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Those who realise the difficulty in reading entirely literally the creation story in Genesis chapter 1, often resort to equivications that would make the story at least a little more consistent with known science. One of these equivications is to state that each 'day' in Genesis was not really a day, but an extremely long period of almost indeterminate length.
This is neither necessary, nor meaningful. The Hebrew word used here is one that refers to a natural, 24-hour day. It is also clear from Genesis itself that the author believed each day to be followed by a night, and that each day was more or less the same length as a natural day. In the Exodus version of the ten commandments, God commands that the seventh day be kept because he rested on that day: this clearly refers to a natural day. So it is with the sixth day: the author was speaking of a 24-hour day only.
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∙ 7y agoThe traditional understanding is that each of the Days of Creation were what we call a day. Others view them as longer epochs of time. See also:
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What is the summary of Genesis chapter 1-2?
Genesis 1 contains the history of all creation. God spoke all things into being over a six day period, and rested on the seventh day. The creation of man ion the sixth day was the pinnacle of the creation. Man enjoyed a special relationship with God. Genesis 2 deals specifically with the creation of humans in more detail than the overview given in Genesis 1.
What is the evidence for a literal 6 day creation?
There is no evidence for a literal six-day creation, and considerable scientific evidence that there could not have been a six-day creation. Even the sequence of events in the six-day creation story in Genesis chapter 1 is scientifically wrong - such as the sun and stars being created after the earth already existed.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
What begin on day six of creation?
I think it was The Creation of Man From Clay
How does the creation account in Genesis 1 support or refute the idea of a 6-day creation?
The creation account in Genesis chapter 1 is based on the idea of a six-day creation so, read literally, it more than supports the idea. The refutation comes indirectly, because of the scientific errors in this creation account, which are now so obvious. For example, we know the sun and the stars existed before the earth was formed but, in the biblical account, it is not until Genesis 1:16, on the fourth day, that they are created.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
What began on day six of creation?
According to Genesis 1:24-30 God created beasts, cattle, creeping creatures, man, woman, and human world domination.
Where do you find the creation in the Bible?
In the Bible, the creation story can be found in the Book of Genesis, specifically in chapters 1 and 2. It describes how God created the world, including the heavens, the earth, plants, animals, and humans, in six days before resting on the seventh day. This story is foundational to the Judeo-Christian understanding of the origin of the universe.
What Biblical indication is there of which day of the week is the day God started creating the world?
A careful reading of Genesis ch.1 and 2 will show that God blessed the seventh day and began creation six days before it. Tradition states that the seventh day was Shabbat (Friday eve until Saturday eve). Therefore, the Creation began on the evening entering into Sunday, one week before the seventh day of Creation.
What was God's message to Adam and Eve during the six days of creation?
A:It is hard to see any connection between the first biblical creation story in Genesis 1:!-2:4a, and the second one which follows. It is in the first creation story that God took six days for creation, but man (both male and female) was only created at the very end of the sixth day as the very last act of creation, after which God rested. In the context of this story, God could not have given Adam and Eve any message during these six days. True, God did create Adam as his very first act of creation in the second creation story, but here there is no mention of six days and Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that we must scrupulously avoid reading into the second story any facts or notions taken from the first.Another answerIn Genesis 1:28ff God blesses the man and woman and tells them:- be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth.God gave man a mandate to subdue creation and have dominion over it-to use it but not abuse it.- He has given them every herb and fruit for food.This was not during the first six days man was created on the sixth day
What was the time period of the Book of Genesis?
A:Most people are interested in when the Genesis creation began, and there are various estimates around 4000 BCE, with the most famous estimate, by Bishop Ussher, at 4004 BCE.Because the first creation story in Genesis 1:1-2:4a is not linked to any other passages in the Book of Genesis, it is timeless and could have taken place in any period of the past, but it clearly states that the whole of God's creation took six days.Conversely, the second creation story in Genesis 2:4b-25 was not limited to just six days, so could have taken as long as God chose. It is linked through Adam's descendants down to historical times, which is how theologians have been able to create a timeline for creation.The Book of Genesis ends with the death of the legendary Joseph, somewhere around 2,200 years after the creation of Adam in the second creation story - around 1800 BCE, although estimates vary.
What resulted in the creation of an israeli buffer zone?
The Six-Day War
Does Genesis 1 have a seventh day to it?
Actually, Genesis 2:1-3 mentions the seventh creative day. After creating for six days, God rested on the seventh. It was the original 'sabbath', God's Rest.This seventh creative day gives us some insight into how long the preceding six may have been since Paul indicated that it was still in progress in his day( Hebrews 4:1-11) and still has not ended in ours.
What is the oldest story in the Bible?
To find the oldest story in the Bible would be to start at the very beginning of the first book, Genesis, which starts with the story of Creation. The Bible says that God created the world and the universe in six days, then rested on the seventh day.
