it was earth days...the Bible even says so. "And the evening and the morning were the first day"
2007-10-03 10:55:56
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answered by Anonymous
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Assuming you propose how long ought to it take to create some thing a universe larger than earth? As in, if the earth is X m^3, and the universe is Y m^3, how plenty longer ought to it take to make Y. ok, first component to understand is the universe contains atleast 10 trillion distinctive photograph voltaic structures. So if god made the photograph voltaic gadget in 7 days, then it ought to take 70 trillion days to make the universe. Or 60 trillion and a million day of relax.
2016-10-10 06:10:37
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answered by ? 4
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Actually in 6 days. He rested on the 7th day because all of creation was complete. It is more than clear and blatantly obvious from the context and the Hebrew and a straight forward reading of the text that God meant 6 literal days. In fact, He could not have possibly been any plainer or more obvious in what He meant. The word used for day in this passage always means day whenever used in conjunction with a number or with the words evening and/or morning within Scripture. There are no exceptions. Also, God further stated that light and darkness passed as the earth-or what of it had been created- rotated on its axis. "There was evening, and there was morning, the first day" etc. The problem is that many Christian leaders, churches and followers have compromised with the world and have tried to force the belief of millions of years into the Bible where it clearly does not belong or fit. Jesus Himself clearly believed in a literal reading of Genesis, as is seen from some of His teachings. When the Church begins to compromise with the world it begins to deny and question the authority of God and His Word. Is it any wonder that unbelievers refuse to believe the Bible when this happens?
PS: As a side note, I agree with one of the above who also quotes from Exodus. If the 6 days in Genesis 1 were not a literal 6 days then the passage from Exodus makes no sense at all. How long is our work week supposed to be before we take 1 day off?
2007-10-03 11:04:45
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answered by utuseclocal483 5
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Because this was done on God's time and God does not equate time as we do. So what if it were a 24 hour day or a Billion year day? Does it really matter?
God does not count days as we do. Right now, God sees my birth, now and He sees my death. That is why God is called the I AM, the Alpha and Omega and we are told God IS. Only man knows days.
The Bible DOES NOT define the creation days nor does it tell the amount of time Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden. We do know from the Bible they had a child or children in the garden. You cannot increase something there has never been so God could not cause woman to have worse pains with childbearing if it had not already been. If I don't have an apple and increase it a million times, I still do not have any apples. You cannot increase nothing.
By the way, I am a Bible studying, Bible believing Christian. I find a lot of so called Christians not studying nor trying to understand the Bible, so are they really Christians?
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AGAIN, so called Christians need to study the Bible they claim to believe. The sun and moon were created on day 4, not day 1.
GE 1:14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. 17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
2007-10-03 10:56:39
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answered by mesquiteskeetr 6
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God created the universe in 7 days?
2014-12-03 15:10:05
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answered by ? 3
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Day 1 - "And God called the light 'day' [yom] and the darkness he called 'night.' So the EVENING and the MORNING were the FIRST DAY [yom]." (Genesis 1:5)
Day 2 - "So God called the firmament 'Heaven.' So the EVENING and the MORNING were the SECOND DAY [yom]." (Genesis 1:8)
Day 3 - "So the EVENING and the MORNING were the THIRD DAY [yom]." (Genesis 1:13)
Day 4 - "So the EVENING and the MORNING were the FOURTH DAY [yom]." (Genesis 1:19)
Day 5 - "So the EVENING and the MORNING were the FIFTH DAY [yom]." (Genesis 1:23)
Day 6 - "Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the EVENING and the MORNING were the SIXTH DAY [yom]." (Genesis 1:31)
Day 7 - "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the SEVENTH DAY [yom] God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the SEVENTH DAY [yom] from all His work which He had done." (Genesis 2:1-2)
think its quite clear by the context that the Author of Genesis chapter 1 meant 24-hour periods. This was the standard interpretation up until the 1800s when a paradigm shift occurred within the scientific community and the Earth's sedimentary strata layers were reinterpreted. Whereas previously the rock layers were interpreted as evidence for Noah's flood, Noah's flood was thrown out by the scientific community and the rock layers were reinterpreted as evidence for an excessively old earth. Some well meaning but terribly mistaken Christians then sought to reconcile this new anti-Flood, ant-Bible interpretation with the Genesis 1 account by reinterpreting "yom" as meaning vast unspecified periods of time. This was a mistake.
The truth is, the evidences in favor of Noah's flood and a young earth far outnumber those in favor of an old earth and many of the old earth interpretations are known to rely upon faulty assumptions. Unfortunately the scientific community is entrenched on the matter and apparently they refuse to change their minds despite the weight of evidence contrary to their currently accepted paradigm. But please don't let their stubborn refusal influence how you read your Bible! According to Exodus 20:9-11, God used six literal days to create the world in order to serve as a model for man's work week. Work six days, rest one. Rest assured, God could have created everything in an instant if He wanted to. But apparently He had us in mind even before He made us (on the sixth day) and wanted to provide an example for us to follow.
2007-10-03 10:58:57
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answered by KingHenry ll 2
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Because the term "day" does not always refer to a strict 24 hour period. It is also a collective term, such as, "Gold Rush days", "Days of Wine and Roses" and salad days, meaning that it was a phase of life and an important period of time when something significant happened. The number 7 in numerology means that there is completeness, as a project being completed. In this case, a period of time that it took for God to complete the formation of the world.
2007-10-03 11:00:28
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answered by sugarbabe 6
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It came out of people like Henry Morris, who needed an excuse to get around the obvious: deep time. Ask any Hebrew scholar. They will tell you that in the original writings, a day meant 24 hours. Case closed.
2007-10-03 10:54:48
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answered by Anonymous
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The Bible says that a day to God is as a thousand years to us. God's time table is not the same as ours. Man can only guess at the time frame. None of us will ever really know until we can ask God our selves how long it all really took.
2007-10-03 10:59:52
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answered by Harley Diva 1
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The billions of years argument is an apologetic response to the knowledge that the universe has been unfolding for billions of years, and so the whole 6 day thing makes no sense (he rested on the 7th day, remember?).
2007-10-03 10:55:38
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answered by Anonymous
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God states that from surise to sunset is a day in the Bible. you will not find billions of years in the Bible
2007-10-03 11:04:10
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answered by Anonymous
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