Sorry guys, but I reading the Bible cover to cover, I did when I first did this was too young to comprehend, so I will now be asking many questions.
It may be my translation, but in Genesis, many times. "God saw it was good". Does this lead you to think God itself had lessons to learn?
Surely God would have created it because it was good, not just witnessed it as good?
So does God like it because it is good, or is it good because God likes it?
2007-08-13 06:34:39 · 11 answers · asked by Link , Padawan of Yoda 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was satisfied with the results of his work.
2007-08-13 06:42:43 · answer #1 · answered by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The way I interpret this is that he was satisfied. When I cook up a Thanksgiving meal for my family, I know that it will be good because I tasted it as I did the cooking and I know how to make all the stuff...but something about seeing it all laid out on the table as a complete meal with everything in its place is satisfying in a way that the process of creating it can't possibly be. An artist can have a vision in his or her mind of a great painting but not until the painting is finished can he or she sit back and admire it and say "yep, that's exactly what I envisioned before I started it".
2007-08-13 06:48:10 · answer #2 · answered by KAL 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have to respond to Solly - Knowledge is a human concept? Didn't God banish Adam & Eve for eating from the "tree of knowledge"? And what about the tower of Babel? God was afraid (human emotion?) the people were acqiuring to much knowlege and would soon be like one of them so he scattered them and made them all speak different languages so they couldn't understand one another....sounds a little jealous and insecure to me...especially for a "God."
And to answer your question, I think he must have just witnessed it was good, because the story of Noah's Ark claims that not everything God created was good, or he wouldn't have flooded the earth...and then created rainbows to remind himself not to kill everyone again...
2007-08-13 06:51:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You were correct on the first one. God liked it because it was good. See, he was dsigning all these things (as we all know God is perfect) and when he was finished making his masterpiece he saw it was good. Imagine a famous painter creating a masterpeice (Leanardo Da Vinci), at the end he saw his work was good. Do you follow? This is just like God. He is a famous creator and at the end of his work he saw it was good. If you were to take a walk you would also see al the work God did in nature and agree that "it is good."
2007-08-13 06:43:47 · answer #4 · answered by pup 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God screwed up alot in the Old Testament. Gotten to the part yet about Sodom and Ghemorrah? He had to hit the old reset button on that one too. So it's not a suprise that he did some trial and error first.
2007-08-13 06:39:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
at the time he said it was good there was no sin. plus you should get a greek and hebrew lexicon it will help you understand and help you find your own understanding of bible much easier than asking questions of people with predisposed ideas.
2007-08-13 06:43:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes absolutely.
2007-08-13 06:42:14 · answer #7 · answered by ayertiam t 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God cannot "know" anything. Knowledge is a human concept. God is not human. God does things humans cannot comprehend.
2007-08-13 06:39:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
That means he was pleased with the work he had done. Like we are when we bulid or draw something and we step back to view our work. Gives us a nice feeling.
2007-08-13 06:42:08 · answer #9 · answered by rani 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The creation story is poetic.
I take to be mean, "Ok, so far so good, on to the next thing"
2007-08-13 06:48:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