Do u believe god created the world in 7 days??

Question

not including the 7th day. I just think thaty there is to much evidence to prove this wrong. what do u think???

Answer 1

It was a HELL OF A JOB........lol. What is a day? 24 hours? Sunset to sunrise? Sunrise to sunrise? What about the North Pole where a "day" lasts 6 months? The South Pole the same. If the concept of a day is 24 hours.......then it would be a unit of measurement. Units of measurement are created by man. Therefore it could not have been 6 days or 7 days, because days didn't even exist since man at that time did not exist. The people that wrote all that tripe should have given that story more thought.

Answer 2

The Word of God says,



In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.



And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved over the face of the waters. That's Genesis 1, verses 1 and 2.



And God said, Let there be light, and there was light...Verse 3.



Does it say how much time elapsed between the events and circumstances of verses 1 & 2 and the events in verse 3? No. It does not. It goes on to say in verse 4 that when He said, "Let there be light," and there was light that He also separated the light and the darkness, calling the light Day and the darkness Night, verse 5. When we see Him create night and day we also see the creation of the first day.



How has man told time since the earliest findings of man utlizing time? By night and day, right? Before night and day were created then there was only a void and darkness, therefore, there was no way to tell time.



So when we actually *read* the Bible rather than just assume that we know what's going on when God is creating life as we know it, then we have no choice but to be honest with ourselves and admit that there really is no way of knowing whether the heaven and the earth was created in the same day that God said, "Let there be light," and there was light followed by the creation of night and day - or if the earth stood formless and void for billions years, time-span-wise, before the separation of night and day as the first day. Why is there no way of knowing? Because God actually does not say. He does not say that billions of years passed between the creation of heaven and earth and the speaking of the light into existence. He does not say that heaven and earth and the light were created all in the same day. We can look and look and look - and we can even scour the ancient Hebrew in which the text was originally written and dissect it letter by letter - but an exact timeframe between these events is just not there.

Answer 3

No disrespect intended towards organized religion, but I find it hard to believe that what we know as the world (and even larger, the universe) was created in a mere 7 days. I understand the importance of faith and why people need to believe in a higher power, but there is no tangible proof or evidence that "God/Allah" created the world. As a matter of fact, there is no real evidence that these Dieties even exist. I know some may disagree with my opinion and and that is totally fine, I dont want to step on any toes but lets face it, we will never come to an agreement about this subject. Those who believe in it, will continue to do so. As much as you can produce scientific evidence to prove evolutionary theory, big bang, etc. someone else will produce their own evidence as to why those theories are totally wrong and that God is responsible for this beautiful planet that we live on. I have learned that we shouldn't try to change what a person believes in. What we should be doing is listening and trying to understand while at the same time maintaining our of integrity of opinion. Together we can focuse on solving the problems that affect us now and worry about what happens in the next life, when we get there. Take care : )

Answer 4

God did NOT create the world in 6 or 7 days, no matter how long those "days" were in length. That is a common mistake people make because of a failure to look closely at the Genesis account of creation. If you will notice at Gen. 1:1, 2 that the earth (as well as the material heavens) were already in existence BEFORE the first "day" started. The 6 creative days had nothing to do with the creation of the earth. Instead, they were vast time periods that Jehovah used to prepare the already-created earth for animal and human habitation. Before those days started, the earth could have been in existence for millions, if not billions, of years.

Answer 5

In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth.





At some time later God took 6 creating days (the bible doesn't say how long that day is) to prepare the earth for man and animals.



Day in the bible can mean 24 hrs, 12 hrs, 1000 years, a life time of an individual.



The preparation day is ???? hours long.



That's a different an interesting question.

Answer 6

There is reason to:

A) believe in an old age universe, and

B) believe that God created what was on the Earth in 6 24/hour cycle days.



Notice what the bible says:

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth"

---This is the first verse of the first chapter of the first book in the bible. The existence of the universe was created by God. How long did that take? Well, the existence of the heavens and the earth precedes the statement "God created the heavens and the earth" because created is used in past tense here. It could be billions of years. But notice the focus of the next verse.



"Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. "

---the focus is earth, and the point of reference if right above the oceans or waters of the earth.

---From this point on, the Sun existed and the moon existed. It would be illogical to have had some expansion of the universe (either from big bang or not, but definetly from a singularity) create the mass of the earth and not that of the sun or the moon or the milky way galaxy for that matter. Look at the point of reference. God is hovering over the waters. Then he said Let there be light! And there was light. God called the light day and the dark night.

The next day, God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day."

---Now we have a translucent atmosphere that allows light to penetere the atmosphere. That atmosphere was opaque before and would not allow sunlight to penetrate.

