Would it be correct to say that the earth was created in 6000 years since 1 day to God is 1000 years?

Answer 1

In the case of the Genesis account... no.

The "thousand years as one day" is a prophetic analogy that Peter used regarding God's plan for the coming re-creation of the New Earth.

The Genesis account, on the other hand, speaks specifically of "24-hour days."

"...And the evening and the morning were the first day." (Gen.1:5)

Unlike man's reckoning of time, God's day begins with the going down of the sun... with the "nighttime" portion of the 24-hour day.

"...And the evening and the morning were the second day." (verse 8)

And so on.

The six-day creation of the earth recorded in Genesis follows on the heels of the earth's destruction by some unknown cause not disclosed in the account.

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID..." (Gen.1:1-2).

The understood form of the verb "to be" that the translators decided to use in this very first passage in the creation account leaves the reader with the impression that our Perfect Creator God made the earth very sloppily in the beginning... then had to come back later to polish up what He started, after a hiatus of who knows how much time.

There are different forms of "existence"... and each form of the verb "to be" can change the meaning of what one is reading, considerably, in this case.

If the translators would have used the form of the verb "to be" -- BECAME -- in this passage, then, Genesis 1:1-2 would read:

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth BECAME without form, and void...". And a whole different understanding of what is being said comes to life.

God didn't make the earth in the beginning a shapeless sloppy mess. He made it perfectly... as He can do nothing less than perfectly. And something caused the earth's destruction sometime afterwards [what it was and the amount of time between is undisclosed].

Genesis doesn't say how long it took God to create the universe in the very beginning. It tells us how long it took God to RE-CREATE the later destroyed earth in preparation to sustain man, created on the sixth "24-hour day"... whom He created in His image... not after the image of an ape.

The earth was already there when Jesus said, "Let there be light." [see John 1:3]

He didn't have to make the earth from "scratch." He only had to "fix it up" to make it habitable for life to exist and be maintained. And He did it in the time it took "six 24-hour rotations of the earth."

The same 24-hour rotations we witness every day of our lives.

"...And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." (verse 31)

Answer 2

You might say that, or similar things, if you wished to formulate apologetics for an Old-Earth Creationism viewpoint. There are Creationists and religious people who espouse a belief in (old Earth) God-guided Evolution. Other Creationists, given the difficulties in Evolutionary theory, hold that this is unnecessary and that a recent and more direct Creation is the truth.See also:

Is there evidence for Creation?

Can you show that God exists?

Seeing God's wisdom

Answer 3

The flaw in this question is that it is based on the well-known biblical age for the earth, of approximately 6000 years. That age is based on the biblical genealogies from Adam all the way down to the present day approximating to 6000 years, but clearly the earth had to exist before the first man. Without that assumption, we could choose any other figures to arrive at a different age for the earth. What about 1 day to God is 1 million years? Or 1 day to God is seven times seven years?

We know from science that the earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old, so whatever hypothesis we use will not be an accurate one unless it arrives at that value for the age of the earth.