How long is a day in the bible (Creation)?

Question

They say the Spirit Realm has no seconds,minutes,days or hours,this would crack the code

i also heard that in the hebrew bible the word was not exactly 'day' it was 'period of time'

Answer 1

1,000 years ... 2 Peter.

Edit:

2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Answer 2

Fundamentalist literalists would say 24 hours. But since the first days were before the sun was created, that makes no sense - a 24 hour day is only relevant to the earth rotating around the sun.

Elsewhere in the Bible we're told that, to God, a day is like a thousand years. The implication is that a 'day' can be any period of time. So each day of Creation could have been a thousand years, or it could have been millions of years. Or, of course, the literalists could be correct :-) Nobody knows for sure.

Answer 3

The days mentioned in Genesis are literal, 24 hour days as described in the texts by *the evening and the morning were "the" first day or "the" second day" or the "the" third day etc... They are qualified by the word "THE" and defined as day and night. Even before the sun was created on day four, the time period is given as evening and morning by the separation of light and darkness.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
This is reinforced in various other passages like Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Here again, the word "yom" means a literal day.

Many people confuse the issue with passages like 2 Peter 3:8 --But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
This only denotes that time is immaterial to God and has no bearing on the time frame of the first week of creation.
It's funny how the meaning of the word "day" is only argued about in Genesis....no other period of a day is fought over, such as when Jonah was in the whale for three days or when the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days. No one argues that these were thousands or millions of years yet they use the same Hebrew word "yom" as Genesis.
It is only because of people's belief in millions of years of cosmic and biological evolution that people question the days of creation or the age of the earth and universe as described in the Biblical account of Genesis. There is plenty of evidence for a young age of the earth and universe and that the light we see from distant stars may not have taken billions of years to reach earth.

Answer 4

How long is a day in the bible (Creation)?

Answer 5

In hours; it varies. DAy 1, 2, and 3 were before the Sun. Moon, and stars were created (Day 4).
So those specific days presently; we do not know.
It also implies teh light for Day 1, 2, and 3 came from another source (Jesus, the lightr of the world?).

Answer 6

The original authors of the bible intended that a day was the usual 24hr day
As scientific evidence grows, contradicting the '6 day creation hypothesis', christians are now trying to reinterpret the bible's concept of the word day, in an attempt to make it appear that their crazy story agrees with the facts that have been discovered in the modern era

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Answer 7

In the Genesis creation story, a day is a normal day. What we would measure as 24 hours. Anything else does violence to the plain meaning of the story.

However, I do not believe that this story can be used to guide or, even worse, limit what science says about the origin or age of the earth and life on it.

Answer 8

2 Peter 3:8
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.


Remember; God inhabits eternity.

Answer 9

You were correct in you edit...it means a period of time. Have you ever heard the expression "in my day"? It wasn't a specific day, but a period of time.

The creation account covered MANY thousands of years, not 6 days or not even 6,000 years.

Answer 10

A day in creation can be anything, because to God time does not exist (he invented time by creating the physical world). Fundamentalists and bible literalists say it´s 24 hours but they fail to recognize that with that position they make God a deceiver because that means He "planted" evidence like millon year old dinosaur fossils to fool us