When God was counting the days of creation was he using imaginary numbers?
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Some theologians believe that the creation "days" listed could have spanned eons.  However, this is different from "imaginary numbers," which in mathematics are numbers such as "i" or the sqrt of -1.  \n I know this wasn't a serious question, but you got a serious answer.  :o)\n\nI know I will get pounded for this, but this and other biblical "events" are more like allegorical stories - not to be taken literally.  \nThink metaphors, not written in stone - even the writing in stone bit.
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there was no matter. our human mind cant comprehend the fact that God MADE matter AND TIME . God is not bound to time like we r. For to Him a thousand years in heaven is one day here.and a thousand years here is 1 day in heaven.doesnt make any sence unless u know the truth of God. not the public , deceptive view the world gives us.
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No, the first number, real number, in the Bible is the number 1. The actual Hebrew text for genesis reads 'it was evening it was morning YOM ECHAD,' and 'echad' means 'one,' not the word 'first.'\n\n         Genesis 1:5  And God called the light Day, \n         and the darkness he called Night. And the \n         evening and the morning were the first \n         day. \n\nGen 1:5 ויקרא אלהים לאור יום ולחשׁך קרא לילה ויהי־ערב ויהי־בקר יום אחד׃
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I am not sure where you got those figures but they are not correct. We do not have the exact time fram from Adam out. The earth is approximately 6000 years old. The only thing we know for sure is that Jesus was born in 1ad and was crucified and resurrected in 32ad. So right now we are 1974 from when Jesus died and rose again. There so there is around 4000 years prior to Jesus coming. The prophecy in Daniel 9 refers to the coming of the Messiah. The prophecy begins with the command to rebuild Jerusalem which came in Nehemiah 1 on our Calendar March 14th 445bc. It goes forward 473 years to April 6 32ad when Jesus presented Himself as Messiah to the Jews on what we now call palm Sunday. We do not know when satan will be bound in the pit but it will not come until the end of the tribulation (the 70th week of Daniel). We do not know when the tribulation will begin. So again those numbers you have are way off base and mean absolutely nothing in reality because we do not know the exact amount of time that passed from creation to Jesus. Keep your eyes on what is clearly revelaed in Scripture and don't worry about extrabiblical ideas.
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If you believe and read the Holy Bible then you can know the truth that man was created on the sixth day.\n\nThese are the verses from the Holy Bible which mention the details of the sixth day during the Almighty Eternal Gods creation\nThe Book of Genesis chapter 1 verses 24 to 31\n\n24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. \n\n 25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. \n\n 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. \n\n 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. \n\n 28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. \n\n 29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. \n\n 30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. \n\n 31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.\n\nHope God will show you the truth when you ask him yourself from whereever you are.
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The reference of the numbers you are querying here are not much important except that the context in which they were used was to suggest an idea.  This same idea is that God is perfect and the man of sin is not whosoever he be. He may be very close in appearance but can never attain it.  To make the point God used the numbers here in question. Christian scriptures note that God's perfect number  is 7.  No matter how many times you repeat 6 it never really gets to seven. thats all.
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Pythagoras wrote nothing himself but preferred to leave his students to document his thoughts.\n\nHe taught many unusual doctrines including the veneration for - and the abstinence from eating of - beans. He also preached reincarnation and the transmigration of souls. He is largely responsible for the modern belief in numerology\n\nAccording to Pythagoras the ultimate nature of reality is number, an idea developed from his theory of music in which he proved that the interval between musical tones could be expressed as ratios of the first four numbers. He claimed that music has a special power over the soul.\n\nThe "Tetractys of the decad" was venerated by the Pythagoreans. This is a diagram that represents the first four numbers as a triangle of ten dots:\n-----*\n----* *\n---* * *\n--* * * *\n10 was called the perfect number because it is made up of the sum of the first four numbers.
