This Lil Piggy asks:Why would an omnipotent being need 6 days to create anything?

Question

Why not just snap the all powerfull fingers and to it all in a snap?

Answer 1

And why does the omnipotent need rest?

Answer 2

And an even bigger question is what is with the 6 days? By what measurement were they referring? Six days according to their calendar?
They didn't actually have any kind of calendar in those days so how was it determined that it occurred in 6 days?
Inspiration for the writings was supposedly from God. But again, this was an interpretation by man who in turn put to paper what he interpreted it to be.

I think you are right about the snapping of the fingers. If an omnipotent being did it, there is no need to spend 6 days or for that matter 6 seconds. Just snap the fingers and it is done.

And since He is supposed to be perfect, then it isn't likely he would have taken 6 days to do it.

I don't think the span of 6 days isn't coherent with what we know had to happen in order for things to be the way they are.

Answer 3

God leads by example first and since he made things in 7 days we have a 7 day week. His day of rest is our day or rest (whether you want to debate if it is Saturday or Sunday)

God has created things with a process and everything is tied to everything else. Rain is tied to plants which is tied to plant eating animals which draw carnivores which is big enough game for man to hunt and life off of. No rain means no plans which means no plant eating animals etc.

He could have snapped his fingers but God is not lazy. He showed us the virtue of work in our daily lives. If he could snap his finger and do things then we should be able to also. He spoke things into being along with working with his hands.

As far as the days, in Psalms it refers to a day being like a thousand years and thousands years like a day to God. Those 6 days could have very well been 60 billion years. he is not limited by our space-time continuim. We are in a circle of death and life and death. Everything has an appointed time but I am sure in heaven we will not be wearing watches. It will always be "right now"

Answer 4

You are assuming that God needed 6 literal days to create the universe, however this does not mean that just because he did it in "T" period of time, it is because he "needed" that precise amount of time to accomplish it. God could have actually chosen to do it in a process, in steps rather than "kaboom" (Which by the way, it ws a ka-boom, but then the universe unfolded up to our own present state of ( course with the guidance and direct intervention of God), that is what the genesis story points out to: to a gradual coming to be of all the order of being).
For us that we measure time and our lifespans are a spark in the ocen of infinite, the billions of years that have passed seemed unbreachable for our little consciousness, but yu see: time does not exist! I am gonna let you into a secret: time does not exist, you only feel it in your brain working, but everything is just a constant present. And to where is God? You will never find him in the matter, since matter itself is but buncles or packs of ENERGY put together, what is energy? nothing. obviously the reality of God transcends our human senses and capacities of knowing, that is why we can intuit him, see the evidence of a creator in the nature of being, but we can't "know" in the empirical sense)
See the logic?
G-d crreated the world in 6 days.
Where do you see implicit that he needed that time to do it?

And the 6 days in genesis are not litteral days, our days, how can there be days when the earth nor the sun were created yet? "days" are a human perception of time dependent of the rotation of the earth, in the mind of God there are no days. there is no time actually. Time only exists in our perceptuion, in God's mind everything exists in a continual present transcendent of the passage of time.


be cool man, bye

Answer 5

God became into additionally coming up time and giving us an occasion by taking the seventh day to sit down back. there became right into a time in history the place human beings tried to get rid of the bible and what it stood for by coming up a 10 day week. the consequence became into disastrous. this finished u . s . began plagued by failing well-being. God is familiar with what he's doing.

Answer 6

Who said he "needed" six days? He chose six days, and they weren't actual days, they were more like stages. I personally think He wanted to take His time, sit back and enjoy everything that He had created.

Answer 7

well, this is just an observation, but things tend to turn out better when somebody takes their time and does it slowly. judging by the way the world is now, perhaps G-d should actually have taken another week.

Answer 8

It wasn't six literal days!It was six eras. Eras can be defined as days in way.

Answer 9

WISDOM!!! to teach us to take our time and give our best and take a day off to rest.

Answer 10

And what's with all this resting?? Even I do my laundry on Sunday....