Was the World Created in Six Days?

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  “God Established Seven-Day Week as Pattern for Mankind”

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  “The Origin of the Seven Day Week”
  

God Established Seven-Day Week as Pattern for Mankind

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If you think about it, an infinite Creator God could have created everything in no time. Why, then, did He take as long as six days? The answer is given in Exodus 20:11 . Here we find that God tells us that He deliberately took six days and rested for one as a pattern for mankind—and this is where the seven-day week comes from. The seven-day week has no basis for existing except from Scripture. If one believes that the days of creation are long periods of time, then the week becomes meaningless.

The Bible tells us that Adam was created on the sixth day. If he lived through day six and day seven, and then died when he was 930 years old as Scripture records, and if each of these days was a thousand or a million years, you have major problems! On the fourth day of creation ( Genesis 1:14-19 ), we are given the comparison of day to night, and days to years. If the word   “day” doesn't mean an ordinary day, then the comparison of day to night and day to years becomes meaningless.

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"Yes" Answers in Genesis

• The Biblical Account is Self-Authenticating and Self-Attesting
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• Man and Sin Had to Come Before Death and Destruction
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• God Established Seven-Day Week as Pattern for Mankind
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• Science Has Not Ultimately Proven Millions of Years
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• Answering the Question of Light Before the Sun's Creation
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• Millions of Years Limits God More Than Six Days Does
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• Why is the Genesis 2 Account Different?
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• Science and the Earth's Age
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"No" Gary Hurd

• An Introduction to Creationism
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• Creation ex nihilo and Distant Galaxies
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• Creation ex nihilo and the Earth
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• The Age of Rocks, Not the Rock of Ages
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• The Six Day Creation is Incompetent Theologically
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"No" Joseph Amodeo

• The World was Symbolically Created in Six Days
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• Let's Not Make a Mockery of the Christian Faith
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• The Theology of Time
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• Genesis 2 as Evidence
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Most Objections

• The Biblical Account is Self-Authenticating and Self-Attesting
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• God Established Seven-Day Week as Pattern for Mankind
  4
• Science Has Not Ultimately Proven Millions of Years
  3
• Answering the Question of Light Before the Sun's Creation
  3
• Why is the Genesis 2 Account Different?
  2
• Science and the Earth's Age
  0

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