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Good question! I had the same question as a child! I'm one for research, and never take an answer unless I can verify it to be true (to the extent I can!)\n\nFinding the True Sense of Biblical Passages\n\nGalileo believed the Bible to be true. When his scientific discoveries contradicted the prevailing interpretation of certain Bible verses, he reasoned that theologians were missing the true sense of the passages. After all, “two truths can never contradict one another,” he wrote.4 He suggested that the precise terms of science do not contradict the everyday words of the Bible. But theologians would not let themselves be persuaded. They insisted that all Biblical statements about the earth are to be taken literally. As a result, not only did they reject Galileo’s discoveries but they also missed the true sense of such Scriptural expressions.\n\nReally, common sense should tell us that when the Bible refers to “the four corners of the earth,” it does not mean that the Bible writers understood the earth to be literally square. (Revelation 7:1) The Bible is written in the language of ordinary people, often using vivid figures of speech. So when it speaks of the earth as having “four corners,” a durable “foundation,” “pedestals,” and a “cornerstone,” the Bible is not offering a scientific description of the earth; obviously it is speaking metaphorically, as we often do in daily speech.—Isaiah 51:13; Job 38:6.\n\nIn his book Galileo Galilei, biographer L. Geymonat noted: “Narrow-minded theologians who wanted to limit science on the basis of biblical reasoning would do nothing but cast discredit upon the Bible itself.”5 That they did. Actually, it was the theologians’ interpretation of the Bible—not the Bible itself—that put unreasonable constraints on science.\n\nSimilarly, religious fundamentalists today distort the Bible when they insist that the earth was created in six 24-hour days. (Genesis 1:3-31) Such a view agrees neither with science nor with the Bible. In the Bible, as in everyday speech, the word “day” is a flexible term, expressing units of time of varying lengths. At Genesis 2:4, all six creative days are referred to as one all-embracing “day.” The Hebrew word translated “day” in the Bible can simply mean “a long time.”6 So, there is no Biblical reason to insist that the days of creation were 24 hours each. By teaching otherwise, fundamentalists misrepresent the Bible.—See also 2 Peter 3:8.\n\nThroughout history, theologians have often distorted the Bible. \n\nMisrepresented by Religion\n\nThe actions of those who say they follow the Bible often besmear the reputation of the book they claim to revere. So-called Christians have shed one another’s blood in the name of God. Yet, the Bible admonishes followers of Christ to “love one another.”—John 13:34, 35; Matthew 26:52.\n\nSome clergymen fleece their flocks, wheedling hard-earned money from them—a far cry from the Scriptural instruction: “You received free, give free.”—Matthew 10:8; 1 Peter 5:2, 3.\n\nClearly, the Bible cannot be judged according to the words and actions of those who simply quote it or claim to live by it. An open-minded person may therefore want to discover for himself what the Bible is all about and why it is such a remarkable book.
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Origins of 666\n\nThe idea of the Triple God/dess has existed well before the beginnings of Christianity. The Christian God also holds the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost/Spirit, mirroring a religious aspect that dates well into the beginnings of solidified Pantheons. \n\nThe Christian God is said to create the world in 6 days on the 7th he rests. On the six day is the creation of man. \n\n\n"And God went on to say: 'Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth.' And God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God's image he created him; male and female he created them."-Genesis 1:26, 27."\n\nSo we can see how the number of man is 6, being created on the Sixth day.\n\nThe Devil/Satan is label through history as the God of Flesh or something very similar depending on who/where you hear it. The God of Flesh is therefore also the God of Man, not of Christian man but of everyother man. Because the Devil is a "God" his number holds the Trinity aspect... being the Trinity God of Man, and Man's number being 6... the Devil's number becomes 666!\n\nIn Numerology, the number 6 is one of the most harmonius of numbers. First a brief background must be explained. The number 1 is a male number, both because of its phallic symbol and embodiment of masculine attributes such as physical and mental activity, and creative power. The number 2 is a feminine number, the II symbolic of the vaginal passage, and embodying feministic properties; accepeting, yielding, warm. The number 3 is another male number. Rotating it on it's side symbolizes the male reproductive testies and it is also 1 (male) + 2 (female) making it the number of Offspring.\n\nBackground infomation done, mathematically 6 is both 2 (Female) times 3 (Male) and 1 (Male) + 2 (Female) + 3 (Offspring), making it extremely balanced and hence symbolic of harmonious sexual union. The upward (male) and downward (female) triangels superimpose to form the 6-pointed star. It also very much mirroring a woman's pregnant expanding womb. It is both a female number and 2 x 3 and therefore represents the nurturing side of womanhood -- the stable, safe, warm, domestic aspect of motherhood.\n\nBecause it is portrayed as such a female number, celebrating the beauty of motherhood and sexuality, it was shunned by the original Church. It was greatly in their favor to layer 6 with negative connotations, thus diminishing the popular practice of numerology and marking mothers with 6 of some item for good luck. (i.e. 6 flowers or a necklace with 6 beads.)\n\nFrom here, a propaganda was built around this number and it is said to be an evil omen or some other such nonsense. In any case, whether you believe it is evil or not... that is the origin of the Number of the Beast. Oddly enough, more people avoid the number 13 than 666. Multiple hotels remove room number 13 from every floor but room number 666 will remain. Curious...
