> Why do you say weeks are manmade, I wonder? Presumably our week is patterned after the first week of creation laid out in Genesis 1:1 - 2:3.
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> I would definitely argue that the seven-day week was instituted by Someone other than man, however. :)
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I wouldn't argue that the Bible was instituted by someone other than man, but I really don't want to start a whole thread on that.

Either way, I consider the seven-day week to be "man-made" in the sense that it is arbitrary and doesn't correspond to any cycle of nature like the days, months or seasons do. Even if you believe in divine inspiration for the seven-day week, you pretty much have to believe that creating the world in 6-7 days was a deliberate choice by a being who could have just pulled an all-nighter.

> Even the term "hour" is used in the Bible, although I don't know that it refers to the literal 60-minute period of time we think of as an hour. Then again, maybe it does, since in some cases it seems to be referring to the position of the sun in the sky. That doesn't necessarily mean it isn't manmade, though.
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I believe the Jews of a couple of millennia ago (who better to interpret the Bible?) kept time by dividing the daylight part of the day into 12 equal "hours". The length of an hour varied with the seasons, and of course it was exactly one modern hour on the now-hotly-debated "first day of spring". I don't know if they had any other ways of keeping time.

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