Re: Why did God rest on the 7th day?
Originally posted by Morgoths_Wrath
Why would God need to rest at all? He's GOD! Plus, the fact that he was tired proves that God requires energy, and that God can be deprived of energy.Why would God make Himself bound to energy...and as a result, put limits on His abilities?
Because he is perfect(Corinthians 13)..and gay(happy).
Re: Why did God rest on the 7th day?
Originally posted by Morgoths_Wrath
Why would God need to rest at all? He's GOD! Plus, the fact that he was tired proves that God requires energy, and that God can be deprived of energy.Why would God make Himself bound to energy...and as a result, put limits on His abilities?
Who said God got tired? Maybe God just got bored... 🙂 Maybe God just wanted to try something different for awhile, and resting was that something different...
Re: Re: Why did God rest on the 7th day?
Originally posted by Mandrag Ganon
Who said God got tired? Maybe God just got bored... 🙂 Maybe God just wanted to try something different for awhile, and resting was that something different...
When I rest, I play a video game, take a nap, watch a movie, etc.
If one is looking for a definition to the context of "rested" in regards to its usage in the bible, then one has to look at the passages that precede it in the bible to figure out how it's intended. Clearly, it was meant as an indication of the energy expended on creating the world and how spent god was when he finished.
Originally posted by 1000 Months
If one is looking for a definition to the context of "rested" in regards to its usage in the bible, then one has to look at the passages that precede it in the bible to figure out how it's intended. Clearly, it was meant as an indication of the energy expended on creating the world and how spent god was when he finished.
Wait... why is this obvious? I think it meant God stopped, God created what he wanted to create (atleast up to that point) and was done.
Originally posted by 1000 Months
If one is looking for a definition to the context of "rested" in regards to its usage in the bible, then one has to look at the passages that precede it in the bible to figure out how it's intended. Clearly, it was meant as an indication of the energy expended on creating the world and how spent god was when he finished.
So you are saying that the god of the bible was exhausted? How can an omnipotent god be exhausted?
Originally posted by One Free Man
independent=/=you don't have time. it just means that time doesn't control you.
Time cannot control anything. Remember that time is space. See the theory of Relativity. If you are outside of space-time then you do not experience space-time. If you do not experience space-time, then the concept of "rest" is nonsensical.
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
So you are saying that the god of the bible was exhausted? How can an omnipotent god be exhausted?
I'm saying that it's unreasonable to assume that the term 'rested' has one meaning in one part of the bible and another in a the next or preceding passages. Unless, of course, the bible was written by flawed and very human beings and is not the unquestionable word of a divine god.
Originally posted by 1000 Months
I'm saying that it's unreasonable to assume that the term 'rested' has one meaning in one part of the bible and another in a the next or preceding passages. Unless, of course, the bible was written by flawed and very human beings and is not the unquestionable word of a divine god.
Bingo!
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Time cannot control anything.
You should be able to remember the future then. If not time places a limitation on you.
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
If you do not experience space-time, then the concept of "rest" is nonsensical.
But as he said, God is described as independent of time, not unable to experience it. I am not currently in my car (because I am independent of it) but I can get into it if I wish to.
Originally posted by 1000 Months
I'm saying that it's unreasonable to assume that the term 'rested' has one meaning in one part of the bible and another in a the next or preceding passages. Unless, of course, the bible was written by flawed and very human beings and is not the unquestionable word of a divine god.
Once again, why is that unreasonable? Couldn't it be possible that the in the original Hebrew text there were two different words that were both translated into rested when the Bible was translated into English? And even at that, why can't God say "I rested" (as in a period or interval of inactivity, repose, solitude, or tranquillity) and then say that "James rested" (as in a refreshing ease or inactivity after exertion or labor.) Why is this unreasonable?
And when reading scripture remember that the English translation of the bible is just that: A TRANSLATION. No translation is or even has the possibility of being perfect. It is not possible because no language translates into another language perfectly.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
You should be able to remember the future then. If not time places a limitation on you.
If my brain did not store information, then I would not remember the past ether. Remembering or knowing something is a product of the brain.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
But as he said, God is described as independent of time, not unable to experience it. I am not currently in my car (because I am independent of it) but I can get into it if I wish to.
You will have to explain what independent of time means. As far as I can tell, it is a fictional term based on a poor understanding of time.