If God is so powerful why couldn't he just create the universe in one day?

Question

why did he have to go through creating humans out of dust, when he just created light by saying,"let there be light?"

Answer 1

SEE? If you think about ALOT of religious crap you will come up with many questions just like the one you put on here. There is SOOO much wrong with the beliefs in Christianity.

Answer 2

Well, I have been told that the word for day in the language Genesis was written in was 'yom' which can also mean a great expanse of time. Kind of like, how we say "It took ages to get served at the coffee shop" it didn't really take ages literally, but the term 'ages' could mean aeons of time, or five minutes longer than we wanted to wait. I could be wrong about this, but that's what I've been told.

It may have just been a mechanism for the writers of the old testament to express how an immense event occurred in stages, and to signpost these stages as 'days'.

If there is a God, I believe he would not want us to look for proof of creation as a week long event, but rather have faith in his existence even when there is no evidence to support it.

So the miracle of creating the universe isn't that it happened in 7 days, or in 1 day, but that it happened at all. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

That would have been too easy, not to mention insufficient for the writers of the time.

They had to come up with a 7 day creation myth as typically people had a 7 day week so this explained why the week was this long. Then because they wanted to treat one day as holy, they said he rested on the 7th day so we would do the same thing. However this also doesn't make sense because he's gawd, she's all powerful and it's able to do anything it wants. So really there's no reason for gawd to rest.

And for humans being made of dust, I think it had to do with once a person has rotted away to nothing eventually they "turn to dust" and this had a nice circular reasoning to it.

Answer 4

God could have did it in one day, or he could have done it in 100 days. It would be just as much a miracle of creation either way.

But by doing it in the logical steps that he did, God showed the different in his dealings between the whole rest of the universe, and the earth that he made as the home of man. The difference in his dealing with the non-living earth, and living matter. Also the difference in how he treats plants and animals. And finally the special place that he made for man.

By doing it in that fashion, he helps us to understand the order, progression, and important of the different things within his creation. And to see ourselves as his final, crowning achievement, not just one of the billions of things he made in a single split second.

Usually when God does something, he uses a way that is for our benefit more than his.

Answer 5

That which you STATE, is upon all that was written in the TORAH. A "one" sided point of view coming only from "one" culture. Though it has influenced many to look upon creation in light of their viewpoint, it is NOT the only one, NOR is it the INTELLIGENT one. So why take it "literally ?"

Answer 6

The fact that He created the world and human beings should be proof enough of His power.... people refuse to believe Truth as it already stands. Why ask for more signs if you refuse to believe what He's already done?

Answer 7

can you create a universe in ONE DAY?

Answer 8

If the earth hadn't been created yet, how could there be one day? One day as we know it is 24 hours, the time it takes for the earth to revolve once. Who knows how God sees one day or 7?

Answer 9

make the universe, 6 days? sounds pretty effin baller to me. Half the time we can't even make up our minds :P

Answer 10

He had a plan and created a work week for us to follow. He was setting an example.