7 Days to create the earth; 7 means completion. But there is more; can someone name them for me or direct me to a site at which I could find more information? Thanks!
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I was so caught up in looking for the meaning of numbers. I was also asking myself if what I am doing was right cause I don't want to get into numerology and the like. \nYou can do a google search of "GEMATRIA" and you will find a lot of resources dealing with that matter. Now my focus is on Heaven, the angels and God's kingdom. I have found an incredible website www.angelfocus.com. I now understand how God is the mastermind of Government and Organization.
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Damn- I just erased my entire answer. So short version: Mayans say 2012, End of Days is 2010, Nostradamus says 3000 something. Planet isn't going anywhere unless someone (*cough cough* Bush) does something really stupid. Society can't last the way it is "somethings gotta give" All this crap that is happening is just the planets way of trying to get our attention. If pop. continues to grow, some kind of natural pop. control will break out (aka. Avian Flu, Smallpox) or more likely one will be released as a bio. weapon.  I swear my first answer was better.
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The bible states that God created man (humanity, all the races) on the 6th day. Male and female. He blessed them and told them to multiply and fill the earth. Then, on the 7th day, He rested. Later.... in what many Christians today call 8th day creation.... God planted a garden but, saw there was no man to till the earth so, He made Adam, the first farmer. God brought to Adam many animals and Adam named them. These were the domestic animals we use today on farms and as beasts of burden. Wild aimals had been previously created on day 5. \n\nWhen Cain killed Abel, Cain went to the land of Nod were he took a wife. He married a female who was a 6th day creation human. \n\nLater, Adam and Eve had many children. One child, Seth, was to be the ancestor of Noah, who was the ancestor of David. From this lineage came Mary, mother of God. The reason for the lineage breakdown (the begatting) is to let us all know Christ's (for want of a better word) pedigree.
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I'm not sure what he means by his explanation, but he's not totally off to think there would at least be a possibility of the longest 'day' not being adjacent to the shortest 'night'.\n\nAs measured from the Sun's local zenith to the next local zenith, solar days are not the same length of time (24 hours is just the average amount of time to get from noon to noon).  It takes longer to get from local noon to the next local noon at the solstices when the Earth is tilted directly toward or directly away from the Sun.  The shortest solar days (noon to noon) should be at the equinoxes.  (In other words, if there are more total seconds in the solar day at the solstice, then having the most daylight seconds doesn't necessarily mean having the shortest night time seconds).\n\nAdditionally, the Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical.  At perihelion (closest point to the Sun), the Earth is traveling faster and sweeping out a bigger angle per second.  That means the Earth has to rotate further to get back to noon the next day.  Solar days near perihelion are longer while solar days near apohelion (furthest from Sun) are shorter.  This is where your dad's argument starts to break down.  The Earth is at apohelion around the first week of July and at perihelion the first week of January.  In other words, there are more seconds in a solar day in the winter than there are in the summer.  The tilt of the Earth is more significant, so there are still more seconds in a solar day near the summer solstice than either equinox, even if the longest solar day (noon to noon) isn't in the summer.\n\nThe biggest reason his argument breaks down is sheer magnitude.  The variation in the length of a solar day is in seconds/day while the difference in the amount of daylight/darkness can be minutes/day (the amount of variation depends on a person's latitude)\n\nFor 2006, the longest daytime period will be on Jun 21, with the shortest nightime period being Jun 20 or 21 (the Naval Observatory's charts only list hours and minutes).
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-- Seven days for creation.\n-- Seven days until the Sabbath.\n-- Seven days for Noah to gather the animals.\n-- Seven persons were with Noah.\n-- Seven years of plenty and seven years of famine.\n-- Seven priests, with seven trumpets, were to encompass the walls of Jericho for seven days and on the seventh day, Jericho fell into the hands of Israel.\n-- Seven days were required for the unclean to be cleansed.\n-- Seven items were required in many of the sacrifices.\n-- Seven days, Job's friends sat with him.\n-- Seven years were required to build the temple.\n-- Seven Feasts were enumerated in Leviticus.\n-- Seventy-seventh from Adam was Christ.\n-- Seven hours was Christ on the cross.\n-- Sevens in the book of Revelation are abundant.
