Christians: Do you believe that it only took 6 days to create the Universe?

Question

I know, I know. I said I had to stop coming in here, but I just couldn't help myself.

Christians. For a couple of years now, I've been coming in here saying that I believe that the Bible is everything it claims to be, but the average Christian misenterprets it to the point of uselessness. Although I have reason to believe that many of you that were there since the beginning of my investigation may have taken much of what I said to heart, I still believe that there may be many of you that remain un-convinced.

Well, here we go again..... Do you believe that the world was built in six days? That is, of course six Human, Earth days.

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Answer 1

I am a Christian and I don't believe that God created the universe in six days. I now believe mankind has misinterpreted the time frame God is talking about in Genesis. I am convinced that God is referring "Days" to "eras" of time of evolution that could consist of thousands or millions of years to each era,(Days). Modern science will soon force mankind to accept this as fact. I also believe that the Bible is not including the millions of years of prehistoric eras and Genesis starts out with God only recording time on Earth from the beginning of the modern era of evolution until now. The worldwide flood at the beginning of the first "era" of Genesis was also the end of the last "era" of prehistoric life on Earth. Wiping out the dinosaurs thousands or millions of years before the second recorded flood by God in the Bible, the worldwide flood of Noah. This would explain the difference in time spans between Christians and Evolutionists. And also prove that dinosaurs were long extinct for Noah to put them on his ark.

Answer 2

You asked two different questions. Which one did you want an answer to? 6 days to create the universe? or 6 days to build the world?

Nobody says that the universe was created in 6 days.

If you read Genesis 1, you will see it is referring to the recreation of the earth in 6 days after some kind of cataclysmic overthrow, as discovered in Isaiah, which would most LIKELY to have occurred (IMHO) between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.

Genesis 1:1 simply says that God created the heavens and the earth.
1:2 says that the earth became (from the original Hebrew) a formless void.

The rest of the chapter describes how God put things back together.

Yes, each day was a literal day, as described in the text: "There was an evening, and there was a morning, and then the first (or second or third, etc) day"

If - as some people believe - each day was symbolic of - oh - say 10,000 years, for instance, then you have any portion of the earth in darkness for 5,000 years, followed by continuous light for another 5,000 years. (Evening - night - morning - daylight). Every other place in the Bible when it talks about a day, we assume it means 24 hours, without the aid of a definition, yet here, even with the definition of a day given right there in the text, there is still question as to the length of eacy day/night cycle. Hmmmmm. How very strange at that. Like Jesus said, they swallow a camel and strain at a gnat!

Did I answer all your questions you posed? I think so.

God bless you in your continued search for Truth. (Jesus said "I am Truth").

Additional comment to "The Ponderer":
Like I pointed out above, every other place where day (yom) is used, you assume it means 24 hours, even without the aid of the built-in definition, but when it clearly states "Evening and morning were the first day", you have trouble understanding the simplicity of the statement.

I think the Bible explains itself quite nicely, contrary to your belief system.

"It's amazing how much light the Bible throws on all them commentaries."

Answer 3

you're perfect. even in spite of the incontrovertible fact that many Christians have faith the imaginitive days have been a literal 24 hours , not all do by way of fact the data disagree with this way of end: (a million)mild from the Andromeda nebula would be seen on a sparkling evening interior the northern hemisphere. It takes approximately 2,000,000 years for that mild to realize the earth, indicating that the universe could be a minimum of thousands and thousands of years previous. (2)end products of radioactive decay in rocks interior the earth testify that some rock formations have been undisturbed for billions of years. Genesis a million:3-31 isn't discussing the unique creation of rely or of the heavenly bodies. It describes the guidance of the already latest earth for human habitation. This blanketed creation of the easy styles of flora, marine existence, flying creatures, land animals, and the 1st human pair. All of it incredibly is asserted to have been performed interior of a era of six “days.” however, the Hebrew be conscious translated “day” has one in all those meanings, which includes ‘an prolonged time; the time protecting an spectacular experience.’ (previous testomony be conscious learn, Grand Rapids, Mich.; 1978, W. Wilson, p. 109) The term used facilitates the thought each “day” would have been hundreds of years in length.

Answer 4

For Catholics the Old Testament is a big faith statement that is an allegory, not taken as literally history in every word or statement. Could God have created everything in 6 days? Sure. Is this 6 day part of the Bible really really important vs if it took 7, 9, 1000 or just 1 day? No.. But we have the 7 day week which includes a day of rest.. Maybe the length of the week would be different if this number in the Bible was different?

Answer 5

Here, I'll give you what they are getting it from, you figure it out:
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

~wy from an unused root meaning to be hot
Transliterated Word TDNT Entry
Yowm TWOT - 852
Phonetic Spelling Parts of Speech
yome Noun Masculine
Definition

1. day, time, year
1. day (as opposed to night)
2. day (24 hour period)
1. as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
2. as a division of time 1b
3. a working day, a day's journey
4. days, lifetime (pl.)
5. time, period (general)
6. year
7. temporal references
1. today
2. yesterday
3. tomorrow


So does it necessarily mean one literal DAY?

Answer 6

You make the accusation regarding average Christians misinterpreting Scripture, which convinces me you are guilty of the same.

Does the Bible say the universe took 6 days to create?

Better read it again, carefully.

Verse two starts a new thought, from the perspective from the earth.

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Answer 7

Here are my thoughts....you can't just create something from nothing...evolution happened. They say God created the world in like a week? What?? Sorry don't believe that something can just be without working its way up. A tree for example, it had to start from a seed and over a long period of time grow.
If God just poofed a tree into existence how did it get so big without first living in the ground? I hope this is making sense to someone, its hard to put it in words.
Ok how about this...If God created man without it ever first being a child how did "Adam" know how to exist? How did he know what or even how to eat? It would be like zapping me in the middle of Japan right now. I don't know the language or customs. See what I mean?

Answer 8

Either you believe what the Scripture says, or you don't. It's just that simple.

You can try to make yourself sound more intelligent than you really are, but we see through you very quickly. You do not believe in the bible, or you would not ask such a question.

You believe it, or you don't. Your little brain (as all of ours are) cannot comprehend what happened. You are fooling no-one with your satan-led question.

Answer 9

Yes, I believe that God could make the Earth in six human days.. I believe he could of done it in one day if he wanted to.

Answer 10

No. If you read Genesis in the original Hebrew the creative process was completed in six periods, not days. The word "yom," which has been translated as day DOES NOT actually mean day. It is an unspecified amount of time. It is just as likely to mean a billion years as it is a day.

Again, I repeat, the Hebrew writer DID NOT actually mean day. Yom DOES NOT mean day in hebrew.