How Long Where Adam And Eve In The Garden?
We can’t say how long Adam and Eve lived in the Garden because we can’t measure the days of creation as we do today. Creation days represented a specific division of time but not literal solar days. How can you have solar days when the sun was not even created until the forth creation day? Those that believe the days of creation were literal 24-hour days say all creation lasted only 144 hours. They compound this error by saying that Adam and Eve spent less than 24 hours in the Garden before God kicked them out. That is pure nonsense and it has no basis in the Bible. Genesis addresses a creation week. But the fact is when it comes to scripture the term “week” is frequently used to represent a time period much longer than 168 hours. In chapter nine of the Book of Daniel we find “seventy-weeks” which are to be interpreted as “seventy weeks of years.” In this prophecy each week is comprised of seven years giving a total of 490 years in all. Genesis speaks of six days of creation followed b
