Do you take the 7 days of creation as being 7 actual days?
2007-10-07 03:01:02 · 18 answers · asked by ~JennyBunny~ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I disagree with the other answerer - if everyone read the bible cover to cover there would be better discussions on here.
The bible states that to God a day can be a thousand years, so there is room to believe that creation was not 7 actually days.
2007-10-07 03:08:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Creation days are probably like long era's of time like:
2 Peter 3:8; and that's not a cop-out, just factual. God is so powerful that He COULD have done it all in 7 literal days and nights, but I doubt it. Does it really matter? God is supernatural and He isn't held to our 'now' natural laws.
See, He said let there be light, or literally in Hebrew He said, "Light BE", and it was! Then He hadn't even created the Sun and Moon yet. I don't see how this can relate to us now that all things ARE created and working harmoniosly..., well, pretty well?
I betcha that when God planted all the stuff in the garden of Eden that every mature tree had growth rings. Adam was made fully adult. He made all the animals and told them to be fruitful and multiply, so we know the animals were grown. I believe that oil and coal and diamonds were already inside the earth, but to replace it takes natural laws being applied.
Without an acceptance in our supernatural Godhead; Father, Son and Holy Spirit, no wonder people have to come up with some alter-story of life spontaneously beginning from nothing and evolving into all we have today.., WOW! what faith THAT must take!
2007-10-07 03:18:43 · answer #2 · answered by gg28 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As a Christian I don't take the 7 days of creation as being 7 actual days. In fact, it doesn't bother me how many days or years. While much support exist for an earth that is closer to 4.5 billion years old that too is unimportant. What concerns me is with what took place in the Garden of Eden and why Adam and Eve rebelled against God causing them to be evicted from the Garden and back to this place called Earth.
I do not doubt that if God wanted to create another world in 7 days that he can do it. But my feelings are that the creation story was placed there as a point of reference but that the old important issue was rebellion. Not dinosaurs, not creatures coming out of a body of water and that over time they walked on earth and then bingo, the internet.
Rebellion is that free flowing radical in the soul. How do we contain it. How do we exercise better behavior with others and especially with those that don't share our same views. While I can and do enjoy sitting down and discussing any issue with an atheist even religion, I will draw the line on personal attacks. My atheist friends have learned that. They also know that I will never ever try to convert them to christainity.
2007-10-07 03:19:36 · answer #3 · answered by Tinman12 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It was 6 days and God rested the 7th. Yes. 6 -24 hour days. The Bible (AV) reads " and the evening and the morning were the first day" and " the second day " and etc. thru the 6th. Hebrew days began at 6PM in the evening and ended at 6 AM in the morning thus the wording using evening first to describe a day. I believe God used this language purposely to establish the 24 hour day as well as to establiush that he did indeed create the earth in 6 - 24 hour days. He also established the 7 day week as well by resting on the 7th. day. With God nothing is impossible!
2007-10-07 03:11:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, they were 7 of Gods days, which are a great deal longer than ours. Nobody knows how long, but if you accept 660 million years, then each corresponds the major geological, periods for the Earth.
2007-10-07 03:34:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I personally do, but I don't think it's anything to get all worked up about. God could have done it all in 7 nanoseconds if He'd wanted to. But it just seems the "then the evening and the morning" part indicates 7 literal days.
2007-10-07 03:04:45 · answer #6 · answered by RayeKaye 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Had it been done in something other than an actual day, a different word would have been used in the writing. we don't always understand how awedome He is so we usually try to fit Him into what we believe, which is wrong.
2007-10-07 03:10:10 · answer #7 · answered by michael m 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
All I know is God said he created everything and I believe
in God so it does not matter to me how long it took him
7 day,s or 7 year,s, ,the thing is he got it done.
2007-10-07 03:05:22 · answer #8 · answered by elaine 30705 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, if you mean 7 days in our time, then no. I believe that it was in another kind of time, God's time, which we don't know how long or short that is.
2007-10-07 03:04:56 · answer #9 · answered by Amber 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In the Hebrew, the word they use for "days" can also mean time periods. Also "evening" and "morning" can mean "end" and "beginning." There are a lot of poetical symbols in the Bible
2007-10-07 03:10:40 · answer #10 · answered by Robin Runesinger 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