To be irritatingly logical (something I have never been accused of before) this ‘god’ could not have created the universe and heaven, et al in a week because, by definition, ‘a week’ did not exist until AFTER this god had created the universe. It is paradoxical to say ‘he’ did.
You might just as well say that people Googled on the internet to find out how they might design and create the internet. Paradoxical.
Of coarse, god (as advertised by the godly ones) has such powers that ‘he’ could probably do it even though it is a paradoxical event. I guess he’s rather like ‘Q’ in Star trek TNG in that way. Hey, maybe god IS ‘Q’ !
More than likely though, as the old testiment is mostly allegory and symbolism, this god never actually did this thing like that at all.
Some would argue that god could not have done this six-day creationism because ‘he’ doesn’t exist. Maybe he created himself into existence so that he could exist?
The correct answer is that the question is invalid.
Was it really a human working week. Adam was given the task of naming all the animals during that week (Genesis 2:19). Would you be able to observe all the animals of the earth and name them in one week? Also the scripture states that God rested on the seventh day. Is he still resting? If not when did he start working again?
If you go through the scriptures you will realize that not all times the bible speak of a day it is referring to a 12 hours or 24 hours day. In Numbers 14:34, a day is referring to a year. In 2 Peter 3:8 it says, “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.”
Bible chronology will give you more in depth understanding of the creation days, and will help your to understand better that the bible was not referring to 24 hours days.
God didn’t have to do that; it was for the benefit of human beings. As somebody who supposedly places great value on such things as logic and rational thought, you should be able to appreciate that having time appear to be a predictable and orderly thing has its advantages. I suppose that God could have had time be totally random, but, let’s face it, most of us, including you, like it the way it is. Once again, God got it right!
Yes, an excellent question. Being God and all, you’d think he could have pulled all of this off with a wave of whatever passes for the hand of God. Then I would only have to work one day per week, and on Tuesdayeth through Sundayeth I would resteth, to honor Him.
So, He spent like six days figuring out Big Bang nucleosynthethis and a way of triggering the whole shebang? That is amazing! A lot more amazing than making the plants before there was a sun to drive the photosynthesis. But I digress.
because man wrote the bible, “inspired by god” apparently, so it just makes sense that god would “talk” to man in concepts he could understand right…because he/she/it is god and we hear how he/she/it wants us to hear…right believers?
I think a better question is why do we have a 7 day week…like so many other religious things…it was for some reason, then someone attached god to it, and once god was attached to it, there was no getting rid of it.
There is of course no absolute positive answer…but 7 day week goes back to Babylon
We invented the week – working or not.
We could go into the whole Gregorian thing or discuss the churches influence on society and capitalism or even commercialism. We could discuss the catholic reinvention of everything from time to immemorial. Lets not.
Edit: Did the Swiss really invent time to sell more clocks?
The three greatest minds of Catholicism (Augustine, Aquinas, and Newman) all allowed for the possibility that Moses framed the all-at-once Creation into a week as a mnemonic device for his rather simple audience.
But you won’t budge.
No. God hates unions. LOL
Actually, the simple answer is always best: Because He can. No one else could do it in that time, or any other time for that matter, proving to his creation just how awesome He is.
He was trying to put it in terms we could understand. And it was written from copies and word of mouth 3000 years later.
So if it isn’t consistent and perfect we should be able to understand that. It was not 24 hour days, but time periods.
A day in the Bible was not a literal day, but a period of time.
The earth and everything in it was actually created over thousands of years.
Thats some serious overtime. lol
It’s called “poetry”. That part of Genesis is a poem, so it uses poetic devices, just like modern poetry does. Do you think Wordsworth really looked like a cloud when he was wandering lonely amongst the daffodils?
Good point, which raises another interesting question, why does santa only work one day a year? It’s no wonder he is a long way round but how the hell does he get through the chimneys when he’s so fat?
To be irritatingly logical (something I have never been accused of before) this ‘god’ could not have created the universe and heaven, et al in a week because, by definition, ‘a week’ did not exist until AFTER this god had created the universe. It is paradoxical to say ‘he’ did.
You might just as well say that people Googled on the internet to find out how they might design and create the internet. Paradoxical.
Of coarse, god (as advertised by the godly ones) has such powers that ‘he’ could probably do it even though it is a paradoxical event. I guess he’s rather like ‘Q’ in Star trek TNG in that way. Hey, maybe god IS ‘Q’ !
More than likely though, as the old testiment is mostly allegory and symbolism, this god never actually did this thing like that at all.
