no, the bible doesn't teach that the world was created in 6 literal days. that is a teaching by a heretical sect called fundamentalist who infiltrated all other sects and inserted this blasphemous doctrine. in both the hebrew and the greek scriptures, the word day (heb., yohm; gr., hemera) is used in a literal and in a figurative or even symbolic sense. sometimes the word day is used to indicate a measure of distance, as in the expressions a days journey and a sabbath days journey.nu 11:31; ac 1:12; the term day(s) is also used with reference to a time period contemporaneous with a particular person, as for example, the days of noah and the days of lot.lu 17:26-30; isa 1:1. this flexible use of the word day to express units of time of varying length is clearly evident in the genesis account of creation. therein is set forth a week of six creative days followed by a seventh day of rest. the week assigned for observance by the jews under the law covenant given them by god was a miniature copy of that creative week. (ex 20:8-11) the seventh day, however, does not have this ending, indicating that this period, during which god has been resting from his creative works toward the earth, continued on. at hebrews 4:1-10 the apostle paul indicated that gods rest day was still continuing in his generation, and that was more than 4,000 years after that seventh-day rest period began. the entire period of the six time units or creative days dedicated to the preparation of planet earth is summed up in one all-embracing day." > (genesis 2:4) this is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in the day that jehovah god made earth and heaven. according to the bible, the word day is used liberally to mean stages of time of significance not adhere to a strict interpretation of 24 hrs.
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