The next day God said "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.



Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

---This could only be done if plant-life could photosynthesize.

Notice what happens on day four.

God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.



---Now the atmosphere was transparent rather than translucent. God does not have to recreate the sun, but the text stated that God in fact is the Creator of the sun and the moon and the stars. Its a statement that God created everything that is visible and now we are affected by the gravitaitonal affect the moon has on us and the effect that ultraviolet radiation have on us as a result of a transparent atmosphere.



You see, the universe took billions of years to be where it was at (including the mass of earth as protoplanet), but only a few days to make protoearth a life-sustainable.

God didnt create the heavens and the earth in seven days. He created the universe, then in a matter of a few days, made it life-sustainable.



I used to think that each day was a stage or era, but then I read a little closer into the text, its order, focus and frame of reference, and deduced that God is not illogical, as our laws of nature are not illogical, but that If I adhered to the doctrine that the Sun was created on the fourth day, then I have to place the sun and moon onto the galaxy model after the creation of the universe, and that is completely illogical. It is simpler that the sun and moon were there with the earth at the point of creation when the universe was set in motion and that the opaqueness of the atmosphere of protoearth did not allow for sunlight to penetrate the surface.

Answer 7

Well, let's look at it this way. The Bible says a thousand years are like but a moment in God's eyes. So, let's say a moment is a second (actually, it is less than that). There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day. So.. you do the math. A day in God's time is far more than ours, as He is not in time. That is why He knows what will happen without having to influence it. That is why He is God. :-) Numbers 6:24 to you.

Answer 8

First of all Evolution is still a theory. It has never been 'proven', It was just hypothesized, by one man. And I can guarantee that Darwin now knows the truth.



And I absolutely believe that God created everything. Maybe He didn't do it a conventional 7 day period. But I believe the relevance of time is different to God than to us. But the 7 days is not a deal breaker for me. Whether it was 7 days or 7 years, God still created everything around us.

Answer 9

Yes I do believe. It can never be feasible to compare what God does on a human level. WE cannot create the world in 7 days, so what makes you think that God, our supernatural creator, cannot do it. Who are we to question this if we cannot even begin to concieve a thought close to his level and stature. Evidence may exist, but no scientific or technological 'theory' can explain the wonders of God. Analyzing the length of a day is totally irrelevant. Yes I do believe...and that is different to knowing.



Similarly, many of us know that Jesus died on the cross, but how many of us BELIEVE that he died for our sins. Think about it. Just questioning what God does is a sign that you do not believe. Accept, repent and believe and you will see him face to face in the next life my friend.

Answer 10

exactly what evidence are you looking at? the secular humanists "proof"???? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

after each day of creation god said "the morning and the evening were the 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc... day" Last time I checked, a morning and an evening were a literal 24 hour day. Those other verses that people reference about "a day being as a thousand years" is taken TOTALLY out of context; that verse is speaking to the fact that God does not live a physical, linear existence like mankind does, time is meaningless to God. He is GOD for crying out loud, He spoke and it was! why would the God of the universe take billions of years to do ANYTHING? all these other theories of how long it took is nonsense and just one proof of how infiltrated the church has become to humanistic thinking. besides, the only record we have is God Himself saying how long it took. There were no "unbiased scientists" recording their observations of creation.

go to www.answersingenesis.org and get some real proof

As a side note, although I know what I believe, it really has nothing to do with the real message, that of God's plan of salvation through Christ Jesus His Son....

Answer 11

I think like many others said that God created the Earth and everything in it in 6 of God's days. He rested on the seventh day. Things in science are not proven like the big bang- they're just theories that will never be proven because they didn't happen. If it were only 7 of our days ,though, he could still do it because he is truly amazing and miraculous.

Answer 12

Judging from my reading of the account from biblical Hebrew, think of it this way.



In order to create a planet capable of sustaining human life, an almighty being or beings (the original Hebrew word can be translated "the mighty") needed to:



1. Bring together enough matter to form a planet.

2. Bring together enough elemental gases (nitrogen, oxygen, etc. in proper balance, along with water...

3. Set the planet in motion around a life sustaining star.

4. Populate the planet's seas and land masses with enough "sustainable vegetation type of stuff" to house and feed the "little critters" which then feed the bigger critters, etc.

5. Populate the planet with reproducing animal critters of all sizes in the oceans and on the land.



After all that,



6. Bring mankind into existence



Six creative periods in the original Hebrew, translated as days.... makes sense to me because there is nothing that says that each of those creative periods wasn't eons long, and the fossil record does support long periods of relative stability followed by explosive changes to the life forms on the planet. Mankind arrives very late in the fossil record, by the way... say in creative period #6.



