Days of Creation

[Ngozi Onyibor]

According to the Bible, God created the Earth with words of mouth. I believe 7 literal days is enough for God to command anything he wants into existence.

[María Andrea Fernández Sepúlveda]

Honestly, even before reading the book, I've never believed they were literal days. On the one hand, I believe in evolution and that a lot of the sacred texts are allegorical and, on the other hand, I think God's time is different from what we can measure or even comprehend. But, of course, I respect the different beliefs of others.

[amjohnson13mommy]

The book The Biblical Clock by Daniel Friedmann analyzed creation scientifically. One of the things discovered was that the 7 day period was not literal. So I completely agree with that analysis.

[mariana90]

Do you agree with Val Greenwood's view that the 7 days of the creation may not have been literal days? He says we can't be sure how long the time periods actually were. What do you think?

I agree it wasn't probably 7 literal days. I reviewed a book making the rounds here called The Biblical Clock written by Daniel Friedmann and Dania Sheldon where they make an interesting correlation between the timeline established in the Bible for the world’s creation and the timeline established by the scientific community for the same event. You should probably check it out if this is a topic that interests you.

My review: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=105047

[Jsovermyer]

Do you agree with Val Greenwood's view that the 7 days of the creation may not have been literal days? He says we can't be sure how long the time periods actually were. What do you think?

I agree it wasn't probably 7 literal days. I reviewed a book making the rounds here called The Biblical Clock written by Daniel Friedmann and Dania Sheldon where they make an interesting correlation between the timeline established in the Bible for the world’s creation and the timeline established by the scientific community for the same event. You should probably check it out if this is a topic that interests you.

My review: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=105047

Very interesting. I'll have to check out that book too. Thanks.

[Monet_va]

I don't think it was literally seven days. Time is relative, and I think the word 'day' was meant to symbolise a marked amount of time.

[Ellylion]

Do you agree with Val Greenwood's view that the 7 days of the creation may not have been literal days? He says we can't be sure how long the time periods actually were. What do you think?

I believe those Days should be seen from the Creator's and not human perspective. The Biblical time and our, ordinary time may differ.

[Jsovermyer]

Do you agree with Val Greenwood's view that the 7 days of the creation may not have been literal days? He says we can't be sure how long the time periods actually were. What do you think?

I believe those Days should be seen from the Creator's and not human perspective. The Biblical time and our, ordinary time may differ.

I completely agree.

[Kansas City Teacher]

The book The Biblical Clock by Daniel Friedmann analyzed creation scientifically. One of the things discovered was that the 7 day period was not literal. So I completely agree with that analysis.

Yes! I read that book also, and was thinking the same thing. He had it broken down very scientifically, and it fits with all the scientific / geological dating of the earth.

[kdstrack]

I don't see any reason not to accept the days of creation as normal 24-hour days. Something to consider. If the days were not 24 hours, how long could the plants that were created on day four have survived without the bees that were created on day five? If the days were not 24 hours, when did they become recognized as 24 hours? When the Bible says that Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born, (if the days were not 24 hours long) does that mean he was 1000 years old or just 10? God was creating the world for man, so it follows that the days would have had 24 hours from the beginning - for the benefit of man, the crown of the creation. God created an orderly world for man, with days that had light and dark, hours to work and hours to rest - just like we have now. "A day is as a thousand years" speaks to God's perspective of time and does not have anything to do with the creation. This is how God views time - totally different from man's (limited) perspective of time. God is outside of our constraints of time. He created time for man, but he is not limited to it as we are.

[Lisa A Rayburn]

No, I don't think it was a literal 7 days as we know them as humans. I don't think we can really know how long a "day" is to a deity or even if they think in those terms. That may simply be the closest term the scribe could come up with when writing Genesis in a way that we could hope to understand it.

[angiejack456]

I like to think of the 7 days actually being 7 creative periods. I don't think we can define how long in our time they really were.

[Elizabeth Pass]

I flip back and forth on this topic. God could have done it in seven days if that's what He wanted. Or, we could have used the word "day" as a substitute since we didn't have a better word for the length of time. Either way, I think God wants us to break up our week in this way and to reserve the final day for prayer and rest.

[amjohnson13mommy]

Glad you agree with me! I did a review on it, will look to see if you did too and read it.
Thanks for sharing.

[Wambui-nj]

Yeah, I do agree with him. We are not sure how days and time were measured then. It could mean periods. There is a scripture in Psalm 90:4 [New International Version] "A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night." It could mean a period of thousand years...Infact, I have seen this idea being emphasized in several documents.