Some would argue that god could not have done this six-day creationism because ‘he’ doesn’t exist. Maybe he created himself into existence so that he could exist?
The correct answer is that the question is invalid.
Was it really a human working week. Adam was given the task of naming all the animals during that week (Genesis 2:19). Would you be able to observe all the animals of the earth and name them in one week? Also the scripture states that God rested on the seventh day. Is he still resting? If not when did he start working again?
If you go through the scriptures you will realize that not all times the bible speak of a day it is referring to a 12 hours or 24 hours day. In Numbers 14:34, a day is referring to a year. In 2 Peter 3:8 it says, “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.”
Bible chronology will give you more in depth understanding of the creation days, and will help your to understand better that the bible was not referring to 24 hours days.
God didn’t have to do that; it was for the benefit of human beings. As somebody who supposedly places great value on such things as logic and rational thought, you should be able to appreciate that having time appear to be a predictable and orderly thing has its advantages. I suppose that God could have had time be totally random, but, let’s face it, most of us, including you, like it the way it is. Once again, God got it right!
Yes, an excellent question. Being God and all, you’d think he could have pulled all of this off with a wave of whatever passes for the hand of God. Then I would only have to work one day per week, and on Tuesdayeth through Sundayeth I would resteth, to honor Him.
So, He spent like six days figuring out Big Bang nucleosynthethis and a way of triggering the whole shebang? That is amazing! A lot more amazing than making the plants before there was a sun to drive the photosynthesis. But I digress.
because man wrote the bible, “inspired by god” apparently, so it just makes sense that god would “talk” to man in concepts he could understand right…because he/she/it is god and we hear how he/she/it wants us to hear…right believers?
I think a better question is why do we have a 7 day week…like so many other religious things…it was for some reason, then someone attached god to it, and once god was attached to it, there was no getting rid of it.
There is of course no absolute positive answer…but 7 day week goes back to Babylon
We invented the week – working or not.
We could go into the whole Gregorian thing or discuss the churches influence on society and capitalism or even commercialism. We could discuss the catholic reinvention of everything from time to immemorial. Lets not.
Edit: Did the Swiss really invent time to sell more clocks?
The three greatest minds of Catholicism (Augustine, Aquinas, and Newman) all allowed for the possibility that Moses framed the all-at-once Creation into a week as a mnemonic device for his rather simple audience.
But you won’t budge.
No. God hates unions. LOL
Actually, the simple answer is always best: Because He can. No one else could do it in that time, or any other time for that matter, proving to his creation just how awesome He is.
He was trying to put it in terms we could understand. And it was written from copies and word of mouth 3000 years later.
So if it isn’t consistent and perfect we should be able to understand that. It was not 24 hour days, but time periods.
A day in the Bible was not a literal day, but a period of time.
The earth and everything in it was actually created over thousands of years.
Thats some serious overtime. lol
It’s called “poetry”. That part of Genesis is a poem, so it uses poetic devices, just like modern poetry does. Do you think Wordsworth really looked like a cloud when he was wandering lonely amongst the daffodils?
He quite possibly did not. And if he did, the human working week was taken after his timing – god didn’t have to use human timing.
Good point, which raises another interesting question, why does santa only work one day a year? It’s no wonder he is a long way round but how the hell does he get through the chimneys when he’s so fat?
God and the government are exempt from OSHA regulation.
Since it was union how many angels stood around on the point of a pin and watched?
He created the working week, so no problems. Thankfully the unions were not yet a reality.
hm.. h.. ha. haha… HAHA…..HAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH… thats funny.
Nah, just kidding, its not really.
Oh you won’t believe the amount of red tape that goes into creating a universe. God had to fight OSHA every step of the way.
Yes, and we creatures are the ones paying dues, aren’t we?
God exists outside of time as we know it , He set up seasons and time for us …
And if God didn’t ordain 7 days a week then who did …
It’s weird isn’t it – like days are something that really exist and not just something we made up to help us measure the passing of time.
How come the working week now includes Sunday?,and you can’t touch me I’m part of the union
He didn’t have to.
just did.
How come humans had to make jesus-years to make God not seem like he’s bad at math?
Cute, stupid, but cute
hai… i’m a union gal, does that mean jeebus was in the union???
have some shame, your face is in yahoo… intelligent questions only please…
working week is 5 days isnt it?
well thank god i don’t have to work an 8 day week
He created the week… we fit into it.
It works doesn’t it?