the bible says it took 6 days...?

Question

is there any reason to speculate differently that a day meant anything other than a 24 hour period of time? is there any other place in the bible where god mentions a day and it is obviously meant to be much longer?

i didn't ask for what you think. but since you answered with that, and assuming you're christian, how can you say jesus rose after three days? or that people lived to be 1000 years old?

hearts, but you do recognize that the bible is the unflawed word of god. if it's not the word of god, then it's just the word of man, and do we really want to go into the implications of what that could mean?

i'm assuming that an omniscient being would know better than to say a day which would confuse many, when he really meant to say a thousand years.

ahoymty, read genesis one before you claim i'm taking anything out of context.

"Genesis 1
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. "

starjumper, if that's the case, then how can you believe anything in the bible which references time? did the great flood last 40 days or was it 40000 years? did people at one time live to be 1000 years old or was it only a day? certainly someone as all-knowing as god could convey what he meant a little bit clearer, don't you think?

Answer 1

I don't think a Day in the bible is ever a twenty four hour period.

Answer 2

The Bible does not say one day. Do not take the verse out of context because you confuse other people.

Genesis 2:1-4

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested [a] from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Adam and Eve
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.

Answer 3

Once again, I am amazed by the answers.

First, and most obviously, there is the creation of the sun on the 4th "day". Clearly, these verses could *not* have been speaking of *our* 24-hour day, as that is dependent upon the rotation of the earth about its axis *and* its relationship to the sun. Since both "day" and "night" (delimiting these 7 "days") occurred *before* the creation of the sun, we can say with certainty that the "day" and "night" spoken of are *not* the same as the "day" and "night" we measure by the position of the sun in relation to the earth. Of course, this does not mean that it *could* not have been 24-hour periods, only that there is no reason to believe that it *was* 24-hour periods.

What was causing the "day" and "night" before the creation of the sun, and the duration of these "days", is a matter of sheer conjecture.

Other verses (again, I am amazed that these were not mentioned):
Job 10:5 (speaking of God)
`Are Thy days as the days of a mortal,
....Or Thy years as man's years,

2Pe 3:8
But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Source: New American Standard Bible, generally considered to be the most literal.

Jim, http://www.life-after-harry-potter.com

Answer 4

Joshua 10:1-27

Answer 5

Don't know about the Bible, but in the Quran it also talks of six days (although people say it can be interpreted as six periods of time rather than days, but I think it means the same). Also in the Quran it is said that one moment in Paradise, where God is, is like thousands of years to people on earth.

Answer 6

The creation took "Six passages of time with a beginning and an end" is what most biblical scholars will agree upon. Whether this is considered a day, an hour, a second, or an epoch (roughly 20,000 years) is ultimately irrelevant.

Answer 7

Seeing as Genesis states that God put the vegetation on the earth on day 3 then created the Sun on day 4, why would any Christian try to justify, the more than one day theory.

The plants would have died if one day meant a long period of time.

Answer 8

Ah so, searching for the Bible to explain the Bible. How about simply using your heart and an open mind, and think about the "campfire chats" that developed the creation story and was then passed down to Moses (his writers) by his loving ancestors. -- Looking for a message from outside the solar system, looking for a miracle? - consider the day as a stage and wahla you have incorporated the creation story with evolution. -- smiles

Answer 9

Yes if you read Genesis 2:4 says that God creates everything in one day, so it wasn´t in six days but one, but that doesn´t means it is in one day but in certasin period of time that the bibble called "day" if you read hebrew 4, you will see that God is resting yet then the resting day still haven´t finish.

Answer 10

No, there is no reason to speculate that a day meant anything other than the standard time of one complete revolution of the earth. The six day bit is myth - pure and simple.