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The Bible speaks of 6 creative days.  It does not say that the days lasted 24 hours.  A day can indicate a period of time (in Noah's day, for example).  The Bible also says that a 1000 years is a day to God.  On the seventh day he rested from his creative works.  We are still in the seventh day of rest.  (we see this seventh day is longer than 24 hours, and longer than a 1000 years)  Scientific evidence supports that the earth is 4 billion years old.
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God is, he always is and always was, he was never born nor created. He just is. This is too hard of a concept for the human brain to understand but it is what the Bible explains it to be.
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Here r some numbers:\n1 THE NUMBER OF UNITY. Father. Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Ephesians 4:5 "one Lord, one faith, one baptism."  \n2 THE NUMBER OF DIVISION. The Son who has two natures: human and divine. There are 2 Testaments: the Old and New. Man is Male and Female. Rom. 9 speaks of two vessels: one for honorable use and the other for dishonorable use. Two types of people: Sheep and Goats. There are two ages, this age and the age to come: Matt. 12:32; 13:39,40,49; Mark 10:30.  \n3 THE NUMBER OF DIVINE PERFECTION. The Trinity consists of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There are three qualities of the universe: Time, Space, and Matter. To exist (except for God), all three are required. Each quality consists of three elements. Therefore, we live in a trinity of trinities. \n4 THE NUMBER OF CREATION - North, South, East, West; 4 Seasons. The 4th commandment is the first that refers to the earth. The 4th clause of the Lord's Prayer is the first that mentions the earth. The materials of the tabernacle were four and so were the coverings and the ornamentations.  \n5 THE NUMBER OF GRACE. Redemption. Israel came out of Egypt 5 in rank (Ex 13:18). David picked up 5 smooth stone to fight Goliath (1 Sam. 17:40). The Holy Anointing Oil was pure and composed of 5 parts (Ex. 30:23-25).  \n6 THE NUMBER OF MAN: Man was created on the 6th day. Man labors 6 days only. The Serpent was created on the 6th day. The 6th commandment is "Thou shalt not murder." Six words are used for man: Adam, ish, Enosh, gehver, anthropos, anar. Also, 6 x 6 = 36. 36 + 35 + 34 + 33 + 32 . . . 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 666. 666 is the number of the antichrist. This means that the name of the antichrist in Greek adds up to 666. This is a mockery of the Trinity.  \n7 THE NUMBER OF SPIRITUAL PERFECTION. Seven days in a week. Seven colors in the spectrum. Seven of the 10 commandments begin with the word "not." There are 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 parables in Matthew, and 7 promises to the churches \n8 THE NUMBER OF NEW BEGINNINGS. 8 people on Noah's Ark (2 Pet. 2:5); circumcision on 8th day (Gen. 17:12); God made 8 covenants with Abraham \n9 THE NUMBER OF JUDGMENT. There are 9 greek words derived from the root word meaning judgment = dikay. The following words each occur 9 times in the Bible: abussos (bottomless pit); asebee (ungodly); aselgeia (lasciviousness); and astrapee (lightning). The gifts of the spirit are 9 in number (1 Cor. 12:8-10): the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, tongues, and interpretation of tongues.  \n10 THE NUMBER OF DIVINE PERFECTION. There are 10 commandments (Ex. 20); 1/10 of your income is a tithe; the were 10 plagues on Egypt (Ex. 9:14ff); 10 x 10 silver sockets formed the foundation of the Tabernacle (Ex 38:27); There are 10 "I AM's spoken by Jesus in John: 1) I am the Bread of Life (6:35); 2) I am the Bread of Life which came down from heaven (6:41); 3) I am the Living Bread (6:51); 4) I am the Light of the world (8:12); 5) I am One that bears witness of Myself (8:18); 6) I am the Door of the sheep (10:7,9); 7) I am the Good Shepherd (10:14); 8) I am the Resurrection and the Life (14:6); 9) I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life (11:25); and 10) I am the True Vine (15:1,5). \n12 THE NUMBER OF GOVERNMENTAL PERFECTION. There were 12 tribes of Israel; 12 Apostles, 12 foundations in the heavenly Jerusalem; 12 gates; 12 pearls; 12 angels. The measurements of New Jerusalem are 12,000 furlongs or stadia, while the wall will be 144 (12 x 12) cubits (Rev. 21:16-17).  \n40 THE NUMBER OF PROBATION OR TRIAL. The Israelites wandered for 40 years (Deut. 8:2-5). Moses was on the mount for 40 days (Exodus 24:18); 40 days of Jonah and Nineveh (Jonah 3:4). Jesus was tempted for 40 days (Matt. 4:2).  \n153 In John 21:11, after the resurrection the disciples caught 153 fish. The word fish in Greek is 'ixthus&#39
