The Bible says that God created the world and everything in it in 6 days and He rested on the next day so does that mean that God created all the planets and the universe as well within those six days?

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The best place to go for solid and up-to-date scientific answers by a strong Bible-believing Christian to this and other related questions that usually receive nebulous answers is to Chuck Missler's site ( www.khouse.org ), and the answer to this specific question is on his radio broadcast site at: http://www.khouse.org/6640/CD116-1/

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Did God create the universe and everything in it in six days? Perhaps. But the universe and the earth have been around a lot longer than those who interpret the Bible literally say it has. And Chuck Missler is one of the absolute worst people to go to regarding scientific answers. He is a so-called Young Earth Christian. He believes in the literal translation of the Bible, and he espouses absurdities like the earth being only a few thousand years old. Nothing could be more incorrect. Remember that most Christians reject the notion that the earth is not some 4 1/2 billion years old. Most think it is. Even Rome has weighed in on the issue, and the Pope, et. al., don't hold with the young earth. Believing that the earth is only a few thousand years old requires a gross suspension of logical thought and the turning of a blind eye to the evaluation of a mountain of scientific evidence.

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Did you actually go to Chuck Missler's site and listen to what he says ? If you had, you would have heard him say that the the universe is older than the earth.

Is your mind open to new truth, or is it closed to new facts? I do not know if you are a Christian or not but, unlike many Christians, Chuck Missler is not a hypocrite - he actually believes and teaches what God actually says in the Bible and backs it up with scientific facts. Why is it ok for Scientists to talk authoritatively about Origins and Creation , but not for religous people and theologians to talk about Science? Both belief systems are ideologically incompatible.

Also, just because most people believe something does not automatically make that view correct. Majority belief does not mean they are right - quite often they are not. For example, most people, including scientists, once believed the entire universe rotated around the earth, that the earth was flat (and some civilized people still do), and that the idea of Continental Drift was ridiculous. Majority-opinion on something does not necessarily mean it is the truth: often it means it is the path of least-resistance, or of being politically-correct. For example, all elections use brainwashing and indoctrination techniques (called "spin" ) to manipulate voters beliefs, but that does not make it right. Truth itself cannot be determined by opinion polls or majority verdict: accepted truth can and is, but not necessarily actual truth. You just have to look at your children, or politicians, or the scientific belief in phlogiston to realize the majority can be quite wrong.

To return to the original question: with the Creation account in the King James version, a point of confusion may be where the word 'heaven' may be taken to mean the atmospheric heavens of the earth, but as this was created on the second day it can't be the same 'heaven' that was created on the first day:-

Earlier, the creation account in Genesis 1:1 in the King James version translates the Hebrew word 'shamayim' into English as 'heaven' in the singular:-

However, other versions have translated it as 'heavens' plural:-

It does not mean the stars of heaven, which were made only on day 4 of Creation Week:-

In Genesis, God created everything, but in the New Testament John says the Word created everything, and later on Paul says Jesus Christ made every single thing. This means the Creator was Jesus Christ:-

So, the universe and all the planets were created on the 4th day of Creation Week by Jesus Christ.

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