What's the history of creationism? Where did the misconception that the 7 days referred to ordinary days come from?

What's the history of creationism? Where did the misconception that the 7 days referred to ordinary days come from?

I'd say it's most likely not a misconception. People have always had a desire to know where the world came from and have always come up with stories to explain it. If it was all just an ebin metaphor bro, that desire wouldn't have been satisfied.

The purpose of the narrative was to establish the sabbath. It's unlikely that the days were not meant to be solar days.

>Where did the misconception that the 7 days referred to ordinary days come from?
just an anachronism

blame americans

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recent American invention

so recent it doesn't pass the 25 year rule

This is false and you know it.

Some Medieval theologian calculated the age of the earth via biblical genealogies and Protestants autistically clung on to it because of muh Sola Scriptura and Biblical Literalism.

>medieval

>Americans invented literally translating the bible

"Let us omit the conjectures of men who know not what they say, when they speak of the nature and origin of the human race...They are deceived by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousands of years, though reckoning by the sacred writings we find that not 6,000 years have passed."
- St. Augustine

but, um, you see... augustine didn't literally mean years when he said years

How do you convince a creationist? It's like a whole different religion.

I guess the patrician choice is to let them boil in their ignorance.

Creationism was invented by the 19th century American pastor James Ussher.

>Everyone understands the Old Testament is highly metaphorical
>The Catholic Church declares scientific evidence countering the current interpretation of the Bible means it has to be readjusted for reality
>Even Africans know the Old Testament is metaphorical
>La Creatura still thinks everything is 100% literal

The Bible is the truth, including the gospel of God's only begotten son, Jesus Christ. Everyone will learn this eventually.

>The Bible is the truth
Gnosticism is the truth, not the bible.

>angry at parents for making him go to church
>gets back at them by LARPing as a member of a 1,800 year old fringe sect that never accomplished anything other than writing a vaguely cool-sounding cosmology
Is there any higher form of autism than this?

>americans and not german monk called martin luther
ayy lmao alien jews n shieeet.

It was a fringe belief in the mainstream churches since most West and East Church Fathers were educated and pretty smart people, the modern Creationism is a mainly American bastard child of the Reformation.

Gnosticism is a term for a cluster of different groups, not a single belief.

For most of human history prior to the Enlightenment, people took the 7 days literally.

Actually, Fiat creationism has been a fairly recent development, it gained popularity with the spread of dispensationalism, (literalism), in the mid 1800's

The Ancient Greek creation stories can be traced back to proto-Appolonian (?) deities from other civilisations. So this might get us to 5,000 BC. Then the next task is to find the cross pollination with Judaism which I imagine will be whatever was before Hebrew-ism. It'll get to a point where we discuss the retelling of creation mythology and how they changed the puppet show slightly each time to paper over the huge piles of heathens put to the sword for their heresy. Frame it all on the history of maths would be a good idea.

Why would they execute people who worked on the day God rested if they didn't believe to be literal?

It never actually says 7 days, that's just how it was translated into English

>It was a fringe belief in the mainstream churches since most West and East Church Fathers were educated and pretty smart people

Seems like it was an ubiquitous belief.

>Calculations based on the Septuagint have traditionally dated creation to around 5500 BC, while the Samaritan Torah produces a date around 4300 BC, and the Masoretic a date around 4000 BC.[16] Many of the earliest Christians who followed the Septuagint calculated the date of creation to be around 5500 BC, and Christians up to the Middle Ages continued to use this rough estimate: Clement of Alexandria (5592 BC), Sextus Julius Africanus (5501 BC), Eusebius (5228 BC), Jerome (5199 BC) Hippolytus of Rome (5500 BC), Theophilus of Antioch (5529 BC), Sulpicius Severus (5469 BC), Isidore of Seville (5336 BC), Panodorus of Alexandria (5493 BC), Maximus the Confessor (5493 BC), George Syncellus (5492 BC) and Gregory of Tours (5500 BC).[17][18] The Byzantine calendar has traditionally dated the creation of the world to 1 September 5509 BC, María de Ágreda and her followers to 5199 BC, while the early Ethiopian Church (as revealed in the Book of Aksum) to 5493 BC.[19][20] Bede was one of the first to break away from the standard Septuagint date for the creation and in his work De Temporibus ("On Time") (completed in 703 AD) dated the creation to 18 March 3952 BC but was accused of heresy at the table of Bishop Wilfrid, because his chronology was contrary to accepted calculations of around 5500 BC.