The question about the 6 days that God created the earth how did He do it?

Answer 1

When discussing the creation in 6 days, The Bible is referring to seven "creative days", which were not literal 24 hour days.

To begin with, the earth was already formed when the "creative days" began.

Genesis 1:1, 2 states:

"1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and desolate, and there was darkness upon the surface of the watery deep, and God's active force was moving about over the surface of the waters."

Of note, a day to Jehovah God is a thousand years to mankind. (Psalms 90:2,4 & 2 Peter 3:8)

At Genesis 2:4, Moses refers to all six creative days as "one day", so what is a day?

On the seventh day, God entered his "rest". That day of rest is still going on, 6,000 years after the creation of Adam and Eve.

Without being told specifically on human terms, it is feasible that each "creative day" could have been as long as 6,000 years, but we do not know for sure.

Answer 2

God the Father created all things via God, 'the Word' who spoke them into physically being. Jointly, these two Divine beings were called 'Elohim' which is sometimes referred to as an 'majestic' plural. The Word would become Jesus, the Christ (see John 1:1-3) by the Father's begettal (see Acts 13:33; Hebrews 1:5; 5:5 and John 3:16). Now the opening verses in Genesis 1:1-2 speak to the original creation (Genesis 1:1) and the renewal of a devastated planet Earth beginning in Genesis 1:2 (see Psalm 104:30, etals). So the 'creation week' is actually the renewing of the face of the Earth for God's pinnacle creature - mankind, made after the God-kind and formed by Him - like a master sculptor.


The Bible never tells us how long the original physical creation took (see Genesis 2:4 referring to 'day') and the term 'day' can symbolically mean an extended period of time in some Scripture - like the 'day of the Lord' (1 Thessalonians 5:2). But here in the Genesis account, God is quite specific to meaning a 24 hour day repeating each day, "So the evening and the morning were the first day...etc" He also established the Sabbath - a day of rest - which was later enshrined in the Fourth Command and obviously refers to a 24 hour period (see Exodus 20:8-11) and not another period of time.

We know that the Creator 'Word' who became Jesus contrasted day and night saying, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? (see John 11:9). There are also 12 hours in the night, totaling 24 hours/day.
Consider the renewal process on the 3rd day - God created fruit-bearing trees. Now these trees would surely die off if insects, created a few days later and would pollinate them, if a day was millions of years later.


A 'Chronological Bible' was published attempting to put the Scripture in 'time-order.' It begins like this: John 1:1-2; Psalm 90:2; Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 14:12-17; Ezekiel 28:13-18; Genesis 1:2...

Answer 3

With the exception of mankind, we are only told what God made, not how He made it. That fact is in order to stress mankind's importance.

To make man, God fashioned the appropriate shape from dirt and breathed a soul into it (Genesis ch.2). He then made the first woman by fashioning her from a piece of the man's flesh (ibid).

Day by day, God created the universe and its contents (Genesis ch.1).God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30).Note that the Torah, in describing the Creation, deliberately employs brevity and ellipsis, just as it does in many other topics. See the Talmud, Hagigah 11b.

• On day 1: God created the universe in general, light, and this Earth. The light was not the same as that of the sun. Rather, it was light that God created before the sun, and which emanated from a point in space without any physical source; like what we might term a "white hole."
  
• On day 2: God created the separation between the Earth and the upper atmosphere.
  
• On day 3: God separated the continents from the oceans, and created plants.
  
• On day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars.
  
• On day 5: God created birds and fish.
  
• On day 6: God created animals and people.
  
• On day 7: God ceased creating, thereby creating the concept of rest.
  

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