Why did Creation take six days?

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Posted: 9/26/2014 12:44:39 PM EDT

Being omnipotent, couldn't God have just instantly willed everything into existence? And what's with needing a day to rest?

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:45:40 PM EDT

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Don't you like to have a beer after a hard days work?

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:46:45 PM EDT

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What part about the bible being a book of parables is so hard to understand?

Please don't take all those stories literally.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:46:53 PM EDT

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Unions

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:46:54 PM EDT

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Depends on your translation. Days are actually periods of time and are not all equal.

The day to rest is setting up the sabbath.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:48:16 PM EDT

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Good answer. 2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:48:32 PM EDT

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UPS and FEDEx Ground shipping.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:48:54 PM EDT

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That's because it didn't happen that way.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:49:15 PM EDT

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Unions

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:49:21 PM EDT

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He certainly could have, being God and all. But He was also establishing a pattern that He expected Israel to follow. It was all part of his beautiful, seemingly chaotic plan that will only make sense in the end.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:49:36 PM EDT

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It didn't....

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:50:09 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/26/2014 12:50:10 PM EDT

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Go ask him.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:50:20 PM EDT

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Same reason it took Pan Gu 18,000 years to push apart the heaven and earth.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:50:21 PM EDT

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Because it sounded like a good explanation at the time.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:50:26 PM EDT

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He was blind

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:50:27 PM EDT

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The people that wrote the bible needed an excuse for Sundays off??

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:50:52 PM EDT

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EPA regulations.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:52:55 PM EDT

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Try explaining string theory to a 2yr old.
God has to dumb things down a bit when he talks to us.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:53:14 PM EDT

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Because I said so.

*golfclap*

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:53:41 PM EDT

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What part about the bible being a book of parables is so hard to understand?

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So which ones?

and who gets to decide?

or the whole thing?

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:54:48 PM EDT

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Metaphors, parables, analogies...how do they work?

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:56:21 PM EDT

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+1

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:57:59 PM EDT

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Define a day before there was a sun and earth.

"Days" was simply a way of the bible explaining the concept of creation for our minds at the time.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:58:33 PM EDT

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I'd suggest starting with the works of St. Augustine.

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:58:53 PM EDT

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It's turtles all the way down….

Posted: 9/26/2014 12:58:53 PM EDT

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Answer: Government.

If God was God, he would have had it done in one day.

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:00:04 PM EDT

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Might get a better answer here.

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:00:31 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/26/2014 1:00:31 PM EDT

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Being omnipotent, couldn't God have just instantly willed everything into existence? And what's with needing a day to rest?

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union workers, they get breaks and what not

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:00:46 PM EDT

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The old "don't take the bible seriously, unless its a part you should take seriously" excuse.

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:01:36 PM EDT

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It was symbolic.

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:01:46 PM EDT

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This oughta be good for a few locks...

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Posted: 9/26/2014 1:02:30 PM EDT

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The whole time?

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:03:08 PM EDT

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The dough had to rise, then beat back down, kneaded and then put in pans to bake............

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Posted: 9/26/2014 1:04:15 PM EDT

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It may have taken six days, but it was not intended to be taken literal, it was done to establish a pattern of how things should go. Just like God did not rest in the literal sense on the seventh day. He is God and therefore cannot become tired and therefore does not need to rest, this was all symbolic.

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:06:39 PM EDT

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Does being omnipotent mean you can't take time for contemplation and reflection?

He worked a bit each day then stopped to make sure it was "good".

In that way, creating the world is a lot like rebuilding a transmission.

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:07:54 PM EDT

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Exactly.

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:10:34 PM EDT

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So which ones?

and who gets to decide?

or the whole thing?

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What part about the bible being a book of parables is so hard to understand?

Please don't take all those stories literally.

So which ones?

and who gets to decide?

or the whole thing?

The whole thing. There are lessons to learn. With the mindset of "how I would like to be treated by others is how I should treat others"

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:11:51 PM EDT

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The old "don't take the bible seriously, unless its a part you should take seriously" excuse.

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Metaphors, parables, analogies...how do they work?

The old "don't take the bible seriously, unless its a part you should take seriously" excuse.

As opposed to the "the bible is literally true, except where it says 'day'" argument?

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:13:17 PM EDT

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He loves religion troll threads. I would think most people would have caught on by now.

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:14:17 PM EDT

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3.6 billion years was to big of a number to print so they went with 6 days .

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:15:39 PM EDT

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The whole thing. There are lessons to learn. With the mindset of "how I would like to be treated by others is how I should treat others"

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What part about the bible being a book of parables is so hard to understand?

Please don't take all those stories literally.

So which ones?

and who gets to decide?

or the whole thing?

The whole thing. There are lessons to learn. With the mindset of "how I would like to be treated by others is how I should treat others"

So worshiping God and asking for forgiveness for my sins is a parable?

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:15:44 PM EDT

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Because primitive desert people didn't understand numbers more than the fingers on their hands. So two hands worth of fingers is a long time.

Or its an illustration of how powerful god is. He could create everything in that short a time.

You pick.

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:16:24 PM EDT

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Jeannie could have done it instantly by crossing her arms, bobbing her head once and making that BOIING!! sound.

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:17:10 PM EDT

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The old "don't take the bible seriously, unless its a part you should take seriously" excuse.

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Metaphors, parables, analogies...how do they work?

The old "don't take the bible seriously, unless its a part you should take seriously" excuse.

You are confusing the terms "literally" with "seriously", recommend more English vocabulary classes.

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:17:23 PM EDT

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His universe-His Rules.

Now take that day off.

Posted: 9/26/2014 1:18:00 PM EDT

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Days as we know it in terms of twenty four hours of time didn't exist back then.

Days are expressive it's not meant to be truly literal. A day could literally be a thousand years, you wouldn't know. There is a lot of symbolism and references in the Bible.

This is why a lot of Christians believe in the big bang theory in the effect that it was Gods work or method of creation.... because 6 days could literally be the millions of years it took.