On which day was the earth created according to the Bible?

Answer 1

The creation account in Genesis 1 is a "refurbishing" of the earth, that somehow came into a state of ruin following its original creation. It says that "in the beginning God made the heavens and the earth." It doesn't say "WHEN" He did that... nor how long it took Him to do it.

Then it says that "the earth WAS without form, and void." The word "was" is a form of the verb "TO BE," a "state-of-being: - is, are, was, were, am, become, became - and the translators had to choose the form of it that they thought best for what they considered to be the best contextual agreement.

The word they chose, "was," makes the account sound like God threw together a random blob of matter sometime way back when and called it the heavens and the earth. And that along with everything else... the earth, too, was less than perfectly made... a formless wasted mess, which this imperfect God had to come back later to correct, beginning in verse 3.

If God didn't make the universe "perfectly" the very first time around... then He isn't worthy to be called God. In which case, there is no God, and man and the universe is a colosal cosmic evolutionary accident afterall.

As it turns out, the very same "verb" form is used to describe the creation of Adam, where the translators decided to use "BECAME" instead of "was."

"...and man BECAME a living soul." (Gen.2:7)

It's logical to say that "man WAS a living soul, because he BECAME that way... and equally logical to say: "...the earth WAS without form, and void, because it BECAME that way..." sometime after it was created perfectly in the beginning.

All of this notwithstanding... the reality is that when God said, "Let there be light..." He wasn't creating the earth from scratch... from newly formed compacted matter. The earth was already made... in verse one, in the beginning [whenever that was]. The earth subsequently came into a condition of ruination and became totally covered by water [???perhaps to put out a fire??? See Luke 10:18]:

"...darkness was upon the face of the deep [an ocean-covered planet]. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." (Gen.1:2)

Genesis recounts the RE-make of the earth that was wasted and destroyed by something. An earth whose foundation and orbit was intact. It speaks of six 24-hour days of refurbishing to establish a breathable atmosphere, the topographical raising of landmasses, the planting of vegetation and making a variety of living creatures... all in preparation for the creation of man, whom God made specially in His image.

The very first verse of Genesis 1, however, doesn't say how long it took God to make the universe and the earth "originally"... "in the beginning."

Time is physical. It's measured by the incremental "movements and orbits of the planets and stars."

Time didn't begin until the universe was made and set into motion... like a precision-made clock.

In the beginning, there were no "days"... no "hours"... no time. There was only "eternity"... the humanly inconceivable "absence of time."

In the Genesis account... God RE-created the earth in six days [not on a particular day]... six 24-hour days measured by the movements of the stars in a ticking universe that was already in existence.

In the beginning, however... before something later ruined God's perfect creation... we aren't told how long the original creation took. Our own human experience with making things [God gave man a spark of His creatability] reveals to us that it takes time to "ideate" and come up with a thought of something we need or would like to have. Time to formulate it in our mind. Time to put it onto paper... or into a computer program. Time to design, research and develop it. Time to prototype it and put it into production.

The infinite and intricate and lovingly thought out designs in nature reveal the perfection of our Creator. The perfect design of nature surpasses the best efforts of man to duplicate it, every time.

It stands to reason that the universe or the earth wasn't made on a particular day. It took God SIX days to RE-make the earth that was already in existence and in a state of disrepair.

Answer 2

Man was created on the sixth day. (Genesis 1:26-31)

Expanded AnswerTo find this out one must go to God's account of creation week:_

Gen 1:1, 3, 6, 8-14, 20-23, 26, 31; 2:2-3 (KJV)

Gen 1 (v.1) In the beginning God created theheaven and the earth. ... Gen 1 (v.3) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. ... And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Gen 1 (v.6) And God said, Let there be afirmamentin the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. ... Gen 1 (v.8) And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Gen 1 (v.9) And God said, Let the watersunder the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry landappear: and it was so. Gen 1 (v.10)And God called the dry landEarth...Gen 1 (v.11) And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass,... Gen 1 (v.12) And the earth brought forth grass,...and God saw that it wasgood. Gen 1 (v.13) And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Gen 1 (v.14) And God said, Let there belights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: ... Gen 1 (v.19) And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

Gen 1 (v.20) And God said, Let the watersbring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl thatmay fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. Gen 1 (v.21) And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which thewatersbrought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it wasgood. ... Gen 1 (v.23) And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

Gen 1 (v.26) And God said, Let us make man in our image,after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. ... Gen 1 (v.31) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it wasvery good. And the evening and the morning werethe sixth day.

.... Gen 2 (v.2) And onthe seventh dayGod ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Gen 2 (v.3) And God blessed the seventh day,and sanctifiedit: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

But which day was this day? God Himself says that this 7th day which was sanctified is the Sabbath .

Deuteronomy 5:12

12 Keep the sabbathday tosanctifyit,as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:14 But the seventh day isthe sabbathof the LORD thy God: in itthou shalt not do any work,

Since the 7th day is the Sabbath, and the Sabbath is Saturday, and man was created the day prior to this, this means God created human beings on Friday.

Answer 3

According to the Genesis account, God created the light of day on day 1, and created the sun on day 4. The ancients did not really understand that all the light of day came from this apparently small disc, but held that it was to rule the day (Genesis 1:16).

For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation

Answer 4

According to tradition, God created the sun on the fourth day of Creation. The light of the first three days did not come from the sun (Rashi commentary). It was a light that had no physical source; what people might today describe as a "white hole" (look it up).

Answer 5

Genesis begins by saying that the earth was without form and that darkness was on the face of the deep. So there is no direct statement that God created the earth at all. Genesis 1:1 is usually translated into English as "In the beginning God created heaven and earth," implying that earth was created before day 1. However, as long ago as the eleventh century CE, the influential Jewish scholar, Rashi, said that Genesis 1:1 should be read, "When God began to create" or "In the beginning of God's creation ". This is not the usual translation in most English-language Bibles in use today, but a more literal translation sometimes used (for example New American Bible): "In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters."

The basics were already there - the waters, the dry land, the wind and therefore the air. The ocean was already present and a wind moved across the surface. The seas rested on the dry land, which appeared on day 3 when God gathered the waters together. Genesis 1:3-5 clearly states that when God created the light of day, this was the first day. Many experts in Hebrew have carefully examined the texts and confirm that this is what they say. The biblical creations were not ex nihilo and therefore God did not create the earth according to The Bible.

Detailed explanations of the biblical creation stories can be found in Genesis (Anchor Bible Series) by Speiser and Middle Eastern Mythology by Hooke. Also, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation

Answer 6

The Bible states that God created the universe on the first of the seven Days of Creation (Genesis ch.1), which means Saturday evening until Sunday evening. According to tradition, God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30; Nachmanides on Gen. 1:1).Note that the verses describing the Creation deliberately employ brevity and ellipsis, for a reason given in the Talmud (Hagigah 11b), which says that delving into too much detail in this matter can lead to heretical notions.

Answer 7

Believe it or not, the Bible does not say which day/year God created the Earth. In the Genesis 1 account, God is renewing the face of the Earth as it is found in total darkness and under water - yet it is there.

Traditionally, the 1st day of a week is Sunday.

Answer 8

On the first of the seven days of creation, as stated in Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth." The "unformed and void" of the next verse is describing what the Earth looked like immediately after its creation, and should not be misinterpreted as referring to an earlier state.

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Answer 9

there is not one