Why did God make the world in 7 days?

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   renegadetoryposted 11 years ago

   Why did God make the world in 7 days?
   
   Why 7 days?  Why not in 1 or 3?  I'm interested in your responses, thank you.
   
   

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   glynch1posted 11 years ago

   First, God did not make the universe in seven days; He made it in six and rested on the seventh. Second, no one knows why He chose six days, but by that choice He set the standard for how man should regulate his life (work six days; rest one day).

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   RichardSpeaksposted 11 years ago

   He didn't. He made it in six. On the seventh, he rested. And on the eighth, he started to regret what he'd done. (Scripturally based, by the way.)

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      glynch1posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I'd like to know that Scripture that says He regretted making the universe on the eighth day.

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      RichardSpeaksposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      It was during the time of Noah. He said that he regretted having ever made man and that it was time to destroy everything. At that time, the earth was the center of the cosmos. Destroy that, and all is gone. 8th day was tongue in cheek.

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      Ozmar Evansposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      He never regretted, he gave us an agency to choose. It will be decided for us on Judgement Day!

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   JMcFarlandposted 11 years ago

   What makes you think that god created the world in any number of days - or at all for that matter?

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      RichardSpeaksposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I don't. But that wasn't the question. I'm just relating the story as written. I don't happen to believe in a god. I accept a deliberate universe, but that doesn't default to a 'god.' Don't you think? :-)

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      JMcFarlandposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I was asking the OP

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      RichardSpeaksposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      My apologies, JMcFarland.

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      JMcFarlandposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      no apologies necessary, Richard :-)

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      renegadetoryposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I'm not looking debate whether or not God created the world with this thread, that can be for another thread in which I will be happy to debate.

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      JMcFarlandposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      that's fine, but when you ask why god created the world in 7 days, you leave the door open or people like me who say that he didn't create it at all.  Just sayin'.

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      renegadetoryposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I realize that I am not be the best at wording questions.... this is only the 3rd or 4th I think I've asked on here...

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      glynch1posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Given the choice between believing that everything came into being by time and chance, and believing that an omnipotent Creator spoke it into existence, I choose to side with the Genesis account. So many other reasons exist to refute atheism.

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      JMcFarlandposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      you understand that atheism has nothing to do with evolution, which also has nothing to do with the origins of life, right?

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       glynch1posted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Please explain your position.

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       JMcFarlandposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       What is there to explain?  Atheism is a lack of a belief in a god.  It has nothing to do with how life began or whether or not evolution is true.    Even if evolution was proven false, it would not affect my atheism.

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       Etta33posted 11 years agoin reply to this

       @renegadetory...I think you asked the question very well...just look at the debate you have sparked.

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       RichardSpeaksposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       How about this... Creation remains a mystery. Big Bang, God, poof--whatever the case may be, we may well never know for certain. It's not agnosticism; rather, it's acceptance. I do not know. Of that I am certain. Most scientists, too, if honest.

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   Etta33posted 11 years ago

   He created this second earth age in 6 of His days. On the 7th, He rested. 6 stands for mankind in Biblical numerics and 7 for spiritual completeness. Those "days" are actually milleniums. One of God's days is as a thousand years to us and a thousand years to us is one of God's days. II Peter 3:8 documents this. This is why no one has ever lived through one of God's days. He told Adam and Eve that if they partook of the forbidden fruit then in the same day they would die but we know that Adam lived to be 930 years (Genesis 5:5) If this wasn't true, then God's word would be a lie and we know it isn't. So God created this second earth age in 6,000 years to us and 6 days to Him.

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      lone77starposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Beautifully reasoned, but it may be even far richer than either of us imagine. With humility we may yet find more answers that will soothe our souls.

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      renegadetoryposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      It's true that a day can can be a thousand years in some instances, but when adam was created God had established the 24 hour day.

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      RichardSpeaksposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      If one is going to use scripture, then recognize this: God made the sun and moon AFTER the first day. What gave light to the first day? And saying God himself does not count. In other words, it's a fairy tale turned into literal history by fundies.

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      lone77starposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      @renegadetory where do you get your interpretation? How do you know God had established the 24 hour day, and how do you know which uses of "day" refer to the 24-hour variety?
      
      2 Corinthians 3:6
      
      Don't pretend to know, before you learn

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      Etta33posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      It is my understanding that when God established the 24 hour day, He established OUR 24 hour day, not His. The millennium in the end is spoken of as the Lord's day. I believe that 2 Peter 3:8 is correct. Our 24 hrs. is His 1,000 years.

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      renegadetoryposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      In the book of Genesis the Hebrew word yôm was used for the word 'day' combined with numbers 'first' day, 'second' day, etc., along with the words 'evening and morning' the first time the word was used to define yôm as one night/day cycle or 24 hrs.

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      lone77starposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      And yet we have the greater and lesser lights (sun and moon) to divide the day and night created on "Day 4."
      
      This tells me that we are looking only at the "letter" and not "spirit" if we take Genesis 1 to mean six 24-hour days.
      