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The magic of seven \nSignifies creation, the sum of the spiritual three and the material four \nThe seven ages of man, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins (p 1592), the seven league boot, seventh heaven, the seven wonders of the world, the seven pillars of wisdom, Snow White and the seven dwarves, 7-up.... There are an awful lot of sevens around. Numerologists see seven as the sum of the spiritual three and the material four, signifying creation. The Old Testament tells us that the world was created in seven days. The seventh generation after Adam produced Lamech, who lived for 777 years and was to be avenged 77 fold. Psalm 90 sets the human life span at seven decades. Solomon's temple has seven steps, and Noah's dove returns after seven days. \n\nIn the Hippocratic tradition the number seven governs the ailments of the body. In Germany it was believed that people would not catch swine fever if they spent seven days drinking and bathing in water containing asphodel. A Jewish cure for fever involved taking "seven prickles from seven palmtrees, seven chips from seven beams, seven nails from seven doors," and so on up to "seven hairs from the beard of an old dog."1 And in this issue of the BMJ a long but neglected tradition alleging seven year cycles in human development is vindicated in Jos Verhulst and Patrick Onghena's finding of a circaseptennial (roughly seven year) rhythm in the growth of male human ears (p 1597).2 \n\nIn Iranian folklore the cat has seven, not nine, lives and carries her kittens seven times to seven different places.1 "To do the work of seven mullahs" means to accomplish absolutely nothing. In ancient India the most important numbers were three and seven. The ancient Indian text Rigveda talks of seven stars and seven streams of soma (the drink of the gods).1 Indra, the rain god, is "the seven-slayer," the ocean has seven depths, and there are seven concentric continents. The sacred cow has 21 names--three times seven. \n\nIn ancient Greece, seven was associated with Athena, the virgin goddess, because it is neither producing nor produced--that is, it has no multiple in the first decade (1-10) and also no divisor (other than 1). The first property has little mathematical importance, but the second tells us that seven is a prime number--having no divisors other than itself and one. It is the second Mersenne prime--one less than a power of two.3 \n\nSeven numbers suffice to colour every map on a torus--a surface shaped like a doughnut with a central hole--so that no two adjacent regions have the same colour. The smallest regular polygon that cannot be constructed using ruler and compasses is the heptagon, with seven sides. All sufficiently large whole numbers are the sum of seven perfect cubes. And it you want to get more esoteric, the unit sphere in a multidimensional space has the greatest surface area when the space has dimension seven. \n\nSeven is an astronomical number. The week has seven days because successive phases of the moon occur roughly seven days apart. Other astronomical sevens include the "seven sisters," the stars of the constellation of the Pleiades, and--in ancient times only--the seven planets: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. In Douglas Adams's The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy the answer to the "Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything," is 42 (six times seven).4 In November 1996 the Independent reported the latest measurements of Hubble's constant--a fundamental physical quantity that determines the rate of growth of our expanding universe.5 "Dr Richard Saunders," the newspaper wrote, "sounded a trifle abashed by the result. 'We have taken two measurements for the constant, and the average of them is, well, it's 42.'"