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True, it IS the conclusion of the Maya calendar, (based on a beginning of it several thousand years earlier, which I can't fathom, since they were not even around then to start a calendar).\n\nNevertheless, on this date, "the precession of the equinox", as I understand it, reaches its next ending revolution amongst the stars,(along the celestal equator), completing the circuit after 26,000+ years.  \n\nSo, THIS IS THE BIG EVENT, astronomically speaking.  So this will be the ending of something, (and the beginning also of the next 26,000+ year circuit).\n\nI've asked the question:, "When was this point in the sky\nestablished and by whom?", but no one has been able to answer it yet.\n\nAnd, I'm not wanting to be pessimistic, but this old world will be lucky to last till 2012, the way things are going, worldwide.
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Digging into the history of the 7-day week is a very complicated matter. Authorities have very different opinions about the history of the week, and they frequently present their speculations as if they were indisputable facts. The only thing we seem to know for certain about the origin of the 7-day week is that we know nothing for certain.\n\nThe common explanation is that the seven-day week was established as imperial calendar in the late Roman empire and furthered by the Christian church for historical reasons. The British Empire used the seven-day week and spread it worldwide. Today the seven-day week is enforced by global business and media schedules, especially television and banking.\n\nThe first pages of the Bible explain how God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. This seventh day became the Jewish day of rest, the sabbath, Saturday.\n\nExtra-biblical locations sometimes mentioned as the birthplace of the 7-day week include: Babylon, Persia, and several others. The week was known in Rome before the advent of Christianity.\n\nThere are practical geometrical theories as well. For example, if you wrap a rubber band around 7 soda cans (or any other convenient circular objects). You get a perfect hexagon with the 7th can in the middle. It is the only stable configuration of wrapping more than 3 circular objects. Four, 5, and 6 objects will slip from one configuration to another. Ancients wrapping tent poles, small logs for firewood, or other ciruclar objects might have come upon this number and attach a mystical significance to it.\n\nOne viable theory correlates the seven day week to the seven (astrological) "planets" known to the ancients: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. The number seven does not seem an obvious choice to match lunar or solar periods, however. A solar year could be more evenly divided into weeks of 5 days, and the moon phases five-day and six-day weeks make a better short term fit (6 times 5 is 30) to the lunar (synodic) month (of about 29.53 days) than the current week (4 times 7 is 28). The seven-day week may have been chosen because its length approximates one moon phase (one quarter = 29.53 / 4 = 7.3825).\nhttp://webexhibits.org/calendars/week.html\n\nWEEK   \nNext to the day, the week is the most important calendric unit in our life. And yet, there is no astronomical significance to the week. Nothing cosmic happens in the heavens in seven days.* How, then, did the week come to assume such importance? \n\nThe first thing to understand is that a week is not necessarily seven days. In pre-literate societies weeks of 4 to 10 days were observed; those weeks were typically the interval from one market day to the next. Four to 10 days gave farmers enough time to accumulate and transport goods to sell. (The one week that was almost always avoided was the 7-day week -- it was considered unlucky!) The 7-day week was introduced in Rome (where ides, nones, and calends were the vogue) in the first century A.D. by Persian astrology fanatics, not by Christians or Jews. The idea was that there would be a day for the five known planets, plus the sun and the moon, making seven; this was an ancient West Asian idea. However, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire in the time of Constantine (c. 325 A.D.), the familiar Hebrew-Christian week of 7 days, beginning on Sunday, became conflated with the pagan week and took its place in the Julian calendar. Thereafter, it seemed to Christians that the week Rome now observed was seamless with the 7-day week of the Bible -- even though its pagan roots were obvious in the names of the days: Saturn's day, Sun's day, Moon's day. The other days take their equally pagan names in English from a detour into Norse mythology: Tiw's day, Woden's day, Thor's day, and Fria's day. \n\nThe amazing thing is that today the 7-day week, which is widely viewed as being Judeo-Christian, even
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In the first place, god did not create the world in 7 days -- or any other period of time.  The universe is 13.7 billion years old; the earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
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Of course they are.  It was a man who "decided" how old the universe was and he used man's lenght of Time to determine it. We have no idea how long God's day is. it may have taken 7 "days" but God's day may just be several billion years of our Time. I beleive in both evolution and creation and they both make perfect sense. Blessings and good luck.
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I believe you have answered your own question.  This is my belief exactly.  The bible specifically tells us that his six days is infinately more then out days.  I believe that God put the wheels in motions and over time we evoved.  Great topic!
