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Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Balerion: 6:37pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
According to Genesis 2:2-3 "By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating he had done" My question is why would an omnipotent and supreme being rest? Was he tired? Fatigued? Or he just needed to rest? 1 Like |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Trilz(m): 6:39pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
Oga rest!! something happen millions of years ago. You De ask us. 1 Like |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by ThreeEyedRaven: 7:11pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
Trilz:Must you respond stupidly to anything? Nairaland is profitable for knowledge exchange and if the topic doesn’t interest you, you kindly move on instead of spewing trash. It’s people like you killed this forum 2 Likes |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by PROPHETmichael: 7:29pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
Balerion: Rest there simply means He has finished creating all that is to be created and there is absolutely nothing to create anymore. |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Balerion: 7:38pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
PROPHETmichael:You give new meaning to the word |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Trilz(m): 9:36pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
ThreeEyedRaven:I notice you, but guess what? I don't respond to stupid replies, take your nonsense advice to someone else. Warm regards. |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by tctrills: 9:44pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
PROPHETmichael:To be honest, God did not explain why he rested or what he meant by the world rest. God has not revealed everything to man so we do not need to guess or use our punny human wisdom in attempting to explain the divine. |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by tctrills: 9:45pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
Balerion:The answer to your question is not revealed in the bible. 1 Like |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Balerion: 10:07pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
tctrills:Do you know the answer? |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Kobojunkie: 10:11pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
Balerion:God is always working so it ain't a question of fatigue or tiredness. Instead, as the passage clearly informs you, God rested from all the work of creating He had done. God's creation project was completed in 6 days is what we are being told there. |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Balerion: 10:16pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
Kobojunkie:It could have been "God created everything in six day" but the secenth day was included for a reason. The word "rest" was mentioned twice |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by tctrills: 10:33pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
Balerion:If I had it, I would have shared it with you but like I said, God did not explain the purpose of his Sabbath day rest in the bible. 1 Like |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Kobojunkie: 10:34pm On Aug 09, 2022 |
Balerion:The inclusion of the seventh day seemed like it was to make clear that the work took 6 days. And the mention of rest(Holy) seemed to indicate a beginning of that which is not a part of the creation job which was previously concluded. |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Balerion: 12:16am On Aug 10, 2022 |
Kobojunkie:What exactly did God do on the seventh day? |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by xproducer: 1:28am On Aug 10, 2022 |
Balerion: In Genesis 2:3 The first word for rest, sabbat, literally means to stop, and the first depiction is God himself stopping in his task of creation. When a professional artist is done with a beautiful artwork, he / she stops, or in this case rests from further activity on the artwork... not because they are tired, but because they are finished with it. "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." - Genesis 1:31 GOD does not need rest! "Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." - Psalm 121:4 +++ The rest is also parabolic in that once GOD saves a person from judgment, justifies and sanctifies him/her... said person enters into GOD's eternal rest in YESHUA, the CHRIST! "For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his." - Hebrews 4:10 We are saved by GOD's work... and not our own. "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." - Ephesians 2:8-9 |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Kobojunkie: 3:00am On Aug 10, 2022 |
Balerion:It was a day of Rest, a Holy day, rest from work of creation. Doesn't mean He did absolutely nothing. Instead, it means He didn't do creation-related work. Consider here the Sabbath law of the Old Covenant, which basically was a day in which God commanded the people of Israel to do no work. Does this mean God demanded them to do literally nothing on that day? Absolutely not! Instead what God commanded them not to do any unholy work - labor that was for perishable food. On the Sabbath, a man was allowed to rescue his animal should it fall into a well or fell in harms way, people were allowed to help those in need on the sabbath day, heal those who are sick, cast out demons, etc. So, it wasn't totally a day to do Absolutely nothing in but instead a day to do only show love to one's neighbor in obedience to God's commandment and it is known as a day of rest. |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Balerion: 4:30pm On Aug 10, 2022 |
Kobojunkie:Did God rest on the Sabbath day? Yes or No |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Kobojunkie: 4:54pm On Aug 10, 2022 |
Balerion:NO. The Sabbath day is a day out of a week in which the people of Israel are commanded to do no work. However, in Genesis, we are told instead that God rested from all of His creation work, not that He only rested for only one day. So the Sabbath rest of God isn't a matter of a day. Or to put it another way, Genesis does not tell us that God only rested for one day. |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Balerion: 4:58pm On Aug 10, 2022 |
Kobojunkie:FYI That's contradictory to Bible. |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Kobojunkie: 5:07pm On Aug 10, 2022 |
Balerion:how so? Is it written anywhere in scripture that God went back to doing creation job after the 7th day was over? |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Balerion: 5:21pm On Aug 10, 2022 |
Kobojunkie:Saying no is like saying Gen 2:. 2-3 is wrong |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Kobojunkie: 5:28pm On Aug 10, 2022 |
Balerion:The passage says God rested on the 7th day from His creation work. What it doesn't say is that God did absolutely no work on the 7th day. Another thing it doesn't say is that God continued with the creation job after the 7th day. So it is invalid to assume the seventh day in which God rested to subject to the same rules given by God in regards the Sabbath day which He decreed in the land or Israel. |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Balerion: 5:33pm On Aug 10, 2022 |
Kobojunkie:Do you work when you rest? |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by Kobojunkie: 7:09pm On Aug 10, 2022 |
Balerion:I do. Jesus Christ for example declared Himself the Lord of the Sabbath and throughout His time with His followers, He did nothing we can report as labor of the kind that that we are used to yet He is reported to gone every where doing good works, the kind of work that pleases God, the same kind He calls us to do - John 6 vs 25 vs 35. |
Re: Why Did The God Rest On The Seventh Day? by advocatejare(m): 7:16pm On Aug 10, 2022 |
Kobojunkie:Even though you are controversial, I like your knowledge of the scriptures. Thumbs up |
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