if you believe a day could mean 1000 years, as theorized about the story of creation...?

Question

wouldn't that mean that god rested for 1000 years? but that would contradict his interaction with adam and eve? adam only lived to be a little over 900 years. cain and able were born when adam was in his hundreds, after adam and eve had eaten from the tree of knowledge. that would mean, that god punished adam and eve while he was resting. but how could he punish them less than a hundred years after creating the universe if he was resting for 1000 years after the 6th day?

Answer 1

No. In the Bible, a day is a day. Creationists haven't entered the 21st century, yet.

Answer 2

One interpretation is that it is saying that time has no meaning to God. On the other hand, the only thing the Bible says God was doing during the life of Adam and Eve was walking in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the day. Sounds like resting to me.

One other interpretation says that the 6 days as 6 X 1000 years represent the first 6000 years, which is coming to an end, and the last 1000 years represent the 1000 year reign of Christ on this earth.

I almost forgot, God did work in making Adam and Eve clothes from animal skins in the Garden. (But don't tell PETA!)

Answer 3

A day, age, era, eon and all of them are one Gen.2:2,4; and we are 6073 years into day seven the day that God is resting from creating Heb.4:1-12;
and Jesus will reign 1000 years for the last day Rev.20:1-6; No Satan 1000 years, and all must be made a new as before Eden, so that at the end of 49,000 years ALL CAN BE PERFECT, and this can be the preparation time that it took to make all perfect giving Satan and 1/3 angels and all the humans that are like unto them their full term in being all they want to be and then they have self to blame that they are no more Rev.20:7-10;

Eph.2:7; 3:21; The world with Jesus is without end. John 3:16l 17:3; 2 Pet.3:13; Rev.21:1-5;

Answer 4

We cannot read the bible literally and try to think of ways to make the literal meaning of the bible make sense, because oftentimes it doesnt. The world obviously was not created in 6 days...but the creation story does show us that God created everything and then rested. It shows us that God loves his creations, especially us humans, because he spent "a whole day" admiring His work. Adam and Eve were obviously not the only people on the Earth at that time because their children were both boys, and the human race wouldve ended right there if they were the only people, so clearly other people walked the planet when Adam and Eve existed. However, that does not change the fact that man's first sin was disobedience against God and led to alot of the disunity in the world. Try not to look to make sense out of the literal meanings of scripture...instead look for something deeper, there lies the answers to our faith.

Answer 5

A day is AS a 1,000 years and 1,000 years AS a day to God. It doesn't mean that a day IS 1,000 years. It means that God sees the beginning and the end at one and the same time. The Creator created time, He doesn't LIVE in time! In other words, since He sees all of time, there is no difference to Him. However, that's from His perspective in eternity. When He says a day in the creation narrative (or in any other history where it's stating a definite and finite amount of time), he's referring to OUR TIME not His eternity. So, when His Word says 6 days for creation, 7th day He rested it means days as we know them.

There is also a prophetic significance to days, too. Look at Daniel and other prophetic books of the Bible. In the prophetic terms, which the story of creation is NOT, when it reads a certain number of days or weeks it may be representative of that number in years or some other length of time. That's why there are such varying ideas of when certain end-time events will occur. Even with that, you're given some basic "road signs" that tell you around where you are in prophecy. A very good example of that is the recreation of Israel as a nation. It's prophesied in the Old Testament and by Jesus in the New Testament; it is also a mark of the countdown.

Answer 6

Maybe it took Adam and Eve a 1000 years or more to eat of the fruit of knowledge. Thus their earthly lives did not start until after the lords rest period. Then their earthly days would not have started to be numbered until after the fall. The simple fact is we just do not know.

Answer 7

Look at the first chapter of Genesis again. Notice it says after each day 'and the evening and the morning was the.......day. That is tellin us it was a literal day, not a thousand years. But after the seventh day it does not say that. God's rest day was sanctified. In the new testament we are taught that our relationship with God is a spiritual rest that we enter into. That signifies that we have been restored or resanctified in Christ.

Answer 8

The old testomony of the bible isn't meant ot be taken as notice for notice genuine. The creation tale is meant to easily bypass away the effect of God is useful, God created the international, etc. to no longer actually say that the international grow to be made in six days. i in my opinion help the great bang thought, the belief of creation of the earth from the primordial sunlight, besides as evolution, because of the fact the fact of how the earth got here to be.

Answer 9

That is why you need to study it more. Read Revelation 20, then figure out where THAT is in the timeline of creation. BTW Adam lived 930 years AFTER he was tossed from the garden.

Answer 10

The Apostle Peter said to God a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day. i.e. to God time doesn't mean anything, He has power over it. Time is just for us, in this world.

Answer 11

When they wrote the Bible they used time as good works or bad works.
When something was good it had many years.
When something was bad it had few years.
When someone had a good life they were said to have lived like 200 years or whatever.
Their time was actually different that ours because the clock and calendar were not invented yet.