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the mayan long count states that a great event will occur in 2012 but the end of time will be much later. take a look.\nEnd of the world?\nThe end of the 13th b'ak'tun is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya, but does not mark the end of the world. According to the Popol Vuh, a book compiling details of creation accounts known to the Quiché Maya of the colonial-era highlands, we are living in the fourth world. The Popol Vuh describes the first three creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. The Maya believed that the fourth world would end in catastrophe and the fifth and final world would be created that would signal the end of mankind.\n\nThe last creation ended on a long count of 13.0.0.0.0. Another 13.0.0.0.0 will occur on December 21, 2012, and it has been discussed in many New Age articles and books that this will be the end of this creation or something else entirely. However, the Maya abbreviated their long counts to just the last five vigesimal places. There were an infinite number of larger units that were usually not shown. When the larger units were shown (notably on a monument from Coba), the end of the last creation is expressed as 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, where the units are obviously supposed to be 13s in all larger places. In this age we are only approaching 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.13.0.0.0.0, and the larger places are nowhere near the 13s that would match the end of the last creation. (Schele and Friedel 1990: 430)\n\nThis is confirmed by a date from Palenque, which projects forward in time to 1.0.0.0.0.0, which will occur on 13 October, 4772. The Classic Period Maya obviously did not believe that the end of this age would occur in 2012. According to the Maya, there will be a baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of a 13th 400 year period, but not the end of the world.
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everybody is coming up with the same stupid stuff on creation again and again. instead of thousand years why cant you make it 1 billion years. so that your problem is solved. bible is happy and the scientists are also happy. because it is closer to thier estimate of the age of this universe.\n\nthe calculations mentioned in bible are taken literally out of the "book of Dzyan". ofcourse with a little changes to suit to thier tastes so that it looks very different. going by the events in history all biblical characters were of recent origin, 3000 BCE. this has been confirmed many times. firstly by believers of bible initially and later on by scientific evidence. on that count there is no difference of opinion.\n\nneither during early days of genesis nor till recently anybody was bothered about the age of universe. everything revolved around what is written in genesis. genesis has a strong basis to believe that thier world was created about 6000 years ago. that is true. that part of the world, around israel, middle east there were lot of geological changs happened. lot of people displaced and when the new race came into the land they needed a fiction. so it fits perfectly well with genesis. no doubt genesis is correct on the accuracy of begining of human settlement in israel and surrounding middle east areas around 3800-3600 BCE. when a new faith is started,  it needs a new look, its just old wine in new bottle with a little changes while serving it.\n\nthe cosmos has seven rounds/phase to reach the pinnacle, so whoever wrote genesis just took it for seven days. infact we are in the four round/phase where the human beings evolved. by seventh everything will be returned back to god and the next cycle/round/phase will start again. currently we are in the middle of the cycle. around  4-5 billion years. the cosmos keeps expanding and new things & beings will evolve over time. then the contraction & collapse will be much faster. only to expand again. doesnt it looks like a play? yes, god loves to play. he enjoys the play and so he plays it.\n\nnow your question: how long does it take for god to create in our time. nothing. my answer is NOTHING. because he did not create. he was evolving himself into all kinds of beings.  he is everywhere, in everything. that is the beauty of god. he keeps churning everything. cosmos is so vast. we human beings are not able to understand what the earth properly. so thinking in cosmic proprtion is difficult for many. yes, there are human beings who have achieved this cosmic alingment with god. god just attracts everything like a magnet, some attract much faster than other. we have to be intune with nature, god.\n\ncreation/evolution are not different. they are two sides of the same coin. religions unnecessarily created this one sided theory and scientists continue to hold on to thiers.\n\ni do not find anything difficult in understanding this cosmos. with or without god. because everything is divine, godly.
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Assuming that you count your millenias from the time planet Earth came into existence, there have been 4.5 million millenias.\n\nAssuming you count it from when man first (seemingly) appeared (I am a Darwinian), there have been around 5000 - 7000 millenias (the exact period of origin of man isnt known)\n\nAssuming that you are so short sighted to be counting from the Christian Era, there have been two millenias (0001 AD to 1000 AD and 1001 AD to 2000 AD). We are therefore in the third.
