When God was dealing with the animals, the name Elohim was used, but it was Jehovah who shut Noah in the ark. God's relationship with His people is different than His relationship with all other creation. The Seven Days of Creation . The Hebrew word for day in Genesis 1 is Yom and does not necessarily mean a period of 24 hours, but is also translated time, age, perpetually, etc. in the Bible. God could have created the universe through a process that took millions of years, or He could have simply spoken all creation into being instantly.
Some people have difficulty in accepting instantaneous creation.
It is without question that an omniscient and omnipotent God could create anything or everything at this very moment and under scientific examination that creation could appear to be millions or billions of years old. God can create not only matter, but age as well. God is not the creator of sin, nor does He tempt men to sin. The Sin . Eve yielded to the temptation of Satan, she involved Adam, and the human race fell.