Question:
Christians, when god created everything in six days...?
God's Father
2013-03-08 15:16:48 UTC
...and took a well earned rest on the seventh (because he found it really tiring), was that earth days being talked about, or days from a different planet?

On planets with intelligent life, that have days twice as long as ours, did god tell them he created everything in three days?

Or does god live on a planet himself, and the 'days' he was referring to, were of his own planet's?
Ten answers:
Gary B
2013-03-08 15:38:51 UTC
The Hebrew word "shabath" is translated into English as "rested". ("shabath" is where the word "Sabbath" comes from).



"Shabath" DOES NOT have any meaning of being tired. The more correct meaning is "desist" or "to cease ones labors". It means the work is done because there is no more to do.. It does NOT mean that God was tired, it means that He had completed His tasks.



God's sense of time is NOT like our sense of time, God can see the past, the present, and the future as if they were all happening at some generic point in time called "now". HOW He does that we don't know, because our minds are too tiny to conceive of that happening.



But it is YOUR limited thinking that causes you to ask this question. YOU are particularly unable to conceive of such Godly matters, and thus you draw wrong conclusions because you try to limit God's capabilites into things YOU understand, instead of making the effort to understand the things of God that are MUCH greater than you..



Of course, we KNOW that some other time definition than "earth day" MUST have been used, as God didn't make the Sun until the FOURTH "day". Until then, God Himself provided the light necessary for the plants to grow, as they were made on the THIRD day!



The point is, God is TRANSCENDENT to the Universe. He is IN and AROUND the Universe, but He is not PART OF the universe. He doesn't live on some planet (like the Mormon's think), as that would limit God to the physical scale of the planet itself..



God, being transcendent, can define "a day" as ANYTHING He wants to!
2013-03-08 15:22:07 UTC
God didn't rest because He was tired. God rested because He was done creating. God created everything in six 24 hour earth days. Earth is the only planet with intelligent life.
?
2013-03-08 15:21:12 UTC
Well God ended his work in six days does not mean that he was tired or exhausted. It was a term meaning that what started was completed and nothing more he planned to do was needed.



Though some scientists may find exoplanets that are capable of housing life if they were there then God would have had to plant it there. Then you would have Christ to die for their sins as well there as he did here. Thus since the Word of God said that Christ has died once and for all; that would state life true life has only existed on this planet.
dewcoons
2013-03-08 15:24:04 UTC
As the orbits of the earth, sun and moon where not established until mid way through the week of creation, it becomes difficult to see how the first days of creation could have been 24 hours in length. They were marked by "night and day" - which on day 1 would be the change from darkness to the "day" but God creation of light.. But nothing indicates that they were 24 hour periods.



The later days of creation, however, do appear to be 24 hour periods - once the orbits of solar system were in place.
Eclectic Heretic
2013-03-08 15:40:03 UTC
Creationists come in two categories. The "literal bible" fundamentalists believe that the "6 days" means a literal 5 days of 24 hours each. The rest of the "creationists' do recognize that the 6 - 24 hour days cannot be sustained in the face of the evidence and so they resort to the assorted definitions of "days" to cling to their beliefs that "godidit". But some of us know that "god" was simply resting up to prepare for his greatest achievement. "On the eighth day, God created Harley-Davidson".

Blessings on your Journey!
Scarborough Fair
2013-03-08 15:24:41 UTC
Many Christians see that part of the creation story and the part about Adam and Eve as an allegory. It tells us important things about God, but it probably didn't happen exactly like that. It's not likely that each thing was done in a day and it's not likely that Eve talked to a snake.
Jim V
2013-03-08 15:22:17 UTC
The Hebrew word for "day" is /yom/, which has multiple meanings, including long periods of time.



Time is irrelevant to God. (and no, God was not "tired")
Rico E Suave
2013-03-08 15:20:30 UTC
Why would such a super entity who didn't have a physical body even need to rest???????????



You raise good points, are those earth days? Mercury days? Venutian Days?
?
2013-03-08 15:20:47 UTC
He based that on His time schedule and all we had to do is follow that and used it as a basis for other concepts as well.
2013-03-08 15:17:56 UTC
Days is just a symbol, there was no sun.


This content was originally posted on Y! Answers, a Q&A website that shut down in 2021.
Loading...