[Discussion] Why did God take 7 days?

[HENI]

Why did God take 7 days to create just the Earth? If he's infinitely powerful, omnipotent and omniscient, he should have been able to do all of this in a second.

 

[BenjerminGaye]

Why did God take 7 days to create just the Earth? If he's infinitely powerful, omnipotent and omniscient, he should have been able to do all of this in a second.

cuz he got it like that.

 

[JStar King]

Technically, it took 6 days. But to answer this, maybe he wanted to take his time doing it to make a perfect world, before it was ruined by Satan's maliciousness.

After all, God is not bound by time and it says in the bible that a day with the Lord is similar to a thousand years.

 

[Yang release]

He did it according to the laws he set forth in the universe, and also creating an idea of how man should work. How can a God be worthy of calling himself God if we can understand him fully, there's just things that we can't comprehend in our little minds

 

[Mori Jin]

Depends which religion you're looking to for answers

Edit: Indeed, your Lord is Allah , who created the heavens and earth in six days and then established Himself above the Throne... Surah Al-A'raf [7:54]

Indeed, your Lord is Allah , who created the heavens and the earth in six days and then established Himself above the Throne, arranging the matter [of His creation]… Surah Yunus [10:3]

He who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days and then established Himself above the Throne - the Most Merciful, so ask about Him one well informed. Surah Al-Furqan [25:59]

It is Allah who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days; then He established Himself above the Throne. You have not besides Him any protector or any intercessor; so will you not be reminded? Surah As-Sajdah [32:4]

And He placed on the earth firmly set mountains over its surface, and He blessed it and determined therein its [creatures'] sustenance in four days without distinction - for [the information] of those who ask. Surah Fussilat [41:10]

And We did certainly create the heavens and earth and what is between them in six days, and there touched Us no weariness. Surah Qaf [50:38]

It is He who created the heavens and earth in six days and then established Himself above the Throne. He knows what penetrates into the earth and what emerges from it and what descends from the heaven and what ascends therein; and He is with you wherever you are. And Allah , of what you do, is Seeing.

Indeed, your Lord is Allah , who created the heavens and earth in six days and then established Himself above the Throne... Surah Al-A'raf [7:54]

Indeed, your Lord is Allah , who created the heavens and the earth in six days and then established Himself above the Throne, arranging the matter [of His creation]… Surah Yunus [10:3]

He who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days and then established Himself above the Throne - the Most Merciful, so ask about Him one well informed. Surah Al-Furqan [25:59]

It is Allah who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days; then He established Himself above the Throne. You have not besides Him any protector or any intercessor; so will you not be reminded? Surah As-Sajdah [32:4]

And He placed on the earth firmly set mountains over its surface, and He blessed it and determined therein its [creatures'] sustenance in four days without distinction - for [the information] of those who ask. Surah Fussilat [41:10]

And We did certainly create the heavens and earth and what is between them in six days, and there touched Us no weariness. Surah Qaf [50:38]

It is He who created the heavens and earth in six days and then established Himself above the Throne. He knows what penetrates into the earth and what emerges from it and what descends from the heaven and what ascends therein; and He is with you wherever you are. And Allah , of what you do, is Seeing. Surah Al-Hadid [57:4]

Days is a generally accepted translation, but the Arabic word used to define days (“أَيَّامٍ” ayyāmin) in above verses, is actually translated as Epochs. (No seriously! Click this link for the dictionary meaning of the word), this is defined from the root word for day (yaum), the the word yaum with its variations, (Epochs, Periods, Days, Today) is used in Qur’an a total of 410 times but ayyāmin is only used in those particular cases when the creation of the earth or the heavens is being discussed (another variation of ayyāmin, used to define 2 periods is also used but I refrained from quoting as not to confuse).

In geochronology, an epoch is a subdivision of the geologic timescale that is longer than an age and shorter than a period. We are currently living in the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period.

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So according to universe was created in 6 stages/periods/ages. Not human “earth” days. What exactly those 6 stages ware, science could answer it.

(Answer from Imran Shaik on Quora)

 

[Belserion]

Technically, it took 6 days. But to answer this, maybe he wanted to take his time doing it to make a perfect world, before it was ruined by Satan's maliciousness.

After all, God is not bound by time and it says in the bible that a day with the Lord is similar to a thousand years.

Satan did nothing wrong, lucky lol.

 

[chopstickchakra]

Why did God take 7 days to create just the Earth? If he's infinitely powerful, omnipotent and omniscient, he should have been able to do all of this in a second.

Taking aside the spiritual debate what you just said was "because he could do it in a fraction of the time it doesn't make sense that he took longer" I love how people try to take the Bible as some kind of literal autobiography written by God himself, it's not. It's a book made by men and altered by other men in an attempt to sway the people at a time when that's all they really had.

 

[Honored Grandmother Chiyo]

He did it according to the laws he set forth in the universe, and also creating an idea of how man should work. How can a God be worthy of calling himself God if we can understand him fully, there's just things that we can't comprehend in our little minds

I agree with this, plus I think there's just a beauty to the slower progression of creation, I feel like there's a deeper meaning behind the "7 days", like for example, maybe God was trying to set an example, liiike, don't be buried in work 24/7 (cause he "rested" or did no creative work on the 7th day) work hard, do your best, but always give yourself a break. Or maybe to say "perfection takes time". Of course he could create all in 1 day, but he might be trying to communicate "Hey, humans, my homies, don't try to rush things".

Just my 2 cents anyway, another way to think about it ~

 

[Guntah]

A better question is how did he manage to count the days if the sun was only created in, like, day four.

 

[Honored Grandmother Chiyo]

A better question is how did he manage to count the days if the sun was only created in, like, day four.

Well, under the assumption that God exists I don't know if the human definition of what a "day" is applies. Under Christian theology at least, God is the end all be all measure of objectivity. So maybe God either defines a day differently, or, I think more likely, He decided to have the creation story worded in such a way that man can better understand what he wanted to communicate.

A possible answer anyway

EDIT: I like your sig quote btw lol

 

[Deadlift]

Don't feed the troll

 

[JaphethCrenshaw]

The number seven means completion in the Bible, while six means incomplete and the sinful nature of humans. Technically it took him six days rather than seven.

 

[Nobel]

Time....relevant to a omnipotent being? Electric boogaloo never ceases to amuse me.

 

[Sauce]

Deus Vult, thats why

 

[patrickscott]

Why did humans question God? We think we can understand a being that exists in all dimensions but we can't bruh. We can barely understand ourselves.

 

[kimb]

I lowkey hate religious threads. They start off civil, but then they always spiral off into a flamewar of misunderstandings and varying interpretations.

To answer your question OP, anything that isn't explained or doesn't make sense in the mythos of the Abrahamic religions are always said to be a part of "God's master plan". It's sort of like damage control for the plot holes in the mythos.

I know it's a bullshit explanation, but it's probably the most honest explanation you'll get from this thread.

 

[Chikombo]

Because he was lazy.

 

[Funky Tiger]

probably didnt wanna do shit till the last night

 

[wanderingcactus]

first off, get rid of the concept of "days"

there is no such thing as a day back when nothing exists to even consider a time.
So "days" is just a notion that the reality that we know now is extremely old that it did not just "poof" into existence but rather took its time after being made by God to get to where it is now.

 

[JStar King]

A better question is how did he manage to count the days if the sun was only created in, like, day four.

God is not bound by time. He created it.