7 DAYS OF GENISIS

by badboy 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  badboy

  Were each 7,000 years long
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  JosephMalik

  I doubt it. They were simply epochs of sufficient length to accomplish the tasks indicated.

  Joseph
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  ColdRedRain

  I find it odd how creative days are thought of in nice, round numbers ending in zero when the people that wrote the Genesis account probably used a numerical system based on 12ths, the ones that the Babylonians used.
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  Nathan Natas

  Please note that the name of the book you refer to is spelled GENESIS.
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  RunningMan

  Well, the Bible clearly says that "there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a xxth day".

  So, according to the Bible, the days were literal 24 hour days.

  It was only when humans came to realize that the Bible was obviously wrong, that they decided that the days must have been longer - say 7000 years.

  Unfortunately, even the dumber humans are beginning to realize that 7000 years isn't enough either, so the Society is gradually backing away from this day length and assuming that they were epochs of indeterminate length.

  You know how it works - if the Bible is right, then it is literal. If it is wrong, it is symbolic.
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  Jesus Christ

  Read a book on geology or meteorites. You'll see that the solar system (and hence the earth) has been around for approximately 4.56 billion years. Also, if the earth has only been around for a few thousands of years then its kind of hard to imagine how the earth could be getting light from stars that are around 12 billion light years away. In case you're not that familiar with astronomy 12 billion light years away means that the light left those stars 12 billion years ago and is just now getting to us.
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  Dawn

  Not to mention that:

  1) The "luminaries" weren't created until the 4th day. So if the earth is only 6-7 thousand years old - then the stars are only about 2 thousand years old - and how could their light travel......well.......faster than "light"???

  2) If the sun & moon were not created until the 4th day - how did you have morning and evening and a first day on the first day??

  3) If the sun wasn't created until the 4th day - what was the earth rotating around?? Was it just flying through space without any rhythm - wouldn't that disrupt gravity?

  4) If the sun wasn't created until the 4th day - but the plants were created on the 3rd day - and the days are 1000+ years long.......what about photosynthesis (spelling??) - how did the plants survive without the sun??

  5) Where do the dinosaurs fit in?

  Although I am a Christian - I find it completely impossible to take the account of creation as literal. I have also found a lot to disprove evolution. I really don't know how to fit this piece into the puzzle........seems to me it's man's attempt to explain something that he didn't understand.
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  butalbee

  Thinking about this just confuses me more.
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  BluesBrother

  The WT has made plucky attempts to explain the points made by Dawn. I am not going to stand up for their views and I nowadays see less reason to have to find literal explanations for all the verses of Genesis.

  The 7000 years thing was the first point that I ever disputed in my younger days . There is nothing in Scripture to support it . Of course the Society backed off from it and then talked of "Several thousand years"
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  pomegranate

  I believe "DAY" meant a start and end of God's creating things, not a division of actual time.

  In fact, I believe some of the "DAYS" were longer than others.