Was it 7 days or 1?

Question

So is a day a day? Is it a thousand years? Is one day equal to seven days?

How about it?

Gen.2:4:
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the DAY that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

Some interesting perspectives here.

Answer 1

Good question Suzanne: I am not entirely sure, and I am glad that there are things in the christian family that we can Respectfully debate.

what I wonder about is when creation is being talked about, the scriptures say "a day and a night. the First day". Is this a literal 24 hours?
I have heard arguments for and against this, and all of them make sense.

Answer 2

Scientific evidence suggests the earth is approximately 4 billion years old (give or take 200 million each way). It is therefore hard to comprehend how God could have created the earth in 6 earth days (of 24 hours each), unless (as has already been suggested) the expression "day" does not mean 24 hours.

Some Christians claim that mankind has been on this planet for only 6,000 years and this has caused scientists and atheists to fall about laughing. This misconception arose when Bishop Joseph Usher was tasked with calculating the age of the earth based on the ages of the people mentioned in the Bible from Adam up to Jesus. He took a stab at it, added them up and came to 6,000 years.

Please take note that the Hebrew word for day is 'yom' and this can be interpreted as a period of time, for example, 1,000 years, or even 1 million years. The point is simply this - it doesn't actually matter how long each of the 6 days of creation were. The point is that God did it.

The Genesis account of creation is an extremely simple version of the events, written before the concept of astrophysics, quantum mechanics or any other such fancy scientific stuff we all take for granted now. Genesis was not meant to be a detailed, scientific paper (no-one would have understood it) but an explanation that made sense to the people it was intended for and to point people to the Creator.

Answer 3

The word used for day is epoch and refers to a "period of time" not specifically a 24 hour period. A word study reveals that this epoch may be a day as we know it, and is also an expanse of time. 2 Peter 3:8 says that a day is as a thousand years to God and a thousand years is as a day.
God can do more in 24 hours than we can do in a thousand years.
However, each day has a corosponding night, so, now we must define the word night

Answer 4

Sunday is the forgiveness and saturday is the access, so many people do claim into beverage intake and take the mild, common or departed way into easyness, or more intake. This explains history´s attempts to control drinks and some open activities. Recreation is supposed to be fun, and some extra time is meant to have the general sensation of happiness, so perhaps this does attend to the first day, one when many collapse or suffocate before getiing busy. Any other remark is to clad the petitioners into their own esteems rather than having some good tax money spent on scarce results for general satisfaction.

Answer 5

Here's something to contemplate--

What is time to God?

He always has been and always will be--one day time will no longer exist!

How cool is that?

Revelation 10:6-7, "And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be TIME NO LONGER:


But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."

Answer 6

In my grandfather's day, things were alot different.

Did my grandfather live only 1 day? or in a certain time period.

Scripture says a day to us is as a thousand years to God.

We measure time differently than God does.

In one specific time frame (however long THAT was) God created the universe.
In another specific time frame (however long THAT was) God created or formed the earth.
In other specific time frames (however long THOSE were) God created the plants, animals and then man.
Then he rested--this is another specific time frame (however long THIS will be only GOD knows)

Answer 7

The word for "day" used in Genesis 2:4 carries the same meaning as the English word "day" when it used in a phrase like "in the day when railroads ruled the world". It refers to a "period" rather then to 24 hours. It is elsewhere translated in the KJ Bible as "age" and "time" as well as "day".

Answer 8

No time frame given.

Day is -

1) day, time, year

a) day (as opposed to night)

b) day (24 hour period)

1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1

2) as a division of time

a) a working day, a day's journey

c) days, lifetime (pl.)

d) time, period (general)

e) year

f) temporal references

1) today

2) yesterday

3) tomorrow

_____________

This in simple means "work period" of God (see: 2a above)

_____________

Many people take a scripture out of the New Testament about time and apply it to a verse at the other end of the bible and try to make it fit - doesn't work - does it?

יום = yowm

Answer 9

7?

Where does this seven come from?

According to Gen 1... the creation of the universe took SIX days. Then G-D cracked open a bottle of booze and took a hiatus on the seventh.

Answer 10

Suzanne,
When it is qualified with a number it always refers to a regular 24 hour day.
If not, then it MAY refer to a "period" of time (age,era,etc)

If not qualified, remember; CONTEXT IS ALWAYS KING.
(As with ALL bible study)



....theBerean