Why would God rest on the 7th day?

Question

According to Christians, God made the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. I have issues this concept anyway but today I'm asking specifically about His rest. Why would God need to rest? Is this figurative? God has no needs whatsoever. He doesnt' sleep, or eat, or anything. I see that so many people have anthropomorphized him. God is unlike anything we've ever known. He's beyond our comprehension.
Ok so please answer... thanks!

Answer 1

Coz he had a hangover from the night before

Answer 2

He needs time to think of how he can solve all the problems we made till now.... - goble warming, to make peace in midde east, ... UFO invades the earth (if ever the SF was telling a fact, who knows! God can create them too!) as he is almighty and he could have predicted what would happen and how we mess up what he created for the past 6 days, or may be when he was creating, he already knew what would the future be! So, he had a headache and need some rest!

I guess he still have no clue of when the judgement date should be scheduled.

After all the BS up there, honestly, how do I know, I ain't GOD!

Answer 3

Good point.. the same can be asked about the use of the word "days"... in fact it might have been weeks or milleniums... but in any case, it was some measure of time surely. As for the word "rest" I reckon the catholics put that word there in translation ... so they could get a day off once a week ~ a kind of 1000 year old work place relations reform. They were an Italian based faith after all... very progressive for their time... everyone else back then was busy trading slaves seven days a week. I mean if you are going to have a religious faith that promises a hopeful future.. you have to make it an attractive package right?

Answer 4

The Bible was written by men for men, the whole book is figurative. If God himself wrote the creation story, man would not understand the words, concept, science, energy, or anything else. Man then and now understands "work" and "rest". Work= doing something. Rest= idleness. God's existence would seem like "rest" (idleness) to man. We cannot see pure energy "doing" anything, we only see the effects. We still don't understan the concept of energy, and will never understand "pure energy thought and existence" in this life form. I must disagree with the statement "God has no needs whatsoever"...from our understanding of the concept of "need", yes...God has needs which we cannot comprehend, but one thing we have proved over and over is that everything has a need of something. If God created man, he obviously had a "need" to create. This need may have been entertainment (like a pet) or amusement (we have to be amusing to watch), or perhaps experiment (germs in a petri dish), or something else uncomprehensible to us.

Answer 5

He grew to become into drained. yet another question could desire to be "Why did it take God 6 days to make the earth and universe?". truthfully he could have completed it in a nanosecond. what's the importance of this? possibly he's not as useful as human beings make out? And we basically have his be conscious for it in the 1st place. What information can we've that God tells the reality? If we've none then what information is there that something in the Bible is real whether it *is* the recognize God?

Answer 6

Resting can simply mean God ceased creating things after that.

In my view we're still living in his day of rest. Maybe that's why he's not around much anymore.

His work is through and rest is up to us.

Maybe End of Times comes on his next work day.

If science dates things correctly, then a day for God is approximatley 2.5 billion years of our time.

Science estimates the Sun turns out it's lights in 5 billion years

Science is known for getting things wrong. Maybe it's 2.5 billion.

When the sun turns out it's light, that will be end of times.

Answer 7

ok. #1 genesis never happened. it was a parable designed by the hebrew people to describe to the babylonians in a way they could understand creation. the concept behind the seventh day is that God waws done, and he wanted to look at his work basically and say "HA HA I PWN"

but since that never happened for the reason i explained before he never rested on a seventh day, because creation was a process that he started off and watched over through billions of years

Answer 8

You may observe that in the Ten Commandments there is one that calls the Hebrews to observe the Sabath which echoes the Genesis story about God resting on the seventh day. This highlights the fact God is FREE and therefore he can choose to take time off, as it were as he pleases. Now the Ten Commandments were given to the Hebrew people after they were freed from being slaves in Egypt. As slaves they were NOT FREE to take any time off; their time belonged to their masters. Now that they can take time off to worship their God served them as a riminder that they were FREE.

The point of the Story in Genesis is simply that GOD is Radically FREE and that he gives freedom to his people as long as they hold him as their sovereign Lord - otherwise they end up back to being slaves.

Remember also that the Bible teaches God nothing but it is an attempt to teach us what is important to know.

Answer 9

God rested on the 7th day from His creation of earth and other creations on it. But God could be engaged in some other projects in the Universe after He rested from His work on earth.

Answer 10

When it says God rested, I don't think that means he was catching a breather after so much hard work. I think it means he rested in the sense of ceasing to create. You know, like when we say a rolling object comes to rest. We just mean that it stops rolling. Well God stopped creating, and it's in that sense that he rested on the seventh day.

Answer 11

Well, maybe he didn't need to rest, but if man is made in God's image, perhaps God likes to go fishing too. All work and no play makes God a dull boy. =)