THE BIBLE AND THE QUR’AN: 6 days or 6,000 years creation

THE BIBLE AND THE QUR’AN: 6 days or 6,000 years of creation

Unbelievable texts in religious books can weaken the faith of many unless rational and believable explanations are provided.

One verse I read in the Qur’an set me on an intellectual journey. It did not take me long to go far in my search for answers, but the riddle kept me awake at night until it gradually faded.

Qur’an 22:47: ‘Verily, a day in the sight of thy Lord is like a thousand years of your reckoning.’

It is an innocent verse that we tend to read in passing, but if you pause for a moment, there is nothing trivial about this terse but very significant verse because it casts the “six days of creation” into topsy-turvy topspin.

Was the universe created by God in 6 days or 6,000 years…?

I said I didn’t have to go far. Muslims, Christians, and Jews believe in the 6 days of creation. I would like to know if there is anything similar in the Bible, the Qur’an verse, where it says that one day for God is a thousand years of our reckoning. Believe it or not, I got the answer on the first page of the Bible. It is not precisely the same, but it affirmed the verse's correctness; likewise, the Qur’an solved the Biblical dilemma of the 6 days of creation for the Christians.

¹⁶ And God made two great lights; the more excellent light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

¹⁸ And to rule over the day and night, and to divide the light from the darkness: God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

(Note: the above is a copy-paste from the King James Version online (Genesis). It is very frustrating, if not outright despicable, how revisionists of the Bible keep changing the words. The printed Bible I read simply wrote that God created the Sun to light the day and the moon to light the night, then there was morning, and there was evening; the fourth day.)

THE RIDDLE:

If God created the Sun and the Moon, two heavenly bodies upon which human conception of time is based on the FOURTH DAY, how could there be first, second, and third days if both the moon and the sun did not yet exist?

QUR’AN IS THE ANSWER: ‘Verily, a day in the sight of thy Lord is like a thousand years of your reckoning,’ meaning GOD WHEN HE SAID ONE DAY; HE WAS REFERRING TO HIS TIME WHEREVER HE WAS IN THE INFINITE UNIVERSE. HE WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT EARTHLING’S (or human) TIME.

God obviously created the universe in 6 days of His time, which is the equivalent of 6,000 years of Earthlings' existence. The first 3 days of creation could refer to other Galaxies or other universes, ours having been created on the fourth day, and so forth.

Note: The elaborate six-day creation is also found in the Qur’an, which can also be translated according to Muslim scholars as six periods of time. In another verse, one day is like 50,000 years of our reckoning. I will also explain/interpret later why, at one time, one day is 1,000 years and in another, it’s 50,000 years. Critiques of the Qur’an often mention this discrepancy without mentioning the context.

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