If God is almighty, why did He need to rest on the 7th day?

Question

Does God also need to rest? Sounds more like a human to me. And by the way, remember when God called Adam and Eve who were hiding in the bushes? The way He called them it sounded like He didn't know where they were and that they had eaten the fruit. He found out after they came out that they had eaten from the Tree of Life(the way God made it sound). Doesn't God know the future? Why did He have to pretend like He didn't know? Or would that be too much of a headache for the writer? Oops! I think Snow White is much less contradictory within itself than the Bible....

pinkstealth, did you even answer my question? I guess that's the way you christians shrug off what you can't answer

Answer 1

Its interesting how your emphasis is on God resting on the 7th day and not on His marvelous,almighty, amazing, perfect and awesome work of creation on days 1 to 6.
Do you think a human can do that?
I'd say that is the work of "Almighty" God.
It does not say that He "needed" to rest.
He chose to rest to set an example for man.

Answer 2

God was setting an example for humans, the seventh day He declared Holy, and no work was to be done on it. And much like a father might call to a child who He knows has been out doing something wrong, "Hey son, where've ya been?" God called to Adam. He also did it to Cain, but it wasn't that God didn't know. Your attempts at making the Bible contradictory are very feeble. Learn some Hebrew and Greek and try harder. :)

Answer 3

The bible was written by people that lived in Babylon, so much of the mythology of the book comes from the stories of the Babylonians.
Yes folks, it is not an original work of art. It is an evolution of stories.
Take the story of Noah and the Ark.
It is actually a story of a trader that was caught in a storm and led astray, reliefs taken from Iraq show that there was a huge flooding of the area around the Fertile Crescent.
here's the Wiki on it:
The majority of modern Biblical scholars accept the thesis that the Biblical flood story is linked to a cycle of Assyro-Babylonian mythology with which it shares many features. The Mesopotamian flood-myth had a very long currency—the last known retelling dates from the 3rd century BC. A substantial number of the original Sumerian, Akkadian and Assyrian texts, written in cuneiform, have been recovered by archaeologists, but the task of recovering more tablets continues, as does the translation of extant tablets.

The earliest of these extant tablets, the epic of Atrahasis, can be dated by colophon (scribal identification) to the reign of Hammurabi's great-grandson, Ammi-Saduqa (1646–1626 BC). Written in Akkadian (the language of ancient Babylon), it tells how the god Enki warns the hero Atrahasis ("Extremely Wise") of Shuruppak to dismantle his house (which is made of reeds) and build a boat to escape a flood with which the god Enlil, angered by the noise of the cities, plans to wipe out mankind. The boat is to have a roof "like Apsu" (the underworld ocean of freshwater of which Enki is lord), upper and lower decks, and must be sealed with bitumen. Atrahasis boards the boat with his family and animals and seals the door. The storm and flood begin. Even the gods are afraid. "Bodies clog the river like dragonflies." After seven days the flood ends and Atrahasis offers sacrifices. Enlil is furious, but Enki, the friend of mankind, defies him - "I made sure life was preserved" - and eventually Enki and Enlil agree on other measures for controlling the human population. The story also exists in a later Assyrian version.[21]

(from article Noah's Ark)

the Bible was written by humans for humans.

Answer 4

God "took a rest" on the seventh day to be an example for us. He was showing us that we should also take a rest from work.

As far as Adam and Eve goes, God knew what they had done, He knew where they were. He did not want to just go to them and start accusing them, they needed to come out and admit their sin to Him, like He knew that they would.

Answer 5

God certainly had the right to sit back and admire the work that he accomplished.

The biblical "sense" of the account of Adam and Eve was that they were attempting to "hide" from God.

God knew where they were and what they had done.

He was simply relating to them in a way that they (and at least SOME of us) could understand.

Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ... NOT from the tree of life.

SHEESH!

Answer 6

No he doesn't need to rest !!! The conclusions you conclude are in error or you are putting the rest of us on !!!
God is trying to teach by example, I hope yolu will be a good example to your children !!! The day you talk to your children and ask them where are they and you know they are just around the corner you will have the answer to your question, won't you !!! Snow White is fantasy, GOD ISN'T !!! God doesn't have to kiss you to wake you up, He gave you a book to discover Him !!!
http://www.carm.org/doctrine/100truths.htm

Answer 7

God needed to rest on the 7th day because he did everything that he needed to during his first 6 days!

Answer 8

There's more.... in Judges (1:19) God was powerless against the army of the Canaanites because they had chariots of iron. And in another place, God was rendered impotent when the enemy sacrificed to their god Chemoth.

Answer 9

God simply stopped his making of creation on the 7th day.it took 6 days to make everything according to the old Jews. who wrote that down

Answer 10

The Bible uses poetic and spiritual metaphors; mythology, symoblism, etc... to make spiritual points.
Don't take it literally!
Go ask a Rabbi!

-The better question was St. Augustine's, "What was God doing right before creation?"