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I believe in the Bible.\nThe Bible says that the world was created in six literal 24 hour days, is around 6000 years old, that man and dinosaurs lived together (being created in the same week), and that there was a flood that totally covered the entire planet, killing off the vast majority of human, plant and animal life on the planet.\nThe amount of scintific evidence that supports this theory is simply staggering, but rarely given a chance to be heard or seen due to the wide-spread acceptance of the evolution theory.\n\nDid you know that the earth's rotation is slowing down? So if you back up in time a few million years, you have to speed the earth's rotation up proportionatly - you can't even go back a few million before the earths rotation becomes so fast that life on this planet is not possible anymore. - Much less 4.6 billion years.\n\nThe orbit of the moon is growing a little bit farther away from the earth every year, so if you back that one up a few million years, the moon would have been so close to the earth that the tide would have come so high it would wipe out all life on the  planet twice a day. - 4.6 billion years ago, it would have to have been touching the earth,  not oribiting the earth.\n\nI could go on for many pages like this, but follow the link below to find out more about that the Bible says about creation, and what scientific examination of these claims have shown.
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Darn you.  You sucked me in with your question, then I get here and I see 42 is already taken.  Now we really have to go on a trip and I'm without a towel.  Well ok, let me see what I can come up with, shooting from the hip as it were.  My best guess is that the meaning of life, the universe and everything is "MORE".  The quest for more seems to be at the center of all living creatures.  All organizations be they organic or manmade seem to be trying to get "more".  The universe itself is expanding, so I am told.  As for "everything" anything that should happen to get created instantly becomes part of everything, so even everything seems to crave more.  Yes I think I'll stick with the answer "MORE".  What?  Wait, just a minute, my wife is yelling something from the kitchen...... (long pause).....Hello I'm back again.  My wife says the answer is "LESS"  She says life is always moving toward death which by it's very nature is less life.  The universe is made up of a limited quantity of everything and it is being used up also, so you have less now than in the past, and as for "everything"  Well since everything gets used, you must have less of everything now than there was in the beginning.  So my wife and I will agree to disagree and say that the answer is:\nMore or Less, or possibly More and Less.  I guess that's pretty much the same as 42 because 4 is more and 2 is less.  I'm getting a pain just behind my left eye from all of this thinking.  What!?  Just a minute, my wife is yelling again!........ I'm back.  She said I'd better get off this Yahoo Answers thing and come to the table if I want any dinner.  I told her that I'll never have to come back to Yahoo Answers again because I just pretty much summed up life, the universe and everything.  I'd better hurry if I want more to eat and less yelling.  So long and thanks for all the fishes.
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God created earth in 6 days...
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First consider some scientific estimates or guesses. Not all scientists are going to agree. The Universe or heavens 20 billion years old. The Earth 4.6 billion years old. The Moon 200 to 300 million years younger than the Earth. Dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago. The Ice Age 2.5 million years ago. Oldest evidence of flesh man 7000 to 14000 years old.\n\nThere are 3 earth ages (II Pet.3:5-7), same earth but different ages. We are now in the 2nd earth age. Between Gen.1:1 and Gen.1:2 is a vast amount of time, if time existed. Between these 2 verses is Satan’s rebellion (Rev.12:3-4) and “his tail” drew 1/3 of God’s children. Between these 2 verses also belongs all fossils and remains, such as Dinosaurs.\n\nIn Gen.1:2 we have the of the end of the 1st earth age and the beginning of the 2nd. For clarity Gen.1:2 needs to be divided (see below).\n\n(A) Gen.1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. \n\n(B) Gen.1:2 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.\n\nIn (A) Gen.1:2 the first occurrence of the word “was” has been corrupted and is “became”. It reads “And the earth became without form, and void”. The end of the 1st earth age.\n\nIn (B) Gen.1:2 we have the beginning of 2nd earth age, the one we live in now. Man did not exist in flesh till this earth age.\n\nBetween (A & B) Gen.1:2 is also a vast amount of time, if time existed. Between (A & B) Gen.1:2  is; a global flood (not Noah’s which was a local flood), the destruction of Atlantis, the breakup of Gondwana Land, and the Ice Age.\n\nTime means nothing to our Father. He is very patient and loves His children. Instead of destroying Satan and 1/3 of His children, He destroyed that first earth age. Now in this 2nd earth age we all are born innocent in the flesh. Father came in the flesh Himself, Jesus Christ, and paid the price for all. Father defeated Satin, that is death, legally. So now His children have a decision, to choose life or to choose death. It’s your decision. Choose life!!