2007-09-27 03:43:09 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Kick it up a notch
Go for a nanosecond.
2007-09-27 03:46:19 · answer #1 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Well, ya see it's kinda like this:
On the first day God created light. Now, God made a bit of a mistake; he made light go a finite speed *before* he was done creating the universe. Once He realized his mistake he thought "what the heck" and went with it anyway. Now, ya see light can only travel at a fixed speed and the universe God created started off at around 1.3x10^13 meters in radius with God at the center. Now, God had to create the whole universe but could only get info about what he was creating at the speed of light. So, he would create stuff and then observe it with His light. But the light took a half-day to get to the stuff and a half-day to get back. That's why in the Bible it says "God created X... and THEN he saw it was good." So he did all this one day at a time and so it took six days.
I think God should have just recreated the light so that it could travel at an infinite speed and then it would have been done with and over in a matter of seconds. God needs an efficiency consultant.
2007-09-27 10:56:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God could have but he chose not to. There are many things about God's plan that one can learn from studying the Hebrew Calendar, which God Himself created and taught His followers. The seven days of creation are back-to-back with the seven days of tribulation leading up to Yom Kippur. There is prophetic and spiritual meanings to these events. Day 6, the creation of man, is the Hebrew Holiday Yom Teruah (Rosh HaShanah) celebrated together with the next day (the anniversary of the first sabbath) as a two-day festival. The days of creation and the days of tribulation represent the putting together and then the destruction of the present world order. Our recorded history is between these two "bookends." Yom Kippur, judgement day, is the beginning of the next paradigm: a 1000 year "Day" of rest where Messiah rules and haSatan is bound. Afterwards, a new heaven and a new earth - a new paradigm again. If creation had taken only a single day, these parrellisms would not be noticeable to us and we would miss the prophetic and spiritual lessons that God wanted us to see.
2007-09-27 10:53:22 · answer #3 · answered by Ahavah B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God can do anything, the only problem was that we were helping and we didn't/don't have the power/knowledge that God had/has. We were and are still learning. So we couldn't create the universe in one day, but there are no limits to what God can do.
2007-09-27 10:48:04 · answer #4 · answered by GoatGirl 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If indeed there was a force behind the creation of the universe it is bound by the laws of physics. It is completely of the natural realm, not a magical wizard.
The universe continues to expand, how did the Bible miss that little bit of info? It contends that there was creation and that was that. Creation continues as it has for billions of years.
2007-09-27 10:56:50 · answer #5 · answered by Equinoxical ™ 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
He could have, he did it in 6-24 hour dayes and rested on the seventh to establish the 24 hour day and the 7 day week.
... unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. Psalm 50:16-17
2007-09-27 10:52:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He could have. The creation story is told in a 7 day format because that was theologically and culturally relevant. Not to mention the fact that its also told in artful way.
2007-09-27 10:54:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
He knows, like any good author, how to keep a audience's interest and make a lasting impression on the reader/listener.
2007-09-27 11:00:31 · answer #8 · answered by Goethe's Ghostwriter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He created you in a single day......
2007-09-27 10:55:52 · answer #9 · answered by BLI 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the emphasis on "resting on the 7th day" is a way to illustrate to the ancient Jews the importance and holiness of the Sabbath.
2007-09-27 10:49:41 · answer #10 · answered by Vernacular Catholic 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because a single day is defined as from sunrise on one day to sunrise on the next, and before the universe was created, there was no sun.
2007-09-27 10:46:05 · answer #11 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