How long do you believe the sixth day of creation was?

I don't know.

Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

The English makes it allude to the 24 hours period. But I know that the Hebrew can be tricky for English to fathom. I think that the largest expanse of time is what happened between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. So even if verse 31 speaks of an actually 24 hours period, already a long expanse of time could have taken place, including one past destruction of the Earth.

unquestionably, being an previous Earth Creationist is being a 'literalist,' because of the fact that a literal analyzing of the Hebrew of Genesis chapters one and a couple of enable for the previous earth view (each so often there is greater desirable than one literal wisdom of any given passage, because of the fact that many words have different readings). A theistic evolutionists does not be a literalist because of the fact that they charm to an allegorical wisdom of the 1st ten chapters of Genesis. JWs take Genesis actually. One literal meaning for Hebrew 'day' is 'long quantity of time.' that's introduced out in Genesis 2:4 which applies 'day' to the completed advent technique. Then there is the 'night and morning' concern. yet there are numerous procedures around the priority, with one being that this is symbolic (which isn't the contradiction that it ought to look, because of the fact that all historic biblical debts delve into symbolic sayings in specific circumstances. in fact, all human beings try this on a daily basis, in keeping with hazard without even determining it. Language is, after all, symbolic by potential of nature). JWs have not got faith in theistic evolution because of the fact that all lifeforms in Genesis are defined as being direct individual creations of God. the only exception is Eve, who's defined as coming from Adam's rib.

How Long Is a Genesis "Day"?

Many consider the word"day" used in Genesis Chapter 1 to mean 24 hours. However, in Genesis 1:5 God himself is said to divide day into a smaller period of time, calling just the light portion "day." In Genesis 2:4 all the creative periods are called one "day": "This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in the day [all six creative periods] that Jehovah God made earth and heaven."

The Hebrew word yohm, translated "day," can mean different lengths of time. Among the meanings possible, William Wilson's Old Testament Word Studies includes the following: "A day; it is frequently put for time in general, or for a long time; a whole period under consideration. . . Day is also put for a particular season or time when any extraordinary event happens." This last sentence appears to fit the creative "days," for certainly they were periods when extraordinary events were described as happening. It also allows for periods much longer than 24 hours.

Genesis chapter 1 uses the expressions "evening" and "morning" relative to the creative periods. Does this not indicate that they were 24 hours long? Not necessarily. In some places people often refer to a man's lifetime as his "day." They speak of "my father's day" or "in Shakespeare's day." They may divide up that lifetime "day," saying "in the morning [or dawn] of his life" or "in the evening [or twilight] of his life." So 'evening and morning' in Genesis chapter 1 does not limit the meaning to a literal 24 hours.

"Day" as used in the Bible can include summer and winter, the passing of seasons. (Zechariah 14:8) "The day of harvest" involves many days. (Compare Proverbs 25:13 and Genesis 30:14.) A thousand years are likened to a day. (Psalm 90:4; 2 Peter 3:8, 10) "Judgment Day" covers many years. (Matthew 10:15; 11:22-24) It would seem reasonable that the "days" of Genesis could likewise have embraced long periods of time--millenniums.

When I was a teenager, still trying to make Biblical stories fit into reality, I supposed in a Speech Class speech that both evolution and creationism was true (teenagers, always trying to make the peace between angry grown ups) since the people of the early Bible lived up to almost 1000yrs. I posited that time was must longer then, therefore both scenarios could have happened.

You can't blame me... I was only 15 and fully indoctrinated. I apologize to humanity for that infraction of common sense. I have since grown up and realized it was all BS and the Bible cannot be the word of a perfect being and be so full of crap at the same time.

God couldn't have created the earth in 24 hours within 6 days. That's 144 hours. He created the earth within 6 creative periods. Jehovah God does not view time as humans does. We view time as 24 ours within a day.

It took Jehovah God way more than 24 hours to create the earth. On the 7th God had rested.

" And God proceeded to bless the seventh day and make it sacred, because on it he has been resting from all his work that God has created for the purpose of making."-Genesis 2:3. Jehovah God had to rest from creating. But as He, He let everything develop. Everything on earth is by far too complex and perfect for things to be created within 24 hours.

Even with that generous interpretation, literalism of the text is indefensible. For one thing, the order is wrong. It has God creating plants before the moon, the sun and the stars, which all pre-date life on Earth.

It was as long as fiction requires it to be. The author obviously intended it to be 24 hours.

24 hours

genesis chapter 5 indicates adam started counting his days the very day he was created on day 6

he was 130 years old when he had seth

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