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Why did God make the earth in seven days and not one? |
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God worked six days and rested one to set the pattern of the week for man.
God created and defined the "Day" on the first day. The word "day" cannot have been symbolic of anything the first time it was used. To be used symbolically, a word must have been used before. Therefore, it was meant as a literal day.
Genesis 1:
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Exodus 20:
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Another View
People interpret the 6 day creation as being everything from literal history, to loose metaphor or allegory having some hidden meaning, to just being flat out wrong.
Unfortunately the people who wrote it are long gone, so we can never know what they intended it to mean.
First answer by Diogenesepal. Last edit by Merryheart. Contributor trust: 93 [recommend contributor]. Question popularity: 24 [recommend question]
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