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?
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?
If there really is a God, I don't think he would have literaly rested. It could be a metaphore - or the encouragment that people should rest on the 7th day, from all the work.
One thing that amazes me when it comes to anyone who critises Holy Books, is how literaly they take everything, then use its illogic against the followers of that faith.
It is funny that noone ever looks deeper for perhaps its being a metaphore or personification of a certain things.
Perhaps that the stories are there with a deeper messege, rather than a literal 'God sat down and rest his feet - if he had any'.
The stories of Buddha being able to walk as soon as he was born or that where he walked the flowers bloomed is IRELLEVANT. The science or possibility of that is utterly irrelevant - what is relevant is the message that Buddha wanted to spread during his lifetime. The stories of his divinity or lack of are useless - his message was good and noble and who he was and what he was becames insagnificant.
For example, in one of our stories, the goat spoke to the holy man. Obviously this couldn't have happened, but that is irrelevant. What was relevant was what goat told the priest - the messege. The fact that people tend to contrencate on the deliverance of messege, as opposed to the messege itself implies the lack of udnerstanding for religion.
And if you cannot understand or comprehend something, you can hardly critisise it.
I don't understand or comprehend why people torture, murder, and rape, but I feel justified in criticizing those particular actions.
However, I do understand your point about the stories being literal. Sometimes nonbelievers and beleivers alike miss the "real" points behind the stories. In particular, when I see someone wishing me fun in hell for not believing in the Bible as it's written, and then I think "Hey, didn't Jesus preach love and compassion, even for those you can't relate to?"
Why did God need to rest on the 7th day? Was He tired from creating the world? Hardly. God wanted to teach us that work is not an end in of itself. To be healthy, to be free from the problems of earning a livelihood, we must have a day of rest as a day to renew our strength and spirits. So God did not need to rest, he rested to show US that there is a time to work and a time to rest
Originally posted by MARCMAN
Why did God need to rest on the 7th day? Was He tired from creating the world? Hardly. God wanted to teach us that work is not an end in of itself. To be healthy, to be free from the problems of earning a livelihood, we must have a day of rest as a day to renew our strength and spirits. So God did not need to rest, he rested to show US that there is a time to work and a time to rest
Or maybe it was just a story someone made up. 😉
Originally posted by drunk_nazgul
I seriously don't believe that much of the Bible was literal. I believe that evolution was God's work. But that's another point entirely. Yet, Christians are supposed to have open minds. Isn't that how Christianity came to be accepted in the first place?
A trap is always open before it is sprung. 😉