Interview Responses For this exercise, I interviewed three of my friends including Alex, Grace, and James. Below, I offer their responses to the questions I asked. Question: How long are the days in Genesis 1? Why? Alex's Response The days were ordinary-length days, i.e. they were basically 24-hour days. The Bible clearly states that God made both heaven and earth in six days. If the days were in any way longer than 24 hours, the Bible would have stated so explicitly. Grace's Response The six days stated in Genesis 1 are most likely symbolic. Taking the term "day" literary in this context would be erroneous. This I say because creation (from the Genesis account) was done from a divine (not earthly) perspective. James' Response The days were just like the normal days we are used to, i.e. 24 hours. My response in this case is largely based on what is written. Stating otherwise would be contrary to what is written in the Bible. My Response The days in Genesis 1 were not equivalent to 24 hours. It is important to note that depending on the context, the word "day" could have different meanings. For instance, a day could be used to refer to that period before darkness, a 24-hour period, etc. We cannot therefore assign the term "day" in Genesis 1 a definitive meaning. In the final analysis therefore, the only thing we can do is speculate as to how long the days in Genesis 1 really were. As Till (1986) observes, "neither geology nor astronomy can answer questions about
Nevertheless, as the verses continue and the days witness the world ever shifting in design, we notice a change in direction, especially in regards to the events during the fourth and fifth day. After God separates land from sea, creates the sky (or
Fourth day for both the Geniuses part of the bible and the Babylonian created the bright sun, dim light moon, and the shinning stars. That brought light with sleep, from day to night. Fifth day together came the development of men and women. Having men and women created brought love, work, and reproduction for the future. Even though have the humans on earth now would bring some type of destruction to the nature of the
Earth was empty and desolate. God then created light, and separated it from darkness. That was 1st day.
Everything in the universe was created simultaneously by God, and not in seven calendar days like a plain account of Genesis would require but the six-day structure of creation presented in the book of Genesis represents a logical framework, rather than the passage of time in a physical way - it would bear a spiritual, rather than physical, meaning, which is no less literal.
Therefore, my following question is: Could God really have created everything in six days? In other words, why is six days? Ok, let me explain how long the day God referred were first. If we followed context and normal definitions, without being influenced by outside ideas, the word for “day” found in Genesis 1, which was qualified by a number, the phrase “evening and morning” and for Day 1 the words “light and darkness”, which obviously meant an ordinary day include 24 hours. In Exodus 31:15-17, “Six days may work be done, but on the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Therefore the sons of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant. It is a sign between me and the sons of Israel forever. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested, and was refreshed.”
There was a big difference in the main question of the story: "How was the Earth created?". In the Genesis creation story, there was nothing in sight for man to lay eye on; until God said "Let there be light" and so there was light. God created everything from the division of light and dark, day and night, good and evil, to the existence of grass, trees, living creatures, seasons, years, and days. God then created man in his own image, Adam, who was given the responsibility of naming whatever faced the Earth. God then created what Adam later
There is no mention of the seventh day in the second story and to be completely accurate, there is no mention of any days at all. In all reality, when left to interpretation by the reader, the creation in the second story could have been done over a period of one or two days. The style of the stories is what allows the difference in order to be noticed. In the first story, God is a heavenly creator with no human characteristics.
(2) Defines what constitutes what a day means for the purposes of the contract. For the purposes of the contract, a day represents 24 consecutive hours.
It comes to play because “indeterminate length” was referring to how long the day was in the Bible during the process of Creation. In the Bible, it is written that the world was created in 6 days; the 24 hours were not created until later, so the “6 days” can actually be months or years more.
In Genesis 2:3, there is a description of Sabbath day. ‘So, God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.’ Although this journal is not application journal, through this verse I could see some similarity between God’s creation for 7
Until you get to Genesis 1:5, there was no time as we know it today “twenty-hour,” when God called the light day and the darkness night. And there was evening and there was morning. Here you can say any given day between dusk and dawn. The Lord Jesus Christ spoke of a day of twelve hours, assuredly of light since does not stumble (John 11:9). The lord Jesus also indicates that the day is the time of opportunity for services that
Newman is quick to point out that there are many variations of the old earth creationist position. Of these, however, he finds three main varieties, which differ primarily in their views on the nature of the days of the creation week. These three categories are: (1) The day-age view. As implied by the title, this view considers the days to be chronological, but not 24-hour periods. Rather, they are long spans of time,
What Genesis 1-11 Teaches Us About Worldviews on Natural World, Human Identity, Human Relationships, and Civilization? Genesis 1-11 teaches us many things of the Creator and his creation. Genesis’ first 11 chapters teach us about many things of the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and civilization. Through these teachings we form a worldview.
Another possibility is that Genesis was also put in the Bible to show us how important the creation of man was. After all we are the only things that God created in his image (Gen 1:26). God makes a garden in Eden and puts Adam in the eastern part of Eden to care over and keep it in order. He then instructs him about what trees to eat from and which to not eat from. Before God makes him a helper (on the 6th day) he brings all the creatures to Adam to name all the animals and birds (Gen 2:15). Then God reflects back at what he previously made before man. (Gen 1:24-25 explains the creatures made from the earth “according to its kind”) and has Adam name them before he puts him asleep to operate on him to give him his wife
On the seventh day God decided The heavens and the earth were finished and filled with life' and god rested from his work and all that he had made'