      There's more here

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      renegadetoryposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      The translation of the Hebrew word according to Strong's concordance is "a space of time defined by an associated term" (figuratively) or literal (as in sunset to sunset), that is the translation and that is the meaning given.

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      lone77starposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      And yet Strong's Concordance is not the Word of God, and neither is any mortal interpretation. Learn the difference between the letter and the spirit of His Wisdom. Let go of the crutches of this world, logic and ego

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       renegadetoryposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       The OT was written in Hebrew, that is a fact.  I do not speak, write or read Hebrew. This is fact.  Therefore I use other books (besides just Strong's) of translation to understand the meaning of the Hebrew words in their context.

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       lone77starposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       May peace and the love of God be with you always.

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   lone77starposted 11 years ago

   There is a great deal in Genesis that cannot be taken literally. Some, if not most, is symbolic or metaphorical. For instance, God said that Adam would die on the day he ate of the forbidden fruit, but we have Adam being kicked out of the Garden and living to the ripe old age of 930. If the Garden was a purely spiritual place and both Adam and Eve died spiritually, all of the physical description would merely be metaphor for the fall from spiritual grace.
   
   What if the "days" of Genesis 1 were zero time, outside of the space-time continuum -- and even before it existed? In creation, you start with a template or blueprint -- a thought in the mind of God -- the "Word."
   
   What if God's "day of rest" was the final ingredient which gave, as @Etta33 says, its "completeness" or "perfection?" In that case, we would be living in God's day of rest -- all 13.7 billion years of it.
   
   Seven is a number used to indicate perfection. The sevens in Genesis 4 have been discovered to link to sevens in Genesis 5 for perfecting the biblical timeline, so that now we have one that is compatible with the timelines of science.
   
   And we now also have evidence that the Jewish Kabbalists were instrumental in writing Genesis, because their "Tree of Life" is embedded in two chapters of Genesis.
   
   And with this new timeline, we now know the reason for Noah's Flood, as well as the identity of the culprit who made it necessary.

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      RichardSpeaksposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Or, and I'm guessing here, Genesis might have nothing at all to do with the origins of the universe. Perhaps mystery really is mystery and explanation may be long in coming. I tend to lean in that direction. I don't like the god of the Bible.

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      glynch1posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Adam died spiritually when he ate the fruit; that spiritual death planted the seed of his physical death some 900-plus years later.
      What do you mean by "the Garden was a purely spiritual place"? I believe the text indicates that the Garden was a real

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      RichardSpeaksposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Glynch1: It seems you may be adding interpretation where none is due. If one takes the Bible literally, Adam did not die spiritually. The passages refer to physical death. He did not die after eating. The serpent told the truth.

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      lone77starposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Glynch1, are you implying that physical death was tied to Genesis 3?
      
      And are you implying that Heaven (a purely spiritual place) is not real? Please!
      
      "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life"
      
      Don't be distracted by the literal (the letter)

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      glynch1posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      lone star 77,
      The wages of sin is death: spiritual death immediately, and eventually, Adam died physically. That has been the orthodox position since the beginning.
      The Garden of Eden was not heaven. Where did I say that heaven is not real?

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      Ozmar Evansposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      The GOD of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, must be feared. Fear is the beginning of Faith. And faith grants wishes..even wishes to know the real TRUTH!

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   Valorie Esquilonaposted 11 years ago

   As far as I know, that 7 days--well, that's not even 7 days because Genesis stated that God rested on the 7th day so it's actually 6 days--is not to be taken literally.  Maybe a day during those times was not equivalent to 24 hours just like what we have now.  Maybe that 7 days were really a billion years.  The Bible has lots of secrets and it's really hard to decipher it.

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   Ozmar Evansposted 11 years ago

   If GOD really did create the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th, why do we have dinosaurs and other gigantic fossils here on earth?
   
   I believe GOD created the world in 6 million years, and rested, awaiting for the time Christ will return...soon.
   You will see that the world is older that men, even older than the oldest fossils ever found.

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      glynch1posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      If you wish to understand more about how dinosaurs fit into the picture, I suggest that you check out the literature at the Creation Research Institute.

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      Ozmar Evansposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks Glynch1, I was only sending my question of creation against the original question.

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   Zelkiiroposted 11 years ago

   Because ancient people needed some authoritative-sounding reason for a 7-day week beyond a simple "The moon goes through half a phase in that time."

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    ketageposted 11 years ago

    Well that is a pretty simple question to answer,
    God made the world in six days and took a day off, to show us how many days a week we are supposed to work, the perfect balance of work and play, then us being foolish humans, invented the 5 day work week and look where that has landed us

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    ytsenohposted 11 years ago

    We were taught and conditioned that God made the world in six days and rested on the seventh day.  There has also been a lot of conversation in my life time that our definition of time is different than God's definition.  One day to God could be a million years to us, as an example.  We only know what we are taught or conditioned to believe until we choose what type of belief system we will embrace to help us overcome concerns and fears of unknown subjects.

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    pristinetrekkingposted 11 years ago

    He got only 7 days Leave from Company.................ha ha aaaaaaaaaaaa

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    TJ Burgonioposted 11 years ago

    I think 7 is a perfect number in the ancient times. And God is perfect.

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