For all you Christians out there, a day in the Bible is a 24-hour day, not 1'000+ years! Have a look!?

Question

Given the overwhelming evidence that the earth is absolutely older than 6,500 years old, Christians try to justify this by saying that a day in God's eye could be 1'000 years or longer. This is not possible! And this is why.

Adam was made on the sixth day (Genesis 1:26-31) which was supposedly thousand of years long. This was followed by the 7th day which was also thousands of years long. Following the 7th day, Adam fell into sin and was expelled from the Garden. This would mean Adam lived thousands of years, which is false, since he died at age 930 (Genesis 5:5).

Genesis 1:5 surely spoke of literal day and literal night, and the inference from the statement, “And the evening and the morning were the first day,” is that it was a literal day of evening and morning, 24-hours.

If a day is an era, then much of the Old Testament becomes chaotic. For example, in each of the following verses the same Hebrew word “yom” is employed: “And the flood was forty days upon the earth” (Genesis 7: 1 7), “And he [Moses] was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights” (Exodus 34:28), and “Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights...” (Deuteronomy 9:25). If “yom” means era instead of a 24-hour period, Moses was “there with the Lord” for a VERY long time.

If a day is an era, why are an evening and a morning even mentioned? Actual days must be intended, otherwise, men who lived hundreds of years, e.g., Seth and Noah, would really have lived millions of years. If a day is an era, then a year must be tremendously long, perhaps encompassing hundreds of millions of years;

Answer 1

Another question that prompts here is that..Is English bible words of God? people insist that bible is word of God and they also insists that translation is also done under the inspiration of holy spirit, than why do they say that, no! no!! inn hebrew "A day" may have meaning of long period!!!

Answer 2

Dude this is sooooo tired. You win the earth is 5 billion years old, dinosaurs existed, the big bang was 14 billion years ago, man evolved from bacteria, adam and eve are a myth as is the flood, Moses was actually Amenhotep, the hebrews in the old testament were savages Fine. No problem you win. Game over ....And I still believe that God exist,Jesus was God incarnate, he died to justify us and we will have eternal life in a place called heaven. Your point?

Answer 3

The hebrew word that is used does not refer to any specific amount of time.. it could refer to a 24 hour day, 1,000 years, or any segmnent of time that passes.
The reason many Christians say that a "day" in genesis could mean 1,000 years is because of a seperate verse that states "one day to God is like a thousand years".
The book of Genesis was written by man, (presumably Moses, but thats not a fact). Many Christians assume God showed Moses how he created the Earth over a 6 day period, not that God only took 6 days to create.

Answer 4

there is no over whelming evidence the world is millions of years old. That knowledge came from some man who was probably sitting on a john picking his nose and said hay look I see time and the sand, oh my I am wise and now the world is millions of yrs old. You follow books all created by the wisdom of a man, who lived only 40 yrs or so. HE KNOWS TIME? how the dust settles...come on. Who has had the time to study the land for a thousand yrs and see how it forms? IF such a man lived I would follow his teachings. Some guy with his created wisdom plops crap in a computer, the computer jumps up stuff that you have to trust on this guy that created time. No one knows where or how the dust lays but God...

Answer 5

What difference could it possibly make to some one who doesn't believe that God exists whether He meant 24 hours or 1000. Who are you trying to convince, us or your self? And this is not a question, it is an opinion, so you really don't want an answer any way. By the tone of your statement, you have the answer you want any way. Have a nice night.

Answer 6

The apostle Peter wrote: “Let this one fact not be escaping your notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:8, 9)

According to this way of figuring time, an 80-year-old person has lived only about two hours, and all of mankind’s history has lasted only about six days. When we look at things from this perspective, it becomes easier for us to understand God’s way of dealing with us.

Man’s situation does not compare with that of the Creator, who does not reside within our solar system and who is not affected by its various cycles and orbits. Of God, who is from time indefinite to time indefinite, the psalmist says: “For a thousand years are in your eyes but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch during the night.” (Ps 90:2, 4) Correspondingly, the apostle Peter writes that “one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” For man, a 1,000-year period represents some 365,242 individual time units of day and night, but to the Creator it can be just one unbroken time period in which he begins the carrying out of some purposeful activity and brings it on to its successful conclusion, much as a man begins a task in the morning and concludes it by the day’s end.

Adam and Eve irreparably damaged their relationship with Jehovah and inflicted sin’s imprint upon their organism, right to its genetic foundations. True, they lived for hundreds of years, but they began to die “in the day” of their sin, as a branch severed from a tree would.

God had warned Adam and Eve that if they were disobedient and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, they would die “in the day” of their eating. (Genesis 2:17) True to his word, Jehovah called them to account on the very day of their sinning and pronounced the sentence of death. From God’s standpoint, Adam and Eve died that day. To carry out his purpose regarding the earth, however, God allowed them to produce a family before they died physically. Nevertheless, since God can view 1,000 years as one day, when Adam’s life ended at 930 years, it was within one “day.” (2 Peter 3:8; Genesis 5:3-5)

Geologists estimate that the earth is approximately 4 billion years old, and astronomers calculate that the universe may be as much as 15 billion years old. Do these findings, or their potential future refinements, contradict Genesis 1:1? No. The Bible does not specify the actual age of “the heavens and the earth.”

Answer 7

The first few days of genesis did not have a sun. The 24 hour period is how long it takes us to revolve around the sun. So we don't know how long those days before a sun was created. It comes down to this for me any way. God was trying to explain something to a primative people. A day just ment a long period of time. The primative people would understand if he said a day. If you tried to say it took a millenium they would not have understood the concept. He put it into simple language for them to understand.

Answer 8

My friend you have God's time with that of the Hebrew day mixed up, which is from sun rise to sun down. 2nd Peter 3...1000 years is as a day

Answer 9

Your problem is - the 7th day has no length. On the 7th day, God "rested", that is, stopped creating. In other words, the 7th day is simply all of time after the days of creation ended. We are still in the 7th "day".

Answer 10

i dont know man, its a book. its just got good morals and things to think about. but you really put a lot of work into this so thanks for the interest.