why do christians say God created the world in 7 days, w/ 1 to rest??

Question

does tht make sense?? God is ALL mighty, ALL powerful, Omnipotent, Omniscient. then y do christians say He had to rest for 1 day while creating the earth?

islam says He created it in 6 days. WHY? CAUSE IT MAKES SENSE.

OK LOOK. IF GOD CREATED THE WORLD IN 6 DAYS, THEN ON THE 7TH HE "RESTED" THEN IN TOTAL IT TOOK HIM 6 DAYS NOT 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

i agree w/ you, but people just add the numbers. you know 1 and 6 and then there is 7 but if he rested a day then he would not have been working, so that would still be 6 days that it took for him to make the world.

all of the descriptions you have are for us muslims, so they might not believe the same thing, because they say jesus was god's son and him in human form, but when jesus died he said a pray for them. "for give them father, for they not know...." what they have done or something to that effect, but how could god die? and why would he talk to himself, isn't that just a waste? since he is god, he doesn't need to ask himself to forgive people, he can just do right? see it makes no sense to me, because i am coming at it from a muslim point of view and for us god can do anything

but i am sure you will get a lot of answers that make no sense and people trying to rationalize it.

Answer 2

Actually, it is not just Christians who claim God created the world in 6 days. Other major religions expound the same thought. And the answer to the question you asked about "does that make sense?" makes me wonder if you are asking from your finite knowledge or if you are asking about HIS infinite knowledge. Perhaps He was pleased with what He had done and He wanted to look at it for a while. Perhaps He was tired---but there is nothing in any scripture I know of that indicates He was weary. But the fact that Christians and other faiths use Sunday as a holy day is a testament to Himself and His creativity. We don't think a day off is important, but God knows we need to rest and recreate our lives. All work and no prayer makes jack a dull boy.

Answer 3

The purpose of the six days of creation was to create the 7th -- Shabbat, a holy day (separate/apart) from the other six. Judaism is about separating the holy from the mundane/profane. Shabbat is holiness in time. The difference between the Jewish creation story and other creation stories of the time is that everything is "good." God created harmony and simplicity from the chaos. Other creation stories started with violence and wars of the gods and continued with violence. Judaism is a creation story of peace!

Eating is a means of creating holiness. We keep our meals separate/apart from the rest of the day. We think about where our food originated and the processes required to get it to our table. We don't eat animals that have been killed from sport. Any animal we eat must have been slaughtered in the most humane method possible.

Why do you obsess over the creation story? It is simply a prologue to the creation of the Jewish people, Israel, at Mt. Sinai.
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Answer 4

ok, study Genesis a million and also you may see that it truly is actual 6 days... and convinced they were 6 days purely as you and that i could imagine of them... that 24hour-ish era we call an afternoon. The seventh day is the day He rested, it quite is why He gave the Jews a Sabbath... or a holy day of relax. something else they gained't actual admit to in public colleges is that the speed of light isn't consistent. it truly is likewise a relative and variable speed. at the same time as making the calculations of the distances of stars from the earth, they look 1000's of thousands of light years away, at the same time as they likely are not. We assume the speed of light would not replace in area, even with the very undeniable reality that all of us understand gravity impacts it and that once contemplated it actual will advance in speed. bypass be certain, we are able to manage the speed of light without replacing the medium it is going by using. To atone for irregularities of what's actual talked about by using the telescope, we ought to regulate the way we assume of about the universe. The theories of darkish be counted and darkish skill come into play. We see by using a telescope in a unmarried portion of the Galaxy 2 stars which look too close. something ought to save them from crashing into one yet another or doing something which we do not see happening... darkish be counted/skill. yet another more desirable available idea is to say that the speed of light actual slows down over the years and that from it truly is unique source is actual a lot swifter than what we trust it to be... calculate nicely-known phenomenon like redshifts and blueshifts and we truly do favor a sparkling form to outline our universe. thankfully, there are a kind of creationist and non-creationist scientist which do not settle for our cutting-edge form which we use to characterize the nicely-known universe... they have all started paintings in this over 10 years in the past and that i have yet to take heed to something, yet aparently both aspect are cooking up something sturdy because neither aspect likes the present darkish be counted/skill form. it truly is meant to be a form it quite is so radical that it's going to be like the days a helo-centric universe form challenged the geo-centric form. regrettably, i have not been able to discover something new purely yet. one component i understand is the Bible is actual and precise. ultimately all sciences will come to one end... there's a God and He made us about 6,000 years in the past... genetics and geology already vouch for this on a wide factor.

Answer 5

this post is high larry ous.

try learning the hebrew lingo better you brain dead moron.
it never says God created the earth in 6 days. the first verse "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" stands ALONE. there is a GAP between that verse and the "rebirth" or "regeneration" of the earth.
notice when God says to the SIXTH day men and women, not adam and eve, the ones created before them, "Be fruitful and multiply upon the face of the earth AND REPLENISH THE EARTH" replenish means that something was there BEFORE. get it moron?

I could give a rat's *** what islam says. it also says slaugther the infidel like your brethren do to this day.
20 or more nations around the world where daily a bomb goes off set off by your brethren.

Answer 6

I really don't know. There is a passage in the bible that says one day is as ten thousand years and ten thousand years as one day. Clearly-even in biblical times-they understood the allegorical reference to a day. Perhaps god's day is not the same length as mans day. Perhaps gods day was 1 billion years. That would put things in roughly the right perspective.
But clearly under some circumstances even the biblical authors acknoledged that one day could be a very very very long time.

Answer 7

God could have created everything in a heartbeat but He chose to establish a particular order of creation, we see this fact in the creation of day and night for example, God did not sit down on a deck chair and huff and puff with exhaustion,the rest refers to the completion of creation.

Answer 8

Umm, I'm Christian and I believe it only took God 6 days. That is what it says in the Bible.

He took the one day of rest so He can see how creation is rolling along. He thought it was good.

Answer 9

um, christians DON'T believe it took God seven days to make the world, and then one day to rest...

Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested.

and you're right. we don't think he rested. it's a way of saying he stopped creating things.

Answer 10

actually, it says the world was created in six days, with the seventh day to rest. and by rest it does not mean to sleep from exhaustion, it means to stop the process of creation and take no further creative action.