And then the "mighty" rested from labors on the so called "seventh day". Sort of like taking a break after move in day, don't you think?

Answer 13

How come the xtians are all unable to figure out how long a day is? Just look at all the varying periods they give. You would think that anything real would have some level of cinsistancy. So No, I don't believe in God or in the Seven days of Crustation. I believe it is all a hoax.

Answer 14

Do you think God would lie about it? He said that He created it all in six days and rested on the seventh. A day was a day, because He said the evening and the morning were the first day.

If a person believes in God, they must also believe what He says. If you don't believe what He says, why believe at all?

Answer 15

God's sense of time is not according to a 24 hour rotation of the earth. 2 other answerers got it right , a day to Jehovah can be a thousand years ( notice how he told adam and eve that the day they ate the fruit they would die and adam ended up living 930 years). A day is also used to represent a period of time. Since God is still resting on his seventh day, then the creation days could have been 6000 years or longer.

Answer 16

Well, the Bible doesn't really define what a "day" is...I mean, a day back when God was making the Earth might be like 1 million years in today's time. So yes, I believe God made the world in 7 God days.

Answer 17

I believe that what is meant by "God created the world in seven days" is that He creates a world in Seven Ways.

I think that whom ever re-wrote the bible scriptures or decoded it, did not understand this. So they changed it to what they felt was right and understandable.



God creates a world in seven ways. And a world is a life. or even a moment.



How does one feel about one they love, they think the world of them. and so forth for other things as well.



I feel that the bible, was written out of philosophical words, not in blunt words.



With the intention of examples, not in blunt descriptions.



And that those with the Heart to see the Truth, sees it. Those who want to know, Know. Those whom want to hear, hear.Those with have eyes to see, let them see.



When we knock with the question, we find the answer. Only when we ourselves individually, question the bibles words, do we find the answers to them. Yet if we let churches define it for us, we are Not Knocking.

Answer 18

I do not think that God created the world in seven days. I agree with you that we now have too much evidence to the contrary. I think that the creation story reflects the understanding of the people who lived at those times. Obviously we have learned a lot since then.

Answer 19

The Bible says evening and morning were the first day; evening and morning were the second day and so forth. Why else do we have a seven day week? The sun nor the moon dictate the weekly cycle. Why not have three ten day work weeks and that's it to a month. Who "created" the seven day week? Why?

Answer 20

Yes..I think this was six literal days...He is God and He can do things however He likes!...and He made the seventh day for rest...not because He needed to rest...but because we do. I think that the creation we see as such a huge undertaking, was probably a small thing for Him to speak into existence. He is Almighty God...and we can only see a tiny portion of His awesome power in the world around us.

Answer 21

The only evidence I need is the bible, yes. I can see problems with some of the data, yes. Bottom line: believe God before idle speculations of man. The problems are not crucial to faith.

Answer 22

Quran says God created in 6 days and rested the 7th day. The word rested was not mentioned literally, but I am not hear to translate it. It meant that we are allowed to have a days rest too.

God does not nee dot rest as He does not tire. Furthermore, He is able to creat it in one second, but He wants us to know that the week is 6 days work and 1 day rest.

These are Muslims beliefs. If you don't buy them, we are all free to think what we like.

Answer 23

Its 6 days in Islam. U cn check out Quran, it is mentioned in it. GOD can do whatever He wants. If He would wanted to create it in a second, He wud do it. He has the power for everything!

Answer 24

I believe that time as mankind now knows it, did not exist at the begining of the creation of this universe... so the time it took God to do it dose not matter a bit to mankind today. We must now deal with time as it is now... I have a page of my pov on the subject on my websit if you care to read. Here is the direct link r to it.



http://pages.zdnet.com/mikevanauken/outreach/id58.html



my christian brothers and sisters wont agree but as no one knows for sure... any one can make up whatever they like...



God did it... how he did it he will reveal in His own time... till then I am not going to worry too much about it.

Answer 25

Not it the sense that one day is equivalent to a 24 hour period.



No place in the bible does it say a day was 24 hours.

The wording in Genesis chapter 1 and 2 indicates that considerable lengths of time were involved.



http://watchtower.org

Answer 26

If you think there's evidence for (a 6 or 7 day creation), I'm seriously worried about our education system.



If he did create the world in a few days, he tricked us with an awful lot of evidence to make us think it was done over 4.5 Billion years ago.

Answer 27

idont now much but i belive in this that god had created it in six days because he is god and god who had created this huge universe it is not difficult for him to make it in 6 days who knows what he means by saying 6 days creation . it is upon time what time he means by saying 6 days may b his days are longer then over ones on earth or may b some other resons example on many planets days and nights are longer then uovers and on many planets thy are shorter then over days. the whole game is of time

Answer 28

They are going to say 7 days in god years is 7 billion, Genesis would be way to long to elaborate on this

Answer 29

Please read my words carefully:

If you see footmark in the sand, you'll say that someone passed from here...