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The Qur'an states that "Allah created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in six days" (7:54). While on the surface this might seem similar to the account related in the Bible, there are some important distinctions.\n\nThe verses that mention "six days" use the Arabic word "youm" (day). This word appears several other times in the Qur'an, each denoting a different measurement of time. In one case, the measure of a day is equated with 50,000 years (70:4), whereas another verse states that "a day in the sight of your Lord is like 1,000 years of your reckoning" (22:47). The word "youm" is thus understood, within the Qur'an, to be a long period of time -- an era or eon. Therefore, Muslims interpret the description of a "six day" creation as six distinct periods or eons. The length of these periods is not precisely defined, nor are the specific developments that took place during each period.\n\nAfter completing the Creation, the Qur'an describes that Allah "settled Himself upon the Throne" (57:4) to oversee His work. A distinct point is made to counter the Biblical idea of a day of rest: "We created the heavens and the earth adn all that is between them in six days, nor did any sense of weariness touch Us" (50:38).\n\nAllah is never "done" with His work, because the process of creation is ongoing. Each new child who is born, every seed that sprouts into a sapling, every new species that appears on earth, is part of the ongoing process of Allah's creation. "He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself on the Throne. He knows what enters within the heart of the earth, and what comes forth out of it, what comes down from heaven, and what mounts up to it. And He is with you wherever you may be. And Allah sees well all that you do" (57:4).
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Well it depends on what you want to define as a "number". Since you have already included imaginary and complex numbers, I might suggest you look at Hamilton's quaternions, which are noncommutative, and the nonassociative Cayley numbers, as well as Cantor's transfinite numbers. \n\nOf course, if we follow Leopold Kronecker, we might ignore everything except the integers:\n\n"God created the integers," wrote mathematician Leopold Kronecker, "All the rest is the work of Man."
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Man’s situation does not compare with that of the Creator, who does not reside within our solar system and who is not affected by its various cycles and orbits. Of God, who is from time indefinite to time indefinite, the psalmist says: “For a thousand years are in your eyes but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch during the night.” (Ps 90:2, 4) Correspondingly, the apostle Peter writes that “one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” (2Pe 3:8)\n\n For man, a 1,000-year period represents some 365,242 individual time units of day and night, but to the Creator it can be just one unbroken time period in which he begins the carrying out of some purposeful activity and brings it on to its successful conclusion, much as a man begins a task in the morning and concludes it by the day’s end.\n\nJehovah is the Originator of our universe in which time, space, motion, mass, and energy have all been proved to be inescapably interrelated. He controls them all according to his purpose, and in dealing with his creatures on earth he makes definite time appointments for his own actions toward them, right down to the “day and hour.” (Mt 24:36; Ga 4:4) He keeps such appointments with the utmost punctuality.\n\nIn the first century, there were some who apparently felt that God should have fulfilled his promises sooner. They had become so impatient that they even considered God to be slow or late. On this account, the apostle Peter had to remind them that God’s view of time is quite different from ours. \n According to his way of figuring time, an 80-year-old person has lived only about two hours, and all of mankind’s history has lasted only about six days. When we look at things from this perspective, it becomes easier for us to understand God’s way of dealing with us.\n\nUnlike humans, God does not feel pressured to do things as if time were running out for him. As the “King of eternity,” he has a marvelous overview and can determine when in the stream of time his actions will do the most good for all involved.
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The Hebrew word for day is "Yom" ,that's the word used in Genesis during the creation.I believe God could of done it in a mili-second so time has no hold on God to me.In the Old and New Testament,it quotes"A day with the Lord is a thousand years and a thousand years but a day".\nHumanly speaking that still is not enough time for God to create the world.But then, we are not God.