Being all powerful, why did God take 6 days to create the heavens and the Earth and why did he need a rest?

Question

Doesn't it show that he has limitations?

Answer 1

God could have instantly created the entire universe, however
God often teaches through example. In doing it this way, He set a pattern for us, which we need to follow, that is that we work 6 days and rest one.

Exodus 20:9-11
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Answer 2

He did not need a rest because He was tired, He established the principles of man's efforts and works ending (six is often the number of man, climaxed by 666) and the experience with God, which is rest and perfection (7 is "perfect" in the Bible).
Some scholars have placed man's creation in 4004 BC, we are now in the Second Millennia AD, and the end of the ages is a 1000 year reign of Christ. Interesting that if that is true, man has 6000 years (one day is 1000 years with God) ends with 666, and then a new order is established for 1000 years, the 7th day! How about that!

Answer 3

No, it shows an all wise God that can do anything and in any manner He should choose. The 6 days demonstrate His incredible patience and thoughtfulness and the high importance He placed on creating a home for His choicest creation of mankind. The rest had symbolic implications that God in His infinite knowledge was already putting into place even before mankind was made. The sabbath of rest for mankind was the purpose God rested, as an example for mankind, which would also symbolise the fulfilment God's Son Jesus Christ would bring through His death at the cross providing rest to the weary sin-sick soul as well as the rest from their own efforts to pay their own sin debt when faith is placed solely in the death of Christ on the cross for one's forgiveness of sins. God had this salvation plan already in His mind even before He created the race of humanity that He knew would become lost in sin and would need a Savior. No limitations on this all wise, all powerful and all knowing God.

Answer 4

Genesis in the Bible is not suppose to be taken 100% literally. Because the Bible is a translation we don't really know if it was six days,hours, years, etc. Back then all they knew were days and so that is what they translated it as. God is all powerful because he created the world (which is the point of Genesis) no one else EVER!! has been able to create the world making him ALL powerful. The point of the rest (I believe) was to establish a resting day for Christians. The sabbath (they called it) is our sunday where we take a day off to be with Jesus.

Answer 5

Was all physical creation accomplished in just six days sometime within the past 6,000 to 10,000 years?

The facts disagree with such a conclusion: (1) Light from the Andromeda nebula can be seen on a clear night in the northern hemisphere. It takes about 2,000,000 years for that light to reach the earth, indicating that the universe must be at least millions of years old. (2) End products of radioactive decay in rocks in the earth testify that some rock formations have been undisturbed for billions of years.

Genesis 1:3-31 is not discussing the original creation of matter or of the heavenly bodies. It describes the preparation of the already existing earth for human habitation. This included creation of the basic kinds of vegetation, marine life, flying creatures, land animals, and the first human pair. All of this is said to have been done within a period of six “days.” However, the Hebrew word translated “day” has a variety of meanings, including ‘a long time; the time covering an extraordinary event.’ (Old Testament Word Studies, Grand Rapids, Mich.; 1978, W. Wilson, p. 109) The term used allows for the thought that each “day” could have been thousands of years in length.

Answer 6

God -glory be to Him- didnt rest on the seventh day. God is unlike his creation, he doesnt get tired. God Almighty says in the Quran: "God there is no god but He! the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists. Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth..."(2:255)
God Almighty also says: "And indeed we created the heavens and the earth all between them in six days and nothing of fatigue touched us" (50:38)

Answer 7

God established our seven-day week. The devil hates it, and has made many attempts to change that, most remarkably during the French Revolution when they outlawed God and made a 10-day week.

But God can speak anything into existence--instantly--so there must have been a purpose in the six-day cycle of work.

And God never tires, so the Sabbath was created, too.

Jesus said: The Sabbath was MADE for man. That means for us, because it was MADE in Eden, even before sin entered.

That is the reason for its perpetuity, Made for Adam and Eve, made for you and me, and made for the Saints throughout eternity (See Isaiah 66:23)

More on this in Bible code, only deciphered at the end of time: http://chasclever.tripod.
com/revealed.htm
Blessings, One-Way

Answer 8

It is easier to explain the astonishing and mysterious to illiterate people in a method which is easy for them to comprehend. Adam and Eve easily applied to normal people versus evolution,monkeys to men? Where do you start? 7 days, everyone has a work week, and we all want to kick back at the end of it versus Big Bang theory or whatever is the current argument. Even Carl Sagan or Stephen Hawkings has problems deciphering that. The bible was written for mere humans who have many limitations. We wrote the Bible, Torah, or Koran not God

Answer 9

God did not need rest He did the work in 6 days and set the plan in motion for His children to rest on the 7th

Answer 10

The heavens and the earth were already created before the 6 creative days started. Look at Gen. 1:2. The 6 days of creation were stages of time that God used to prepare the earth for animal and human habitation.

On the 7th day, God decided to stop, but not because he was tired.