If you see a piece of dog sh*t on the ground, you'll say that a dog passed from here...

So what about the enormous universe, the sky, stars, planets, earth and all the beauty in it, doesn't it lead to that someone made it?!!!



Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:

If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!



Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planets, the eco-system on earth, look even in your own body... Can you control your heart-beat? Can you control your breath while you're sleeping? Who stopped your eye-lashes from growing after reaching a certain length? Who told the baby turtles to move towards the sea and not to the earth after they come out of their eggs? Who taught the bird how to make nests?



My friend, think with your heart and brain. If you're still lost, think about the following:



Do you know how to play safe?

Your point:

If there's no God and you do all what you want in life, then nothing will happen to you after life. But if there was God and you were mistaken, then you'll blame yourself FOREVER...



Believer's point:

If there's God and I followed His commands in life, then I'll be in Heaven after life FOREVER. But if there was no God and we're mistaken, then nothing bad will happen to us after life...



Now you know how to play-safe, in case you're not convinced?

Answer 30

yes i do believe it. However I do also know that it does not say "solar day" but simply the aramaic word for "time period"

Further if you look at the scientific version of creation, the real science not the high school stuff, you will see six distinct time periods from the big bang (let there be light) to the final period which we are just past, makeing us in the 7th cycle of creation now, resting... I recomend Steve Hawkins " brief history of time" for further research.

Answer 31

You're a master (or mistress) of understatement. "Too much evidence to prove this wrong". Let's be blunt-there is no evidence whatsoever to prove it's right.

Answer 32

What is that evidence you have to prove this wrong? I believe in it. Allah is created to world in 6 days. This is in the Quran that I believe in.



Peace

Answer 33

no He created it in 6 days

Answer 34

in 6 days and the 7th day of rest

Answer 35

In as much as I was not around to see how everything came into being (and neither were you),I say, "I don't know ..... YET!" To assume that some god, my less than intellectual ancestors made up, instantaneously farted the universe into being, is absurd

Answer 36

I actually did it in about 6 and 3/4. I like to think myself as a miracle-worker

Answer 37

There is actually no evidence, scientific or other wise to prove it wrong.

To much of Earths natural time keepers show a relatively young and fastly created earth.

Answer 38

You're reading the word "days" in English, when it was actually written in Hebrew. The word originally used is better defined as time periods, not necessarily 24-hour time periods.

Answer 39

Nope i don think he need that long. He can make not only the world but the entire universe and beyond with just by saying "KUN".

Answer 40

well, they're pretty sure that it took 30 days to actually create the moon so I imagine it took more than 7 days to create the earth. maybe the concept of 7 or the concept of day was different in Biblical times--there, now that's a good copout

Answer 41

It loses something in translation. Each "day" mentioned is not the 24 hour day as we know it. I believe the reference was to yugas, rather than to what we know as the day.



The traditional timescale of the yugas is as follows:



Satya Yuga or Krita Yuga - 1,728,000 years

Treta Yuga - 1,296,000 years

Dvapara Yuga - 864,000 years

Kali Yuga - 432,000 years

Answer 42

He created it in 6 days,on the 7th he rested.Its in my bible so I believe it!God-Bless ya!

Answer 43

Yes I do .......whatever 7 days means[in actual days or longer] He's God and He can do it!!

Answer 44

I think you don' have any "evidence" either way. God can do anything.

Answer 45

“Do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years, as one day.” – 2 Peter 3:8



What do you believe?

Answer 46

In bible chronology, the six figurative days is actually 49,000 yrs.

But the earth itself is millions of years old.

Answer 47

according to islam they are just 6 days

Answer 48

no.



and all this BS about "one day equals 1,000 years" or a million years is just pathetic excuse-making for something that clearly is nonsense dreamed up by primatives who didn't know any better.

Answer 49

Of course it's wrong!

Answer 50

never. it takes god 7 days for god to go find his way to the nearest lavatory. knowing how huge the universe is

Answer 51

First, I think you need some grammar lessons



However, you are correct, it's a myth...

Answer 52

7 of God's days - which I have a sneaking suspicion isn't the same thing as man's days.



Thanks

Answer 53

yeah i do believe that He created it in 6 days!!!

Hes GOD... HE CAN DO ANYTHING!!!

Answer 54

i think it's nonsense, like the rest of the buy-bull

Answer 55

if you really believe in g-d , you'd believe he can do anything.

Answer 56

not sure :D