...and then took a nap on the 7th day....why hasn't he slept since then?
2007-06-20 09:52:21 · 28 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
cause he has been busy listening to and answering all of our prayers
dear lord, please please please let me win the powerball tonight!!
2007-06-20 10:19:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible never said he took a nap. I suspect that he was just admiring his creation (read Genesis and see for yourself), just as we do when we finish something or accomplish something. We are all created in his image and maybe that's why we sit back and admire our works too. A Biblical day is not a calender day as we know it either. To discern that we must go back and study the theology of the Jewish roots of our Christian faith in the Pentateuch (The 5 books of Moses) which make up the first 5 books of the Old Testament Christian Bible and other early Jewish theology as they were the chosen people to receive the oracles of God and through their Prophets who predicted everything about Christ centuries before he was born into the flesh, at a time preordained by God in the course of human history. And furthermore, as one of our great Christian Christmas Carols puts it: "God is not dead nor doth he sleep!" I encourage all to go to a few Bible studies in a Bible believing church that draws directly from these Holy Scriptures and come to church every Sunday for starters and above all, ask God to come into our lives...... He will...... His word guarantees it (among many other things). I received him in 1983 because I am a sinner and I needed Jesus Christ, my Savior (and yours if you let him come in unto you) and he will begin to push away the darkness as he illumines the dark corners of our inner self with renewal and increase day by day.. God bless us all...... Carl
2007-06-20 10:15:36 · answer #2 · answered by Carl 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hello and God rested the Seventh day and did something else He set that time apart for Holy use, that is on The Seventh Day [not the first day Sunday] He took that 24 hours of time [sundown to Sundown in Gen.1, sundown friday til sundown sat.] and said lets me and you get together on that day, that is why in Exodus 20:8-11 the first word was "remember" because its the one command that points to Who the God is that created us, that is why satan attacks it so hard and has a substitute for the Seventh Day Sabbath that God never put in place, God bless.
2007-06-20 09:58:19 · answer #3 · answered by wgr88 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God did not rest like we rest... He made everything complete in 6 days and did not have to do anything on the 7th day, so there is a day of rest for us... God does not get tired... he never naps or sleeps, he's always wide awake, alert... he has never slept in his whole life... and does not need to...
2007-06-20 09:57:31 · answer #4 · answered by Eskimo Hammer 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Get a life. If you people hate God so much why do you spend so much time focused on Him. Why would you even bother to go to the spirituality section of this site. I'm not really asking. I don't care, but the ridiculousness of it all. For something so worthless, you all spend loads of your time on it.
And just to add, if you actually read the bible you'd know that a day is like 1000 years and a 1000 years a day in God's estimation of mankinds time. Who are you to judge the work of God. A god, the God...it is amazing the boldness of you people to think so much of your own intelligence which is meniscule by comparison to the creator. Has it ever occured to you that God gave man what man's small minds can handle. I am not a nice Christian. I'd be too much like Peter and go for your ear.
2007-06-20 09:58:42 · answer #5 · answered by Angel33 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It develop into no longer actually 6 days.."an afternoon is almost 1000 years to god" meaning that factor potential no longer something. suggestions loose meaning via translation. Like if i suggested "i visit do you need to the way in 6 classes".. that ought to recommend, i visit coach you the way in 6 type classes in intense college, or in 6 menstral cycles, or in 6 classes of time. ok, if it have been actual and develop into in reaction to a ingenious and prescient of a few kind, i might think of that the formation of the universe may well be a vastly complicated journey, a undying extremely techniques-blowing journey. think of you experienced this and had to tell human beings approximately it. a undeniable point of "dumbing down" might ought to happen to translate it to human minds. human beings opt for time so a time function develop into inserted into the introduction journey.
2016-10-18 04:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You say that because of a misunderstanding of the Genesis account of creation. The Bible does NOT say how long it took to create the "heavens and the earth." (Gen.1:1) But one thing is certain. The earth was already standing BEFORE the first day of creation started. See Gen. 1:2. The six "day" of creation were huge time periods that God used to prepare the already existing earth for animal and human habitation.
God rested in the sense that he stop creating other things for the earth. In outer space, he still might be creating new things.
2007-06-20 09:55:06 · answer #7 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
He did not "take a nap"...He rested from His work. Not because He was tired and needed a beak, but as an example to us.
The Sabbath is a day to relax from the weeks mundane activies and comune with God.
That is why Jesus said "the Sabbath was made for man,not man for the Sabbath>"
2007-06-20 09:57:36 · answer #8 · answered by Summertime 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He's been to busy with all His naughty children.
Can you imagine what kind of wars would break out if God did take a nap?
Then again perhaps he took a nap during the Middle ages?
Perhaps that's why they are called the "Dark Ages"?
Pastor Art
2007-06-20 09:58:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
It said He rested on the 7th day. Doesn't say anything about sleep. He might've just set up the ole' heavenly hammock and relaxed with a nice lemonade.
2007-06-20 09:56:36 · answer #10 · answered by Cubs39 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I am so sick of explaining this to people. So listen up!
God's days are different than ours. Some scriptures say 1000 years as a day to God and some even more than that.
So for possiblely billions of years he took to create a beautiful earth and tons' of animals. and plants and making it just right. A few thousand years ago he made a man and then a women.
Then he let them do what they want and they have really made a mess of things.
2007-06-20 09:57:01 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