When God created the world in six days, were those 8 hour days or 24 hour days?

Question

Or, if God is French, 4 hour work-days?

Answer 1

If it were me creating the world, I would've done it within four-tens (4 days working 10 hrs. each day). That way I'd have a three day weekend off to enjoy down at the watering hole with my pet squirrel and talking donkey.

Oh yeah, and I would require entended lunches and none of this ONE HOUR bullsh!t.

Answer 2

First and foremost, it most certainly was not 6 straight 24 hour periods. It may be that it was six 24 hour periods spread out over billions of years. Like painting a picture, you do a little work now, wait to let the paint dry then do a little bit more later When we look at the days of Genesis, we must first define what a day is. By our reckoning, a day is approximately 24 hours and is measured from sunrise to sunset. The kicker, though is that the sun is not created until the fourth day! “God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.” So obviously the bible does not speak of the same kind of days that we are acquainted with. Let us also not forget that the first five books of the Bible were written by Moses. And as wise and great as Moses was, he understood very little about geological processes, quantum dynamics or astrophysics. So when Moses was inspired to write Genesis, it was done in “baby talk” so that even the simplest person could understand the greater meaning. This is a classic example of not getting bogged down in the details. Those who insist on fighting over evolution and such are seeing the trees, but not the forest. Most likely God’s activity in the Creation was to declare the primal laws of physics and then set the big bang(if you will) in motion on the first day. Then He waited a few billion years—letting the pot simmer, so to speak--to act again. When He did, it was the second day, so on and so forth. I do not state that this is exactly what happened. It is sheer speculation in an attempt to resolve certain apparent inconsistencies in the Book of Genesis. What is more important is what came after and what is yet to come. These things you will find in the New Testament, not the Old Testament. To clarify, the six "days" represent the six times that God took action, not 24 hour periods (as explained earlier)

Answer 3

What I want to know is why he created plants before he created the sun to drive the photosynthetic process. I can only hope for the plants' sake they were 8 hour or 24 hour days, not 100 millions of years as logic would dictate. And when he did create the sun, why did he distinguish sol when it's just another star? And what was the point of creating a trillion trillion trillion other stars? Seems a little inefficient since they have no direct effect on his paragons of creation (us). Not for decoration, you can only see .000001 percent of the stars in our own galaxy, to say nothing of the 100 billion galaxies out there.

Answer 4

The Bible says that a day in the eyes of God, is like a thousand years.
In the beginning, darkness was on the face of the deep. No way to judge what we consider a day (24 hrs.). To God time means nothing. A day could have been a thousand years or a billion years. Who knows. Perhaps, that would explain evolution.

Answer 5

I really think god has a remote for the whole time thing. So he could hit the pause button as much as he wanted and still have accomplished it in 24, 8, 4, or 1 hour workdays.

I'm just grateful the batteries held out.

Answer 6

When God created the world in six days

Answer 7

Wow, you insulted my Christian faith AND my French heritage! Good job! < rolls eyes >

The Hebrew word used at Genesis 1:5, et al, doesn't necessarily mean a 24-hour day. Technically, it just means a period of time. Some of my Christian brethren choose to interpret this as a literal 24-hour day; I'm not so certain this is correct, but I'm not dogmatic about it.

Answer 8

To God, a day could be 1,000 years. We don't know God's time table. Just because we have 24 hours in a day on earth, that doesn't mean that God goes by that.

Answer 9

From one Fuzzy to another, if you are a Bible student then you will discover that the seventh day isn't over yet -- and it began thousands of years ago!

The Biblical testimony about this permits each day to be millions of years long! At the very least, each day is 7000 years long.

Answer 10

well 8 hour working days are part of a modern society back in the 1800's people used to work 15 hour days well i know they did in britian this changed with rising socialist political parties i think.