Biblically in how many days was the Earth made?

Answer 1

God created the earth in 6 days. There was morning and night between each day of creation. We have no reason to believe that these were not 24 hour days. The Bible uses the word YOM as the word for day in Genesis, as it does in almost every other place in the bible. In all but a couple of references the word YOM refers to a 24 hour period of time.

God could have created in millions of years or in a split second. The Bible goes to great pains to teach us that it was 6 literal days. This belief went without argument for the vast majority of history. It wasn't until evolutionist began to build dating methods that assumed "billions" of years that we began to doubt the authenticity of the 6 day account of creation.

Jay Mathis

Answer 2

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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