The Bible says that God created the world and everything in it in 6 days and He rested on the next day so does that mean that God created all the planets and the universe as well within those six days?

Answer 1

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Did God create the universe and everything in it in six days? Perhaps. But the universe and the earth have been around a lot longer than those who interpret The Bible literally say it has.

Answer With the Creation account in the King James version, a point of confusion may be where the word 'heaven' may be taken to mean the atmospheric heavens of the earth, but as this was created on the second day it can't be the same 'heaven' that was created on the first day:-

Gen 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Gen 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heavenbe gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

Earlier, the creation account in Genesis 1:1 in the King James version translates the Hebrew word 'shamayim' into English as 'heaven' in the singular:-

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

However, other versions have translated it as 'heavens' plural:-

(ASV) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

(CEV) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

(GNB) In the beginning, when God created the universe,

(LITV) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth;

(MKJV) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

(NET) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

(WEB) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

It does not mean the stars of heaven, which were made only on day 4 of Creation Week:-

Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Gen 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

Gen 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Gen 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

In Genesis, God created everything, but in the New Testament John says the Word created everything, and later on Paul says Jesus Christ made every single thing. This means the Creator was Jesus Christ:-

Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word [Jesus Christ] , and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.

Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Col 1:14 In whom [Jesus Christ] we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

Col 1:16 For by him [Jesus Christ] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

So, the universe and all the planets were created on the 4th day of Creation Week by Jesus Christ.

Answer 2

Science may say that the sun and stars were formed long before the Earth, and that the planets are as old as the Earth, but this question seems to require a biblical answer. Therefore the appropriate answer seems to be that, according to Genesis 1:14, God created lights (the sun, moon, stars and planets) in the firmament which was already in place above the Earth, on the fourth day. While the question is framed in the modern knowledge that the universe is much greater than the Earth we live on, the ancients merely thought of the stars and planets as lights suspended above the Earth.
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Answer 3

Yes, that is what tradition states. See also:

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