It took thousands, perhaps millions of years, for God to work out how to create a man?
Is that what I said?
It took God whatever time it took him to create the universe and all that it encompassed….do we have any idea how big the Universe is? Do you believe that the Universe is just 6000 years old?
Does it tell us in the Bible how much time elapsed between the creation of the Universe and the preparation of the earth for the arrival of its first inhabitants?
What was created before any living thing appeared? A source of food and water….each creature with its own food source and water supply, provided in anticipation of their arrival…..carefully planned and brought about by the operation of his spirit.
The word of God says it took 6 days.
Not literal 24 hour days…..The Hebrew word “
yôm” can mean….”a day” or a “period of time”….it is not confined to a 24 hour period, as we use the expression ourselves…”in my grandfather’s day”, it doesn’t mean a 24 hour period, does it?
The Sabbath was the 7th day of the week... Again, scripture testifying that this is truth... And that one week comprising 7 days is not defined by nature. Yes, the day is measured by a rotation of the earth, the year by the circuit round the sun, the month is measured by the moon, but there is nothing in nature that defines a week.
Hang on…..what? Didn’t you just contradict yourself there?
Astronomy allowed those who studied the stars to ascertain the divisions of time created in the Universe that determined earth time, divided into days, weeks, months and years. (Gen 1: 14-19)
“Then God said: “Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to make a division between the day and the night, and they will serve as signs for seasons and for days and years.”
There it is….how can you say that there is nothing in nature that determines a week? Time division is mathematics…..each day is 24 hours clearly defined as night and day…..Weeks had to mathematically fit the earth’s orbit around the sun…exactly 365 and 1/4 days…..The Jews used a lunar calendar so they had to add a month to make up the shortfall in days. The seasons had to be relied upon for crops to be planted, grown and harvested at the correct time.
Also something you did not address was the length of the “day” if it was merely 24 hours…..
”there was evening and there was morning“….Evening to morning is not 24 hours…..is it?
The Jewish day began at sundown and ended at sundown the next day…..
There is only one explanation for the week and why the patriarchs adopted it, they inherited it from Adam, who received instruction from God concerning creation.
No Sabbath observance was held by any human prior to the Jews receiving God’s Law through Moses.
Please find us any mention of this in scripture.
What God blessed was the Sabbath of his rest day (not a 24 hour period)….this was the period of time that he allowed for his purpose to become established, so that whatever path the humans took, any difficulty would be dealt with successfully in order to bring his purpose to fruition. (Isa 55:11) What God starts, he finishes….successfully. When the 7th day ends, God’s declaration will again be “very good”……did you not notice that the declaration at the end of each “day” was a statement of God’s satisfaction with his efforts thus far…..but that the 7th day has no such declaration……was the 7th day a failure then? We already know that God cannot fail at anything he does…..his creation is absolutely perfect….that is, perfect for the purpose he designed it.
There are way more important issues than what day is used to worship the true God…for us it is every day…..as all days have an opportunity to serve and praise the one who created everything.
