Why does an All Powerful, Omnibenevolent God....?

Question

....require six days to create the universe, and one day to rest??

Now, before you go saying that "a day is but a year and a year is but a day to God", consider this: If he is truly all powerful, he could create the entire universe and everything in it in an instant as short as Planck time. And, being all powerful, why would he need REST afterwards??

And, if he exists outside of space/time, then it could not take him six days or hours or seconds or years or whatever - because time doesnt exist outside of space/time, so this demonstrates that MAN wrote the stories and gave God the same attributes of man - needing time to build or create, and needing rest after what is perceived to be hard work...

At least, that explanation makes more sense...

Thats the spirit, Christians - cant answer the question, so you insult the poster... At least that lets me know that Ive asked a question that few of you even have the capacity to BS me ala Schneb...

Answer 1

just an example for working and resting

Answer 2

Your question illistrates how distorted events have become once they were "writen" into a "bible" and interpreted to fit the needs of the Church first and people second.

I would Consider taking many large steps back and view "God" away and absent from the presence of any religious interpretation; you views should start to become more clear with less distortion over "time".

Religions place "God" as "all powerfull, all knowing"; this is abusive in nature as it brings "God" into a light "God" cannot be interpreted in.

This is as fair statement as any religion has ever made regarding 'God".

If you wish to know "God" that is something personal, between you and "He"; to glimps "Gods" presence can be done rather easily If you wish to Listen, just put some time aside, sit, relax and have an open mind.

Answer 3

After making the whole Universe wouldn't you be entitled to a day of rest!!!
God is all powerful and can do all and anything he pleases including going in the future and snatch you from your mothers womb, but he didn't because the Love he has for mankind.
Time was created at that moment for man's use.
You need to learn from God.
Don't criticize, because one day EVERY knee will bow and EVERY tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord!!!
YOU INCLUDED!

Answer 4

You are right .It is in genesis the first book f Mosses that god made man after his image .so ti says ha god has an image like a man .It is also said there inter alia , that god made man and blew into his nostrils and man started breathing and came to l;ife .SoGod had a lung like man and god was breathing .so god was living because he was breathing .But or the air god would also have died . The same God created .all creatures also before creating man and he did nt breath ointo their nostrils and they are breathin gand living without the help of god .manalone needed god tobreath into his nostrils .
All this absurdities go to show how ignoant theman who created the bible stories should hav been.The very reason for the churches telling people not to question anything is to avoid being exposed of its absurdities .these absurdities only prove thea tgod was oin in way concerned with whatever has beensaid therein as God who created the unvrse could not be ignorant of the things in the universe ..En todyhGid needs somne days for creting a blade of grass .
if god rested for a day, the whole uvrse would hav ceased to exist .
This is what the hindu scripture Bhagavad -Gita says :
What if I did not engage
relentlessly in action?
men retrace m path
at every turn, Arjuna ."

The three worlds would collapse
if I did not perform action.
I would crete disorder in society
living beings would be destroyed "...verse 24 of 3Rdteaching of Bhagavad -gita.
The same Bhagavad Gita says that it is nature as the quality of god that creates , sustains and destroys beings .
Thesame Bhagavad Gita says that it takes some eons for Brahmma as the quality fnature to create beings on the uninverse .
At break of Brahmma's day
all things emege from unmanifest nature
when night falls , all sink
into unmanifest darkness"

Arjuna . the throng of creatures
that comes to exist dissolves
unwillinglyat night all
to emerge again at day break"


When they know that a day of Brahmma
streches over a thousand eons ,
and his night ends in a thusand eons
men understand day and night " verse 17 of fifth teaching of Bhagavad -Gita.
so according to Bhagavad Gita , it tkes some eons for lives toappear on the earth and they ar sustoined for thousands of eons and then destroed and after a thousand eons they re-emerge .This teachng is in accordance withthe scientifically known process o evolutiomnof life and the annihilation of the world .

Answer 5

The ancient nomadic tribe that later on founded Jewish monotheism was originally a group of moon worshippers, like most people in the Near East in those days. You find traces of this in many Jewish festivals like the Sabbath and New Moon festivals (both mentioned in the Bible).

The week of creation in the poem (Genesis 1 is just a poem meant to attack the Babylonian creation myth) is present because Sabbaths celebrated 1/4 of a lunar cycle.

Answer 6

The brazen contradictions of Christianity prove it to be false. The simple fact that the "Creator" was never created logically negates the entire premise of a Christian god. In order for Christianity to be logically coherent, it would need to profess and infinite number of "Creators". After all, don't most Christians claim order never comes from chaos?

Answer 7

Or maybe it's His way of stressing the importance of rest to mankind.

And He wouldn't even need as long as Planck time to create anything if He really wanted to.

Answer 8

There is no concept of time in heaven......

The phrase rest on the seventh day does not mean that he rested...you are taking the remark out of context....it says that he admired his work because it was great.

yes man did write the Bible...it was based on the accounts of the men who either preached, witnessed or was told by the creator himself. Such as John was goven a dream and he wrote it down as the Book of Revalations.

Answer 9

We needed some kind of explanation for why the work week is a seven day cycle.

Answer 10

The word for day in Hebrew is clear Yom - it means 24 hours.
How do you explain why we have a seven day week other than that it was instituted by God? What length of week would you suggest we use?
A metric week? Ten days of 10 hours maybe? :)

Answer 11

Rest, when translated properly, means "ceased from work." And man would not create a God who regards them as lost and worthy of not only death, but eternal damnation. Man is pretty stupid, but not to that extreme.