of any event subsequent to the creation of humans.
It is uncontaminated by human speculation.
There is no hint of the worship of sun or moon or the influence of stars, all later developments.
All the facts in the chapter are things humans could not have found out for themselves at the dawn of history. God did not keep them in the dark till later generations.
The simplicity of terms used.
The term “Sabbath” is not used. It is simply “the seventh day”.
No Israelite of a later generation would have used the plurals “us” and “our” of God in verse 26.
The Bible speaks of revelation of such things from the beginning (i.e. Isaiah 40 which contains the statement “Has it not been told you from the beginning? [literally: “from the first”]. Have you not understood since the earth was founded?—v. 21).
Wiseman says:

Genesis 1, disencumbered of its misinterpretations, stands out in its sublime grandeur, its remarkable accuracy, its concise comprehensiveness, quite unique in the creation literature of the world.